Director of the Federal Security Service of Russia Nikolai Patrushev on Tuesday held negotiations with the Minister of State Security of Georgia Valery Khaburdzania. "Negotiations of the heads of the FSB of Russia and the Ministry of State Security of Georgia were pursued by the decision of the presidents of Russia and Georgia, reached during the summit in Chisinau ," the Russian FSB Center of the FSB said.

Representatives of military departments of the United States, Turkey and Georgia on Wednesday in Tbilisi will hold a tripartite meeting on the coordination of assistance to the Armed Forces of Georgia, the Minister of Defense of Georgia, Lieutenant General David Tevzadze told reporters on Tuesday. According to Interfax, the head of the Georgian Ministry of Defense did not exclude that in the future other NATO countries will also join the program for assistance to the Georgian armed forces.

The place and date of the next battle of the Absolute World Boxing Champion in the first welterweight of Konstantin Tszyu was determined. As the boxer himself said at a press conference on Tuesday, the fight with American Jesse James Leihu will be held on January 19, 2003 in the Melbourne in the Doklands Stadium Arena. The 33-year-old Russian, permanently residing in Australia, will conduct a battle in this country for the first time since 1998.

Russia may agree to the adoption of a new resolution on Iraq to the UN Security Council if the document does not contain impossible requirements and the provision on the automatic application of force. This was stated by the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Yuri Fedotov, Interfax reports.

Double murder was committed by unknown criminals in Moscow, Sources in the Central Department of Internal Affairs were told on Tuesday of Interfax. The night before, the body of 26-year-old Sergei Kotzerchuk and 24-year-old Maya Nesterova was discovered by the father of the young man in his apartment on Caspian Street. According to experts, death came from multiple cut and chopped wounds of the head, back and neck.

US President George Bush, probably on Thursday, will receive a resolution from Congress with permission to take any actions against Iraq, Interfax reports. This is the result of George Bush’s appeal to the country on Monday , in which he urged him to give him the authority to conduct business with a “suicide dictator committed by weapons of mass destruction,” as Bush called President Iraq Saddam Hussein.

In the Gudermes district of Chechnya on Monday afternoon, an armored personnel carrier of the federal forces was blown up on a radio -controlled landmine. Conflicting information comes about the number of killed and wounded. So, according to the military commandant’s office, two troops were killed in the explosion, three more were injured, Interfax reports.

Royal Dutch/Shell reported that to reduce the largest network of gas stations in the United States by a third. This means the liquidation of 6000 gas stations, which is twice the amount that Shell planned to reduce earlier. In parallel with this, the company's personnel will be reduced by 35% of the company's sales units, according to Wall Street Journal .

The Nobel Prize of 2002 in physics today awarded three scientists whose studies allowed humanity to "open two new windows to the Universe." The Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy of Sciences decided that the American Reimond Devis Jr.

The prequel of the famous film "Silence of the lambs" - the film "Red Dragon" - was released in the leaders of American cinema in cash fees. This is the third picture of Hannibal Lecter. However, the Red Dragon failed to get ahead of the second tape from this series - the film "Hannibal", describing what is happening 10 years after the point at which the audience parted with the heroes of "Silence of the lamb", BBC reports.

Eight teenagers were detained for resisting police officers in the suburbs. According to RIA Novosti on Tuesday in the Main Directorate of the Moscow Region, the incident occurred last night at 0:10 in the village of Nizhnesladnevo, Ruzsky district. At a block-depart, specially exhibited during the operation "Vorticar-Antterror", the traffic police officer tried to stop the VAZ-2104 for standard verification.

In the upcoming qualifying matches of the European Championship in 2004 in football with the national teams of Georgia and Albania, the national team of Russia is the task of gaining the maximum number of points. As the head coach of the Russian national football team Valery Gazzaev said at a press conference in Boro Moscow, only victory in the first three qualifying matches of the European Championship will feel confident in the struggle for access to the final part of Euro 2004.

In the case of overthrowing the regime of Saddam Hussein, Iraq will be divided into three states. As reported in today's issue of the Turkish newspaper Hyurriet , a similar plan was developed by the Center for International Strategic Research of the United States. In accordance with the plan developed by the center on the initiative of the US Vice President, Dick Cheney and the First Deputy American Minister of Defense Paul Wolfovitsa, the central part of Iraq will be united with Jordan.

In the highland geophysical institute located in Nalchik, the All -Russian Hetlands were opened on Tuesday. The discussion of scientists planned a year ago aroused increased interest in connection with the September tragedy in the Karmadon Gorge of North Ossetia.

Law enforcement and judicial authorities of the United States, investigating the facts of violations in the preparation of financial statements by the Worldcom Telecommunication Corporation, won another victory. According to ITAR-TASS, the former chief accountant of the company Baford Yates found himself guilty of fraud with securities and criminal conspiracy.