Chinese archaeologists have discovered the lost part of the Great Chinese Wall, which for several hundred years has been hidden under sandy dunes. According to the Air Force , part of the wall was found in the province of Ninsus, in the north-west of China. During the Chinese Empire, this province was a key border region. The length of the fragment found is 80 kilometers.

Cuban President Fidel Castro said that the rocket crisis of 40 years ago was led by the actions of the then head of the USSR Nikita Khrushchev, who misled US President John Kennedy, telling him that there was no nuclear weapon in Cuba.

With full houses, performances of Russian artists in Ulan-Bator are held as part of the days of culture of the Russian Federation in Mongolia that opened on the eve of the days of culture. “The Russians close to us in spirit came to Mongolia with songs and dances,” leading Mongolian newspapers came out with such headlines, ITAR -TASS reports. After a 17-year break, more than 90 representatives of Russia show their art to the Mongol public.

In Stockholm on Thursday, the name of the Nobel Prize in the field of literature for 2002 was announced on Thursday. He was the Hungarian writer Imre Kerth , who described the fate of the personality in the inhuman conditions of fascist concentration camps in his works. Imre Kerth, Hungarian of Jewish origin was born in Budapest on November 9, 1929. Since 1944, for 2 years he was in concentration camps √ first in Auschwitz, and then in Buchenwald.

In Crimea, two of the five dangerous criminals were detained who escaped from the investigative insulator in Yalta, RIA Novosti was told on Thursday at the Center for Public Relations / COO / Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Crimea. The remaining three fugitives are on the wanted list, to which all operational units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, located in the Crimea and in neighboring regions, are involved.

The act of the State Commission on the acceptance of the road from the Leningradskoye Shosse to the Sheremetyevo-2 airport, which will become paid in the future, was signed by the first deputy mayor in the government of the capital, Petr Aksenov.

The European Union of Football Associations today has adopted a plan for the struggle against racist incidents in stadiums in Nyon. It has 10 points, and most of them are aimed at preventing such phenomena, ITAR-TASS reports. The plan, in particular, stipulates that all European clubs should make statements with condemning racism and take the obligation to punish players convicted of racism.

Mosenergo states that the company will reform on a common basis. This means that the Moscow government can receive a control package of shares of network companies created during the reform of the Mosenergo OJSC, explains Dmitry Vasiliev, Deputy General Director of the Company. He noted that the network component is a monopoly business that will always be regulated by the state, and at the same time, investors have no interest in acquiring network assets.

A resident of the Yakutsky village of Maya found on his personal plot a commemorative medal of the participant in the first census in Russia in 1897. This was reported to "Interfax" in the State Statistics Committee of the Republic. On the front side of the medal it is indicated: "For labors in the first census." The Yakut Goskomstat tried to buy a medal for a thousand rubles, but received a refusal. The owner of the find told officials that he would wait for more interesting offers.

The verdict in the “gypsy case”, which for the sake of profit brutally dealt with the elderly, will be issued by the Rostov Regional Court on Thursday. As RIA Novosti reports, 10 people who raid lonely women in several areas of the Rostov region during the year made the defendants. All defendants, with the exception of one, gypsies. According to the indictment, the organizer of the criminal organization in the case takes place 28-year-old Vera Matvienko.

The largest Russian oil company Lukoil is concerned about the fate of the contract for the development of Iraqi oil fields, the cost of which is estimated at $ 20 billion. According to the contract for the joint development of the huge oil field, West Kurna, which Lukoil concluded in 1997 with the Iraqi State Oil Company, no work can be started before the abolition of UN sanctions.

Four people were killed and ten were wounded as a result of raiding aircraft of the Anglo-American Air Force in the province of Nineveh in the north of Iraq. According to Iraqi television with reference to the representative of the Iraq air defense, the Anglo-American Air Force planes invaded at 10.30 a.m. on Wednesday in the country's airspace from Turkey, "civilian objects" in the province of Nineveh, RIA Novosti reported. As a result of the air raid, four people died and ten were injured.

In the recent past, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein received technology to create a long -range “super -bundle”, which is capable of shooting nuclear, chemical and biological shells. This was announced today by representatives of the German prosecutor's office, reports Independent . Saddam Hussein called the project to create such a gun "Babylonia Project." A super -bundle, 150 meters long, is able to launch satellites or nuclear charges at a distance of over a thousand kilometers.

The President of Bashkortostan Murtaza Rakhimov spoke out for the abolition of the presidential position and the introduction of a parliamentary form of power in this republic. With such a proposal, he made on Thursday a solemn meeting in Ufa dedicated to the Day of the Republic.

The plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in the Central Federal District Georgy Poltavchenko spoke out against state support for the study of the foundations of Catholic culture in secondary schools in Russia, Interfax reports. He stated this at a conference on the interaction of the state and religious associations in the field of education.