The flight defense system carried out by the Pentagon completed successfully, RIA Novosti reports. According to the representative of the missile defense department, Rick Lener, a missile-based missile, which started from the Clovalin atoll (the Marshallovs of the island), struck at an altitude of about 225 km above the Pacific Wogelovka, which was brought into space on board Vandenberg in California in a modified modified Intercontinental ballistic missile (MBR) "Minitman-II".

The 27-year-old legal student from Frankfurt, detained on suspicion of kidnapping and killing an 11-year-old son of a prominent German banker, admitted a crime, reports Ar. According to the prosecution, Magnus Gaeffgen made a “complete and comprehensive” recognition during the interrogation conducted by investigators. Despite the fact that the student told in detail how he planned and carried out a crime, while officials are in no hurry to publish the motive for the murder of the child.

Four Albanian pilots of Albania √ Eirines, which delivered the Albanian national football team to Volgograd, will not be able to watch matches of the qualifying stage of Euro 2004 and the 2004 Olympiad with the national and youth teams of Russia. As ITAR-TASS was informed at the control and access point of the city airport, they were detained due to the lack of visa to enter Russia.

Most of the Echo of Moskvy surveyed by the radio station call themselves believers. The express survey carried out as part of the Rikosht program on interactive phones showed that 57% of respondents say, while 43% declare that they do not consider themselves believers. In total, during the survey in 5 minutes, 1395 phone calls were received at the Echo of Moscow radio station.

The Kazan "Ak Bars" reached its clean first place in the Russian Hockey Championship. This became clear after the team from Tatarstan won the local Siberia in Novosibirsk with a score of 3-1. It is worth noting that in the course of the fight, "Ak Bars" lost. The former leader of the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv tied in Omsk with the local Vanguard √ 1-1. In the first period, the railway workers responded to Panov's puck in the third period in the third.

At 29 seconds of flight of the Soyuz-V launch vehicle with the international satellite, photon-M, the rocket exploded. This was "Interfax was reported on Tuesday in the press service of the Russian Center for Flight Management (TsPU). ZUP specialists find out the causes of the accident. The press service of the space forces and the Rosaviacakos confirmed that the launch of the spacecraft "Photon-M" was recognized as emergency.

In the Saratov region, a certain citizen S. demanded that scribes that he was recorded in the column "nationality". It is noteworthy that he tried to do this more than once and always received a refusal √ perhaps due to the fact that he is registered in a mental hospital. He said to the scourges that his ultimate goal is to demand with the Russian Federation a restoration in the form of Polovtsian steppes, which he, however, is ready to exchange for a three -room apartment.

The British supermodel Naomi Campbell lost on Monday here the trial and should cover the costs of it, estimated at 750 thousand pounds. The London Court recognized the authorized appeal of the local Daily Mirror newspaper, which turned out to be the loser in March this year.

In the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, Nalchik was committed on the fifth of May 2002 by the murder of taxi drivers. All crimes are still unsolved, the sources in the Interfax on Tuesday in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the KBR reported on Tuesday. The body of the 23-year-old taxi driver Ahmed Kairov, killed by a shot in the head, was discovered on the evening of October 13 in the cabin of his VAZ-21099 car in one of the areas of Nalchik.

A storm warning was announced on Tuesday in the south of the Primorsky Territory. A strong wind is already dominated by a strong wind, whose impulses reach 20 meters per second. As reported on Tuesday in the territorial hydrometeorological center, a cyclone, which passed on the weekend over the Khabarovsk Territory, went to the Sea of ​​Okhotsk and began to "download" cold northern air on Primorye. According to weather forecasts, the weather will deteriorate, RIA Novosti reports.

The captain of the 2nd rank Sergey Fedorov was convicted of Primorye for attracting military personnel to improve his cottage. According to ITAR-TASS, the garrison military court of the city of Fokin condemned the captain of the 2nd rank to 1 year in prison with a probation with a probationary period. In addition, 8 thousand rubles will be recovered from the commander in favor of the state.

The Russian Supreme Court did not find grounds for terminating the proceedings in the criminal case of explosion at the Kotlyakovsky cemetery in November 1996, Interfax reports. On Tuesday, the court refused to satisfy the complaint of the lawyer of one of the accused, who insisted on terminating the case. According to the Supreme Court, the case cannot be terminated on the grounds that an acquittal was previously passed on it.

The Ministry of Justice of Georgia sent to the European Court of Human Rights an official response to the previously received letter with a request to suspend the transfer of Chechens detained for violation of the Russian-Georgian border, ITAR-TASS reports. Documents about each of the detained Chechens and the charges against Russia and Georgia were also sent to the European estate.

Minister of Agriculture Alexei Gordeev and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov spoke out in support of agricultural holdings, which should become the main mechanism for the development of domestic agriculture.

In Italy, a security officer killed 7 people on Tuesday, including members of his family and neighbors, after which he committed suicide, Reuters reports. According to official representatives of the Italian police, the incident occurred in the city of Kieri, near Turin. AFA reports that this tragedy occurred in a house located near the local cemetery. The police are investigating.