Russian Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov listened on Saturday the report of the Moscow prosecutor Mikhail Avdyukov about the investigation of the murder of the Governor of the Magadan Region Valentin Tsvetkov.

In Britain, a grandiose project is completed to determine the "greatest British in the history of the kingdom." The survey organized by the Air Force , in which more than 30 thousand people took part, revealed 10 best.

The musical of Nord-Ost celebrates its first "birthday": exactly a year ago, October 19, 2001, its premiere took place. Over the past time, more than 345 thousand spectators have visited the Nord-Ost, which goes daily. The producers of the popular Moscow musicals “Notre Dow-de Paris”, “Metro”, “Chicago”, “42nd Street”-Vladimir Tartakovsky, Alexander Vanshtein, Philip Kirkorov, Boris Kirnov will come to congratulate the anniversary on Friday on Friday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the appointment of Colonel General Vladimir Laltersky to the post of deputy commander in chief of the Ground Forces of the Russian Armed Forces, the press service of the head of state said. By the same decree, Lieutenant General Sergei Makarov was appointed commander of the united grouping of troops and forces in the North Caucasus.

The representative of the opposition authorities of the Baghdad of the Iraqi National Congress Sharaf Ben Ali Hussein said that in the event of an opposition to power, contracts concluded with foreign oil companies will be revised in the country. According to RIA Novosti , Ali Hussein emphasized that priority will be given to American oil companies.

In the center of Chelyabinsk today, four armed criminals in broad daylight attempted to rob Facade, located in the basement of a 5-story residential building on Lenin Avenue. The watchman managed to press the alarming button and, after three minutes, the police outfit arrived at the scene. One of the young police officers rushed at the bandits, but was shot. The criminals took hostage a woman with a child, reports ITAR-TASS.

The clashes of large youth groups with the police occurred last night in the French city of Strasbourg. There are wounded. More than 30 cars were set on fire, ITAR-TASS reports. The riots arose after the crowd armed with baseball bats and iron rods began to destroy shop windows and windows of state institutions, as well as cars. The police and firefighters who arrived at the scene were attacked by stones and bottles of combustible mixture. Two firefighters were injured.

In the Leninsky district of the capital of Chechnya, at about 16:30 Moscow time, an armored personnel carrier of federal forces was blown up on a radio -controlled landmine. "A group of military personnel in the armored personnel carrier accompanied the military column.

The Italian director Roberto Beninya was awarded on Saturday the Prize "Man of the World" at the Summit of Nobel Prize Laureates in Rome. According to RIA Novosti , the award was awarded by the former president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, under the auspices of the fund of which the forum is being held. Roberto Beninya’s film “Life is Beautiful”, which was once awarded Oscar as the best foreign film, in general opinion, is a hymn to the assertion of life and love against war and violence.

Ericsson completed the third quarter of the 2002 fiscal year with losses in the amount of $ 4.9 billion ($ 540 million) over the same period of the last year, the company's net losses amounted to 3.96 billion kroons. Sales of products of the largest mobile equipment manufacturer fell by 38.5% - from 54.5 billion kroons last year to 33.5 billion Crooked ($ 3.6 billion) in the third quarter of this year, RBC reports In addition, in the end of September 30, S.G.

About two kilograms of heroin were seized by employees of the Moscow police from a resident of the capital, suspected of involvement in the Tajik drug group. This was reported to "Interfax" sources in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital.

The metropolitan "Lokomotiv" in the made-up match of the 27th round took on his field "Torpedo-Zil". After the defeat from Saturn with a score of 1: 2, the wards of Yuri Semin markedly complicated their position in the struggle for the gold medals of the championship. In order to overtake the points of CSKA, the railway workers needed only a victory, which they achieved, having won the car factories 3-0.

Police officers detained a young telephone terrorist for two days terrorized one of the Moscow schools. This was reported to "Interfax" on Saturday sources in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital. A student of the sixth grade of the N904 School Andrei Shvetsov, born in 1991, was detained on October 18 by employees of the criminal investigation department of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Southern Administrative District at home.

In Afghanistan, as a result of missile shelling by unknown airbase in the east of the country in the host area, 16 American soldiers were killed. According to the NNI Pakistani news agency today, the incident occurred on the eve of the air base at the Bag Sarah Bag in the eastern province of Pactia. Five missiles were released. The attack of militants caused panic among American troops. The search operation carried out by them with the support of aviation did not give results.

Diamonds in the amount of 1 million pounds were discovered by the English widow in the banking cell of the late husband. As RIA Novosti reports, for a woman whose surname is not disclosed, this find, discovered in the Swiss bank in the spouse’s deposit box, was a complete surprise. There was a small box with his own inscription of the deceased: “From Russia with love,” - in which there were 77 diamonds.