Poland refuses to close the Chechen information centers.

In St. Petersburg, the FSB department detained 6 people suspected of committing a murder of a State Duma deputy of the 2nd convocation of Galina Starovotova. According to ITAR-TASS today, the FSB in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, the four of the detainees have already been charged, and two more will be charged in the near future. The detention of these people was the result of the work of the UFSB investigative service in relation to an organized criminal group with interregional ties.

In the US election, on Tuesday, the Republicans were generally won - the governors from this party retained their posts in most states. The party secured control over Congress and the Senate - two chambers of the American parliament. As a sign, in particular, the victory is considered by Dzhba Bush - the brother of President George Bush - in the election of the Governor of the state of Florida.

Deputies of the Volgograd City Council will now more often use the word "respected" and turn to each other to "you". Such norms are spelled out in the Ethics Code unanimously adopted by Volgograd chosen ones at the next session of the City Council. The Code prohibits during sessions and meetings of relevant committees to allow familiarity and neglect of colleagues. “Dear” deputy, chairman, expert - will become the most common expressions during the debate.

In Japan, the number of deaths from overwork at work has increased. This year, 115 deaths or serious diseases from overwork at work were recorded in the country - 28 more than in 2001, RIA Novosti reports. The government annually receives 600-700 applications from their family who died with a request to qualify the death of their relatives as a result of overwork at work and pay the appropriate compensation to the family.

Harvey Pitt, the head of the US Exchange and Securities Commission, resigned from his post due to the scandal around the appointment of William Webster as the head of the Council for Supervision of the Auditors. Recently, quite a lot have been written about possible resignation and scandal , nevertheless, for her, Pitt chose quite unexpectedly: on the night on Wednesday, all the attention was focused on the US Congress elections, Interfax notes.

One of the most talented forwards of Real Madrid, Guti wants to leave the team, where he would play in the starting lineup, and not come off the bench, as is often the case in the Madrid team. “I really wanted to play for Real Madrid. But I don’t want to sit my best years on the bench - I want to play. If the situation does not change soon, I will have to decide to leave,” Guti said in an interview with Planet Football . This does not fit in with his statement on the team's official website .

The Chairman of the Central Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of Russia and the European CIS countries (TSCU) The Supreme Mufti of Russia Talgat Tajuddin makes prayers to recover the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II , who is now being treated to the Central Design Code, Interfax reports. "We sincerely honor and respect his Holiness and ask the Almighty about his good health for many summer," Tajuddin said in an interview with the agency.

The Polish director and producer Yanush Yuzefovich, who put the Metro musical in Moscow in October 1999, launches a new project √ musical “Istoye Witches,” MIGNEWS reports. Yanusha Yuzefovich is only 43 years old, but for ten years he has world fame thanks to the production of the Metro musical. It was Yuzefovich that belonged to the idea of ​​creating a musical that would tell about the life of his generation.

The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Taxes and Duties submitted data on the execution of the federal budget for 2002 according to the results of the past ten months. According to Prime-Tass, the federal budget surplus in January-October amounted to 77.5 billion rubles, which is slightly less than 0.9% of the gross domestic product. According to preliminary data from Russia's GDP for 10 months of 2002 amounted to 8908 billion rubles.

The amounts of money that the militants extort in Chechnya from local residents under the pretext of ransom of the bodies of terrorists from the gang of Movsar Baraev reaches $ 1,000. "The facts of extorting large amounts of money under the pretext of redemption of the bodies of Chechen terrorists, destroyed in the theater center on Dubrovka in Moscow, were noted in several areas of Chechnya," a source in the law enforcement agencies of Chechnya told Interfax.

The chairman of the Georgian intelligence department, Lieutenant General Avtantil Ioseliani, said today that according to the data available to the department, “the total number of Chechen militants in the highland part of the Pankisian gorge does not exceed 30-32 people,” ITAR-TASS reports.

The Swedish national team, on the eve of the first stage of the Euro Hockey Tour - the Karjala Cup, was missing two leading hockey players - forward of the Ferjestad club Jorgen Jonsson and defender of the XB-71 team Johan Davidsson - refused to go to Finland. The reason for this is that the load that falls on hockey players in the national championship matches is too heavy.

The Uzbek court for the first time considers the spread of Jehovah's ideas as a criminal offense. Akmal-Ikrammovsky District Court of Tashkent, where hearing in the case of Marat Mudarisov, 27-year-old native of Tashkent, was charged with the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan "Stitting of national, racial and religious hostility." This was reported by the Internet site Ferghana.ru with reference to IWPR information.

In the Moscow metro at the Kurskaya station, two visitors from the Chelyabinsk region were detained last Tuesday, sources in law enforcement agencies said on Wednesday. The law enforcement officers seized a bag from one of the detainees, in which the PP-91 Kedr PP-9 mm machine gun was located and two stores equipped with 20 cartridges of the same caliber. The weapon is seized. The investigation is conducted.