The Indonesian police managed to reach the organizer of the terrorist attack, committed on October 12 on Bali Island, as a result of which about 200 people died. One of the arrested on suspicion of involvement in this crime - a certain Amrosi named the name of the head of the criminal group responsible for the explosions in Bali.

Even the Olympians of Ancient Greece did not hesitate to use auxiliary means to improve sports results. This is evidenced by the results of the study published today in the journal Nature. Even the Olympians of Ancient Greece did not hesitate to use auxiliary means to improve sports results. This is evidenced by the results of the study published today in the journal Nature.

Members of the Psychological and psychiatric examination Commission Colonel Budanov will gather today in order to again sign the act of examination, which was withdrawn from the North Caucasus Court of the Ministry of Health of Russia. The results of the examination were withdrawn in connection with the technical clarification of the paperwork, and this review had nothing to do with the content of the examination, said Deputy Minister of Health Vladimir Korbut today.

Natalya Timakova was appointed the new head of the presidential press service. She replaced Mikhail Kalmykov in this position, reports Echo of Moscow. Earlier, Timakova was the first replacement of the head of the Presidential press service department. It is worth noting that Natalya Timakova, at one time, was already Putin’s press secretary when he acted as prime minister. Natalia Timakova was one of the three authors of the book "From the First Person.

Swiss Roger Federer early became the second semi-finalist of the final tournament of the Masters CUP tennis players in Shanghai with a prize pool of 3 million 700 thousand dollars. Today, Federer won the second victory in the Golden Group - this time with a score of 6: 0, 4: 6, 6: 2 defeated Czech Irji Novak. Thus, Federer became the sole leader in the Golden Group, winning two out of two matches. Novak has a victory over Andre Agassi and one defeat.

To ensure the safety of the NATO summit, 250 American troops and 15 US Air Force aircraft will be involved. The Americans will guard the Czech sky from November 15 to 30, 2002. The corresponding bill adopted the Czech Senate. And in order for the document to enter into force, home from the Canary Islands, interrupting a healing vacation, President of the country Vaclav Gavel flew out.

A large accident occurred on a railway crossing in the suburbs of Novosibirsk on Thursday. Near the village of Pashino, a shunting locomotive collided with a flight municipal bus. According to the operational attendant regional department of the Civil Defense and emergency department, when hit, one of the passengers was thrown out of the bus, she died on the spot. Another 7 bus passengers were injured, one of them is in serious condition, ITAR-TASS reports. An investigation is being conducted.

In Moscow, on December 13, it is planned to hold a congress of representatives of all peoples of Chechnya, who lived in the territory of this republic until 1991, when Johar Dudaev came to power. This was announced on Thursday by the State Duma deputy from the Chechen Republic, the chairman of the Association of Law enforcement officials and the chairman of the Union of Peoples of Chechnya Aslambek Aslakhanov (OVR faction).

The Agency for Regional and Political Studies (ARPI) presented a weekly digest of operational sociological information based on political research. The survey is conducted in more than 84 urban and rural settlements in 28 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, in all federal districts of the country. The sample volume is 1600 people.

In Cairo, four -day consultations have ended between the largest Palestinian organization Fath and the Hamas movement.

Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov did not rule out that women will be able to undergo military service in the Russian army along with men . He stated this in August at a press conference in Novosibirsk. "Knowing the experience of many states in the world, I can’t completely exclude this," he said.

The violin, created by one of the most outstanding and world -famous masters, was sold the day before an auction for an amount exceeding 600 thousand pounds, Guardian reports. The violin of the work of Antonio Stradivari, dated 1726, became the main lot of the music instruments conducted twice a year at the Christie's auction.

The Israeli military on Thursday at night blocked the house of the spiritual leader of the Palestinian extremist organization Hamas Sheikh Ahmed Yasin in the city of Gaza, RIA Novosti reports. About 3:30 in the morning, according to Palestinian sources, up to 30 Israeli tanks with the support of three combat helicopters from the south side entered the city of Gaza. During the current Palestinian Intifada, Israeli tanks never went into this city so far.

The investigation has an audio recording of the votes of persons who may be involved in the abduction of the first vice president of Lukoil, Sergei Kukura. This was announced on Thursday at a briefing by the head of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Alexander Ovchinnikov. “In the investigation of this criminal case, significant progress took place,” he added, RIA Novosti reports.

Jiang Zemin, who headed China’s Communist Party for 13 years, has officially resigned from this position today. He did not enter the new composition of the Central Committee of the party, elected at the 16th Congress of the Party, which ended in Beijing. Jiang Zemin was replaced by 59-year-old Hu Jintao The only member of the previous PC, which became the new composition of the Central Committee, was 59-year-old Hu Jintao.