The Catholics of Malta, on the initiative of the local confessional radio RTK, organized a fundraiser for Catholic radio "Dar" in Moscow, reports "Blagovest-info" with reference to the editor-in-chief of this radio station Peter Sakharov.

The first open auction auction bidders owned by Moscow took place in the capital. They put a package of 19% of the shares of Moscow television and radio center OJSC, it was sold for 9 million 434 thousand rubles, the first deputy head of the Moscow Property Department, Galina Petrova on Thursday at a press conference, Interfax reports. According to her, 85 thousand 500 shares of OJSC “Moscow Television and Radio Center” were put up for a bidding on the Moscow Stock Exchange.

On Thursday on Thursday, there was a brawl between the Communists and the Anti -Globalists who participating in the anti -NATO protest rally on Thursday. As RIA Novosti reports, this is the first incident for Thursday. The number of participants in the anti -Natesk campaign on the World Square in Prague is constantly growing. According to the Prague Police, more than 500 people have already gathered to demonstrate anti -globalists.

The 35-year-old Czech on Thursday tried to commit suicide in a carefully guarded zone near the congress center, where the NATO summit takes place. The man wanted to rush from the Nusel bridge, which in Prague is called the "suicide bridge." The failed suicide was detained by the police at the moment when he climbed over special fences, said the representative of the Prague Police by Jan Golub.

The annual Christmas film festival "Love Cinema" will open on Thursday evening in the oldest cinema of Moscow "House of Khanzhonkov". The festival has been held since 1996 annually from November 21 to December 28. “This festival is the first and only world in Russia and the world who himself and discoveries, poorly studied phenomena, incomplete works, failed projects, forgotten names and films,” said the author of the festival, the general director of the Hanzhonkov House, Interfax reports.

In Moscow, a professor at the Russian State Medical University Boris Svyatsky was killed, Interfax reports. He was shot on Wednesday at about 20:00 near the house 1 on Marshal Novikov Street, not far from the house where the scientist lived. Service received three firearms in the chest and head, sources in law enforcement reported Three 5.45 mm caliber sleeves were removed from the scene.

The Japanese military base on the outskirts of Tokyo was fired last night by home -made missiles that did not cause it, however, no harm. As the police reported on Thursday, the locals reported on the phone last night that in a park near the base of the Assaca Ground Forces “something burns”, and before that they heard two explosions. At the scene of the incident, two metal pipes were partially buried in the ground, which were directed towards the base and, apparently, were used as launchers.

The leaders of the NATO countries agreed to create a quick response forces and reform the structure of the military command of the alliance. This is stated in the final declaration adopted by the results of a meeting of the Council of the North Atlantic Alliance held on Thursday in Prague. NATO quick response forces should find the first operational capabilities no later than October 2004, and their final creation is planned to be completed no later than October 2006.

The Russian team on Wednesday won the Czech team with a score of 103: 89 as part of the qualifying tournament for the European Basketball Championship 2003. According to RIA Novosti, the local Sports Palace was filled to capacity, but this did not help the owners cope with the team of Sergei Elevich , who held his first official match as the head coach of the national team.

A series of powerful explosions occurred on Wednesday at the largest powder warehouse in Ecuador, located on the territory of a military unit near the city of Riobambam. The city with a population of about 100 thousand people is located 188 km south of the capital of the country of Kito, ITAR-TASS reports. According to preliminary data, five people were killed - two soldiers and three civilians, up to 200 people could suffer.

From six to eight fishermen they drift on an ice floe torn from the shore. As the assistant to the head of the Volga-Ural Regional Center for Civil Defense and Emergency Situations Nikolai Gerasimov said on Thursday, fishermen on the Buranans were on Wednesday at the village of Seyakha, the Yamal district, 500 kilometers northeast of Salekhard and 90 kilometers east of Lake Neuto, on the left shore of the Ob Lip, ITAR-TASS reports.

The freezing newborn girl was found on the outskirts of Vladivostok Spaniel Alma and his master. The child was born less than a day ago lay in the hole under the roots of a tree. Miraculously, a surviving girl with heart and respiratory failure, as well as with a diagnosis of hypothermia is in the intensive care unit of the city clinical hospital. Doctors say that everything will be in order with her.

The activities of the Vietnam-Russian joint venture for the construction of the first oil refinery in Vietnam may be stopped. Sources in the Government of the Russian Federation in an interview with RIA "Novosti ' confirmed the intention of Russia to disband the Russian-Vietnamese joint venture. This decision is motivated by "economic considerations", the agency’s interlocutor in the Russian office noted.

The Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia Koba Narchemashvili called a successful anti -Criminal surgery carried out in the Pankisian gorge. "The problem of the Pankisian gorge has already been resolved, and the anti -criminal operation is almost completed there. It remains to detain several wanted persons who are currently not in the Pankisian Gorge," the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on Thursday in the Parliament of Georgia said.

The charter of the Prestige Tanker, who suffered a catastrophe off the coast of Galicia, is the Swiss company Crown, whose capital belongs to the Alfa Group holding. Tribune de Geneve writes today that, perhaps, it is Mikhail Friedman's company that will have to pay the bills for drama with a tanker. The fact is that the charter of "prestige" - Crown Resources AG.