On the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station, a report prepared for a joint meeting of the Council of People's Commissars, the State Council and the Council for Interaction with Religious Organizations under the President of the Russian Federation is actively discussed. It is dedicated to the problems of religious extremism. According to this document, religious extremists in Russia may include, in particular, Catholics and Protestants.

Georgian law enforcement agencies have begun to verify information about the possible finding of the mother of the Vice President of the Slavneft NK Jumba Tkebuchava in the Zugdid district of Georgia. "Information that the stolen allegedly transported to the territory of the Zugdid district is supervised." This was reported by informed sources in law enforcement agencies.

Moscow turned to Washington for help in the search for financiers who paid for the operation to capture the Nord-Ost hostages. Russian intelligence services suspect that the Chechens who seized the Moscow theater in October financed rich Arab sponsors from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states. According to The Guardian , the translation of the article is published by Inopressa.ru , the terrorists who captured hostages called the theater center to their sponsors to the Gulf countries.

Police officers delivered two Urvachev sisters to Rostov-on-Don tonight, who were stolen in 1997. Then Svetlana was 10 years old, and Natalia - 9. Not so long ago, the girls were discovered by employees of the Russian embassy in one of the orphanages in Greece. The prosecutor of the Leninsky district of Rostov-on-Don Anatoly Fiskov believes that we are talking about a well-organized criminal group specializing in kidnapping for children and their subsequent sale abroad, ITAR-TASS reports.

At the disposal of the "Gazeta" was a sensational document - a draft report to a joint meeting of the Security Council, the State Council and the Council for Interaction with Religious Organizations under the President of the Russian Federation. The report is dedicated to religious extremism. On it, as noted by the "newspaper", 32 officials and one expert under the leadership of Ahmad Kadyrov and Minister Vladimir Zorin worked.

The Pentagon will hold large command and staff exercises called Internet look in the Persian Gulf area from December 9 to 17. This was announced at a briefing on Wednesday in the US Department of Defense by a senior representative of the Central Command of the US Army, whose zone of responsibility is this region.

Newsru.com publishes new documents declassified by the British Ministry of Defense as part of the ongoing reorganization of the British Law "On Freedom of Access to Information." Earlier on our website , some documents on the "Randlshek case" were already published, which is considered the most famous and documented case of UFO observation in the history of mankind.

The weekend in Moscow and the Moscow region will get colder again. The Arctic and Scandinavian anticyclones will unite and will advance south to the central regions of Russia. Therefore, on Saturday, the air temperature in the metropolitan region will begin to decrease, and on Sunday 20-degree frost will again hit. On Friday in Moscow and the region, cloudy weather is expected to clear up, in places light snow, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Moscow Meteobureto.

As part of the investigation of the case of riots on Manezhnaya Square that occurred during the broadcast of the football match in June 2002, they were allocated to separate proceedings and sent to the court in respect of 21 participants in these events.

In Moscow hospitals, another person was discharged from among the former hostages injured as a result of the attack on Dubrovka. This was reported on Thursday in the Moscow Health Committee. According to the data at 18:00 Moscow time, 3 people remain from among the former hostages, which suffered as a result of the terrorist attack in the theater center on Dubrovka, during the treatment in Moscow hospitals. In total, after October 26, 647 victims were discharged.

In the center of London, two armed robbers tried to capture the HSBC Bank Branch. But the robbery did not go according to plan - the bank’s security had resisted robbers. As the British ITV channel clarifies, it all started when a minivan of security minivan drove up to the bank a few minutes before noon as local time (at about 15:00 Moscow time). The robbers who did not expect this tried to break into the bank. One of them ran inside and, jumping over the fence, was next to the office staff.

Eleven journalists of the leading media left on December 5, the press conference of the Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Vasily Prisyazhnyuk in protest against repeated refusal to accredited at the GPU representatives of the Ukrainian Pravda online publication. 11 journalists left the conference hall: Inter TV channels, 1+1 , STB , Tonis, New, UT-1, Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, Facts and Comments , Ukraine , Public Radio , Internet Publishing Foreign Affairs .

On this week, on several sites on the Internet, al-Qaeda statement, there was a threat of strike on the eve of the end of the Holy Muslims of the month of Ramadan, which falls on December 5 and 6. According to CNN , the statement says: "You have not removed any lesson. You did not understand the reasons for the attacks in Washington and New York." "Oh, the American people, you are a victim of your leaders, but you are also a partner in the war against us.

Today in the Sverdlovsk region the last stage of the census began - accounting of residents living in hard -to -reach places of the Garinsky district. The population of this area remained not taken into account during the All-Russian census from October 9 to 16 precisely because of the inaccessibility of some of its territories located in a marshy area surrounded by rivers and lakes. With the onset of winter and freezing of water bodies, it has become much easier to get to remote settlements.

In Moscow, it is planned to introduce the jury from July 1, 2003. This was reported on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Legislation Elena Mizulina. As Newsru.com previously reported , Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed postponing the introduction of jury vehicles throughout Russia until January 1, 2004.