The lawyer of the victims as a result of the Dubrovka terrorist attack will insist on consideration of claims for compensation for non -pecuniary damage presented to the government of the capital, the Supreme Court of Russia or the courts of the Moscow Region.

The State Duma at a plenary session on Sunday took immediately in the second and third, final reading amendments to the bill, specifying the procedure for crossing the state border at the entrance and departure from Russia, as well as establishing types of visas, the basis and procedure for their issuance and extension, RIA Novosti reports.

On Sunday, the State Duma will consider two bills in the first reading, offering to limit the retail sale of beer and take strong beer to alcoholic beverages. According to RIA Novosti Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship Anatoly Aksakov, the Committee has already recommended that the chamber adopt both bills in the first reading.

Alekperov: Iraq's decision to break the contract exclusively political The head of Lukoil Vagit Alekperov, commenting on the Iraqi gap of the contract for the development of the Western Kurna oil field, said in an interview with Reuters that he sees exclusively political reasons for such a decision.

Aviation of the federal forces in Chechnya inflicted a series of missile and bomb strokes on the positions of militants. Over the past day, 10 departures of the Su-24 front-line bombers and Su-25 attack aircraft were performed to carry out combat missions, a source at the headquarters of the United Group of Troops on Sunday told Interfax. "According to preliminary data, the air base of the militants was destroyed by aviation, two strongholds, a mortar calculation," the source noted.

The UN inspectors examined the Al-Mutasim plant on Sunday, located about 70 km south of Baghdad and specializing in the production of missiles. According to the United States, the types of weapons prohibited for Iraq could be carried out at this enterprise. In October, the US CIA distributed a report in which the Al-Mutasim plant was mentioned in connection with the production of chemical and biological, as well as the development of nuclear weapons.

The Government of the North-Western Border Provinces of Pakistan (SZPP), formed from representatives of religious parties, declares intention to fight terrorism only on its own and begins to introduce the provisions of Sharia law, RIA Novosti reports. The chief minister of the province of Akram Khan Durrani, however, refrains from the previous sharp anti -American statements with which he constantly performed during the election campaign.

The head of the Palestinian National Administration, Yasir Arafat, demanded that Osama Ben Laden stop specify on the theme of the Palestinians anti -Israeli uprising. “Ben Laden never helped us,” the Palestinian leader emphasized on Sunday, the British newspaper The Sunday Times , the ITAR -TASS reports.

The State Duma approved its representatives to the National Banking Council. The NBS should include three representatives from the presidential administration, government and the State Duma, two representatives from the Federation Council, as well as the chairman of the Bank of Russia. The other branches of the authorities have already declared their representatives in the NBS, and they even participated in the first meeting of the body - on Wednesday evening.

On Sunday morning, in the center of Frankfurt-on-Main, an armed attack on a jewelry store occurred, RIA Novosti reports. Witnesses of the crime said that at about 11:00 a jeep with the robbers who were in it broke the armored glass of a jewelry salon. At the same time, the car drove into the store for a whole meter. At the same time, the robber's accomplices were blocked by the second car on which the store is located.

“Orthodox Muslims living in Chechnya will actively participate in the preparation of a referendum,” the Mufti of the Chechen Republic of Akhmat -Haji Shamaev told reporters before the expanded meeting of the Political Council of the Eurasian Party, the Union of Patriots, where he was invited as a guest, reports ITAR -TASS. Mufti recalled that the congress of the Chechen people who held in Chechnya on December 11 also actively supported the idea of ​​holding a referendum.

The Russian striker of the NHL club 'New York Rangers' Pavel Bure on Monday December 16 will be performed on both knee joints. This was reported by the leadership of the club. In addition to removing the meniscus and inspection of the cross -shaped ligament of the left knee, the surgeons Andrew Feldman and Anthony Maddalo will conduct an examination of the right knee of Paul, which could also be seriously damaged a week ago in a fatal match with Buffalo.

The State Duma has adopted today in the second reading the draft federal law "On the features of management and disposal of property of railway transport." This is one of the package of laws on corporatization of railway transport in Russia. 229 deputies voted for the adoption of the bill, against - 123, three abstained. The bill provides for the privatization of the property of the Federal railway transport.

At this stage, the Russian side does not intend to abandon the sovereignty of four South Kuril Islands disputed by Japan, but does not exclude a compromise in the future, beneficial to both sides. This was stated in an interview with Interfax, the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Alexander Losyukov on the eve of the visit to Tokyo Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Igor Ivanov.

Another 67 packages, after half -year preparation, replenished the ranks of special guards of airports and flights this week designed to prevent terrorist attacks and deal with possible "air" pirates. In the largest city in the country, Karachi recently passed 526 students of such courses, including 67 women.