Goodbye sweet Sunday, goodbye weekend. The last day of the week will no longer be a day of rest, working will have to change graphs, schedule and habits. To a greater extent, this applies not to those who work at enterprises, but rather employed in the field of trade, services and healthcare. After the abolition of the 18th article of the Code of Labor regarding unjustified dismissals, it was shot and taboo for a festive weekend.

The cause of food poisoning at the airport of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk was a gross violation of sanitary standards by cafe workers. This conclusion was a special commission, which was investigating the incident. As reported on Thursday at the regional sanitary and epidemiological center, the study of food products and dishes in the airport cafe showed that out of 12 samples of the 6th samples are not complies with sanitary requirements, RIA Novosti reports.

The cost of installing a unique 20-meter monument "Millennium Clock" on Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow may amount to $ 50 million on Thursday by the "Interfax" author of the project, artist Farid Bogdalov. "All the technical details of the monument are already calculated. For the installation of" watches ", the political will of the Moscow government is now needed," the artist said. Recall that the Moscow artist made a proposal to establish his project on Lubyanskaya Square in early December.

Four employees of the Infocom Corporation computer company, arrested on Wednesday in Dallas, Texas by the Federal Interdepartmental Group for Combating Terrorism, charged with financing terrorist organizations and illegally selling computers and computer technologies of Syria and Libya. This was announced by US Prosecutor General John Ashcroft. Four arrested are brothers by the name of Elash. The fifth brother, also passing in this case, was previously taken into custody, reports Reuters.

A message received a message that in the route tram? 5 The young man opened shooting from a pneumatic pistol. According to the information department of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Chelyabinsk Region, the man shot purposefully. It turned out that in one of the passengers he recognized the son of a police officer and decided to arrange reprisals. But since the shooter was very drunk, no one was injured. However, the shooter did not calm down on this.

The Government of the Russian Federation decided to allocate 35 million rubles in December 2002 to purchase New Year's gifts for children of the Chechen Republic. Such a decision was made on Thursday during a meeting of the Government of the Russian Federation, the Department of Government Information said. The allocated funds will be sent to the Ministry of Labor of Russia from the Reserve Fund of the Government of the Russian Federation, ITAR-TASS reports.

The punishment from 15 to 25 years of imprisonment was demanded on Wednesday by the prosecutor's office of the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia against the former head of the Republic of Serbian in Bosnia Bilyana Plavshich. The 72-year-old Bilyana Plavshich, the only woman among the tribunal accused of war crimes, pleaded guilty to organizing the persecution of Muslims and Croats during the Bosnia war in the early 90s.

Russian President Vladimir Putin excludes the possibility of occurrence in Russia in 2003 and further default, similar to the 1998 crisis. “This is an obvious thing,” he said live on Russian television channels. The President explained that the Russian debt in 1998 was 130% of GDP, and today this figure is "only 40% of GDP - we have radically reduced it." By the end of 2003, the public debt will be 35% of GDP, Putin said.

In the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny, militants fired on an armored personnel carrier with military personnel. According to RIA Novosti , a source in the police department, two military personnel were seriously injured, one of which died. According to the source, shelling was led from a grenade launcher when the column drove the area for a minute. Measures are taken to search and detain the attackers.

In Chechnya, the head of the administration of the settlement of Tsotsin-Yurt Kurchali district, Imran Khusiev, was killed. Deputy Head of the Government of Chechnya, Movsar Hamidov, said on Thursday that three more people were killed with him, who were with Khusiev in the same room at the time of the incident. According to some reports, two of them were the guards of the head of the village administration.

30 minutes had to wait on Thursday to the UN inspectors, while they were let into the house for the guests of the Iraqi military industry committee, RIA Novosti reports. After a half -hour conversation with the protection of the building in Baghdad, the representatives of the Yunmovik, who did not have a “official requirement” with them for inspection, were able to enter the inspection freely.

Oil demand has intensified today with the start of the work of commodity exchanges in Europe and the USA. By the middle of the trading day, Barralle rose by 50 cents to the international oil exchange in London to a record of the record since 1999 of the mark of $ 28.99. Electronic auction on the New York commodity exchange for a barrel is given $ 30.45, Bloomberg reports. This month, oil price has not yet grew as fast as today, ITAR-TASS notes.

On Thursday afternoon, one person died and one seriously suffered as a result of the fall of Autocrane on the Kurkinskoye Shosse in the area of ​​the 1st Magistral Street. Sources in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital told Interfax that the incident occurred at about 17:30. At the scene, a team of rescuers of the management of the State Emergency Service of the capital is working. The survivors are hospitalized.

19 of the established scouts and persons suspected of involvement in foreign special services were identified by the FSB authorities among the Nizhny Novgorod region of 50 employees of the Embassies of the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, China, Japan and Israel. This was announced on Thursday by the head of the Federal Security Service of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, Lieutenant General Vladimir Bulavin at a press conference following the work of the Office for the year.

In the Moscow region, the Su-35 aircraft crashed on Thursday. The information department of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia reported that the aircraft fell at 15:15 Moscow time 80 km from the Ramenskoye airfield, 5 km southwest of the city of Shatura in a wooded-foul-sided area in the territory of the Yegoryevsky district. A crashed aircraft does not belong to the Russian military forces. According to unconfirmed reports, the plane belonged to the OKB "Sukhoi".