Six people died on Wednesday in a car accident in Komi. The tragedy occurred at about 4:00 Moscow time at the 278th kilometer of the Syktyvkar -Ukhta highway. The driver of the car Audi-100 lost control, which is why the car crashed into a standing loaded gas carrier. According to preliminary data, during the collision, fuel was ignited in the tank and car.

Almost 150 years after the abolition of slavery in the United States, Chechnya in March 2003 will accept the constitution against slavery, the project of which was published on this Monday. If the Chechnya constitution is nevertheless adopted, then there will be no analogues to this basic law in Russia, the Independent Gazeta writes today. The draft Basic Law of the Republic was drawn up in full accordance with the Federal Constitution.

Professor of sports medicine from the University of the Finnish city of Yuvaykul - the Chief Research Center for the Sports of Finland - Tapio Videman performed in the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat with a sensational proposal for the termination of doping tests in their modern form. According to RIA Novosti, Professor Vyeman believes that the current test system is a continuous decoration.

Pension payments to Russian citizens will amount to more than 664 billion rubles next year. The State Duma considered on Wednesday immediately in the second and third readings the bill “On the budget of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation for 2003” submitted by the Russian government and approved its parameters. The income of the fund will amount to 822.8 billion, expenses - 864.8 billion rubles.

In the Southeast District of Moscow, a warehouse of the combined arms academy caught up on Wednesday, which stored training armored vehicles and fuel and lubricants. According to the Moscow UGPS, the fire arose at about 22:20 Moscow time in the warehouse premises located at the Krasnokursantskiye Passage, 3/5. The fire was covered by 200 square meters. meters. The military failed to independently cope with the fire and had to call firefighters.

From the Brussels prison, Forest was escaped by a dangerous criminal. The incident occurred on Christmas Eve, celebrated in Catholic countries on December 25. According to preliminary data, the criminal managed to run by conspiracy with his brother, who came to visit him on the occasion of the holiday. According to RIA Novosti , the brothers changed their clothes in a date room. The prisoner managed to pass all the posts and leave the walls of the prison, and his brother went to the cell.

The victim in the process in the case of Colonel Yuri Budanov, accused of the murder of a Chechen girl, Elsa Kungaeva, intends to file a tax claim against the state as part of civil proceedings. "The Kungaev family will sue the compensation of material and non -pecuniary damage at the expense of the state," the lawyer of the victims Abdullah Khamzaev told Interfax during a break of the meeting of the court of the North Caucasus Military District on Wednesday.

On the 78th birthday of December 25, India Prime Minister Atal Bikhari Vajpai received a congratulatory card, which will be included in the Guinness Book of Records. A postcard prepared by a group of calligrapes and artists from Laknau, the capital of the northern state of Uttar-Pradesh and the premiere of the constituency, has a length of 1 km and weighs 170 kg. It contains not only the best wishes to the prime minister from voters, but also quotes from his speeches, RIA Novosti reports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Federal Law "On the Federal Budget for 2003", adopted by the State Duma on December 18 and approved by the Federation Council on December 18, 2002. This was reported by the press service of the head of state. The main parameters of the budget have been known since the first reading. Revenues are planned in the amount of 2.41 trillion rubles, expenses - 2.34 trillion rubles.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the admission of the Russian Federation living in the Republic of Tajikistan Kozlov Oleg Anatolyevich, Kozlova Svetlana Alekseevna, as well as their children Vlad and Anastasia. This was reported on Wednesday in the press service of the head of the Russian state.

In the Moscow district of Nizhny Novgorod in a house on Ryabtsev Street, a 14-year-old schoolgirl was raped among white day. During the operational-search measures, suspects of this crime were established by police officers. As it turned out, the criminals turned out to be two non -working locals at the age of 18 and 19 years old. Now they are being wanted. A criminal case has been opened. In total, 119 crimes have been registered in the city and the region over the past day.

The carelessness of the driver today became the cause of the death of the first deputy head of the administration of the Tarsky district of the Omsk region Vladimir Bashukov, as well as his father -in -law and mother -in -law. Bashukov, heading for a meeting in Omsk, took relatives with him to the city.

On the outskirts of Smolensk, homeless dogs bite a 4-year-old girl who walked unaccompanied by adults to death. According to Viktor Sergeyev, the head of the criminal investigation department of the industrial police department of the city, the investigation does not yet have the results of the forensic medical examination. According to preliminary data, the death of the child did not occur due to loss of blood, but as a result of pain shock.

The FBI sends to colleges and US universities requests to provide him with personal information about all foreign students and teachers. This caused protests from some educational institutions that consider such actions illegal. According to the FBI, he needs this information to find out if foreign students or teachers support contacts with famous or alleged terrorists.

With army patrols on the main streets, Christmas Paris meets today. A special decision of the French government to help the police and the special services on these holidays was given units of the Armed Forces. The military with machine guns are located in the most crowded places of the capital. They protect the order around the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, in the square in front of the Cathedral of the Parisian Mother of God, as well as in Versailles.