In Moscow, the US administration is welcome to include three Chechen gangs in the list of international terrorist organizations. This is stated in the statement of the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Alexander Yakovenko, who received on Saturday at RIA Novosti .

The President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Zaed Al Nahayan invited Saddam Hussein to voluntarily resign and leave Iraq within 2 weeks. This proposal is contained in the message that Al Nahayan sent to the Summit of the League of the Arab states, which is now being held in the Egyptian city of Sharm-Esh-Sheikh. According to the satellite television channel Abu Dhabi, the UAE initiative includes 4 points. Firstly, the Baghdad leadership voluntarily resign and Irak leaves within 2 weeks.

The dismantling of the largest checkpoint started on Saturday morning in the city of Grozny. It is located at the crossroads of the streets named after Mayakovsky and Bogdan Khmelnitsky.

The IL-76 truck requested an emergency landing in Novosibirsk. According to RIA Novosti , the operational duty department of the Civil Defense and Emergencies, the plane, on board of which there are 10 crew members, flew from Irkutsk to China. During the flight, the crew found a malfunction and requested an emergency landing at the Novosibirsk airport Tolmachevo. The operational duty officer did not specify what malfunctions on board the aircraft.

In Brazil on Friday, the long -awaited holiday officially began - a traditional carnival. The vice-pore of Rio de Janeiro Marco Antoniu Vales passed the symbolic keys to the city of a fictional hero-the fat man "King Momo". It is he who will rule the carnival. The "king" immediately gave the order: everyone has fun and dance. Banks, offices, state institutions closed. Life has turned into a continuous fun, reports ITAR-TASS.

The Moscow police detained the organizer of an unauthorized protest of truck drivers. On Saturday, at about 10:30, about two dozen heavy cars blocked traffic on Mokhovoy Street. According to RIA Novosti , the official representative of the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate, drivers protested against the introduction of special launches that limit the entry of heavy vehicles to the center of Moscow.

Newcasl, which leads a rustle in the Champions League, caught up with Manchester United in his native championship, and is now applying for victory in the Premier League. In the next round, Newkasl won with Chelsea - 2: 1. The victorious goal in this duel was scored by Olivier Bernard, who in the 53rd minute definitely struck from the limits of the penalty area. Well, first, Chelsea forward, Jimi Floyd Hasselbenk, led the ball into his own goal.

The surprise of the next gaming day in the NHL was the defeat of Dallas Starz from the outsider -bankrot - "Buffalo". The meeting account is 5: 3, and the Seibers win the fifth of the last six meetings with Stars. One of the main characters of the match was Miroslav Shatan, who made three assists. After Buffalo officially became bankrupt, the team, as if calmed down, and now shows a rather stable game, however, she could not leave the last place in the League, reports Reuters.

A fire on the ship of the Admiralty Shipyard enterprise at the English embankment in St. Petersburg was localized at 17:45 Moscow time, ITAR-TASS reported in the press center of the fire service of the Ministry of Emergencies. Currently, separate foci of combustion are observed. Due to the water that got inside the body, the ship remains in the heat position, but the fuel leakage did not occur.

The Turkish parliament supported on Saturday a government bill allowing the deployment of American troops in the country and a referral to the North Iraq of the Turkish military contingent. The bill was supported by 264 deputies, 251 - voted against. In accordance with the decision of the highest legislative body of the country, 65 thousand American soldiers will be placed on Turkish territory to open the Northern Front against Iraq.

Russians Irina Lobacheva and Ilya Averbukh excited in sports dances at the Grand Prix drawing here. On Saturday, they became winners in an arbitrary dance. In addition to the first, the Russians took second place. Silver was received by Tatyana Navka and Roman Kostomarov, as well as Bulgarians Alben Denkov and Maxim Staviyski. After the competition was completed, Averbukh said that these competitions were our last on his native ice.

Artistic Director of the Moscow Art Theater named after Chekhova, People's Artist of the USSR Oleg Tabakov calls on to improve the training of professional personnel for the theater and pay more attention to the Russian outback. He stated this on Friday at the board of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. In addition, the director stopped at a number of painful problems in the development of domestic culture.

The third complexity number on a 5-bary scale is assigned to a fire, which is raging on a ship moored to the English embankment in the territory of the Admiralty Shipyard enterprise. This was reported to ITAR-TASS today in the press service of the Main Directorate of Civil Defense and Emergencies of the city. According to the press center of the fire service of the Ministry of Emergencies, the fire on the 2nd deck of the 3-fall testing vessel occurred at 14:32 Moscow time.

About 400 Arabs went to Iraqi Kurdistan to participate in hostilities against American troops. This was announced on Saturday by the Saudi newspaper "Ash Shark Al-Ausat", referring to Islamist sources. Almost all mercenaries fought against the Soviet troops in Afghanistan.

The Russian Prosecutor General hopes that one of the most high -profile affairs of the last decade is the murder of the famous television journalist Vladislav Listyev will be disclosed. “To disclose this crime, a set of investigative -operational measures is carried out. Activity is not reduced by any day. We do not lose hope,” Leonid Troshin, head of the information and public relations department of the Information and Public Relations Department, said.