In the Southeast Administrative District of Moscow, three people were detained on charges of robbery. According to law enforcement agencies, around midnight, three Georgian citizens broke into one of the apartments of house N 19 on Zelenodolskaya Street, where a native of Tbilisi lives. Threatening with weapons, the criminals demanded money and values ​​from the owner. For intimidation, the raiders shot a hand to the owner of the apartment.

On Thursday morning, the suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to the university in the Iraqi city of Ramadi (120 km west of Baghdad). The city of Ramadi is one of the support centers of the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. American troops are regularly attacked here. According to the Arab satellite television channel AL-JAZEEERA, the terrorist activated an explosive device at a passage university, the entrance to which is guarded, including American soldiers.

The prosecutor's office of the Tver region, as part of the criminal investigation against a number of officials of the regional administration, conducted searches in the office and, as reported in the "residential premises" of the Governor of the Tver region Vladimir Platov.

Czech Skoda came up with how to avenge Russia, which threatens to introduce additional duties on Czech cars imported into the country. The Russian-Chesh exchange of economic sanctions is gaining momentum. Recently, the Czech Republic has overlapped a 35%delivery of Russian nitrate ammonium. Our officials have chosen a company that has nothing to do with fertilizers - the Czech Skoda Auto Concert .

As it became known to Newsru.com, the Moscow entrepreneur Hussein Dzhabrailov, who had previously gathered to fight for the post of President of Chechnya, who later withdrew his candidacy , in Chechnya there are about one and a half thousand armed supporters. They are assigned to official power structures, in particular, to special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Jabrailov fears clashes between them and supporters of the acting head of the Chechen Republic Akhmad Kadyrov.

The Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi, who worked in his youth with a pop singer on a cruise liner, is going to resume his musical career by the release of the album of the love ballads composed by him. A politician with a billionth state (according to Forbes, Berlusconi owns $ 14.5 billion) found time in his dense working schedule to write seven songs that will be presented in the new album of the famous guitarist Mariano Apicell. This was reported on Wednesday by Italian media.

Former NTV general director and chief editor of the TVS television channel Evgeny Kiselev gave an interview with Newsru.com in connection with his appointment to the editor -in -chief of the Moscow News newspaper , saying that in Russia the future is behind the paper and network media. - Newsru.com: I would like, congratulating you on the choice of such a worthy media as Moscow News, to ask if it scares that the new owner of the oldest democratic newspaper has become now disgraced Yukos. - E.

US Secretary of Defense Donald Ramsfeld arrived on Thursday in Iraq. It is expected that he will meet with the military and civilian American leadership in Iraq, in particular, the head of the Provisional Administration, Paul Bremer and Commander of the US troops in Iraq, General Ricardo Sanchez. Soon after the arrival, Donald Ramsfeld visited the hospital, where the wounded American military are located.

As part of the competition of the 60th Venice Film Festival, the film "Return" of the 35-year-old Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev was shown. The picture was chosen by Irena Binyardi for the festival in Locarno, but the director of the Venice Film Festival literally took her from under the nose of the colleague, causing great discontent. As a result, at the show for the public, the film was applauded for 15 minutes.

In the gym near your house, a new car may soon appear, which will require you to stand absolutely motionless. In 30 seconds of immobility, she will find where fat is in your body, and will measure its number. Then she will tell you exactly where several kilograms are located, which you need to get rid of, and even recommend exercises for problem areas.

The war in Iraq contributed to an unprecedented growth of trade with neighboring Jordan. This is most noticeable in the example of the market for used foreign cars. The port city of Akaba witnessed the invasion of the Iraqis, who arrived here to buy cars. And the cheapness of Iraqi gasoline only spurred this trade. Tourists of the Jordanian port-resort city of Akaba until recently enjoyed the views of the Red Sea, Israel and Egypt.

“Everything that happened to the K -159 is like a bad dream,” said the captain of the 2nd rank in stock, the submariner Alexander Pokrovsky. In an interview with REGNUM, the expert talked about the state in which the decommissioned submarines in Gremikha are located, from where she went on his last path K-159, and what, according to experienced submariners, happened with the submarine. To the question of "switchmen" "The boat drowned, people went to the bottom.

In the capital of Latvia Riga, about 10 thousand people at the call of the headquarters for the protection of Russian schools ( Lashor ) gathered on Thursday in the Esplanade Park in the city center for a manifestation against a partial translation of Russian secondary schools to the Latvian language planned for 2004. “We want to demonstrate to the authorities that there is a demand in Latvia in Russian.

Today, Viktor Tikhonov, for the first time after a long break, will bring the Russian national hockey team in an official match. In the Czech city of Pardubitsa, the Cusca Poisyshtovna Cup starts - the first stage of hockey Eurotour -2003/04. Russians play the first match with the Czech Republic. A day later, the wards of Viktor Tikhonov will have a duel from the Sweden team, and on September 7 - with the team of Finland.

The unique program for helping children who have difficulty in learning was developed by American experts. It was called "literacy with the help of dogs" and is successfully implemented in some California schools, libraries, as well as centers for children with development problems. Experts argue that to overcome difficulties in studying, especially with reading, to many children is disturbed by shyness or fear of censure.