From the day of the start of the information site, Inopressa.ru has been four years old. The site was one of the first in the Russian Internet to publish translations of articles of influential foreign publications. Initially, the project was conceived for the publication of materials reflecting the reaction of the world community to events in Russia. But later his "coverage zone" has expanded significantly and it also got into it articles telling about events around the world.

Putin is dressed in presidential clothes, but in fact he is an Erzatz -Tsar. For 12 years that have passed after the collapse of the USSR, almost everything has changed in Russia. Where there once was a single communist party, today 100 political parties and groups are fighting for the Kremlin; Instead of the Secretary General in Russia, there were already two legally elected presidents - Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin.

In Chechnya, the head of the city of Shali and his son were killed. This was announced on Thursday by a source in the administration of the Shali district of the republic. According to him, on Wednesday at 19:50 Moscow time, a message was received at the duty unit of the Shali District Department of Internal Affairs that at 18:00 at the intersection of Pervomaiskaya and separate unknown persons from automatic weapons sheltered the GAZ-3110 car, in which the official and his son were located.

The head coach of the Manchester United club Sir Alex Ferguson confirmed the day before, he was negotiating with the leadership of the English team regarding the signing of a new contract. Recall that the term of the old agreement expires in 2005. As a well -known specialist admitted, the parties after long negotiations almost came to an agreement and now, if no excesses happen, the Scot will remain in his post until the end of 2007.

In Cherkessk today it is announced to create an inter-religious council to coordinate the actions of the Stavropol and Vladikavkaz diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church and the spiritual department of Muslims Karachay-Cherkessia and Stavropol, RIA Novosti reports.

The Navy of Russia was provided by the group of Konstantin Kinchev "Alice" help in the release of the new album.

At the plenary Assembly of the Council of the Chairman of the Conference of Bishops of Europe, which is opened in the capital of Lithuania today, discussions about international, social and political processes taking place on the Continent of the Old World, ITAR-TASS reports.

The tasks of doubling Russia's GDP by 2010 is a whip for the government, said Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation Arkady Dvorkovich at the Russian Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Moscow, which began on Thursday. “From my personal point of view, the task of doubling GDP is a bad task, but a good whip for the government,” Dvorkovich said. The Zavod believes that it is impossible to set and predict such a task because of its global scale.

Russia will revise its nuclear strategy if NATO is preserved as a military alliance. This is stated in the open military doctrine of the modernization of the Armed Forces developed by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Interfax reports.

Most of the Americans have been impoverished over the past 20 years, but the rich have become even richer. This has led to the fact that at present the gap in the level of the welfare between the richest and most poor Americans has reached maximum importance over the past 70 years, the Center for Priorities in Politics and the Budget and Policy Priorities said.

Law enforcement agencies today arrested criminals who committed explosions in Krasnodar on August 25 . This was reported to ITAR-TASS by the head of the Main Directorate of the Krasnodar Territory, Lieutenant General Sergei Kucheruk. According to him, "among the arrested are two main defendants in a terrorist act." During operational investigative measures, they were detained in Krasnodar.

The American publication of World Net Daily claims that the terrorist organization of Osama Ben Laden al-Qaeda created the first naval terrorist flotilla in the amount of 15 ships, which are based in the Pacific and Indian oceans. In this regard, the US State Department has spread a warning about the threat to its marine interests, and the Philippines government announced an alarm in its ports in connection with possible terrorist attacks.

In Moscow, a fire in a residential building was liquidated in the Southeast Administrative District. As Interfax was informed in the Office of the State Fire Service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry for Moscow, at 20:10 a signal was received to the remote control of the city duty officer "01" on the fire in house No. 64 on Ryazansky Prospekt. This is a 17-story block building.

Scotland Yard continues the investigation of the incident that occurred last Sunday in one of the London hotels . Then, as you know, a 17-year-old girl appealed to the police with a statement in which she accused the eight players of the Premier League, one of whom is a member of the England team, of committing an act of violence over her. According to the Daily Express , the investigation of the case is kept in the strictest secret, and the police agreed to disclose only general information.

Insurance payments to relatives of four dead members of the crew of the Tu-160 strategic bomber, which broke up on September 18 in the Saratov region, will be made in the near future, Interfax reports.