On Thursday, a moment of truth comes for the Russian boxer Konstantin Tsu. He must decide when he will protect his title according to WBC. Otherwise, the organization will take this title of world champion from him. For two years now he has not been conducting battles with applicants for the title. However, the absolute world champion among professional boxers in the weight category up to 63.5 kilograms is going to fight with Shrambo Mitchel.

The Government of the Russian Federation adopted amendments and additions to the rules of the road (traffic rules) regarding a number of technical terms and the driver’s actions in difficult situations on the road. The amendments come into force on January 1, 2004, Interfax reports. Amendments are prohibited from moving in the extreme left row of movement of trucks weighing more than 3.5 tons.

In Frankfurt, at the international book fair that opened on the eve of the International Book Fair, experts say that the Russian publishing industry is again experiencing heyday - after a long -term decline associated with economic and political problems. Russia decided to declare this at the fair. The time and place of the forum is symbolic.

A young federal officer in Chechnya told AFP about what was happening in this Chechen war. At one of the checkpoints in Grozny under vodka, he recalled how he accompanied the coffins sent to the mothers of the soldiers who died under his command. 22-year-old Andrei (at least he agreed that he was called that) says that in the 5 months that he is fighting in Chechnya, seven soldiers who fought under his beginning were killed.

On Wednesday and Thursday in Yekaterinburg, Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the German Chancellor Gerhard Schreder to discuss economic issues. It will be about the expansion of economic ties between "strategic partners", Russia and Germany. The fact that the heads of the two states will be discussed, writes Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , which is published in Russian by Inopressa .

Children who frown at the sight of broccoli or writhe in front of a fruit plate, from now on, receive a complete excuse: this is due to the instinct of self -preservation, today The Daily Telegraph writes (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). Many children do not like meat, fruits and green vegetables, since even an ancient person has been in danger by consuming these products, the group of scientists from Cancer Research UK claims.

7 people were injured on Tuesday as a result of a strong wind in Moscow, 4 of them were hospitalized, Interfax reports. Doctors reported on Wednesday that three hospitalized are in satisfactory condition. This is a 65-year-old woman who entered a hospital with a traumatic brain injury, in another woman, 36 years old, a concussion, a 56-year-old woman received a fracture of her hand.

China will not allow the repetition of events like the USSR split 12 years ago, said the deputy head of the press control of the State Council of China Lee Gan at a meeting with a group of Russian journalists in Beijing, Interfax reports.

In Stockholm, the 34th Nobel Prize in the field of economics, which is considered the most prestigious reward of the economic world, was awarded in Stockholm. The Laureates of the Nobel Prize in the field of the economy were American Robert Engle and Briton Klave Grenger .

The vice president of Milan Adriano Galliani admitted that Real Madrid offered 160 million euros for striker Andrei Shevchenko. The proposal was received in 2001, but the owner of the club Silvio Berlusconi refused to even discuss the possibility of selling a star football player. As a result, “Real” bought Zinedina Zidan from Juventus.

The commander of the American troops in Iraq will receive five million dollars to write a book of his memories. The competition for the publication of memoirs of the recently resigned commander of the American contingent won the Red Books Publishing House (branch of Harpercollins), Panorama reports (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). This amount for the book of military memoirs cannot be called record.

The judge of the Roman appeal judge decided: to catch the coins of "good luck" from the Roman fountain Trevi is no longer a crime. By the decision of the judge, after the coin is thrown into the fountain, it does not belong to anyone, that is, it belongs to anyone. Such a sentence, undoubtedly, is welcomed by the poor of the city, abolishes the previous results of lower -order vessels.

A group of defenders of the rights of the animal demands that Robbie Williams remove the personnel of the clip from the program of his living show, where the chimpanzee plays with weapons. The organization "PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL Treatment of Animals -" People for ethical attitude to animals ") wrote a letter with a number of complaints about the content of his show, which he showed in the first part of his world tour.

The former dancer, who received traumatic brain injuries in the accident of his Mercedes, turned out to be the unofficial wife Kim Jong Ira and the mother of his heir. When a North Korean dancer was retired a month ago in Pyongyang, a North Korean dancer was retired, from the most isolated Stalinist state, no sound leaked about the scale of the tragedy that collapsed on his paranoid leader Kim Jong Ira.

Under the speed of 120 km/h in Austria, 14 cows were killed at a speed of 120 km/h. This was reported in the gendarme department of the Austrian federal land Tyrol. The misfortune occurred in the area of ​​the city of Schvats, when 65 cows drove through the alpine pastures through the railway to the alpine pastures. The engineer of the electric locomotive, following the Innsbruck to Salzburg, noticed a herd on the railway tracks and braked sharply, but it was not possible to save 14 cows.