The Moscow prosecutor’s office completed an investigation against five accused in the case of the McDonalds restaurant in the south-west of Moscow and the accomplishment in the seizure of hostages of the theater center at Dubrovka in October 2002. This was reported to Interfax on Tuesday in the press service of the metropolitan prosecutor's office.

Rescuers of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies, who carried out work in the Iranian city of BAM, destroyed as a result of a strong earthquake, finish their work on Tuesday and fly to Moscow. Currently, rescuers are turning the base camp and traveling to the airport of Kerman, from where they will fly to Moscow with two aircraft, RIA Novosti was told in the information department of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation.

Three people were killed and two were seriously injured on Tuesday afternoon as a result of an accident in the Western District of Moscow, the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate said. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, at about 15:00 on Minsk Street, opposite the residential complex "Golden Keys", two foreign cars collided in the forehead. All people in cars were blocked. And the rescuers had to be called to the scene.

Las Vegas is afraid to be subjected to a blow to the New Year, reminiscent of terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. In order to “not play roulette with fate”, the Nevada authorities decided to close airspace for private aircraft over the Strepe -Boulevard area, where the main attractions of the Igrannaya capital of the United States are located. Here on New Year's Eve, the movement is blocked, and tens of thousands of people take to the streets of the city to celebrate the New Year.

Fifteen families were left without shelter as a result of landslides in the village of Zandak Nozhai-Yurt District Chechnya. This was announced on Tuesday by the First Deputy Head of the administration of the Nozha-Yurt district, Jalavdi Albekov. During the crew, Albekov said, 15 residential buildings crawled from the slopes and were almost completely destroyed. Part of people living in these houses are located in high school, the rest are still in their relatives and friends.

The soldier of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Maxim Borodin, who escaped with weapons and ammunition from the military unit in the Rostov region, was detained, said the head of the press service of the North Caucasus Military District, Colonel Igor Konashenko, Interfax reports. "The soldier did not give resistance during the detention. Weapons and ammunition were returned to the military unit," he said.

The final series of the trilogy "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" confidently stands at the top of the top-rating on cash fees in the United States following the results of the Christmas weekend. This time, the picture earned $ 51.2 million over the weekend. Thus, the film approached 224 million from the date of rental. The Return of the King also takes first place at the British box office, having broken the films “Cold Mountain” and “Peter Pan” published last week.

Rescuers of the South of Russia do not plan to continue searching for the Karmadon Gorge. This was announced at a press conference in the press center of "Interfax" the head of the Southern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation Ivan Teterin. "We do not plan to continue searching for the Karmadon Gorge in connection with their futility. But we do not stop the examination of the glacier on the site of its gathering," Teterin said.

Vacationers on the Indonesian island of Bali were saved from the death of a 5-meter whale, RIA Novosti reports. Early in the morning on Tuesday, employees of the fashionable hotel Grand Hayat to their surprise found a five -meter whale hotel on the beach. The animal turned out to be on the shore, probably caught by surprise by the tint that began at night. Attempts to drag a multi -ton huge to the edge of the far retreating water, using a bulldozer, ended in failure.

The best ally of a crook or a terrorist will be a deodorant in the future. To hide their personality, they will need not only gloves, masks or other masked means - first of all, they will need to mask their smell. British scientists, with the support of the government of Tony Blara, are ready to start implementing a project worth 3 billion pounds, writes La Repubblica , an article published by Inopressa . They have to develop devices that can capture, remember and recognize people's smells.

The large batch of heroin was removed as a result of a successful operation in the capital. According to the Department of Public Relations of the Gosnarkokontrol of the Russian Federation, during patrolling in a parking lot located near house 22 on Koptevskaya Street, 40 kg of high-quality Afghan heroin of Afghan production was discovered in the GAZ-2410 car. The drug was hidden in a hiding place specially equipped in a car under the hood and behind the rear seat.

The founder of the Russian oil group "LUKOIL" Ralif Safin postponed his impending purchase "Manchester United." The Safin scheme was postponed due to growing fears that a negative reaction from Vladimir Putin will follow in the light of his recent success in the parliamentary elections.

Russians are optimistic in the coming 2004. 75% of the survey participants believe that it will be better than the previous one. 19% believe that in the new year no changes for the better will happen, and 3% await deterioration. Such data were provided by Interfax by the sociologists of the analytical service of the VTsIOM-A under the leadership of Yuri Levada following a survey of 1,600 respondents. This year Russians evaluate above than the previous one.

The Yukos oil company, which has 92% of the shares of Sibneft OJSC, intends to demand the convening of an extraordinary meeting of Sibneft shareholders to consider issues of changing its charter and re -election of the board of directors of the company. According to Interfax, Yukos spokesman Alexander Shadrin, such a decision was made due to the fact that there is currently no agreement on the final conditions for the termination of the merger of the company with Sibneft OJSC.

The impudent robbery of a specialized salon store of one of the famous German jewelry firms was committed on Monday evening in the center of Frankfurt-on-Main. According to the police, three bandits broke into the salon and, under the threat of weapons, stole about 200 expensive watch, as well as other jewelry. The robbers managed to hide until the police appeared. Ten employees in the store and three customers were not injured. The cost of stolen values ​​is set, reports ITAR-TASS.