Employees of the Oryol criminal investigation turned to the population for assistance in the disclosure of barbaric arson in the Smolensk Orthodox Church of the city of Oryol, the REGNUM news agency reports. The local media published phones by which you can inform information that contributes to the disclosure of the crime.

Afghanistan will be surrounded by a "security belt" in order to strengthen the fight against drugs and suppress illegal drugs of drug distribution. The Corresponding Agreement was signed today in Berlin in Afghanistan Foreign Affairs Abdullah Abdullah and representatives of the governments of Afghanistan-Chinese, Iran, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan at the International Afghanistan Conference, ITAR-TASS reports.

The Committee of the US Congress for International Affairs adopted a resolution N336, calling for suspended membership of the Russian Federation in the "Big Eight". As usual, congressmen do not like the lack of real democracy in Russia.

The brothers Vladimir and Vitaly Klitschko in Los Angeles, where they are preparing for the upcoming fights, met with the famous actor Sylvester Stallone. As the official website of Ukrainian boxers said on March 31, Stallone invited them to star in his film. Klitschko said that they talked with Sylvester Stallone and he first invited them to star in his boxing reality show The Contender.

The World Cup in Dortmund showed that the level of figure skating has become much higher than at past Olympic Games. This opinion was expressed today at a press conference in ITAR-TASS, President of the Russian Figure Skating Federation Valentin Piseev. He noted the professional growth of skaters around the world, in this regard, expressing the fear that Russian athletes will be much more difficult to fight for high awards in international competitions.

The Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin will be deprived of the title of "Honorary Citizen Budapest" a few days before May 1, when Hungary joins the European Union, Reuters reports. The administration of the mayor of Budapest Gabor Demski said in a special statement that deputies of the city assembly made such a decision. Officially, it will be approved at the meeting at the end of April.

The Lithuanian court softened on Thursday the conditions of maintenance under house arrest of a Russian citizen Yuri Borisov. He is allowed to visit the Avia Baltic enterprise in Kaunas in Kaunas for the repair of helicopters, the owner of which is. However, from 19 p.m. to 8 a.m. Borisov must be in his own house in Vilnius. The entrepreneur is suspected of threats and blackmail against President Rolandas Paxas.

In the north of Uganda, a 76-year-old Catholic missionary was killed, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Kuwaitsky agency Kuna. Death occurred as a result of injuries inflicted by cold weapons. The body of a missionary, an Italian by nationality, was discovered the day before in the morning in the room where the priest lived on the territory of the mission. The Catholic news agency Misna, which spread the news, does not have information about the circumstances and causes of the crime.

Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan, Ilya Pygai, who heads the department for combating terrorism, said that the attacks in Tashkent were committed by the Wahhabis militants associated with the Al-Caida International Terrorist Organization, AR reports. “These are Wahhabis, which belong to one of the branches of the Al -Qaeda International Terrorist Organization,” Pygai said.

The American Academy of Cinema called the key dates of the new Oscar Marathon. Oscars for the best work in the field of cinematography of 2004 will be awarded on Sunday, February 27, 2005. The date of the ceremony is determined by the vote of the members of the Council of Management Academy. They also determine all other dates of the "Prefereskar" graphics.

The head coach of the Moscow Hockey Club Dynamo Zinetula Bilyaletdinov decided not to renew his contract. The agreement was calculated for three years, during which the wards of Bilyaletdinov never managed to break into the 1/2 finals of the Russian Championship. This season, as a year ago, an insurmountable obstacle to the white-white in the playoffs was the Omsk Vanguard. And in 2000, it was this coach that led Dynamo to the first “gold” of national championship so far.

In Germany on Thursday, a high -speed passenger train came off the rails. The accident occurred in the federal land of Baden-Württemberg near the city of Karlsruha. According to the police, the cause of the accident was a tractor who accidentally moved on rails from a vineyard located on a mountain slope, reports Ar. Despite emergency braking, the collision could not be avoided.

At the moment, Russian athletes have already won 380 licenses for the Olympic Games in Greece. This was announced on Thursday at a press conference by the Vice President of the Olympic Committee of Russia (OKR) Gennady Aleshin. The qualifying competitions at the 2004 Olympics will continue until July, and as Aleshin believes, during which time about 100 more Russians will pass the selection.

The basketball players of the Moscow CSKA won the penalty match of the penultimate, fifth round of the second group stage of the Euroleague ULEB in Moscow near the Spanish Club Tau Ceramics with a score of 84:82 and early became the winners of the group D, reserved a place in the final of four, which will begin on April 29 in Tel Aviva. Now their assets have five victories in five matches of the second stage, and Taugres has three victories with two defeats.

Although the first of April is considered the "day of the fool", this tradition does not affect official documents. On this day, various decisions come into force, which have a serious impact on the life of Russian citizens, writes the Russian Newspaper . So, this year, from April 1, the fare in public transport is changing, tariffs for international telephone calls, the amount of pensions, etc. The newspaper has prepared a review of the changes that have been introduced from today.