Former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, shifted from his post as a result of a “velvet revolution”, plans a kind of return to politics. According to the Independent newspaper, Shevardnadze became an adviser to the UN Secretary General Cofi Annan. The translation of the article is published on the website inopressa.ru .

King of Jordan postponed his visit to President George Bush. The visit of the Jordanian monarch to the White House was scheduled for Wednesday, but Abdalla II postponed it for the first week of May. He considered that first it was necessary to clarify the US position on the issue of Israeli settlements on the western bank of the Jordan River , CNN reports.

The court satisfied the performance of the Moscow prosecutor Anatoly Zuev on recognition as extremist literature of the treatise of Muhammad ibn Suleiman at-tamimies (Muhammad ibn Abdel Wahhab) "The Book of Monotheism". As the Interfax agency was informed today in the press service of the Moscow Prosecutor's Office, the prosecutor’s office was previously opened and investigated a criminal case under Art.

Russia will complete the implementation of the contract for China S-300 PMU-3 anti-aircraft systems in June this year, the director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Mikhail Dmitriev, who, as part of the delegation of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation on Tuesday, arrived in Beijing. "The contract for the supply of China S-300 PMU-1 will be completed in June. The contract is carried out strictly according to the schedule," Dmitriev "Interfax" said.

The first mosque over the past 200 years will be built in the capital of Greece, the Blagovers-info reports with reference to the Macedonian News Agency . The plans for the construction of the Islamic Cultural Center with a mosque in the suburbs of Athens of Peania, located near the new international airport, have been known for a long time. These plans were actively opposed by local residents and the Orthodox clergy.

Several strong explosions thundered tonight in the center of Baghdad, transferred the Katar television channel Al-Jazeera . According to him, from the Green Line area, where the command center of American troops is located, thick smoke rises into the sky. Helicopters are circling over the city. The armed output was undertaken in Mosul, in the north of Iraq. As a result of the explosion of the bomb there, one American soldier died there, four others were injured, ITAR-TASS reports.

On Tuesday, at 21:30 Moscow time, joint combat calculations of the strategic missile forces (Strategic Missile Forces) and the Russian space forces from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, the next test launch of the intercontinental ballistic missile (MBR) Topol-M was carried out. This was reported to "Interfax" in the press service of the Strategic Missile Forces.

In the South German city of Darmstadt (Hessen Land), unknown criminals attacked the US Army soldier. As it became known, a 20-year-old girl only arrived a few days ago to serve in the local military garrison. According to the police, five men attacked a girl at a bus stop. For unknown reasons, the criminals began to insult the victim, and when she tried to run, knocked her down, beat and raped her. With serious injuries, the girl was taken to the hospital.

On Tuesday, in the first semi -final match of the Champions Football League at Louis II stadium, where the Bit Grozny Real Madrid was recently, the French Monaco will meet with the London Chelsea. The presence of today's rivals of teams in the four of the best is already unusual in itself. They made their way to the semifinals, making sensations.

The engineer Mordechai Vanun, who told the world about Israeli nuclear weapons, and stolen by Mossad’s employees in the UK , should leave Shikma in the city of Ashkelon on Wednesday after 18 years of imprisonment. In 1986, Vanuna was sentenced to a long time for the transfer of secret information about the studies in the field of Dimon in the field of nuclear weapons in the Israeli atomic center.

The State Duma on Tuesday adopted in the first reading amendments to the laws "On narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances" and "Fundamentals of the legislation of the Russian Federation on the protection of the health of citizens" of July 22, 1993, regarding the forced treatment of adolescents, patients with drug addiction. These documents are proposed to increase from 15 to 16 years the age of adolescents-narcomans, the treatment of which is carried out forcibly.

The 43-year-old Russian center forward "New Jersey" Igor Larionov announced his departure from Hockey. The oldest league hockey player failed to win his fourth Stanley Cup, which he was counting on, signing a contract with the "devils" in September. The club from East-Rutherford lost on Saturday “Philadelphia” in the fifth match 1: 3 and in the 1-4 series. Larionov, whose career began 24 years ago in the Soviet Union, plans to once again go out on the ice in December - at his farewell match.

The overthrown President of Iraq Saddam Hussein was taken for 48 hours to Qatar, where he was interrogated by the director of the CIA George tenet, according to Gazeta.ru on Tuesday with reference to the AL-QABAS Kuwaiti newspaper. The article does not specify when this happened. According to her, Saddam Hussein, after interrogation, was again returned to Iraq.

Having visited the former concentration camp in Poland, the Federal Republic of Germany experienced such a strong shock that now he did not want to have anything to do with Germany. Details of this story are given by the Der Tagesspiegel newspaper (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). The 24-year-old Berlinets arrived at the former concentration camp Stutthof near Gdansk as part of a tourist group. The one saw was a shock for him.

In the zone of the strongest flood in the south of the Kemerovo region, nine people died. This was stated on Tuesday at a press conference at Kemerovo, the head of the Main Operational Administration for Civil Defense and Emergency Situations, Alexander Martynov. In particular, eight people died in the village of Malyshev Log in the city of Kaltan and another in Tashtagol. The death of four residents of Malyshev Log is directly related to the flood.