On Wednesday, from the Israeli prison of the city of Ashkelon, after an 18-year imprisonment, one of the most famous Israeli prisoners-the Israeli nuclear physicist Mordechai Vanuna was released. He fell behind bars after in the 80s he transferred information about the nuclear weapons research allegedly conducted in the Israeli atomic center near the city of Dimon. Mordiya Vanun was accused of disclosing sensational data on Israeli nuclear weapons.

The widow of the first president of Ichkeria Alla Dudaeva published the book "Million One" about the fate of her husband - Johar Dudaev. The “Book of the Million One” was written by me for Russians, I really want them to finally understand the Chechens, ”Dudaeva said in an interview with the newspaper New Izvestia , published on Wednesday. “Impunity breeds new crimes, and we, in Chechnya and in Moscow, already out of habit of burying the dead and bring condolences to relatives,” said Dudaeva.

The Office of the Voronezh Region of the Federal Service of the Russian Federation for the control of the turnover of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances opened a case in connection with the sale of the NK Yukos in Voronezh of hemp vodka at the gas station (AZK).

At least 68 people died and dozens were injured as a result of an attack on Wednesday on Iraqi Police facilities in the city of Basra in the south of the country. These new data was announced by the mayor of Basra Vael Abdul-Hafiz, reports AFP. They include those who suffered as a result of synchronous attacks on three police departments in the city itself and to the police academy in Ez -Zubayra - a city 25 km from Basra. Among the dead there are many children.

A military service soldier in Ussuriysk raped and strangled the child. The crime became known only the day before, when a body of a 10-year-old girl who disappeared on February 1, 2004 was found on Shakhterskoy Street in the city settlement. The body of the murdered child was on the territory of private possessions, where three cottages were located nearby.

The Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Alexy II considers it necessary to teach an elective on the basics of Orthodox culture in secondary schools in Russia. "Our whole country has grown on Christianity, on Orthodox cultural foundations. There is no need to hide from this. We must talk about it directly," the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow said today at a meeting with the employees of the Russian Academy of Education.

The office of the Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon denied information about the existence of a list of leaders of the Hamas movement , which are supposed to be liquidated. A number of Israeli news agencies reported on Wednesday about the allegedly available list with reference to the Al-Quabas Kuwaitskaya newspaper.

A strong fire paralyzed on Wednesday the operation of a large oil refinery of Kasim Sekiy, located in the Ibaraki Prefecture on the main Japanese island of Honsu. The fire of the fire was in the workshop, where sulfur was removed from oil products. At the moment, the building is shrouded in black caustic smoke, ITAR-TASS reports. The fire began early in the morning, but so far it has not been possible to knock the flame.

Injections of medicines performed by traditional syringes can go into the past in the near future. A new technology for the penetration of the medicine through the skin was invented - fast, painless, minimizing the risk of infection with a dangerous infection, BMC Medicine reports. The technology is as follows: under high pressure, the gas stream affects the skin. This allows you to create microcanals in the skin tissue through which the medicine can freely penetrate the body.

In the near future, those who want to cross the Atlantic on an airplane may have to come to the airport and register for a flight to the United States 5 hours before departure - so that the security service has enough time for a detailed survey of passengers. This was warned the day before by representatives of the tourist industry of Great Britain, writes The Guardian (translation on the Inopressa website).

Three more people died on Tuesday during the riot of prisoners in the administrative center of the Brazilian state of Rondonia, the city of Porto Veli, the security state secretariat said. Starting from Sunday, when the rebellion began, the number of victims officially confirmed by the state secretariat reached nine. The rebels themselves argue that the number of victims is 11 people, of which all were prisoners.

The Palestinian leadership is going to abolish the position of prime minister of autonomy. This was announced by the KUNA Kuna Minister of Foreign Autonomy Nabil Shaat. "This issue is being discussed, but we have not yet come to any final conclusion," he said.

In the Moscow Temple of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the Assumption Bolshoi (now the newspaper lane), today the absentee of the outstanding Russian scientist academician Sergey Sergeyevich Averintsev was performed, RIA Novosti reports. Sergei Averintsev died in Vienna on February 21 at the 67th year of his life. According to the will of the scientist, his body was cremated, and the ashes will be buried in Moscow at the Danilovsky cemetery.

In the Moscow region, a police officer died during a fight. Sources in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow Region reported on Wednesday "Interfax" that at about one in the morning to the remote control of the Office of the city of the city of Lyubertsy received a signal about a fight that arose about one of the night establishments. Having left the scene, the police found the corpse of the sergeant of the patrol service service in the Vladimir region.

Tatyana Lokshina, director of a human rights organization, gathered her employees a few months ago and instructed how to behave if representatives of special services come to them.