Special forces of the federal forces and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya, who have been conducting a special operation against the Chechen militants subordinate to Aslan Maskhadov in the southern regions of the republic for several days, were blocked by two settlements of the Gudermes district - Koshkelda and Engel -Yurt. One of them, presumably, hides the wounded chief of personal guard Maskhadov - Akhmed Avdorkhanov .

In the midst of the May celebrations of this year, which coincided with the expansion of the European Union , a shadow of the heritage of the Soviet era hung over many new EU members. According to local reconnaissance sources, Russian influence is growing in Central Europe and, in particular, in the Czech Republic, writes Jane's publication, the translation of the article of which is published by Inopressa .

Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych is convinced that Ukraine has the right to withdraw its peacekeeping contingent from Iraq if Ukrainian enterprises are not allowed to restore processes in this country, and the situation in Iraq will not be controlled by the UN. Yanukovych expressed this opinion on Thursday in Zhytomyr, answering questions from journalists, Interfax reports.

The employees of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Orenburg Region on Thursday searched the premises of the local television company Oren-TV . This was reported to "Interfax" by the editor -in -chief of the television company Arkady Pronin. According to him, on Thursday at 9:00 local time, 20-25 people entered the room where the television company was located, some of which were dressed in camouflage form, part in civilian.

The executive secretary of the conference of the Catholic bishops of the Russian Federation Igor Kovalevsky admitted that representatives of the Vatican made mistakes in Russia that can be regarded as proselytism . "Some facts cause a misunderstanding and can be interpreted as proselytism, but this is not an intentional practice," I.

The coaches of the Sweden football team were the first to call their team to participate in the European Championship, which starts in Portugal on June 12th. Markus Albek, Johan Mielby and Mikael Svensson, made to the application have not yet fully recovered from injuries, but the Scandinavians can make changes until June 2 - the last day of filing applications for the tournament participants, reports Euro2004.com.

The Portuguese citizen, who forgot the package in one of the airport halls in British Birmingham, will spend 10 days in prison, as security officers noticed a suspicious subject and the airport was evacuated. 25-year-old Jose da Silva was going to fly out of his homeland. Waiting for his flight, he decided to go to buy a cigarette and left a package with a plush toy unattended, according to the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph .

All last night, the sappers conducted work on cleansing the oil terminal of the port of Batumi. As the Deputy Minister of State Security Georgy Ugulava said on Thursday, most of the work has already been carried out. “On Thursday, we hope to free the terminal from mines,” he said. "At these works, I did not stop asking myself one question: why Aslan Abashidze was so seriously preparing for the war. All Adjara is literally stuffed with weapons," said the deputy minister, RIA Novosti reports.

In Saransk (Mordovia) on Thursday, an explosion occurred in the basement of a residential five -story building. According to preliminary data, two people were killed, another was wounded. According to the Ministry of Emergencies of the republic, a 23-year-old girl and an elderly man were killed. Another elderly woman received severe burns and was hospitalized in the burn department of the 4th city hospital. Residents of the house are evacuated.

Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus established the involvement of a number of Belarusian modeling agencies in the distribution of pornography on the Internet. This was announced at a press conference on Thursday by the head of the Department for Combating the Illegal Training of Drugs and Crimes in the Crimes of the Main Directorate of the Criminal Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus Alexander Soldatenkov.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II headed today in the church of St. George the Victorious on Poklonnaya Gora a festive prayer on the day of memory of the Holy Great Martyr and Victorious George . Such a prayer service is committed here for the first time after the painting of the temple. At the end of the solemn worship in the church on Poklonnaya Gora, Alexy II congratulated Yuri Luzhkov, present here by the angel of the Moscow Mayor.

In Perm, as a result of a clash of two passenger buses, 27 people were injured on Thursday. According to the traffic police of the Perm region, the driver of a private bus Man at about 15:30 local time could not stand the distance and crashed into a speed into the bus of the same brand. According to the traffic police, the driver of one of the buses fell asleep at the wheel, caught up with the other bus and crashed into its back.

In California, a woman swallowed a bullet that somehow ended up in a hot dog. The victim only managed to bite the second bullet, reports Ananova . 31-year-old Olivia Chanel bought a hot dog in the Costco store. From where bullets were in a small bun with sausage, it is still not clear. “At first I thought that these were brackets from my teeth,” the woman told reporters. The police checked all the reserves of the hot dogs in the store, but there were no other extraneous objects in them.

Next week, Tony Blair will announce the sending of new military units to Iraq. According to The Sun , the first to go to Iraq, 800 fighters of the Royal Marine Corps from the command-40 unit. Fighters from a special SBS unit, an analogue of the SAS special forces in the British fleet, will go as support with the marines.

The Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the holiday on May 6 in honor of the holy great martyr George the Victorious. On this day, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II performs a festive service in the church of St. George on Poklonnaya Gora, RIA Novosti was informed in the department of external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate . According to legend, St. George was born in the III century in the city of Beirut (in Asia Minor) in a Christian family.