The football player of the Ukrainian national team Andrei Shevchenko will play for the Italian Milan until 2009. This means that he will not go to the team of Roman Abramovich - the London Chelsea - as if the Russian businessman would not want. The striker extended the contract with his club for four years. The current Shevchenko agreement with Milan expires in 2005. Thus, the plans of the London "Chelsea" to get a Ukrainian are not destined to come true.

Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation Aslambek Aslakhanov said that he would not put forward his candidacy in the elections of the President of Chechnya, but was ready to assist in their organization. "I am ready if I am instructed to take part in organizing and conducting elections in Chechnya," Aslakhanov said on Wednesday to journalists in Moscow. In his opinion, there will be "many candidates" to participate in the elections in Chechnya.

In the scandal around the recall of the license from the "Sodbusinessbank" a new turn. Representatives of the Bank of Russia were awarded a court decision, suspending orders on the recall of the license and the appointment of the interim administration in Sudbusinessbank. The court also prohibited the Central Bedician to prevent banking, Sudbusinessbank.

The authorities of St. Petersburg plan to modernize the Museum "Saray-Shalash V.I. Lenin in the spill" to attract tourists. This was reported to "Interfax" in the press service of the administration of the resort district of St. Petersburg. The concept of the development of the museum, the initial version of which is developed in the Museum of History, involves to open the "white" spots of history.

About a hundred militias of the leader of the radical Iraqi Shiites of the Muktada Sadra were killed during clashes with American troops on the night of Tuesday on Wednesday, the representative of the command of the coalition forces General Mark Kimmitit. Night battles, according to him, took place in the holy city of the city of Nezhef, where Muktada al-Sadr is hiding, and in the Shiite quarter of Sadr City in Baghdad, AFP reports.

The House of Representatives of the state of Louisian rejected the extravagant law proposed by the Republican Dica Sheperd. He proposed to declare outlaw jeans with a low waist. According to Sheperd, if from under the jeans you can see underwear, or, God forbid, part of the buttock, then this poses a threat to public safety. Despite the fact that the vote under the bill was accompanied by mockery of Sheperd’s colleagues, screams, jokes and whistle, the fighter for morality remained adamant.

Employees of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Adjar Autonomous Republic detained two commanders of illegal armed groups who took an active part in the dispersal of the Ajar opposition rallies during the reign of Aslan Abashidze.

In the Chelyabinsk region, the campaign for the search for the machine of the mayor of the South Ural capital Vyacheslav Tarasov continues. The BMW-745 car, which is the service machine of the head of Chelyabinsk, was stolen from the Sportser Service store in the evening of May 24. Together with the car, the driver disappeared. The best forces of the regional traffic police were thrown in search of BMW. According to experts, the cost of such a car ranges from 140 to 200 thousand euros.

A modern ring road will appear in the suburbs by 2011. This was reported on Tuesday in the general of the Moscow Region. According to the source, the construction of the central ring road (TsKAD), designed to save the inhabitants of Moscow and the region from many hours of traffic jams when entering the capital, will begin in two years later.

On Wednesday, the human rights organization Amnesty International will present an annual report on the observance of human rights in the world. Commenting on the main provisions of the report, the executive director of the Russian branch of Amnesty International, Sergei Nikitin, said that the United States, along with authoritarian and dictatorial regimes, is now among the main human rights violators. “Yes, this is so,” Nikitin answered the appropriate question.

A fire in a warehouse in the UK destroyed the work of leading contemporary artists of the country into millions of pounds. Among the objects flaming in the fire are the work of the sculptor and the graphics of Damian Hurst and one of the most scandalous contemporary artists of England Tracy Emin. According to the British Sky News television company, most of the burned arts of art belonged to the famous collector Charles Saatchi, who, as they say, is now completely “ruined”.

The American special services received information that the al-Qaeda group and the related terrorist organizations plan to carry out a new large terrorist attack in the United States this summer, CNN reports. Nothing is known about the exact place and time of the possible attack of terrorists, but this summer in the United States several important events are expected to attract the masses of the people.

In Pskov, a mosque may appear in the near future. As the chairman of the local center of the Chechen culture "NIISO" Sharip Okunchaev explained, the start of the construction of the Muslim church is scheduled for 2005. Now documents are being gathered for the registration of the religious organization of Muslims, which will belong to the mosque. Construction financing is expected by voluntary donations, as well as from the means of foreign states.

In Russia, 42% of all senior positions are occupied by women. The new generation of entrepreneurs determines the nature of the growing Russian economy, says the German newspaper Die Welt , which is published by Inopressa . The probability of meeting a woman manager in Russia at the enterprise is more than anywhere else in the world, the German edition reports. At 89% of Russian enterprises, women occupy one of the leadership positions.

In Chechnya, the federal forces, as a result of special operations, destroyed 11 militants over the past day. This was reported to RIA Novosti in the regional operational headquarters (Rosh) on the management of a counter -terrorism operation in the North Caucasus. According to the representative of Rosh, on Tuesday in the Vedensky district of Chechnya, in the forest near the village of Bena, army intelligence discovered a group of militants of five people.