The arrival of the Summer Olympic Games in Athens is eagerly awaiting not only Greek hotel owners, taverns, taxi drivers and merchants of souvenirs. Athenian prostitutes are also counting on a good business. After all, the arrival of tens of thousands of journalists, functionaries and hundreds of thousands of tourists is expected to arrive.

During the construction of roads in the capital, one layer of asphalt "is not reported", said Nikolai Pavlov, head of the housing and communal services department. According to the technology, asphalt on city roads should be two-layer, 12-17 centimeters thick. However, due to a lack of funds, city roads cover with only one layer of asphalt, and its thickness is only five to seven centimeters, Pavlov said.

On Wednesday, in the Iraqi city of El Falluja, to the west of Baghdad from the mortar, units formed from the Iraqis, subordinate to the American command in the city. As a result of the shelling, 12 people were killed, 10 were injured of varying severity, reports Reuters with reference to the representative of the security forces in El Falludge. The wounded have already been taken to the hospital.

From the educational colony in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, three minor criminal fled on Wednesday night. According to the press service of the regional Internal Affairs Directorate, three minor criminals overcome the main fence of a correctional institution and disappeared. Two 16-year-olds and one 17-year-old Sakhalin residents were serving a sentence for various crimes.

Los Angeles Lakers equalized the score in the final series against Detroit Pistons. On their site at Staples Center, with great difficulty, they won with Pistons with a score of 99:91 and equalized the score in the series - 1-1. The first two quarters of the reporting fight remained with the owners, and for a great break the opponents left with the score of 44:36 in favor of the California.

The Federation Council is concerned about the situation that develops around South Ossetia. "The events that occurred in May - early June 2004 around South Ossetia led to a sharp escalation of tension and were a dangerous challenge of peace and stability in the entire Caucasus," the statement said unanimously on Tuesday, Interfax reports.

In the city of Georgievsk on Wednesday, the abductors of a 13-year-old schoolgirl were sentenced to deprivation of liberty for a term of 2.5 to 12 years. According to the Stavropol Regional Court, Sergey Vasiliev was sentenced to 12 years in prison, his wife Elena Vasiliev - 8 years old, Dmitry Volkov - also to 8 years in prison and Dmitry Gudkov - to the 2.5 years of the colony.

At the request of the Karelia prosecutor’s office, the implementation of the life -threatening medicine Vituris was terminated. This is stated in Wednesday on Wednesday on the website of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation a message of the management of information and public relations (UIOS).

This is stated in the presented report by the capital's department of Germany on the protection of the Constitution for 2003, ITAR-TASS reports. According to the document, out of about 450 thousand foreigners living in Berlin, about 5800 are included in extremist groups, two -thirds of which are Islamist. The number of "politically motivated" crimes committed by foreigners (excluding crimes against the person) increased last year in Berlin from 95 to 148.

George Bush unexpectedly visited the classified operational team of security measures for the Great Eight in the evening on Tuesday on Tuesday in order to personally thank his employees. “I know that you have to work for many hours, and I came to thank you for what you are doing. I really appreciate it and people who are guarding the life of which you are guarding,” Bush said in a brief performance before the staff of the command center.

In the Sogdian region of Tajikistan, two local residents were detained on suspicion of organizing slave trade, ITAR-TASS reports. According to the deputy prosecutor of the region Zokir Nazarov, a criminal case was opened on this fact under the article "Recruitment of people for operation", which provides for imprisonment up to 12 years.

Former Minister of Finance of the Adjar Autonomous Republic, David Abashidze, was detained by prosecutors on Wednesday evening in Tbilisi. According to the data obtained by the Prosecutor General of Georgia, David Abashidze was charged with “abuse of authority when the Minister of Finance of Adjara”, in particular, is about financial abuse of a total of 140 thousand Lari (about 75 thousand dollars) of the United States.

A number of human rights organizations and artists announced the support of the leadership of Moscow with a harsh criticism of two exhibitions on religion, which took place in Moscow and St. Petersburg. them. Sakharov, against whom a criminal case was instituted for inciting religious enmity, Interfax reports. The basis for the criminal case was the content of the exhibition “Caution: Religion!”, Which was held in the museum from January 14 to 18 last year.

On Wednesday, the Dzerzhinsky Federal Court of St. Petersburg postponed the consideration of the claims of three construction companies against the ballerina Anastasia Volochkova in connection with the non-appearance of the defendant, as well as the need for the presence at a meeting of a third party, designer Elena Kostina , Interfax reports.

The Spanish police arrested six people suspected of involvement in the organization of terrorist attacks on March 11 in Madrid . According to the representative of the Ministry of the Interior, all of them are directly related to Jose Emilio Suarez , who provided the underground cell of the Islamists with explosives. Among the arrested is the wife of Suarez, as well as his Shurin.