Several construction organizations working in the metropolitan microdistrict of Kurkino intend to suspend all work on sites due to debt from the general customer of the project - the State Unitary Enterprise "Executive Office of Experimental Development". Over the past five years, this is the first large -scale crisis of non -payments in the Moscow construction industry.

On Tuesday, John Kerry's election camp accused NASA of leaking information. The “unusual” photograph of the presidential candidate received wide walking. In the photo, Kerry is captured from head to toe in a pale blue protective suit, known among specialists as a "bunny costume". Representatives of Kerry’s election camp call the publication of this photo “dirty trick”.

The Russian banking system is threatened with new shocks, experts of the Standard & Poor's International rating agency say. The other day, the agency’s experts reviewed the forecast for the credit rating of the Russian Alfa Bank from the “positive” to “stable” and made it clear that all other Russian banks should not count on raising ratings. And you need to prepare for the meeting of the inspections of the Central Bank. Bank cleanings and scandals are waiting for the country, Izvestia claims.

The Georgian military leadership apologized to the representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for the illegal seizure of Russian military facilities in Georgia , the Interfax reported on the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on Wednesday. “Today in Tbilisi, a meeting of the Lieutenant General Alexander Studenikin with the Deputy Minister of Defense of Georgia Paatata Gaprindashvili took place in Tbilisi.

The state in 2005 does not plan to privatize Sberbank, Vneshotorgbank and Vnesheconombank, the deputy director of the Department of Property Relations, Economics and Nature Management Yevgeny Dietrich told reporters. “In terms of privatization for 2005, there is neither Sberbank, nor VTB, nor VEB,” said the representative of the Ministry of Economic Development.

In the Magadan region, a 16-year-old teenager was detained who traded a potent psychotropic drug. According to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Far Eastern Federal District, the young man was detained red-handed during the operational-search measures in the village of Myanja Susuman district of the Magadan region.

News coming from the capital of the future Olympics can be divided into two categories. Along with the reports of the new turn -plated Olympic objects or improvements in Athens themselves, information about the strikes that this or that trade union suits. This time, doctors made their requirements. On Wednesday, in Athens and the largest suburb of the Greek capital, Piraeus takes place a warning six -hour strike of hospital doctors.

John Robert Holden, who was playing the Moscow CSKA, gave preliminary consent to play for the Russian team in basketball. Thus, Holden can be the first black athlete that has ever played for Russian and Soviet national teams in any sport. Recall that earlier the Russian football team could play Camerunuer Zherri-Christian Tchuiss, for which he received Russian citizenship. However, he was never given a chance to go out in the Russian national team.

In the center of the Iraqi city of Baakub on Tuesday, a mined car was blown up late in the evening. As a result of the explosion, at least two US troops died, over 10 were injured. The terrorist attack was committed at the moment when the patrols of the Marines arrived at Al-Mafrak Square, where the militants before that attacked trucks with cement. Among the victims there are Iraqis. On the eve of the Baghdad center on Salhiya Street, several mortar shells exploded.

About 120 people died and 80 were injured on Wednesday with an explosion of a mined car in the city of Baakub north of Baghdad, Interfax reports. These are the data provided by medical sources. The explosion thundered near the police station located in the very center of the city. At the time of the explosion near the building was a large group of people who came to get a job. At the same time, a passenger bus drove along the road.

In the Moscow City Court on Wednesday, the process in the case of Yukos employee Alexei Pichugin will resume on Wednesday, one of the lawyers of the accused said Eduard Safronsky. According to him, the defense plans to file a petition for the consideration of a jury by a court. Earlier, during the court hearing, Judge Natalya Olihver tried to take a subscription from the two lawyers of Pichugin about the non -disclosure of GOSTINA, Safronsky noted.

On Thursday, short -term rains are expected in Moscow and the region, thunderstorms are possible. This was reported on Wednesday in the Moscow Hydrometeorological Department. At night, rainfall is not expected; about 16-18 degrees of heat are expected in Moscow and the region. In the afternoon, weather forecasters predict about 26 degrees above zero in the capital, in the suburbs - 20-25 degrees, RIA Novosti reports.

The Department of Criminal Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine stopped the activity of a criminal group, which, under the guise of a modeling agency, took pornographic pictures and films with the participation of more than 500 girls aged 8 to 16 years and posted them on foreign porn sites. According to the employees of the department, the studio in which the shooting was carried out was rented in the center of Kyiv.

The Immigration Service of Japan rejected the appeal of the ex-champion for chess Bobby Fisher to a decision on his deportation for an attempt to leave the country according to an invalid passport. Fisher intends to give a second petition. The former champion considers his detention as "the abduction organized by Washington and Tokyo. This was announced today by Canadian journalist John Bosnich, who acts as an adviser to the chess player.

In the Latvian city of Adazhi on Saturday, the 14th annual rally of the Latvian association of national partisans will be held, which will come from veterans of the Second World War and former "forest brothers".