In Iraq, a citizen of Lebanon is again stolen - 27 -year -old Mohammed Yusef Rada. As the Lebanese media reported on Tuesday, the epic did not have time to end the night before the abduction of four Lebanese drivers in Iraq, when all of them finally received freedom, as the Iraqi group "Islamic movement of Iraq fighters" again announced the seizure of the Lebanese citizen.

Volleyball players of the Russian national team won the first victory at the Olympic tournament in Athens. On Tuesday, the wards of Gennady Shipulin in three parties outplayed the team of Australia. Moreover, if the first Russian team won quite easily, then the last two forced the Russians to make much more efforts - 3-0 (25:17, 26:24, 25:23).

The Belgian police managed to calculate three criminals who stole from the Museum of Diamonds in Antwerp in November 2003 12 rare diamonds from the AR deco collection with a total value of about one million euros. According to RIA Novosti , all three robbers are Yugoslavs and, according to Belgian law enforcement agencies, are part of an international organized criminal group.

In Pakistan, two terrorist attacks occurred on Tuesday night. As a result of the explosion of the bomb in the east of the country, a gas pipeline section belonging to the North North Gas Pipelines, as well as the railway tracks in the southern province of Shind, was damaged.

At the Film Festival in Vyborg "Window to Europe" on Tuesday, the premiere of two films will be held. The first of them - "four taxi drivers and a dog" - was shot by the famous director and producer Fedor Popov. The creators defined the genre of this film as an adventurous-expert comedy with elements of melodrama.

The Moscow Arbitration Court on Tuesday refused the NK Yukos to satisfy the application for the suspension of the enforcement proceedings on the recovery of over 99 billion rubles of tax debt, Interfax reports from the court. In accordance with the law, this definition may be appealed within a month. The representative of the oil company, speaking at the meeting, said that in case of refusal to satisfy the application, the rights of both the oil company and third parties are violated.

A criminal case has been instituted against the company Novosibirskenergo on the fact of violations of the law in the formation of tariffs for electric and thermal energy in the Novosibirsk region.

The criminal case against the former leaders of the newspaper New Izvestia Igor Golembovsky and Sergey Agafonov was transferred to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation. This was announced by "Echo of Moscow" by Golembovsky’s lawyer Sergey Grebenshchikov. “If the Prosecutor General finds the strength to read all 22 volumes of the case, and not formally approach the question, prosecutors will conclude that there are no signs of the corpus delicti in the case,” he said.

The Moscow Arbitration Court refused to recognize the refusal of the bailiffs to accept 20% of the Sibneft shares belonging to the company's tax debt belonging to the NCC. Thus, the court refused the NK Yukos to satisfy the application for recognition by illegal inaction of the bailiff, who did not apply to the 20 percent stake in Sibneft owned by Yukos. During the court session, representatives of the bailiff service said that the claims of Yukos lawyers were unfounded.

The picture of the Stavropol artist Alexander Mikhno, which depicts a retro-car, produced at the beginning of the last century at the Russian-Baltic carriage factory, was recognized as the most original of the Stavropol's vernissages that were exhibited this year. This was reported to ITAR-TASS on Tuesday in the regional Ministry of Culture. The picture of Alexander Mikhno is unusual: it is created from nails, pieces of wire, bones and even sharp heels extracted from pierced tires.

In the Agin Dutsan (Buddhist Monastery) of the Aginsky Buryat Autonomous Okrug, a meeting of the Executive Council of the Asian Buddhist Conference for Peace (ABKM) was held, ITAR-TASS reports.

Lithuania agreed to transfer to France to serve the sentence of the French rock musician Bertrand Kant, convicted in Vilnius for the murder of actress Marie Trentinyan in July 2003. Currently, according to RIA Novosti, citing the LNK channel, the Ministry of Justice of the two countries in accordance with the European Convention on the transfer of convicts prepare the necessary documents for this.

This year, the 42nd motorized rifle division, deployed in the Chechen Republic on an ongoing basis, will be completely transferred to the contract method of recruitment, and “since 2005 in Chechnya, conscripts will not serve at all”. This was announced on Tuesday in an interview with reporters by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov.

The famous Russian pop singer Alsou accepted the proposal of businessman Roman Abramovich to execute the anthem of the Chelsea football club belonging to him. Who will become the author of music and text is not yet clear. In the same way, the amount of the fee, which will pay the singer Red Roman, does not report. Presumably, it will be about 16 thousand dollars, Kommersant reports.

The United States refuses to recognize the results of the referendum to continue the powers of the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez and call on as soon as possible to start a full -scale transparent investigation regarding the frauds reported by the opposition.