The rupture of the gas pipeline pipes of the Central Asia Center occurred in the linear production department "Makat" in the Atyrau region of Kazakhstan in the west of the country. As Interfax was informed on Wednesday in the State Agency for Emergency Situations of Kazakhstan (ASF), there are no victims and victims. The emergency site is blocked, the gas is launched through a parallel thread. The gas pipeline is underway emergency and restoration work.

In Iraq, a local employee of the German television channel of the Central House of Council was killed. According to RIA Novosti at the headquarters of the television channel in Mainz, the 32-year-old independent producer Mahmud Hamid Abbas (Iraqi citizen) was killed on Sunday in the afternoon in El Falludge, where he arrived for filming a report on the instructions of the Central House of Sciences.

Before sending a list from the icon of the Kazan Mother of God to Moscow (as you know, this image of the Pope John Paul II decided to transfer special worships in the Vatican as a gift to the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church).

The General Iracial National Conference (PMC) on Wednesday approved the composition of the advisory assembly, which should become a prototype of the future parliament of the country. The assembly included 100 deputies. According to candidates, 81 of them were carried out. 19 seats were given to former members of the Iraq Providing Council, ITAR-TASS reports. 1,300 ONK delegates, which began their work on Sunday, represent the vast majority of Iraqi religious, ethnic and political associations.

The mayors of the two Sardinsky cities - Perdasdefode and Villaputts - received letters on Wednesday with threats on behalf of the anarcho -Levatsky terrorists. This was reported by Italian television.

The Russian team won in a friendly match over the Lithuanian national team. The final account is 4: 3 in favor of Russians. This match was warmed up on the eve of the campaign for a place in the final part of the World Cup, which will be held in 2006 in Germany. The score in the match in the 20th minute was opened by the Russians. After the penalty strike, the midfielder of the Moscow Lokomotiv Dmitry Khokhlov with his head transferred the ball to the gates of his rivals after the canopy of St.

The cyclist Leontinen Ziland Van Morsel from Holland defended her title of Olympic champion in the race with a separate start. Thus, Van Morsel became the only representative of women's cycling who won three gold medals on the highway. Deirdre Demet-Barry from the USA won a silver medal, and Karin Tueerig from Switzerland received bronze. The 24-kilometer distance, which was overcome by the racer, passed along the coastline of the Aegean Sea.

Russian Vyacheslav Ekimov won a silver medal in an individual highway with a separate start at the Olympics in Athens. The 38-year-old veteran drove a distance of 48 kilometers in 57.50.58 minutes. Ekimov won the first two segments, but at the third quarter of the distance he lost his leadership. Thus, according to the order of the Government of the Russian Federation, Ekimov will receive a monetary reward of 20 thousand dollars.

Three Georgian military personnel were killed and five were wounded last night as a result of the artillery shelling of the Ossetian side of the positions of Georgian armed groups in the area of ​​the bypass road near Tskhinvali. “As a result of the shootout last night, three military personnel were killed, there are wounded, but they are still impossible to take them out,” the police said. There have been no data on the victims and wounded from the Ossetian side.

The champion of the Olympiad in Sydney at 200 meters Kostas Kenderis will not take part in the games in Athens. This was said to reporters after a meeting of the disciplinary commission of the International Olympic Committee. At this meeting, the athlete explained his failure to appear for a doping test last Thursday. Kenderis and Tanu statement "With a sense of responsibility for what happened, I declare that I will not speak at the Olympic Games," Kenderis said.

The Polish swimmer Otrzhzyak won Olympic gold at a distance of 200 meters of Butterfly. In second place was the first two -time champion of Athenian Games Petria Thomas from Australia. Recall that Thomas set a record with the Australian national team in the 4x100 -style relay, and then won the highest reward in the hundred -meter butterfly. The first hundred meters of this distance Thomas walked along the world record of Eskzhzyak. But by the third turn, the Pole was overtaken by an opponent.

The health status of the head of the NFO Menatep Plato Lebedev is satisfactory. This was announced by the Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for the Penitentiary (Guin) of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, the head of the medical department Alexander Kononets, ITAR-TASS reports. "Upon admission to the investigative insulator, he underwent the necessary examination, and he really had some chronic diseases," Kononets said.

The American athlete Kimberly Rod won the gold medal of the Olympics in Athens in Dabble-Rod. Lee Bo from South Korea was in second place, and the Chinese woman Gao E received a bronze award. Rod was born on July 16, 1979 in the city of Uyatier, California. Its previous results at various competitions are not particularly impressive. The best of them was the victory at the stage of the World Cup last year in the Australian Peret.

Women's beach volleyball is one of the most popular sports fans. At the same time, the athletes themselves do not share their delight, considering the scourges of the sport exactly, and not the casting for magazines advertising swimwear. Two participants in the Australian beach volleyball team, Nicole Sanderson and Natalie Cook, complained the whole first Olympic week that the Greeks represent their sport in a humiliating way. Maybe so.

In Japan, a miniature flying robot-vector has been developed, which can be used to ensure safety, in emergency situations and for space research. The device weighs only 12.3 grams and has a length of 85 millimeters. Control signals are supplied to it from the computer using the Blue Tooth wireless technology. Inside there are a 32 -bit microprocessor, a ultra -thin motor, a digital camera and a stabilizing device - a microscopic gyroxis weighing less than one tenth gram.