In the Estonian city of Pyarn, unknown attackers on Monday filled with red paint a monument to the Soviet soldiers who died in the Second World War, the local newspaper Parnu Postimees said on Tuesday. At the end of last week and last weekend, monuments to the Soviet soldiers in Kaarm on the island of Saarem, in the city of Haapsalu, in the villages of Tuudi were also desecrated.

According to the data at 17:00 Moscow time, the bodies of 105 died as a result of a terrorist attack in Beslan are not identified in the morgue of Vladikavkaz. This was announced by the head of the Tanatological Department of Morg, Natalya Oleinik. According to her, the bodies of 10 dead have been identified for today.

Athletes from different countries did not remain indifferent to the tragedy of what happened in Beslan. Russian football players of the Alania club took part in the mourning ceremony. In turn, the stars of English football helped the victims of the attack financially. The leadership, coaches and players of Alania took part in a mourning ceremony dedicated to the memory of those who died under a terrorist act in Beslan.

On Tuesday, 33 people were killed, until 193 were injured as a result of fierce clashes that broke out between the American military and supporters of the radical Shiite Imam Muktada of As-Sadra in the Baghdad quarter of Sadr. According to representatives of the US Armed Forces, several American soldiers were injured, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Iraq Ministry of Health.

The Meshchansky court of Moscow on Tuesday after the break will return to the consideration of the case of Khodorkovsky-Lebedev-Korinov. The break in the process was associated with the disease of one of the three judges considering this case.

To date, taking into account the extremely expensive war in Iraq, an ongoing operation in Afghanistan and reinforced security measures, the US military budget is 13% higher than the country's annual military spending during the Cold War. In the first half of the 1990s, after the collapse of the USSR, the Pentagon budget steadily decreased.

The ship, on board of which there were more than 2 thousand tons of toxic waste, sank in the Bay of the Turkish port city of Lenerun, was reported on Tuesday at the local branch of the Greenpeace environmental protection organization. This ship arrived in the Turkish port back in 2000. Previously, it transported waste from Spain to Algeria. However, the authorities of this country decided not to accept the harmful carcinogenic cargo to their territory. Then the captain decided to go to Turkey.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko signed a decree on October 17 a referendum on the issue of amendments to the Constitution of the country.

The American publication Los Angeles Times (translation on the website inopressa.ru ) continues the topic of arrests in Chechnya of relatives of terrorists responsible for the massacre in Beslan. Earlier it was reported that federal troops prevented the reprisal , which was prepared by Aslan Maskhadov, Shamil Basayev and Doku Umarov.

In the cultural center of the FSB of the Russian Federation there is a mourning farewell ceremony with officers of the Vympel and Alpha group of the Center for Special Forces (CSN) of the FSB of Russia who died during the release of hostages in the North Ossetian city of Beslan . Employees of the FSB and other law enforcement agencies of Russia came to say goodbye to the dead officers, RIA Novosti reports.

Branch of the State Central Theater Museum. Bakhrushina - Theater Gallery on Malaya Ordynka - opens on Wednesday an exhibition dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the famous theater "Workshop of Peter Fomenko". The exhibition is called "Family Happiness" - just as one of the best performances of the theater studio Peter Fomenko. According to the general recognition of critics and spectators, this theater in recent years has become one of the most interesting and bright theatrical groups.

Irina Khakamad, Chairman of the Free Russia Organizing Committee, believes that it is necessary to form an independent commission to analyze the causes of the last tragic events in the country. "Authoritative experts and independent public figures, not related to any political parties and associations, should answer two main questions: did the law enforcement agencies receive information about the preparatory terrorist attacks, and if so, how they reacted to it.

The 2008 Committee: Free Choice - an organization designed to rally democratic forces in Russia, made a sharp statement about the capture of hostages at the Beslan school.

On Tuesday evening, the video recording was shown in the NTV TV channel program, which terrorists themselves filmed inside the captured school. The film shows how the butvik operator carefully records everything that happens in the sports hall of the secondary school N1 N1 of the North Ossetian town of Beslan.

In the western part of the largest Japanese island of Honsey, an earthquake of 6.4 points on the Richter scale occurred in the Vakaiam Prefecture area. According to the Japanese meteorological agency, the underground shocks were registered at 08:29 local time (03:29 in Moscow) and felt in the prefectures of Sizuok, Aiti, Mie, Vakhama, Tokushima and Koti. There are no victims and destruction, there is no threat to the tsunami, the agency reports, RIA Novosti reports.