The Union of Orthodox Citizens proposed to revive one of the oldest areas of Moscow - Zaryadye on the site of the Russia hotel. "Khrushchev, a well -known persecutor of the Orthodox Church, destroyed everything that was associated with the Orthodox culture of Russia.

Little is still known about the requirements of the school invaders in Beslan. Officials remain silent and refuse to publish the demands of the bandits, but the survivors in the bloody massacre heard what the abductors wanted. The Spiegel TV television correspondent managed to talk with the victims.

The first racket of Russia Marat Safin will take part in the International Mennis Tennis tournament St. Petersburg Open-2004, which will be held in the city on the Neva from October 25 to 31. This was announced on Tuesday by the general director of the tournament Mikhail Rydnik while presenting the list of participants in the competition. The tournament will also perform the famous Spanish tennis player Carlos Moya, who currently occupies fourth place in the world ranking.

On the eve of the day, opposite house 2, 2nd Graivoronovsky Lane, a skeletal corpse of an unknown man was discovered, the identity of which is established. As MK-News told the MK-News Agency, it was established that the man died about two months ago. The cause and circumstances of the death of a man are established. An investigation is underway. This is not the first case of this kind.

The world champion in the first welterweight, Konstantin Tszyu on Monday first entered the ring after an eight -month break, reports AP. The rival of Tszyu was the famous American lightweight Deamian Fuller, with whom Konstantin conducted a four -day sparring, which has become the first fight for him since January of this year. Fuller, who is now in very good shape, because after three weeks he himself has a title fight, noted that Tszyu almost did not lose his skills during the forced inaction.

The Russian Foreign Ministry demanded the cessation of the Caucasus Center of Chechen terrorists in Lithuania. On Monday, the Ambassador of Lithuania to Russia Rimantas Shidlauskas was called to the Foreign Ministry, before which the issue of stopping the activities in Lithuania of the aforementioned site was raised, ITAR-TASS reports.

The International Monetary Fund believes that economic growth in Russia will remain strong in the short term. Many indicators indicate that the Russian economy is "in a stormy, boiling, well-developing state," the first deputy director of the IMF Ann Krueger told reporters. At the same time, as RIA Novosti reports, Kruger noted that there is a danger of an increase in inflationary pressure. “There is every reason to believe that economic growth in the short term will remain strong,” she said.

The Russian Academy of Sciences can create a new structure to participate in the fight against terrorism. “The struggle against terrorism also concerns the academy. We need to understand what we can do to promote the stabilization of the situation and the fight against terrorism,” said Russian President Yuri Osipov on Tuesday at a meeting of the Academy Presidium. According to him, a new structure for this purpose can be created at the Academy.

In Nizhny Novgorod, the premises of the meat processing plant are burning. The fire, which is assigned the fourth category of complexity, covered an area of ​​more than 1200 square meters. From a burning workshop located on the sixth floor of the building, 40 employees of the plant were evacuated, ITAR-TASS reports.

Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov proposed to even more limit the number of officials entitled to use flashing beacons. With such an initiative, Luzhkov decided to turn to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Speaking on Tuesday at a meeting of the city government, he asked the question: "Why do we have so many of these very flashing beacons?

Employees of the criminal police and the FSB of Russia detained four participants in the international organized criminal group, consisting of ethnic Africans. According to the Office of Information and Public Relations of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate, during June-July 2004, information was received in the Office for the Combating of Organized Crime on several particularly large frauds committed in Moscow by the Africans.

In the prison of Osaka, on Tuesday, one of the most famous Japanese criminals of recent times - 40 -year -old Mamoru Takum, who burst into one of the schools in this area and calmly killed eight children in 2001. During the attack, another 15 people were injured, including teachers who tried to stop the killer. Takuma could not be articulated to explain the motives of his crime. After the sentence, he refused to appeal and in writing asked to hang it within three months.

In Iraq, another foreign citizen is taken hostage. According to Al-Jazeera, the Jordanian fell into hostage in Iraq. Extremists who abducted the Jordan working as a driver threaten to kill him if the Jordanian employee does not turn his activities in Iraq for 48 hours, ITAR-TASS reports. On Monday, in Iraq, two citizens of Australia and two immigrants from East Asia were taken hostage . This was stated by one of the Islamist organizations.

Russia will have a permanent representative office in Kosovo, the special representative of the UN in Kosovo Soren Jensen-Petersen said on Tuesday at a press conference, telling about the results of his meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov. "The minister informed me that it was decided to open the Russian communication mission in Kosovo.

The Law on Basic Documents certifying the identity of a citizen of the Russian Federation will not have a norm on the mandatory presence of personal code in all -Russian passports. This was announced by the head of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Law and State Construction Vladimir Pligin.