The Constitutional Court (KS) of the Russian Federation began on Tuesday to consider the case of the languages ​​of the peoples of the Russian Federation. The reason was the requests of the State Council (Parliament) and the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tatarstan, where it is believed that the Law of the Russian Federation on languages ​​that orders the Russian peoples to use the alphabet on the basis of Cyrillic alphabet, contradicts the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

By the middle of the week in the Moscow region it will get a little warmer. This was reported on Tuesday in Roshydromet. According to weather forecasters, Muscovites and residents of the region will have to freeze another day. Today in the capital and the Moscow region there will be about 10 degrees of heat. The wind is weak, it is not expected to rain. Now in Moscow 1-3 degrees above zero, in the region - from minus 1 to plus 4.

A jeep for Russians is a symbol of the 1990s, but in the new millennium it was won by the American military giant Hummer. The beloved car of super -rich is easy to notice at the casino in the center of Moscow, where these cars are tightly parked at the sidewalks.

In the Nozha-Yurt district of Chechnya, the special operation "Retribution" continues to block and detain the militants, headed by Aslan Maskhadov and the head of his personal guard by Ahmed Avdorkhanov. According to acting The Minister of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic Ruslan Alkhanov, the losses of the militants have already exceeded 30 people. He emphasized that the search for Aslan Maskhadov is carried out in several directions.

On Monday evening, a powerful explosion thundered at a pyrotechnic factory in China. As a result, 27 workers were killed, 59 people were injured, including 16. All victims were taken to hospitals. The plant for the production of pyrotechnic products is located in the Guangsi-Juan Autonomous District of China. There are no other buildings next to the plant, and only thanks to this it was possible to avoid the spread of strong flame.

The principality of Monaco became the 46th member of the oldest pan -European organization - the Council of Europe. The official ceremony of its adoption in the CE as part of the autumn session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) was held in the main lobby and in the square in front of the European Palace in Strasbourg.

In Novosibirsk, the ORB officers to combat the organized crime of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Siberian Federal District, together with the security service of the Central Branch of the Siberian Bank of the Sberbank of Russia, stopped an attempt to theft 1.5 million rubles belonging to one of the depositors.

The Moscow City Court interrogated the former head of the Yukos-Moscow company Vasily Shakhnovsky in a criminal case against Yukos security officer Alexei Pichugin. This was announced by RIA Novosti one of the lawyers of the defendant Georgy Kaganer. In addition, on Tuesday, the court listened to the testimony of the former adviser to the chairman of the board of Rosprom CJSC Nikolai Dubrovin.

According to the preliminary counting of votes in polling stations of the city of Sukhumi and the Gagra district of Abkhazia, the current Prime Minister Raul Khadimba leads in the election of the head of the unrecognized republic. This was announced on Tuesday by the chairman of the Central Election Commission Sergey Smyr.

The inhabitants of one of the private houses of Petrozavodsk on Tuesday night were awakened by a roar and found that on one of the apple trees of their personal plot, a car was hung. According to the representative of the local traffic police, the micropolitarian driver independently got out of the car, tears from the tree and ran away, without waiting for the arrival of employees of the traffic police. "It turned out that the car at high speed moved out of the highway.

US Secretary of Defense Donald Ramsfeld admitted that the American government has no formal evidence of the presence of connections between the overthrown regime of Saddam Hussein and the international terrorist group. “As far as I know, I did not see the convincing and formal evidence of their connection,” he said, speaking to members of the foreign policy council, Interfax reports.

The House of Representatives of the US Congress unanimously voted for the bill providing for the introduction of economic sanctions against Belarus. The bill, entitled “Act on Democracy in Belarus”, shall indicate, in particular, that sanctions must remain in force until the US president “confirms the relevant committees of the Congress, that the Government of Belarus has implemented significant advance” for five positions listed in the document.

The US government announced a new initiative aimed at combating piracy. The authorities plan to draw up a “black list” of foreign companies that produce counterfeit products. “For the companies we have named, we will make the life more difficult,” Robert Zelelik promised in Washington the representative of the US president in trade negotiations.

In the United States, the Zogby International service conducted a sociological survey, during which the Americans were asked to name states that, in their opinion, pose the greatest military, economic and cultural threat to the United States. The survey showed that today only 2% of Americans fear the military potential of Russia, 2% - economic and 1% - the cultural influence of our country.

The DressDner Kleinwort Wasserstein investment bank rated the main asset of Yukos as the corresponding $ 15-17 billion, reports The Wall Street Journal with reference to "sources familiar with the essence of the issue." (Transfer of an article on the website inopressa.ru .) This is close to the maximum of the expected amount, and the price tag of $ 15 billion will be made by Yuganskneftegaz, the main industrial unit of Yukos, inaccessible to most Russian companies who want to acquire these