The new version of the Law "On Countering Terrorism" was prepared by deputies of the Duma Security Committee Vladimir Vasiliev, Mikhail Grishankov, Anatoly Kulikov, MK-Novosti reports. Deputies of the Security Committee told reporters about the need for such a law as a result of the first discussions in the Duma of tragic events in Beslan, but to date, the project is being finalized.

The traditional religions of Russia intend to actively cooperate in counteracting sectarianism. This was stated at today's press conference in Moscow "Sectoralism in Russia" Secretary of the inter-religious council of Russia Roman Silantyev. According to him, the country has from 200 to 5000 sects, ITAR-TASS reports. The greatest share of new religious movements is in the Primorsky Territory.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow confirmed the legality of the announcement of the shareholder of the Yukos Leonid Nevzlin on the international wanted list. Thus, the court rejected the cassation appeal of Nevznin’s lawyers against the decision of the Prosecutor General of July 21. The Prosecutor General’s Office on July 21 declared Leonid Nevzlin on the international wanted list.

The US military arrested today in Baghdad a member of the leadership of the largest religious and political organization of the Iraqi Sunnis - the Association of Islamic Theologians (AIB) Abdel Sattar Abdel Dzhabbar. According to the Catar satellite television channel Al-Jazeera , two of his sons and a neighbor were detained with it. In the house of Abdel Dzhabbara and a search was carried out in the nearby mosque, a large amount of money discovered there was confiscated there.

Argentine parliamentarians will hold an exit meeting in Antarctica. It will be dedicated to the centenary of the continuous presence of a South American country on an ice continent, ITAR-TASS reports. On November 12, members of the Committee on International Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies (Lower Chamber) of the Argentinean parliament will gather at the Antarctic base of the Marambio Basic. In total, in the Antarctic zone, Argentina has six bases.

The Supreme Court of the Unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia may decide on holding the second round of elections or to hold new elections throughout the republic, according to sources close to the meeting in Sukhumi. "The Supreme Court has all the necessary materials on the basis of which a legal decision can be made to hold the second round of elections or to hold new elections throughout Abkhazia," the source said on Friday.

The script of the American election campaign now remains unchanged. At each new stage of the election campaign, George Bush repeats his favorite refrain: "My opponent does not understand what a war with terrorism is. He will wait until they attack us before answering. America will be worse protected." The answer is not long in coming. “George Bush cannot give me lessons in the struggle against terrorism,” says John Kerry, “he missed Ben Laden.

The government, despite the reform, has not yet learned how to work in a new way, and the Ministry of Finance appeals exclusively with requests to increase funding, complains Alexei Kudrin. In an interview with MK, Kudrin said, in particular, that a single team has not yet developed, "because now there is only a definition of the goals and role of the state." "That is, the development of the principles of the work of this government is still ongoing. Unfortunately," he said.

The United States has data on the threat of terrorist attacks during the November summit of the Association of Southeast Asia (ASEAN) in Laos. This is stated in the official statement of the US State Department, widespread on Thursday evening in Washington.

Fates of 549 military personnel and employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, missing in Chechnya, have not yet been established. This was reported to "Interfax" a member of the Presidential Commission for the President of the Russian Federation on the search and exchange of prisoners of war, interned and missing Maria Fedulova.

Former US President Bill Clinton aimed at the post of UN Secretary General. A source close to Clinton and the UN representative informed United Press International that the 56-year-old Clinton would like to head this international organization when the service life of Annana will end in early 2006. Clinton's candidacy will probably cause support for the vast majority of the UN members, especially the third world countries.

An employee of the linear department of the internal affairs opened shooting at the entrance to the Vnukovo Airport Official delegations of the official delegations. According to the source in aviation structures, at about 7:00 the policeman fired several shots into the air, and then shot towards the FSO employee. The police officer was detained. The trial is carried out, reports Interfax.

In the Novgorod region, the building of the rural clinic burned down, the Ministry of Emergencies reported in the Novgorod Administration of the Ministry of Emergencies. Information about the fire in the building of the medical outpatient clinic in the village of Verebier nearby with the city of Malaya Visher received operational services on Friday at about 04:00 in the morning Moscow time. As a result of the fire, a medical institution was completely destroyed.

Every year in Russia up to 4 million abortions are performed. This was announced by the head of the Synodal Department of the Russian Orthodox Church for interaction with the armed forces and law enforcement agencies Archpriest Dimitri Smirnov at a closed meeting of the forum dedicated to the problem of demography , which was the other day in Moscow. The text of the priest’s speech was transferred to the Interfax agency the day before.

The police of the region Shida Kartli, in which the Georgian side includes the unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia, detained about 100 vehicles with South Ossetian license plates on Friday. According to the police of the region, Shida Kartli, the drivers of these cars over the past few months were warned of the need to change license plates to Georgian, but this was not done.