In St. Petersburg, two suspects of the murder of seven residents of Cherkessk were detained. According to ITAR-TASS, the head of the Investigative Brigade of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Deputy Head of the Office of the Prosecutor General in the North Caucasus Boris Karnaukhov, Tamerlan Bostanov and Azamat Akbaev were detained tonight in St. Petersburg. ” They already give confessions for the charges.

The growth rate of drug addiction in Russia over the past few years has been significantly reduced, but doctors are afraid that this is only a temporary phenomenon - a kind of "lull" in front of a new turn. The total number of patients continues to grow annually, and, according to official figures, now in Russia there are over 486 thousand drug addicts.

At the executive director of the Russian club in Kyiv, Maxim Kurochkin made an attempt. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. On the night of Friday to Saturday, a car was blown up on Gorky Street, near which Kurochkin and two of his guards passed. Kurochkin himself was not injured, security officers were injured and hospitalized. A criminal case has been opened.

Alonzo Murring, the center of New Gerai Nets, wants to go to a team that has more chances to become the NBA champion. The basketball player tried to redeem his contract from the club’s management, since he could not afford to spend time in a team with which he had practically nothing to count on: in December last year, Murining was made a kidney transplant, and he still does not know how long he can play, “ Soviet Sport ” reports. Murining signed a contract with NTS in 2003 as a free agent.

The disconnected power unit of the Balakovo nuclear power plant resumed work on Saturday morning. This was reported to the Interfax agency was reported to the Center for Public Information of the Balakovo NPP. "At 3:40, the second power unit is connected to the network, the load is 530 megavatts. All four power units in the work, the total load of the station is 3.5 thousand megavatts," the agency’s interlocutor said.

The defender of the Moscow Dynamo Andrei Markov, on the eve of the Russian national team in the Russian Hockey Cup, will not be able to play in this tournament due to injury. This was announced at the Friday press conference after the match "Dynamo" - "Avangard" said the head coach of the capital's club Vladimir Krikunov.

On Saturday night, a crowd of young people in the amount of about 200 people made a pogrom at the headquarters for the construction of a military town near the village of Botlikh. The action was carried out in protest against the construction of a military town at the site of the field airfield near the village, an Interfax agency told a source in the law enforcement agencies of Dagestan on Saturday. As a result of the pogrom, construction equipment was damaged.

In the western areas of the Indian state of Uttar-Pradesh, an unknown viral disease quickly spreads, the nature of which local doctors cannot determine in any way. According to the latest information, 140 children became victims of this heavy ailment with death. In the past day alone, 5 people died in the Bakhpat district, 11 - in the Muzzafarnar district.

Over a thousand people took part in the action against the war in Chechnya near the Trokadero Square in Paris. The action was held on the initiative of the International Amnesty organization, the International Federation of Protection of Human Rights and a number of other human rights organizations in France, ITAR-TASS reports.

After re -election for a second term, George Bush intends to carry out a number of permutations in his government. This was written by the American newspaper Washington Post . According to the publication, US Secretary of State Colin Powell is already “packing suitcases” and is preparing to retire, if not the next month, then at the beginning of next year.

The Moscow CSKA defeated the Rostov Lokomotiv in the Russian Basketball Championship. The Saturday match in the CSKA USC ended with a major victory of the hosts - 99:72. The difference in the account could be even more, but in the last quarter the "railway workers" played 10 points. The best player in the meeting with 19 points scored was the leader of the Red-blue Marcus Brown. The Rostovites were the most effective Gedryus Gustas (17 points), RIA Novosti reports.

The four explosions occurred in the Iraqi city of Samarra, 95 kilometers north of Baghdad on Saturday. According to the event, about 40 people died and at least 60 were injured, reports the Air Force . The first of the series of explosions thundered in the morning at the city hall building. The suicide bomber was allegedly stolen by the police car. When the doctors drove up to the scene, the second car exploded.

The presidential candidate Sergey Bagapsh announced his intention to proceed with the duties of the head of the republic on December 6, Interfax reports. Speaking last night at a meeting with deputies of the Abkhaz Parliament of past convocations in Sukhumi, Bagapsh said that he would be guided by decisions of the Central Election Commission and the Supreme Court of the Republic, who recognized his victory in the election of the head of Abkhazia.

The Russian Security Council today denied messages with reference to the presidential candidate of the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsha that he allegedly “tried to threaten him during his recent stay in Moscow, in particular, the closure of the border on the PSOU River, ITAR-TASS reports.

The Ukrainian opposition today begins the republican marathon "The people not to overcome." It starts at 14:00 Moscow time in the center of Kyiv, on Independence Square, where an announcement of the "Plan of Mobilization of the People" is expected before the second round of presidential elections scheduled for November 21, ITAR-TASS reports.