The IPOC investment fund, which leads the lawsuit with Alfa Groups and LV Finance regarding the blocking stake in the MEGAFON COOM Operator, claims that opponents are captivating witnesses. The Danish lawyer Jeffrey Galmond, representing the IPOC investment fund, said at an press conference at Interfax in Moscow that one of the Witnesses of Alfa received for participation in the process of a million dollars, and that he had a criminal past - he spent three years in a German prison for fraud.

The fourth year in a row, Chechens make up 80% of refugees or persons who seek political asylum in Poland. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the country, in 2001 there were 1300, in 2002 - 3000, in 2003 - 5300, finally, in the first half of this year - 4,300 people, writes Le Figaro .

The leader of the Iraqi extremist organization today urged the rebels in El Falludge to continue resisting the American troops trying to capture this city - the center of Sunni resistance. The head of the Kaida al-Jihad group in Iraq Abu Musab Az-Zarkavi said that "victory is close", ITAR-TASS reports. It was widespread on the Internet.

Michael Shoyer, the former head of the CIA unit, who hunted Osama Ben Laden, yesterday announced his resignation in order to openly talk about terrorism and the inability of the US government to realize the threat that al-Qaeda poses.

Representatives of the Russian pagan organizations "Circle of Pagan Tradition", "Slavia" and "Kolyada Vyatichi" applied the day before to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation with a statement "On the prevention of extremist activity and inciting religious enmity from the Russian Orthodox Church," reports REGNUM . The reason for this appeal was the following.

In Kaliningrad on Friday morning, a fire arose at the cellulose-paper plant (Central Bank) CJSC ZEPRUSS. As reported on Friday in the Office of the Civil Defense and Emergency Situations of the region, the evacuation of workers and employees was evacuated from the premises of the Central Bank. The fire arose in the coil workshop, where sawdust fires in storage bunkers occurred, Interfax reports. Employees of the enterprise failed to extinguish the fire on their own.

Supporters of the presidential candidate Raul Khadimby, who conducted an unlimited action near the Philharmonic building in Sukhumi, turned on Friday to the leadership of Russia with a request to protect them, Interfax reports. "We, the citizens of the Russian Federation living in Abkhazia, who is currently experiencing tragic events, convincingly ask for your patronage and protection of our security," the appeal says.

On the Indonesian island of Alor (Vostochny Nusa Tengar Province), a strong earthquake occurred on Friday morning, as a result of which six people died and 40 were injured. According to the National Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, the epicenter of the main push of 6 points on the Richter scale was located 37 kilometers from the main city of the island - Kalabachi - at a depth of 33 kilometers. For two hours, he was followed by two more significantly weaker shocks.

The Prosecutor General’s Office on Friday appealed to Lithuania on the appeal court of Lithuania the acquittal of ex-president of Lithuania to Rolandas Paxas, the Vilnius District Court of the Vilnius District Court. This was announced to reporters by the prosecutor Mindaugas Duda. Duda said that, according to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the district court did not take into account all the circumstances and the justifying sentence passed unreasonably, Interfax reports.

The personal doctor of Yasira Arafat calls for an investigation of the causes of the death of the Palestinian leader. “I ask you to conduct an official investigation and autopsy so that all Palestinians can find out with all possible reliability, what caused death,” said Dr. Ashraf al -Kudri, acting on Al Jazeera. Al-Kudri seems very suspicious the lack of information about the health of Arafat during his stay in the Paris Hospital, that is, from October 29.

A participant in World War II died at a parade on the occasion of veterans celebrated in the United States on Thursday. The 80 -year -old William Hammond, who passed through the bloody Ardennean battle of the end of 1944 - early 1945, fell under the car during the procession of veterans in the town of Massachusetts 35 kilometers from Boston, RIA Novosti reports.

One of the largest dating services in the UK refused the elderly miner to provide her services, explaining the refusal of the “lack of constancy” by the client. 55 -year -old Clive Wart, who retired Shakhtar, slept with more than 100 women - clients of the agency, but did not marry any. The elderly Romeo will not be able to use the agency’s services to find a girlfriend for the night.

The Court of the Central Dzhakarta sentenced the election of Indonesia to pay a fine to Trillion Rupia (110 million dollars) for the inability to register about 30 million voters on the eve of the parliamentary elections in April this year. According to the decision of the judges, each of those who have not been given their suffrage will receive a little less than one and a half dollars. However, even to obtain this amount, no procedure has yet been developed.

The younger brother of the famous center team of the National Hockey League Club (NHL) "Anahaim Mait Dax" Sergey Fedorov Fedor signed a contract with the Moscow "Spartak" before the end of the season, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the Moscow Club. He has already played for the "red-white" in a friendly meeting between the teams of the Russian Super League "Spartak" and the Kazan "Ak Bars".

Telebaty between presidential candidates Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovych will be held on the first national channel on Monday November 15 from 19:00 to 21:00, ITAR-TASS reports. The Central Electoral Commission at a meeting on Friday made amendments to the Regulation on the procedure for conducting the national television company of Ukraine of the pre -election television devices between presidential candidates, which was approved on October 6.