The US State Department confirmed that on the eve of the attacks on September 11, 2001 , Kondoliza Rice, then the adviser to President George Bush on National Security, met with the director of the CIA, but did not attach the importance of his information that warned about the upcoming attack of terrorists on the United States.

In Tbilisi, a police cordon was removed around the headquarters of the group of Russian troops in the Transcaucasia, Interfax was told in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia. The representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs explained that the further blocking of the GRVZ headquarters building lost its task after from there the evening last Monday were taken out by two OSCE employees who were wanted on charges of espionage of Russian officers.

The President of the Russian Football Union Vitaly Mutko on October 3 at the press center of the BSA Luzhniki met with arbitrators serving the matches of the Russian Championship among the teams of the Premier League. On it, the head of Russian football and the country's leading arbitrators discussed the problems of refereeing, the press service of the RFU reports.

The Presidium of the Duma faction of "United Russia" approved a list of bills of United Russia to the autumn session. Basically, lawmakers will implement priority orders from the message of President Vladimir Putin. This is confirmed by the coordinator of the Duma "United Russia" Valery Ryazan, but it does not exclude that the program for working for the autumn session will be supplemented.

Islamists are trying to impose a false idea that Jews and Arabs cannot live together, said the head of the Department of Public Relations of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (Feor) Borukh Gorin. "Jews with the Arabs have lived well for millennia. Islam himself arose on the Jewish roots, and then enriched the Jewish culture and philosophy. The great Jewish thinker Maimonid wrote all his books in Arabic.

The leaders of the three Russian opposition parties and organizations signed an agreement on joint actions in the fight against corruption on Tuesday. This initiative, with which the Communist Party made up, was supported by the "Union of Right Forces" and the metropolitan organization of the Yabloko party.

Kylie Minogue, following the Madonna and Paul, McCartney published a book for children. The singer came off from the intensive rehearsals of her international tour and personally presented the book "Kylie: The Showgirl Princess" last weekend in London. Kylie Minogue last year made a terrible diagnosis : breast cancer. As a result, she, having canceled the planned tour to different countries, was forced to go through surgery, chemotherapy and a long rehabilitation procedure.

During the second war, in Lebanon, Hizballah received direct intelligence data from Syria, which, in turn, used the information received from the radar trafficking stations built under the Damoye (radar). These stations are exploited jointly by both countries. According to Newsru Israel with reference to the Ha'aretz Israeli newspaper, Hizballlah also received information from the new radio interception stations built in Syria Iran.

The German Ministry of Foreign Affairs for European Affairs and representatives of Eurotroshka express concern in tensions in Russian-Georgian relations, the German Foreign Ministry said.

The Dudaev family in the near future can move to Estonia. The Minister of Population of Estonia, Aarna Vedla, said that the Dudaevs submitted documents for Estonian citizenship to the Ministry and soon their request would be transferred to the government, the Delfi website reports. Usually, the Estonian state gives citizenship for special merits once a year, on the eve of Christmas. Obviously, then Dudaevs will receive citizenship, ”writes Eesti Paevaleht.

An experienced climber from Nizhny Novgorod died on the west coast of Crimea near the village of Olenevka of the Black Sea region. This was reported by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. According to the press service, a message about this accident was received at the Ministry of Emergencies on October 2 at 13:15 from the Black Sea police department of the police, the Yalta News report.

The Butyrsky court of Moscow on Tuesday left under the arrest of the author of the Chechen militants of the Caucasus Center, the editor of the Radical Policy newspaper Boris Stomakhin. Thus, the defense petition was denied.

The Georgian Foreign Ministry called the measures taken by the authorities in relation to Georgia "inadequate", ITAR-TASS reports. "We regard the transport blockade of Georgia, the suspension of the issuance of visas to citizens of Georgia, the detention on the national principle of Georgian citizens in the Russian Federation and their deportation, we regard their unjustified steps.

The seventh batch of the match for the world chess crown between the Russian grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik and his Bulgarian opponent Veselin Topalov will take place in Elista on Wednesday. This decision was made by the organizers of the fight of the strongest chess players of the planet, who approved the new schedule of the tournament, reports WorldChess2006.com .

In the Patriarchate of Constantinople, they hope to change the attitude of the Orthodox to the concept of the Primat of the Roman Pontiff. As the Patriarch Bartholomew , the recent meeting of the Orthodox and Catholic theological commission in Belgrade, stated at a meeting with journalists in Istanbul in Istanbul, opened a way to discuss the issue of the Pope’s authority, which had long remained one of the most difficult points of ecumenical dialogue.