At night in the village of Kalinovskaya, the Naursky district of Chechnya, an explosion occurred, reports Interfax with reference to the Department of Internal Affairs of the Republic. The explosive device was laid near a private house. The ten -year -old daughter of the owners of the house was killed in place, two more children of two and five years old were injured - the hosts' nephews who came to visit. Children are taken to the Mozdok hospital.

In the accident of the An-2 aircraft, which occurred on September 30 in the north of the Irkutsk region, the crew is to blame, RIA Novosti reports. A source in the East Siberian Territorial Administration of the Federal Air Transport Service informed the agency that, according to experts, Biplan fell into a strong descending flow of air and pressed it to the ground.

As Ren-TV just reported, something strange is currently happening at the presentation of the musical Nord-Ost: a group of armed people burst into the hall, shooting into the air. The attackers are described as persons of Caucasian nationality. As far as you can understand, the audience is taken hostage: it was transmitted that after a while, "the invaders allowed to let the children out of the audience." The Moscow police authorities left for the scene.

In the reaction to the expulsion of the leaders of the ATP Boris Nemtsov and Irina Khakamada from Belarus, the Russian authorities as a whole demonstrate unanimity. Colleges were supported by the deputy head of the unity faction Vladislav Reznik, regarding the actions of the Belarusian authorities as insulting and calling on to the president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko to apologize.

The idea of ​​the opposition to declare impeachment to the President of the country Leonid Kuchma did not meet support from the pro -presidential majority in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

The cause of the accident at the Kyrgyz airport of the Russian Il-62 aircraft could be a problem in the liner braking system. According to RIA Novosti, employees of the Manas International Airport, who witnessed the emergency, the plane made a normal landing, and then, unable to slow down, rolled out of the runway almost a kilometer and crashed into a concrete fence.

The leaders of the regional branches of Liberal Russia held a meeting at which they announced disagreement with the decision of the political council of the movement to exclude the entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky, Interfax reports. The meeting participants made the initiative to convene an extraordinary congress of movement no later than December 5 to discuss the decision of the political council.

According to the “Echo of Moscow”, in the area of ​​the crash of the Mercury-2 ferry, a large oil spot was formed in the Caspian Sea with a width of eight and a length of fifteen kilometers. Special vessels that will collect oil are sent to the place of emergency. The situation in the Caspian Sea is monitored by ecologists. Recall that yesterday, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan reported that more than two thousand tons of raw oil could be located on board the ferry.

Thirteen people from the Mercury-2 ferry, which had sank yesterday, was still saved by the Caspian Marine Shipping Company. This was announced by Interfax a company representative. In addition, during rescue work from the bottom of the sea, two bodies of drowned passengers were raised. The ferry sank yesterday about a hundred kilometers from Baku, and until the evening very conflicting reports of the dead were received at first that all passengers and crew members died.

The Minister of Restoration of Chechnya Vladimir Elagin doubts the reliability of the results of the census of the republic, which gave an unexpectedly high result - 1 million 88 thousand people. This is about the same as before the start of hostilities in 1994.

After the report that the Hall of the Palace of Culture of the State Bearing Plant (Theater Center on Dubrovka) can be blown up in case of assault, the announcer ORT on the live broadcast turned to the terrorists who had seized the hall, saying that the assault was not talking: Alpha is going to negotiate. Meanwhile, it is still unclear what terrorists want: no requirements have yet been put forward.

Last night, the fate of 51 people who was on board the mercury-2 ferry, which was sunken in the Caspian Sea, was not clear. The scene of the tragedy received conflicting data on the number of the dead. A number of agencies with reference to informed sources at the Caspian Marine ship reported that all people were killed on a ferry. At the same time, according to ITAR-TASS, at least nine people were saved as a result of search and rescue works.

From the audience who were released by the terrorists, it became known about the requirements of the latter. They are the most common: "To stop the war in Chechnya." Witnesses also say that among the invaders there are several women in the flies (those same "Chechen widows"); It is they who behave most aggressively. The TVS became known that the management of the operation was received by the FSB and that it has already managed to come into contact with the terrorists.

In Moscow, a warehouse of paints and varnishes is on fire. According to RIA Novosti with reference to the management of the state fire service, the fire occurred an hour and a half ago in the house number 10 on the first Volokolamsk passage. On the ground floor of the building is a warehouse where igniting substances are stored in 20-liter barrels. Twelve fire crews take part in the extinguishing of fire. According to preliminary data, one person - a warehouse watchman suffered.

Representatives of the Moscow Chechen diaspora proposed themselves as hostages, "whatever the nationality of terrorists." The answer, of course, no. According to unconfirmed reports (Vladimir Solovyov live aircraft), the terrorists released about 300 people from the building.