It would be extremely pleasant to imagine the free world saying to dictators: “We will get you.” But the way both Bush and Schroeder are doing this in relation to Iraq does not yet inspire much hope. Members of Congress jump from their seats and give their president a standing ovation.

OPEC countries decided to prevent the catastrophic increase in oil prices in the event of an operation in Iraq. Its production can be increased by 3-4 million barrels per day, said OPEC President Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiy at the Cartel conference in Vienna. Thus, it is likely that OPEC does not intend to quarrel with the United States.

The referendum on the draft Constitution of Chechnya will take place exclusively in the republic and, accordingly, only people who arrived = to the republic will be able to take part in = it.

The fugitive colonel of the FSB Alexander Litvinenko still wants to plant. The Chertanovskaya district prosecutor's office brought a protest to the Moscow City Court to the decision of the Chertanovsky court of the capital not to deprive him of his freedom. In a cassation presentation, the prosecutor’s office insists on the cancellation of this decision and asks to send the case for a new consideration. Lawyer Litvinenko Mikhail Marov is going to file an objection to this protest.

Residents of Novgorod once again confirmed the “democratic” reputation of the city, which was traditionally controlled with the help of the veche. Today, under the pressure of the public, the mayor of the city Nikolai Citrinskin canceled the decision on the construction of a cultural and entertainment center (CRC) on the territory of the Maly Theater, Izvestia reports.

Some time after Shamil Basayev took responsibility for the explosion of the government of the government in Grozny on December 21, 2002, the Deputy Prosecutor Governor Sergey Fridinsky stated that the executors of the attack were established. Friedinsky claims that two of the three detainees in this case have already begun to admit everything, Interfax reports. According to the deputy prospector, all three were engaged in the preparation of the explosion.

The Central Election Commission of Armenia today officially announced the victory in the past elections of the current president of the Republic of Robert Kocharian. The opposition, led by the leader of the People’s Armenia party, considers the results of the elections to the former presidential candidate Stepan Demirchan. The previous three days, several thousand people gathered for rallies who did not agree with the preliminary election results.

The UN inspectors found in Iraq not only an unmanned aircraft, but also aircraft fuel tanks converted for spraying chemical and biological substances. Blix did not mention this in his speech at the UN Security Council. This information was contained only in the text of the report, which was transferred to the Council of People's Commissars after the meeting.

Representatives of the Pentagon, apparently, fully felt the effectiveness of the “fourth power” and are not going to repeat mistakes. According to San Francisco Chronicle , the American military are ready to provide journalists who will cover the “possible” operation in Iraq, unprecedented rights.

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The long-standing predictions of the appointment of Valentina Matvienko, the presidential envoy in the North-Western Federal District came true today. The new position of the former Deputy Prime Minister was announced by Vladimir Putin. The current envoy Viktor Cherkesov was appointed head of the State Committee to counteract the illegal circulation of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.

Today he reminded himself of the collective Khomeini in the person of the Supreme Sharia Court of Ichkeria. The site of the Chechen separatists “Caucasus Center” published = the decision of the latter, in which all the Muslims of the republic entrusted the “responsibility of refusal” to participate in the referendum under the Chechnya Constitution.

The Bush administration is still trying to enlist the support of Moscow on the eve of the next discussion by the UN Security Council of the Iraqi resolution. Before the American Senate unanimously ratified the Russian-American agreement on SNP, as he was again proposed to cancel the correction of Jackson-Vannik that remained since the Cold War.

Simultaneously with the strengthening of the FSB, the President of Russia proposed liberalizing criminal law today. Amendments involving mitigation of punishments for minor crimes entered the State Duma today. What are the proposals specifically, Putin did not specify. However, the Duma Committee on the Legislation of Polit.ru reported that we are talking about amendments to the 158th article of the Criminal Code. Such amendments have already been considered last year.

The dollar fell into 5.43 kopecks, a new rate - 31 rubles 50.76 kopecks. In the Forex market, the weakening of the dollar in relation to other leading currencies has stopped. The situation in world stock markets is joyless. In the Russian stock market, there is also a decrease - by 15:00 the RTS index lost 1.8% and sank to 384.71 points. Review of the Finmarket agency.