The price of October futures contracts for WTI brand oil in the Electronic system of the New York Model Exchange on Wednesday in the morning increased by $ 0.03 compared to the value of daytime trades on Tuesday V to $ 29.21 per barrel, Bloomberg reports. The price of the October futures on WTI on September 9 rose 1.1% ($ 0.33) and amounted to $ 29.18 per barrel. Oil is getting more expensive due to the lack of Iraqi raw materials in the market.

Today in Indonesia, Abdul Aziz, better known under the name Imam Samudra, who is considered the main developer and performer = terrorist attack on the island of Bali on October 12, 2002, was sentenced to death, RIA Novosti reports. He was given a week to appeal the verdict. The 33-year-old engineer Sumudra was found guilty of all points. According to the prosecution, this high -ranking functionary of the underground terrorist organization "Jema Islamia" = led the conduct of the Bali attack.

Today, the Tver court of Moscow fined seven members of the National-Bolshevik party who participated in an unauthorized picket in the center of Moscow. The action dedicated to the fight against drugs arranged about 20 National Bolshes on Nikolskaya Street. According to their statements (quite fair), on this street there is a constant trade in all kinds of potions. Several participants in the picket were detained, since the Limonovites did not have a perfection of the prefecture.

As it became known to the Kommersant newspaper, yesterday, representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB of Russia checked the data received from Chechnya on the murder of the leader of the Arab mercenary of Abu Al-Valid V of one of the organizers of explosions of residential buildings in Moscow and Volgodonsk in 1999.

The discussion about oil pipelines has not subsided for several days now. It would seem that this is a private topic: who will build what where - one way or another, there seem to be no problems with oil sales so far. Let's take a closer look. World oil prices, which have been at a high level for several years now, have led to a sharp increase in oil production and exports. From an average annual level of 300 million tons in 1995-1998, production jumped to almost 380 million tons (by 26%).

The number of prisoners in Russian prisons and pre -trial detention centers is continuously reduced and next year will be no more than 700 thousand people, 100 V 110 thousand of which will be inhabitants of investigative insulators. This was stated today by the Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation Yuri Kalinin, speaking in the London court in the case of Ahmed Zakayev.

Today, the Prime Minister of Syria resigned, and with him V the entire cabinet of ministers. President of the country Bashar al-Assad instructed the chairman of the National Assembly of Syria Mohammed Naji al-Ktari to form a new government. According to Syrian sources, apparently this government will be headed by al-Ktari himself, a former mayor of the city of Aleppo and a longtime member of the ruling party "BAAS".

The official requirement to declare impeachment to the president was issued by deputies of the City Council of the California city of Santa Cruz. The request of deputies yesterday was transferred to the law committee of the Congress. According to the law, the request cannot be ignored, so Bush’s actions will soon be checked for legal purity, writes Gazeta.ru . Most members of the City Council are interested in the legality of the declaration of war in Iraq.

On September 18, a sentence in the criminal case of Major General of the Tax Police Sergey Platonov and the chief specialist of one of the FSNP departments Mikhail Petrovsky will be announced. This was announced after the end of the last court hearing in the Moscow City Court Platonova Karina Garibyan, RIA Novosti reports.

The prosecutor’s office will not be able to charge the governor Vladimir Platov V, he was in the hospital. According to Echo of Moskvy , the Tver Governor’s press conference was supposed to be held at this radio station yesterday, but on the way to Moscow Platov became bad, and instead of a live broadcast on Echo, he ended up in the Central Design Code. Therefore, the prosecutor's office of the Tver region will not be able, as planned, to charge Platov, writes Kommersant .

The organization "Reporters without borders" (Reporters Sans Frontiers) published the world's first "Press Freedom Index", reports RBC . In total, the list of V 139 countries. The index was compiled by a survey of journalists, researchers and lawyers from different countries of the V they were invited to answer 50 questions about violations of the press freedom in their country (killing or arresting journalists, censorship, pressure, state monopolies in certain areas, media laws).

Anatoly Chubais, the head of the RAO UES of Russia, is not going to be a deputy from the Union of Right Forces ”(ATP) in the State Duma. In his own words, now he goes to the polls, only to improve the position of the right. “It would be wrong if I left the reform of the electric power industry unfinished” V stated by Chubais. He believes that he will not work as a deputy in the State Duma, will not reduce his influence in the ATP, RIA Novosti reports.

The “red alarm” regime was introduced in Israel not in vain: Hamas militants carried out two new terrorist attacks last night. The first explosion occurred at about six in the evening in the suburbs of Tel Aviv, at the bus stop near the Military base of the Crimfin. The explosion took the life of the seven military, about 30 people were injured. The second explosion thundered in one of the prestigious areas of Jerusalem six hours later (about 23.30) in the Hilel cafe on Emek Refami Street.

Today, the Moscow City Duma unanimously adopted a decision on the appointment of the election of the mayor. They will be combined with the elections to the State Duma and will take place on December 7. The decision has already entered into force, and tomorrow, when it is published, the election campaign will begin in Moscow.

Over the past week, the German press has been writing about the exposure of Günter Wallraf. Scandal: Wallraf is a socialist, a famous writer and journalist, author of numerous shocking books on social topics, collaborated with the Stasi, like many respected people in the GDR and West Germany.