Several French embassies in African and Muslim countries received letters with threats from a group calling themselves "a detachment of Mosvar Baraev." According to RIA Novosti, the letters were sent from Paris. In their content, they are identical to the directed on March 16, France Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffaren through the newspapers Parisien and Le Monde.

Nigeria authorities agreed to provide a temporary asylum with the displaced President Haiti Jean-Bertran Aristida . This was stated by the press secretary of President Nigeria Remy Oyo. Thus, Nigeria satisfied the request of 15 Caribbean countries. The statement of OIO, however, does not say whether Aristide himself agreed to temporarily live in Nigeria, reports Associated Press.

The dollar fell a little less than 1% per day against the euro, British pound, and Swiss franc. The euro exchange rate is 1.235 dollars. Rising gold prices, falling stock indices... The main factor in the deterioration of the market situation is the destruction by the Israelis of the Palestinian leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. The financial world is clearly signaling a worsening situation.

Eight famous American democrats made an open letter to US President George Bush. In a letter, they demanded that the presidential adviser to the National Security of Condoliza Rice give public testimony before a special commission created to investigate the circumstances of the attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States. Rice has already testified to the commission, but only behind closed doors, senators emphasize.

Ekaterina Norkina Despite the unity of the so-called “anti-terrorist coalition,” there is no unity in understanding the essence of terrorism in the West, as demonstrated by the Western media by quoting Western leaders. This became especially clear after the events in Madrid. The simplest definition of “terrorism” is that it is “the systematic use of violence, terror, and intimidation to achieve one's goals” (Webster's University Dictionary).

In the Iraqi city of Basra, two explosions thundered, 13 British military were injured. This was announced by the representative of the British Ministry of Defense. “We can confirm reports of two explosions in the center of Basra, the purpose of which, apparently, was the coalition forces,” he said.

Today, the Moscow City Court will host the formation of a jury of the jury in the criminal case of Zarema Muzhekhoeva, who intended to blow up a bomb in the center of Moscow. The terrorist was detained on July 9 last year at the Cafe "Ginger" on the 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya street with a bag in which an explosive device was discovered. When neutralizing the bomb, the FSB explosion Major Georgy Trofimov died tragically, ITAR-TASS reports.

The finale of the two most striking and tragic stories that excited Moscow in the last month is close: the collapse of the roof in the water park and the fire in the arena. At least, it is already clear who will not bear responsibility for these events. Today, Kommersant , having analyzed the work of the State Commission for the investigation of the tragedy in the Transvaal, writes about who they will accuse of what happened.

The Russian aluminum, the second largest producer of primary aluminum in the world, should be a public company, said Oleg Deripaska, chairman of the board of directors of Rusala, the Monitor reports. True, the public placement of shares, according to him, is not worth it on the hill. He also said that an important source of financing and the tool for creating a public credit history of Rusal is the Russian ruble bond market.

In the Kurchaloevsky district of Chechnya, in one of the houses, when checking passports on a tray mine, a policeman of the patrol service at the Republic of the Republic was blown up. As a source in the law enforcement agencies of Chechnya said on Tuesday, Private Police Asakaev was blown up by a mine when he went into one of the houses in the village of Allerina. The policeman is hospitalized, RIA Novosti reports.

According to Monitor , the Federal Arbitration Court of the East Siberian District recognized the transaction to privatize the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station and decided to return the property complex of the power plant to federal property. Now the hydroelectric power station is owned by RAO UES, whose share in the authorized capital of Sayano -Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station is about 80%. The hydroelectric power station was established in January 1993.

The NATO Council decided to ensure the air cover of the territory of three Baltic states after their official accession to NATO, RBC reports. For this, four NATO Air Force fighters will be placed at the airfield in Lithuania. According to the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexander Yakovenko, this directly affects Russia's security.

As part of the criminal case against the Governor of Kamchatka, Mikhail Mashkovtsev, the prosecutor's office is excavating documents in fish -industrial enterprises that carried out super -grain fishing during Putin in 2002, the environmental prosecutor of the Kamchatka region said.

According to the unnamed source , the expert commission investigating the reasons for the fire of the Moscow arena on March 17, 2004 came to the following preliminary conclusions: the cause of the fire of the arena became errors made when designing the building by its authors, who did not provide for the possibility of placing a multi -tiered underground parking lot and engineer, who had completed the Betanko, who performed the Betanko, who performed the Belts.

The Moscow authorities intend to reduce fine trade in underground crossings, transferring it to multidisciplinary shopping centers. This was announced on Tuesday at a meeting of the metropolitan government, First Deputy Head of the Department of Consumer Market and Services, Efim Rybalov. According to him, now in the city there are more than 22 thousand such objects, most of which will in the near future prohibit their activities in underground crossings, ITAR-TASS reports.