At the next meeting on Thursday, the Russian government will consider amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses (Code of Administrative Offenses), which will ban the control and supervisory authorities to terminate the activities of enterprises without a court decision. This was reported by RIA Novosti by an informed source in the Government of the Russian Federation.

At least ten people were killed and 22 more were injured in varying severity as a result of the explosion of a mined car today on one of the busy streets of the Iraqi capital. Such data are reported by AFP with reference to the Iraqi police. According to Newsru.com , the police officer Ali al-Rabi told reporters at the scene that the car filled with explosives had taken off the air on the street on the northern outskirts of Baghdad at the moment when it was filled with people.

“I don’t know what to call my current status. I signed on the document, but I do not agree with the motivation of dismissal,” the former host of the program “ The Perenced” Leonid Parfyonov said today. Formally, he held the position of presenter and was officially dismissed to reduce staff. There were no reservations of compliance with ethical norms in the contract, the journalist said. Parfyonov said that the shooting in Qatar took place very hard.

Deputies today in the first reading will discuss the draft amendments to the Law "On the Referendum of the Russian Federation" (new edition), which make a popular vote almost impossible. The new version of the Law on the referendum was written in the Central Election Commission and entered the Duma a week and a half a week ago by the president.

The base price of the Renault Logan, which will be produced in Moscow, is set at 5,000 euros. This was announced by Renault President Louis Schweitzer, writes Prime-TASS . According to the president, production of French cars at Russian facilities will begin in mid-2005. At the first stage, a joint venture between Renault and the Moscow City Hall - OJSC Avtoframos - will assemble 60 thousand cars per year. In the future, the head of Renault said, the production of cars will be doubled.

FSO beat peaceful pickets again. According to Echo of Moscow , this happened during the protest of the State Duma, in which the activists of the Yabloko party and representatives of the Vanguard of Red Youth participated. They protested against amendments to the Law on referendum. According to Rosbalt in the press service of Yabloko, during the performance of the rest of those present, it was decided to peacefully approach the main entrance to the Duma and express their protest there.

The Thai government for the first time admitted that the cause of the wave of violence in the south of the country, from which over 200 people died in 2004, is Islamic extremism, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Neishn newspaper. The Minister of Internal Affairs of Thailand Bhakin Bhalakuel said that extremists took advantage of certain religious doctrines in order to encourage young Muslims of the region to attack government officials and civilians, the publication reports.

The State Duma on Wednesday decided to consider the draft application in connection with the situation in South Ossetia, the Monitor reports. Such a proposal on behalf of the Duma Committee on CIS Affairs and Relations with compatriots was made by deputy Sergei Antufiev, and it was supported almost unanimously: 410 for one abstained.

The dismissal of the leading program “The M endex” Leonid Parfenov is the internal affair of the NTV television company. Such an opinion, as Rosbalt reports, expressed in an interview with reporters on Wednesday the State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov. “NTV is not a state, but a private company, and, in accordance with the Civil Code, has bodies that have the right to make such personnel decisions,” said the speaker.

In Makhachkala, relatives of the children who died as a result of a fire at the boarding school last year were rallyed, Echo of Moscow reports. On Wednesday, the court sentenced the director of the school responsible for the death of 30 children, to the 3rd year of prison. Relatives of the defendants and parents of children staged a brawl in the courtroom. Now about 40 people are protesting near the court building.

Leonid Parfyonov, host of the M endeonse program, the most bold information program on the central TV, was dismissed from the NTV television company. "The reason for the dismissal was the closure of the" P endo "program, associated with the Parthenov violation of the employment contract, obliging him to support the television company leadership," the NTV report, RIA Novosti said. "Leonid Parfyenov is certainly one of the most talented journalists on modern television.

The Moscow government will allocate 3 million Russian rubles for the reconstruction of the memorial complex in the Brest Fortress. It is reported by Newsru.com . According to the Belarusian embassy, ​​the corresponding order was signed by Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. Information on the allocation of Moscow funds is also confirmed by the director of the Brest Hero Fortress, Valery Gubarenko, the director of the Brest Hero Fortress.

In May of next year, ITAR-TASS reports, the stadium of the Terek club, the holder of the Russian Cup 2004, will open in Grozny. At the request of the inhabitants of Chechnya, he will be named after the first president of the Republic of Akhmad Kadyrov, who died on May 9 in Grozny as a result of a terrorist act. The stands of the stadium will accommodate 25 thousand spectators. In the near future it will begin to restore the stadium for the Terek team.

** Government of the Russian Federation ** Prime Minister M. Fradkov signed a decree N260 on the approval of a new provision on the apparatus of the Government of the Russian Federation. Deputy Prime Minister A.

The implementation of two new UN operations to maintain peace. In Burundi, “Blue Helmets” were put on 2000 troops from South Africa, Mozambique and Ethiopia located in the country. And in Haiti, the advanced group of the UN Security Council of the peacekeeping mission, which will replace the temporary multinational contingent led by the United States, began to work, RIA Novosti reports.