The lawyer of the Yaroslavl governor Anatoly Lisitsyn, accused of inappropriate use of budget funds, said that the case against his client was fabricated. Vladimir Noskov intends to remove all charges from the accused. As the lawyer said to Yaroslavl television, he will take all the measures provided for by law to eliminate the charges. Noskov also added: "I need to check the accusation itself, I consider it, to put it mildly, insolvent.

On Tuesday, President Putin signed amendments to the Tax Code providing a number of measures to simplify the acquisition of housing citizens. And on Monday, another president - the Russian guild of realtors - Elena Dranchenko admitted that a stagnation associated with a decrease in market revolutions is observed in the real estate market. The problem, in her opinion, arose in May, it is in no way connected with the banking crisis, and soon, most likely, will come to naught.

In the area of ​​the village of Talgi near Makhachkala, an armored car was blown up, in which there were 12 riot police officers. Of the 12 people 11 were injured and contusion. One of the victims is in serious condition. According to Interfax, the Ural car was blown up using a home -made explosive device with a capacity of 7.5 kg of TNT.

The United States spoke out against the construction of the Danube -Black Sea channel in Ukraine, believing that it would cause irreparable harm to the ecology of the region, RBC reports. At a press conference in Washington, the press secretary of the US State Department Adam Elley noted that Kyiv does not listen to other countries. Meanwhile, Germany, Romania, the EU, as well as the World Wildlife Fund, opposed the construction of the channel.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov signed an order on the appointment of deputy head of the Federal Agency for Atomic Energy, RIA Novosti reports. To this place with the simultaneous dismissal of it from the previously held position. Evald Antipenko was appointed.

In the Central Election Commission of the Unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia, documents were submitted for registration of seven people as candidates for the presidency, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the news agency APSNPRESS. Documents for registration of candidates were submitted by initiative groups.

At 12.40 Moscow time, at an unregulated move near the village of Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, a freight train collided with a standing locomotive, RIA Novosti was told in the information department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry. As a result of the collision, minor injuries were an assistant to the train driver, and a section of the railway track was also damaged.

The Zhytomyr headquarters of the presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko reports the act of self -immolation of one of the agitators for the leader of our Ukraine. It is reported by Ukrainian Truth .

On the streets of the Iraqi city of Basra, located approximately 470 km from Baghdad, several hundred armed supporters of the radical Shiite leader of the Muktada al-Sadra, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Kuwaitsky Kuna news agency. The militants blocked the movement on the main roads leading to the city center. Thus, they express their protest against hostilities, which are conducting American troops in the city of En-Zajaf Holy for Muslims.

Grigory Gritsenko The draft federal budgets of the last two years have been frankly boring, since the forecast of income and expenses that in 2002, which in 2003 was determined at approximately the same level-growth is about 13%. In the Minfinovsky, this was called the "inertial scenario of development", in other words-adjustment to the existing economic situation.

In Russia, 5-10% of computers connected to the Internet can be infected with viral programs. This was stated by Evgeny Kaspersky, head of the antivirus laboratory of Kaspersky. "Hacker attacks are becoming more and more. At the moment, approximately 30-40 attacks are carried out per week. Most spy programs are hunting for bank accounts," Kaspersky said. According to him, the most unpleasant thing that is happening on the Internet is a bank robbery.

In Novorossiysk, they are preparing to open the monument to the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev. It is expected that the Monument to the Secretary General will be erected on one of the central squares of Novorossiysk. “Leonid Ilyich did a lot for our city, and not only in the war, in the battles on the Malaya land, but also at the peaks of the authorities,” said Dmitry Shishov, chief accountant of the Novorossiysk Sea Trade Port, in an interview with Izvestia.

Candidate for the presidency of Ukraine, the leader of the Brotherhood party Dmitry Korchinsky met today in Baghdad with citizens of Ukraine currently living in Iraq, LIGA reports. The main topic of the meeting was the problems of Ukrainians abroad and in Iraq in particular. Dmitry Korchinsky promised to inform the Ukrainian authorities about the problems of Ukrainians living in Iraq and insist on their speedy decision.

Today, music lovers were delighted by the news that Philip Kirkorov was leaving the stage. The Rostov journalist Irina Aroyan, who had made a good name for star rudeness, said that "she did not seek to survive the singer from show business." She would not have succeeded: “leaving” was also turned into a wonderful informational occasion to promote the “tired” pop singer. And he promises to remain silent, unfortunately, only two years.

The Turkish hostage was released in Iraq, reports Reuters with a reference to police representatives. The abductors themselves freed the hostage. The previously stolen driver of the truck Mustafa Khalid was discovered by the police near the city of Tikrit. Information about the release of the hostage has not yet found confirmation at the Turkish Embassy in Iraq.