Viktor Ilyukhin, Deputy Head of the State Duma Committee on Security, had an accident on Monday evening on New Arbat. The Dau-Espero car deputy of the Parliament from the Communist Party faction collided with a truck, reports Moscow Komsomolets . At the wheel of the car, Viktor Ilyukhin himself was sitting. A deputy with his wife and child was in a hurry to the clinic.

The mayor of New Orleans Rei Nagin announced his intention to dismiss to 3 thousand municipal employees over the next two weeks - this is almost half of all municipal workers, RBC reports. The decision was made due to the financial problems caused by the hurricane "Katrina". According to the mayor, he "with great regret" went to this measure. At the same time, he said that dismissal would not touch the police and firefighters. According to R.

The head of the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation Vladimir Yakovlev admitted that it will not be possible to avoid the coming accidents at the housing and communal services. “But the main thing is to eliminate them in time,” the minister said after the “government hour” in the State Duma, where the preparation of housing and communal services for the heating season was considered.

A group of terrorists who killed police officers was disclosed in Dagestan, RIA Novosti reports today. According to the source in the power structures of Dagestan, it was possible to enter the militants during the investigation of the attack on the post of Buinaksky GOVD on September 12, when the lieutenant of the police Hasanov was killed and captain Sungurov was wounded.

In OJSC "Norilsko-Tyimyr Energy Company" (OJSC "NTEK"), all the corporate procedures necessary for launching operational activities were performed. All control of the Norilsk Energy Electric power plant was transferred to NTEK OJSC. NTEK OJSC was created as an operating company to lease energy assets of OJSC Norilsk Nickel and Taimyrenergo OJSC.

The NASA leadership called the main version of the discovers of the shuttle of Discovery , writes Gazeta.ru . According to the conclusions of experts, the heat -insulating foam, which broke off from the fuel tank during the start, could be damaged by technical workers during preparation for the flight. According to the manager of the flight program of Shattlov Wayne Hale, while working on the modification of the fuel tank at the Michoud plant, workers unintentionally damaged the insulation site.

The Russia-European Union, which has passed on Tuesday, demonstrated the lack of will to achieve any specific political goals in Russia, long fluctuations on the beginning of negotiations with Turkey, coming to power in Poland more Euro-sized forces, etc. Again they make you think about the future of this organization. “Polit.ru” publishes an opinion about its prospects for a famous expert, director of Russian and Asian programs of the US defense information center (Washington) Nikolai Zlobin .

The Federation Council today approved the law on the return of the city of the Penza region of the historical name Spassk to the city. With a proposal to rename the city, its inhabitants made. 7800 people live in Bednodemyanovsk. He got his current name in 1925 in honor of the proletarian poet Demyan Poor, who, however, had nothing to do with the city: he was not born there, did not live and never even. Read more in the second issue of the "Monitor".

At least 13 people were killed and another 40 were injured in Iraq as a result of the explosion of a mined car, RIA Novosti reports with reference to AFP. The incident occurred in the city of El Hill, south of Baghdad, during the prayer on the occasion of the beginning of the Holy month of Ramadan.

As the reason for fires in the warehouses of the Ministry of Defense in Kamchatka, the terrorist attack is not considered, RIA Novosti reports. According to the press service of the regional department of the FSB (RU FSB) in the Kamchatka region, the FSB operational employees worked in the incident from the first hours of its occurrence.

The former chairman of the Union of Poles in Belarus, Tadeusz Kruczkowski, was denied entry into Poland, RIA Novosti reports . As Radio Zet reports, Polish border guards revoked Kruczkowski's entry visa. Border guards gave the former chairman of the Union of Poles in Belarus a document stating that Kruczkowski poses a danger to the defense capability and public order of Poland.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and British Prime Minister Tony Blair will continue bilateral negotiations in London on Wednesday. The day before, at the end of the Russia-ES summit, the Russian and British leaders talked for a working dinner. This morning, negotiations will continue in an expanded composition. The delegations of both countries will also take part in them.

The search at Anton Drel's law office lasts almost six hours. The search and seizure of documents is being carried out by the investigation team of the Prosecutor General's Office as part of the investigation of the criminal "YUKOS case", RIA Novosti reports . According to the investigation, during 2000-2003, some managers and employees of the Yukos oil company stole and legalized funds amounting to about $7 billion by transferring them abroad.

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Even before the announcement of the official conclusions of the Commission on the Su-27 disaster, the Baltic News Service news agency submitted preliminary data on the investigation with reference to informed sources.