An alarm has been announced in the New York metro, the stations are fed by enhanced police and dog handle outfits. This was done after the FBI received information about the attacks preparing in the coming days. According to American special services, immigrants from Iraq can take part in a terrorist action.

The Brazilian court will consider the lawsuit of a psychic who claims that the US authorities must pay him $ 25 million promised for information about the place where the overthrown President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is hiding, the newspaper reports. Ru , citing Reuters.

** October 10, Monday ** The main events: In Moscow, the chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Fradkov will take part in the expanded meeting of the board of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, at which priority national projects proposed by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin in the field of healthcare, education, agriculture, and also in the field of housing policy will be discussed.

Today, people's deputies arrived at the Kiev airport from London - members of the parliamentary commission created to investigate the veracity of the facts of financing the election campaign Viktor Yushchenko Boris Berezovsky. They said that during their meeting, Berezovsky categorically refuted the fact of financing the election campaign of the current president of Ukraine, Forum reports.

Today, at a press conference at the Golden Ring Hotel, the jury of the Literary Prize Buker-open Russia announced the “short list” of the 2005 award for the best novel in Russian. This year, only 22 were allowed to participate in the competition of 65 nominated novels to the competition. This year’s jury included: Vasily Aksenov (chairman), critic Yevgeny Ermolin (Yaroslavl), poet and prose writer Nikolai Kononov (St.

In the modern cultural space, there are no such concepts as “good” or “bad”. But there are ratings, festivals, nominations and awards. Last week, it became known that the singer Zemfira refused the MTV RMA award. In Russia, the presentation of awards from MTV is carried out only a second time. Is this reward prestigious? With this question, the "pragmatist of culture" turned to her respondents. So is the MTV premium prestigious for you? Dmitry Groysman, producer of the Chayf and Mara groups.

On Friday in Paris, the first European film festival opens, at which films shot on mobile phones will be shown, BBC reports. The goals of the Festival of the Pocket Film - as their organizers formulate - to provide a scene for new forms of art, and also try to understand what effect it can have on traditional cinema. “I don’t think that Skorsze will ever shoot on a mobile phone,” says the director of the festival Laurence Ersberg.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko introduced an submission to the Constitutional Court with a request to consider the constitutionality of the Law of Ukraine "On Amending the Law of Ukraine" On the Status of Deputies of Local Councils "that provide them with inviolability. This is reported by Ukrainian Pravda with a reference to the press service of the president.

**Palace Number Three** Last week, the press commented on a not too loud and long-awaited event: President Putin named the names of the first 42 members of the Public Chamber - a new body, the formation of which the head of state proposed a year ago, simultaneously with the abolition of the election of governors. This body must examine laws and in other ways control the bureaucracy, which has recently gained very great strength through the efforts of the supreme power.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko admitted that some episodes described in the media, regarding his son Andrei, were fair. He said this during a meeting with representatives of the central and regional media on Friday. “According to some things, I’ll tell you frankly, I, as my father, accepted the conclusions ... And thank you that your position was fair,” Yushchenko quotes “Ukrainian Truth” .

The organizer of the picket dedicated to the birthday of Vladimir Putin was detained in Moscow. Police officers delivered to the ATS "Tver" member of the movement "we" Igor Drandin. He himself said to the Echo of Moscow . The reason for the detention, according to him, was anti -Putin slogans sounding to stocks. The newspaper of the Central District demanded the termination of the action, which was authorized by the authorities, but the participants did not listen to him.

US President George Bush is sure that God ordered him to send troops to Afghanistan and Iraq, RBC reports with reference to the BBC statement by Palestine Minister Nabil Shaata. The US president told him about this during their first meeting in June 2003.

President of Cyprus Tasos Papadopulos expressed the assumption that the UN would revive negotiations on the Cyprus issue now that Turkey began negotiations on joining the EU, the newspaper reports. Ru , citing Reuters. “When I met with the Secretary General (UN) in September, he said that until October 3 he could not begin to negotiate,” said Papadopulos. “I think that now he will take some steps, and in a very near future,” he added.

The US police are looking for 19 terrorists preparing explosions in the New York subway, RBC reports with reference to ABCNews. In connection with the threat of attack in the subway, it was decided to strengthen security measures due to the threat of attack in the subway. The mayor of the city, Michael Bloomberg, urged New York citizens to be extremely careful.

Putin will celebrate the 53rd birthday in the Konstantinovsky Palace. The birthday company will be compiled by the heads of countries - members of the organization of Central Asian cooperation (except for Turkmenbashi), as well as a long -standing friend - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. The chancellor will come with the whole family - the wife of Doris and the adopted daughter of Russia Vika. According to the Life newspaper, the Chancellor family prepared for a visit to St.