Today, in a number of cities of Croatia, rallies were held in support of General Ante Gotavina, arrested last Thursday on charges of war crimes and taken to the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague, RIA Novosti reports. The largest performance in support of Potavina took place in the city of Split on the coast of the Adriatic Sea, about 100 thousand people gathered according to unofficial data.

The Iranian government offers the United States to take part in the tender for the construction of a new nuclear power plant in Iran. "The United States can take part in the international tender for the conclusion of a contract for the construction of a nuclear power plant in Iran, if they are complied with the basic standards and the necessary quality," said the Iranian Hamid Reza Foreign Ministry at a press conference in Tehran today.

One of the leaders of Al-Qaeda Aiman ​​al-Za---Yakhiri on a record published on one of the Islamist sites, which is supposedly dated September 2005, and said that by their actions they force America to feverishly look for a way out of a difficult situation, " Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Reuters. “If it were not for the victims of the Mujaheddinov in Iraq ... There would be no jihad there,” he concluded.

The virus of typhoid - Asian descent in Transcarpathia, RIA Novosti reports. This was officially announced on Saturday by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine following the investigation of the causes of the massive disease of the inhabitants of the village of Simer. Doctors argue that the allocated virus has never previously met in Ukraine, since it is resistant to the action of the antibiotic of levomicitin.

Responsible for the operation of law enforcement agencies for the acceleration of demonstrators in Dunzhou (the province of Guangdun, the southeast of China) who protested against the selection of land by the state, was arrested, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Le Monde.

On Sakhalin on Sunday, due to the bad weather, the aviation and sea ferry communication with the mainland was interrupted, Gazeta.Ru reports. On the runway of the airport of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the main air harbor of the island edge, snowdrifts were formed due to the entire night of the snowfall. "Tentatively, the airport is closed until 14.00 local time (7.00 Moscow time), but it is possible that the deadline will be extended," said the airport employee.

Elections to the regional council of people's deputies will be held in the Novosibirsk Region In the Novosibirsk region, elections will be held in the regional council of people's deputies of the fourth convocation. They will go through the mixed system for the first time.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair expressed satisfaction with the results of a press conference in Montreal, the newspaper reports. ru ” with reference to“ Le Monde ”. The most important achievements of the conference, according to him, were: the resumption of dialogue with the United States, and the fact that representatives of more than 150 countries agreed with the need to proceed to negotiations on obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the “post -Chiotsky period”.

On Saturday, at the age of 65, after a serious and prolonged illness, the famous American actor of the comic genre Richard Pryor died, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Reuters.

The ambassadors of the Arab countries in Germany resolutely condemned the abduction of a German citizen of archaeologist Susanna Osthof and her driver in Iraq, RIA Novosti reports. This is stated in the Muslims widespread by the Central Council of Muslims tonight, a statement by the Union of Arab States.

When the Bolshoi Theater announced its plans for the season, where the title “War and Peace” with Mstislav Rostropovich was towering, there was immediately a premonition that things would not end well. Sergei Prokofiev’s blockbuster is a tricky thing, in some ways stronger than Goethe’s Faust and cooler than Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung tetralogy . To implement it, the best performing forces are needed, which should be driven by an incredibly powerful artistic will.

At the election of the mayor of Chisinau at 14.00 local time, a little more than seven percent of voters came, RIA Novosti reports. In order for the elections to be recognized as held, it is necessary that at least one third of the total number of voters come to the urns. About 570 thousand citizens are included in the voter lists. In all 283 polling stations, the elections are held normally without incidents or violations.

The Radical Palestinian group "Islamic jihad" does not intend to resume a truce with Israel, the term of which expires this month, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Europa Press. “We do not see any results from the concluded truce, and we do not intend to resume it even for one day,” said the leader of the organization Ramadan Shallah. “The Zionists not only did not refuse aggression, but also increased the number of arrests and murders,” he added.

In Moscow, under the rubble of buildings on the Upper Fields, the bodies of the two dead were valid. Presumably, two more people can remain under the rubble. Ten people suffered. This was reported in the headquarters to save people at the scene. As rescuers specified, the collapsed building is not a pre -trial detention center, but a colony -settlement.

Iraq hopes to attract foreign investment in the oil sector and wants to raise the level of oil exports to the pre-war level next year, RIA Novosti reports. This was stated by Iraqi Oil Minister Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloom, who arrived in Kuwait on Sunday evening for an extraordinary session of the OPEC conference. Before the 2003 invasion, Iraq exported 2.5 million barrels of oil daily. Currently, Iraqi oil supplies to the world market amount to only 1.2 million barrels per day.