Elena Rykovtseva, Moscow: American missiles released through the territory of Afghanistan suddenly fell into the weakest place of daily Russian newspapers - the Dadlin problem. Although the blows followed by no means late at night, but only at 8 o’clock on Sunday evening. The next day, only Kommersant managed to inform the readers about what happened.

The Russian Vice-Champion Moscow Lokomotiv missed the opportunity to lead the tournament table of the championship , in the match of the 27th round, losing 1: 2 in Novorossiysk. Lokomotiv has 48 points left, and he is still two points behind the leader - Spartak, who also has the game in reserve. Moreover, the defeat in Novorossiysk deprived Lokomotiv and the second place in the table, since Zenit, having won in Saratov at the Falcon - 1-0, scored 49 points.

The UN staff in Afghanistan are beaten. According to the UN representative in Kabul, Kandagar and Jalalabad, Taliba systematically attack Afghans working in the UN humanitarian missions. Cars belonging to the missions- confiscate. In the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, the mission is completely defeated. For security reasons, the UN evacuated all its foreign employees from Afghanistan on September 13-two days after the New York terrorist attacks.

Andrey Babitsky, Afghanistan: The objects of the first shelling were mainly long -long military objects abandoned by the Taliban at the first signs of danger. This is evidenced by refugees from Kabul, perplexing, for which it was necessary to destroy the long -not functioning airfield, left buildings and bases. The Taliban transported and covered all their military equipment in new places. According to the Americans themselves, not all of their shelters can be struck by air blows.

In the Vladimir region, five villages were left without electricity . Unknowns knocked out more than ten power lines and cut three kilometers of aluminum wires. Without energy supply, 153 houses were left in the villages of Zhuklino, Poyshchevo, Zhabrevo, Marenkino and New Voskresenskaya. In Omsk, out of five and a half thousand residential buildings, the heating is included in 725 , that is, 13 percent of the housing stock.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Oman begins today a trip to the countries of the Middle East, the purpose of which is to expand international support for the anti -terrorist operation in Afghanistan. On Tuesday, Blair said in an interview with the Arab television company Abu Dabi that he intends to explain the goals of the military action against the Taliban. The British authorities have not yet reported which country Blair would go after Oman.

The Islamic Conference organization abstained from criticism of the United States for an anti -terrorist operation in Afghanistan, although it expressed anxiety for the fate of the population of this country.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry of this year was William Nowls, a former employee of the American chemical corporation Monsato, his compatriot Barry Sharples from the Skripps research institute and a Japanese chemist, professor at the University of Naga Riodi Noiori. Scientists were awarded for the discovery and study of catalytic reactions of the synthesis of complex organic molecules that do not coincide with their mirror images.

Georgian air defense will bring down any unidentified plane over the territory of Abkhazia, said Georgian Defense Minister David Tevsadze. Yesterday, planes without identification marks tried to strike at the villages in the Gulripsh district - near the Abkhaz border. Tevsadze's statement followed the decision of the Abkhazia authorities to mobilize troops and reservists to combat the Georgian partisans, as they believe - support Chechen formations and Georgian aircraft communications.

The command of the Russian troops in Chechnya and representatives of the Republic of the Republic met today with the residents of the village of Prigorodnoye, who blocked the Grozny-Shatta highway four days ago. Participants in the action demand to punish those responsible for the death of an 11-year-old boy.

Yuri Zhigalkin, New York: On Tuesday at a briefing in the Pentagon, US Secretary of Defense Donald Ramsfeld and chairman of the Joint Committee of Chiefs, General Mayers, first made some conclusions relative to the first two days of military and terrorist objects in Afghanistan, and presented some aerial photographs of objects subjected to shots. In one of these pictures, the terrorist preparation camp of the preparation of terrorists.

US President George Bush announced today a list of names of 22 dangerous terrorists put on an international wanted list. The list, in addition to Osama Bin Laden, includes his two deputy and members of the al-Qaeda terrorist group. There is reason to believe that most of them, if not all, have found refuge in Afghanistan.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. Radio Liberty correspondents participate: in Kyiv - Vladimir Ivakhnenko, and in Sochi - Gennady Shlyakhov, as well as the military observer of the "weekly magazine" Alexander Golts. Andrey Sharry: The Secretary of the State Commission for the Investigation of the Causes of the Tu-154 Airliner Disaster, Alexander Potapov, at a press conference in Sochi on Wednesday, stated that the aircraft was shot down by a rocket.

In the zone of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict, in the Kodor gorge, battles continue. According to the Abkhaz side, its troops blocked the detachment of Georgian partisans and immigrants from the North Caucasus in the gorge of up to 200 people. Georgia again announced a violation of its airspace. Tbilisi claims that on Wednesday the Kodor gorge flew around two aircraft that appeared from the Sukhumi.

US President George Bush said that the organizers of the attacks on September 11 will suffer a legal punishment - regardless of how much time it will take. Speaking on Tuesday in Washington, Bush said that terrorists should realize the inevitability of punishment. Last night, the Armed Forces of the United States and Great Britain continued the missile and bombing attacks on the positions of Afghan Taliban and terrorist camps.