All Gazprom owners belonging to the media will most likely be sold, ”said the head of the board of the company Alexei Miller. According to him, today Gazprom’s reign decided to abandon a business not related to gas production. Gazprom-Media will be reorganized by January. Today, Gazprom-Media General, Alfred Koch resigned. Gazprom owns 46 percent of the shares of the NTV television company, and also controls the media-Most media in the holding.

The main prize of the competition is the “Big Crystal Pelican” and a cash prize in the amount of 75 thousand rubles received a technology teacher from Yekaterinburg Alexei Krylov. The jury chaired by the rector of Moscow State University Viktor Sadovnichy praised his ability to creatively approach the organization of technical education at school.

The US State Department was alarm - due to the fact that traces of white powder were discovered in one of the premises. The analysis showed that this substance is not a danger to others. This is the second case in the last three days when a suspicious substance is found in the State Department. Both times the alarm was false.

Leading Marina Katys In Russia, at present, more than 150 million hectares of land have the status of specially protected natural territories. At the same time, in a number of regions, employees of reserves and national parks receive a salary several times lower than the subsistence minimum. According to experts, in these conditions, only enthusiasts of their business continue to work in the reserves, whose average age is close to pension. Our Pyatigorsk correspondent Lada Ladeneva says.

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In the Pakistani city of Karachi, fierce clashes occurred today between participants in the protest against the international military operation in Afghanistan and the police. Several hundred people took part in the riots. Protesters set fire to an American fast food restaurant and several cars. The government building is plundered. To accelerate the crowd, the police used tear gas. The streets of the cities of Kvetta and Peshavar, located next to the Afghan border, are patrolled by troops.

Alfred Koch resigned from the post of Gazprom-Media General Director. According to some reports, this may be associated with the disagreement between Koch and the Gazprom leadership regarding the future media holding. Today, Gazprom, the chairman of the board of the company, Alexei Miller, met with the leadership and leading journalists of the NTV television company, whose controlling package belongs to Gazprom-Media.

One of the leaders of the European Union - Javier Solan - said that after terrorist attacks in the United States, Europe should accelerate the formation of its own armed contingent. This contingent, known as the Eurocorpus, should be formed by 2003 and is the main element of the European Union in the field of security and defense.

In the Kodor Gorge of Abkhazia, combat clashes between the Abkhaz units and a large detachment, which consists of Georgian partisans and immigrants from the North Caucasus, continue. Yesterday, the Abkhaz side announced that she first used military aircraft. Parts of the Georgian army entered the Kodor Gorge to take under the defense, according to Tbilisi, the Georgian villages located in this area.

In Islamic countries, violent protests are continuing against a military operation in Afghanistan. In the Pakistani city of Karachi, several hundred people took part in the riots. Protesters set fire to an American restaurant and several cars. The government building is plundered. To accelerate the crowd, the police used tear gas. Demonstrations and clashes with the police have been going on for several days on the streets of the cities of Kvetta and Peshavar near the Afghan border.

In Pakistan, many thousands of demonstrations in support of Afghan Taliban and bin Ladena do not stop. In the city of Kvetta, radical Islamic organizations have convened another rally today. Kvetta streets patrol the detachments of the Pakistani army, army vehicles are on duty at the intersections. The authorities demand not to hold protests in the city center. Yesterday 11 people were injured in the dispersal of the Islamist demonstration near the border with Afghanistan.

The Commander -in -Chief of the Russian Navy, Vladimir Kuroyedov, said that in the first compartment of the Kursk nuclear submarine, unexploded torpedoes were preserved. According to him, the compartment, which remained at the bottom of the Barents Sea, will be raised next year - already without foreign specialists.

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine admitted that the Russian aircraft Tu-154, which crashed on October 4 over the Black Sea, could be accidentally shot down by a rocket launched during the exercises of the Ukrainian air defense forces. However, as indicated in the statement of the ministry, the final conclusions will be made only upon completion of the studies of fragments of the aircraft and rocket.

Andrey Babitsky, Afghanistan: Today we spent several hours on Kiyov’s pass. This is one of the ways with which refugees come out of Kabul and go to areas controlled by the Northern Alliance.

The European Union intends to achieve tough measures to ensure border control and internal security from the EU countries to join the EU. Member of the EU leadership on the expansion of the European Union - Gunter Ferkhoigen - made this statement in Riga. According to him, after recent terrorist acts in the United States, Europe should take additional measures to ensure its own security. New security measures will be discussed at the EU summit in Brussels, which is scheduled for October 20.