The presidents of Russia and Venezuela - Vladimir Putin and Hugo Chavez discussed the situation in world oil markets in Moscow today. At the end of the meeting, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov informed reporters that the presidents agreed to coordinate actions to maintain stable world oil prices. According to the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Chavez informed Putin about decisions that the organization of oil export countries intends to make at the upcoming session in November.

British Airuez's Superspot Passenger Passenger Passenger Passenger, a trial transatlantic flight - for the first time since last year’s catastrophe of this type, crashed near Paris. The tragedy claimed the lives of 113 people. Today, the plane flew out of the Khitrovo London Airport to New York. Tickets for this flight were not sold. The flight lasts three and a half hours. The British airline resumes the flights of Concords since November.

A group of investigators of the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia, experts and judicial doctors begin today to inspect the Kursk atomic submarine, raised from the Barents of the Sea and delivered to the Doc in the village of Roslyakovo. The group is headed by the prosecutor general of Russia Vladimir Ustinov. Her task is to investigate the causes of the death of Kursk in August last year.

The Russian Civil Freedom Fund, founded by entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky, intends to annually allocate a million dollars for the implementation of the legal protection program of minors. As stated in the fund’s press release, lawyers will be hired for these funds for all adolescents arrested on charges of committing crimes. According to experts, in Russian investigative insulators are now from four to six thousand minors.

The Tu -154 aircraft, a disaster in the Black Sea, was shot down on October 4, was shot down by an anti -aircraft missile launched from a training ground in Crimea, said Vladimir Rushailo Secretary of the Russian Security Council. At a meeting of the commission to investigate the causes of the tragedy on Monday, however, it was not officially announced that the rocket that shot down the aircraft belonged to Ukraine.

Vladimir Abarinov, Washington: Messages about the presence in Afghanistan of the American special forces on Sunday were fully confirmed. According to the chairman of the United Staff of the US Armed Forces, General Richard Mayers, the special forces division made a raid to the headquarters of the head of the Afghan regime Mullah Omar, located southwest of Kandahar, and to a nearby airfield. The raid participants set the task of collecting intelligence information.

Hasin Raduev, North Caucasus: The Russian military unlocked the Grozny-Shatta road. From the early morning, engineering intelligence units carried out events here to check for explosive devices. On Sunday evening, near Gikalovsky - about five kilometers from Grozny - a military truck "Ural" was blown up on a landmine. According to available information, two Russian troops were killed in the car's cabin. Fugas was put into effect using a radio -controlled device.

Danish specialists in medical statistics questioned the effectiveness of the use of mass mammographic examinations conducted for the early detection of breast tumors. Ole Olsen and Peter Gotsk could not find any reliable evidence that such examinations reduce the mortality rate from breast cancer. Copenhagen scientists published this conclusion in the London Medical Journal of Lancet on October 20.

The authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina announced on Sunday about the arrest of five suspects in relations with terrorist groups. According to Bosnia Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdia, the names of the arrested were listed in the list of possible terrorists, transferred to the Bosnian authorities of the United States. It is possible that these people prepared terrorist attacks against objects belonging to Western countries in Bosnia.

In connection with the disconnection of electricity at the television -transmitting center of Pskov, half of the population of the Pskov region is deprived of the opportunity to watch the channels of the ORT, RTR and Culture, as well as listen to the Radio of Russia. Retransels in the Great Luki (the second largest city in the region), in the Novosokolniki and deep do not accept the signals of the transmitting center. The debts of the center to power engineers exceeded 3 million rubles.

In the Arkhangelsk region, employees of the Schenkur district hospital intend to announce a hunger strike from November 1 with a request to pay off salary debts. According to the regional trade union, doctors do not receive wages for more than 3 months. The total debt exceeds half a million rubles. Representatives of the trade union say that in a similar situation there are medical workers in another 6 districts of the Arkhangelsk region.

President of Pakistan Perevez Musharraf urged India not to use the current crisis in Afghanistan to aggravate the situation on the Indo-Pakistani border. Musharraf said that Pakistan is able to protect himself. The Pakistani President called on Indian leaders to peaceful negotiations regarding the territorial dispute in Kashmir. India and Pakistan fought twice because of Kashmir.

On the final day of the world rhythmic gymnastics championship in Madrid, four sets of medals in separate forms were played. 18-year-old Russian woman Alina Kabaeva excited in three types of program and received “silver” in the exercise with the hoop, where her compatriot Irina Chashchina was the best. In turn, Chashchina became the second in those species where Kabaeva took first place.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell said that Russia would probably not object to additional tests of the new American missile defense system. As Powell said in an interview on board the aircraft, returning from Shanghai to Washington, Russian officials made it clear that Moscow’s position in this matter has changed a little.

In the Kola Bay in the dock of the village of Roslyakovo, specialists completely separated the Kursk nuclear submarine from all capture devices connecting it to the Jaient barge. According to the headquarters of the Northern Fleet of Russia, employees of the Rubin Central Design Bureau and the Dutch company Mammut hold a meeting at which they will determine the time and procedure for the withdrawal of barges along with pontoons from floating dock.