The American authorities, as part of the campaign to combat terrorism from next week, introduce new passports with additional degrees of protection. According to the representative of the US State Department, Philip Riker, in particular, the owner’s fingers will be entered into the new document. The passport can only be obtained in a special center in the USA, since its manufacture is technically complex. American consular services will not issue a document.

In Kostroma from April 8, hot water will be disconnected in residential buildings. The water temperature in heating systems will be reduced to 45 degrees. The city administration is not able to pay debts to gazaters and they reduced the supply of fuel by 30 percent. In kindergartens, schools and hospitals, hot water will not turn off. On Sakhalin in the village of Bykov, the boiler room power supply system failed. As a result, the water supply of the village was violated.

The State Duma of Russia spoke out for the revision of the "Package Agreement" on the distribution of leading posts in the ward and suspended deputies from the Communist Party and the agro -industrial group from the posts of chairmen of eight parliamentary committees. For this decision, 251 deputy voted with a necessary minimum of 226 votes. Three heads of committees representing the Communists were submitted to the rest at the direction of their leader Gennady Zyuganov.

The protest in Chisinau continues that night. More than three thousand people remain at the parliament and the President’s Palace. There are several hundred police officers there. The troops surrounded the president’s palace with a dense ring. About 10 thousand people participated in the demonstration that again held in Chisinau last night. The opposition and its supporters continue to demand the resignation of the entire communist leadership and parliament of Moldova and early elections.

The Israeli command declared Bethlehem on the west coast of Jordan - a closed military zone. Yesterday, Israeli tanks entered the city. Fights do not stop on the streets, two Palestinians were killed. Today, Israeli soldiers did not miss in Bethlehem, where one of the Christian shrines is located - the Church of the Nativity of Christ - representatives of the Christian clergy, who wanted to express support to the inhabitants of the city.

In Chisinau, anti -government actions continue. The demonstrators moved the tent camp to the parliament and the presidential palace and blocked the main avenue of the city. The police unsuccessfully tried to interfere with the demonstrators. Among the almost three thousand participants in the action, the majority are students and youth.

The hunger strike of 150 employees of the North Beligazodobych enterprise lasts 18 days. It is located in the northern village of Gubkinsky on Yamal. The perpetual strike began due to the fact that the gas workers last year were sent on vacation without detention. And in mid -February, an order was issued to completely reduce the team of the enterprise.

On April 4, in connection with the 70th anniversary of the birth of Andrei Tarkovsky, a moleben will be held at the House of Tarkovsky at the House of Tarkovsky at the address of Tarkovsky at the address. At half past four, the evening of memory in Tsvetaeva’s house will begin. At five o’clock in the evening in the Moscow State Museum "Burganov's House" will be opened by the bust of Andrei Tarkovsky.

In the city of Anapa, Krasnodar Territory, special services were released hostages captured by an unknown criminal. According to the Interfax agency, the criminal is killed. This afternoon, he stopped a minibus in which there were five passengers - women and a child. The criminal was armed with a torn.

The American authorities hope to get important operational information from one of the closest associates of Osama Bin Laden, captured in Pakistan and transferred to the United States. There is reason to believe that Abu Zubeyids coordinated the activities of the surviving members of the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization and developed plans for new terrorist attacks in the United States.

In the Japanese Sea last night, the Russian vessel Vadim Popov collided with the Chinese ship. According to Interfax, no one was injured. Both vessels received damage. The passengers of Vadim Popov are transferred aboard another Russian ship following to Vladivostok.

Mikhail Sokolov, Moscow: The centrist coalition of supporters of President Putin in the State Duma of Russia went to an agreement with the ATP and Yabloko. On Wednesday, it is planned to dismiss from the posts of the chairmen of the eight Duma committees of members of the fractions of the Communist Party and the agro-industrial group. The verdict is final, it is not subject to appeal. So it seems today.

Representatives of a number of leading countries of the world community agreed to coordinate assistance in creating security forces and law enforcement agencies of Afghanistan. At a meeting in Geneva, it was decided that the United States would provide the main help in the reconstruction of the armed forces and border units of Afghanistan. Germany takes on assistance in creating police units, and Italy will help restore justice.

In Afghanistan, the first 600 servicemen of the new Afghan army completed a training course under the leadership of Western military instructors. They will serve in the protection of the head of the temporary Afghan administration Hamid Karzai. Today, three hundred British troops arrived at the Bagram air base near Kabul - to participate in the operations of the anti -terrorist coalition forces against the Taliban and militants of Al -Qaeda.

Musa Khasanov, North Caucasus: One employee of the Grozny riot police died, two were injured in a radio -controlled landmine, laid down by Chechen saboteurs in the Leninsky district of Grozny. This was reported today in the interim headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Chechen Republic. Over the past day, more than five shelling at the places of temporary dislocations of army units and employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Chechen capital were made.