The Russian Newspaper - the printing authority of the government - has published an article today about monstrous violations in the Northern Fleet, led to the death of the Kursk submarine. An article based on the materials of the investigation, in particular, is said that the crew of Kursk had no experience of servicing and combat use of torpedoes. The explosion of one of them was officially called the cause of the death of the nuclear power plant.

Yesterday the 3rd qualification round of the Champions Football League ended. In the main grid of the tournament, the Moscow Lokomotiv and Kiev Dynamo made their way. Lokomotiv in Moscow tied with the Austrian "Graz" 3: 3, and the Dynamo in Kyiv defeated the players of the Bulgarian "Levski" 1: 0. Donetsk "Shakhtar" away repeated the result of the home match with the Belgian "Bruges" - a draw 1: 1.

Vladimir Morozov , New York: In America, you can not encounter a deficit so often, but there are areas where you have to pay your own life for such a clash. 86 thousand sick Americans are in line to receive organs for transplantation. Without waiting for the operation, 17 people die a day. Says Professor of the University of California Nancy Shepper-Huez: Nancy Shappper-Huez: When I was in Moldova, I spoke with several young people who sold their kidneys.

In the Tagan inter -municipal court of Moscow, hearings on the claim of the writer Vladimir Sorokin to the movement "going together" are resumed today. The writer and his defense are accused of activists of this movement of holding actions of which Sorokin accused of distributing pornography. At the same time, they, without coordination with the publishing house, distributed a collection with quotes from the works of Sorokin.

Flights of Finnish sea liners to Russia were canceled yesterday, as Moscow unexpectedly demanded that all passengers had visas. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland cannot yet explain why Russia suddenly canceled the visa-free regime for passengers of Finnish liners, which was introduced back in the 80s.

The terrorist organization of Osama Bin Laden al-Qaeda still has significant financial resources, the American newspaper Washington Post reports. The newspaper gives excerpts from a report prepared by a group of UN experts, which dealt with the issues of financing Al-Qaeda. According to them, the group continues to receive financial support from both Bin Laden himself and from commercial and charitable organizations in Muslim countries.

The 59th International Film Festival was opened in Venice. It began with a demonstration of the American film "Frida" about the Mexican artist-surrealist Frida Kalo. In total, 143 films will be shown, including 21 in the competition for the Golden Leo and 17 - to the new prize of San Marco in the contest “anti -stones”. The jury is headed by the Chinese actress Gon Lee, a former laureate of the festival competition in the category "Best Actress".

On Thursday, the Haifa Port returned to the Israeli port from Germany by the Qing Antwerp vessel and the investigation began, which would be designed to establish whether the Israeli Piat company, which received permission from the Ministry of Defense to the supply of strategic cargo to Thailand, intended to sell this load to the enemy state - Iran. This is, in particular, about rubber gaskets for caterpillars of armored personnel carriers M-113.

Iraq again rejected the requirements for the return of the UN military inspectors to the country. According to Iraq Vice President Tah, Yassin Ramadan, Baghdad does not see the point in the resumption of military inspections, since he believes that the United States will be struck in any case. Speaking in Damascus, Ramadan emphasized that Iraq is quite seriously about the US threats to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein.

The program is conducted by Peter Vile. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Moscow Karen Agamirov and the economic observer of the RS Ivan Trefilov participate.

Arkady Dubnov , Moscow: The attack on Sergey Duvanov occurred yesterday at about ten o’clock in the evening on the landing of his Alma-Ata house. When the journalist returning from work left the elevator, the attackers were already waiting for Duvanov and, grabbing hands, began to beat him with rubber batons. They beat professionally, trying not to leave traces - on the kidneys, on the liver, in the groin.

The program is conducted by Peter Vile. The Radio Liberty correspondent Yuri Bagrov and employees of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" Usam Baysaev and Natalya Estemirova participate. Peter Vail: The fighting in Chechnya is accompanied by the so -called "stripping" or "special operations for checking the passport regime", which Russian military conduct to search for Chechen fighters.

The program is the program Peter Weil. Olga Yukhnovskaya and Dmitry Volchek, who is talking with the leader of the Union of Muslim women, Gulnura Nurieva, participate. Peter Vail: The Supreme Court of Tatarstan did not satisfy the complaint of three local Muslims against the decision of the Republican Passport and Visa Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which prohibits them to be photographed on documents in headdresses.

In Yakutsk, 740 first -graders from low -income families received a school uniform for free. The Swede of the North, which made such a gift to children, cost 92 thousand rubles. The city authorities presented to future first -graders satchels with sets of written belongings. According to the city consumer market and services, to gather a first -grader to the school costs parents at least two thousand one hundred rubles.

President of Pakistan Perevez Musharraf believes that the US military operation against Iraq will cause an “extremely negative reaction” of the entire Islamic world. In today's interview, Bi See Musharraf, in particular, noted that if the United States strikes Iraq, Islamic extremist groups are sharply activated in Pakistan. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan also said that he considers it necessary to continue the dialogue with Baghdad about the return of the UN military inspectors to Iraq.