In the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny on Thursday, an army tractor was blown up on a radio -controlled landmine. Three troops were injured. In the Itum-Kalinsky district in the Kerigo gorge on the same day, an outfit of Russian border guards discovered an unknown group of 12 people moving deep into the territory of Chechnya. The military inflicted an artillery blow to the proposed area of their whereabouts.

The Afghan airline "Ariana" resumed flights to Europe on Wednesday after a 20-year break. Western European countries banned the landing of Afghan aircraft at their airports after the invasion of Soviet troops in Afghanistan. The airliner took a flight from Kabul through Damascus and Istanbul to Frankfurt. There were ten passengers, representatives of the Afghan Ministry of Civil Aviation and the President of the airline Jached Azimi on board.

About 50 employees of the Intugol enterprise contacted the Pension Fund management due to the insolvency of their enterprise. Shakhters who have already earned the necessary experience do not receive pensions, since in 2002 the Intajolership company did not transfer contributions to the Pension Fund and its employees were not charged. In the Penza region, from October 1, tariffs for using telephone communications are increasing by 15 percent.

Amina Azimov , Grozny: the program with the participation of Aslan Maskhadov and the recently appointed commander of all combat operations on the territory of Ichkeria Shamil Basayeva was broadcast on the Ren-TV channel, unexpectedly blocked the signal of this channel, which has been broadcast by the so-called local TV channel for several months, specializing in musical congratulations and the so-called local TV channel and show of Indian films.

The program is being conducted by Andrei Shari. Radio Radio Freedom Lyubov Chizhov and Maxim Yaroshevsky participate. Andrei Shary: The head of the Main Directorate for the Combating of Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Alexander Ovchinnikov, said on this day that the investigation did not have data about who abducted the first vice president of the LUKOIL oil company Sergei Kukur.

The United States continues intensive advice on the problem of Iraq. US Secretary of State Paulin Powell will perform today at a meeting of one of the Committee of the House of Representatives of the American Congress, and then meet with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Igor Ivanov. Washington, having information that Iraq is developing weapons of mass defeat, insists on the adoption of a new tough resolution on the UN Security Council on Baghdad disarmament.

In Moscow, attacks on foreigners do not stop. Last night in the subway car between the pure ponds and Lubyanka stations, two young people were beaten by citizens of China and a resident of Buryatia. The Chinese was hospitalized. Around the same time, three young people were brutally beaten by a citizen of India, who was also taken to the hospital on the same stage. All the attackers are detained. The possible belonging of hooligans to skinheads is clarified.

In the Pakistani city of Karachi, seven Islamic extremes were arrested, including one of the suspects in organizing two terrorist attacks. The police said that she was looking for Shariba Zubair in connection with two terrorist attacks in Karachi this summer. In May, with an explosion at the Scheraton hotel, 11 Frenchmen and three Pakistanis were killed, and in June 12 people died as a result of the explosion at the US consulate.

The performances of the Dresden Opera Theater were temporarily transferred to the premises of the Volkswagen Automobile Plant. The opera building, built in the 19th century, was seriously injured during the recent severe flood in Germany. It is not yet clear how long it will take to restore it. The new season in one of the premises of the Volkswagen plant, Dresden Opera Theater will open on October 26 the Georges Bizeta opera.

The UN International Tribunal in The Hague officially accused the former chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Croatia, General Yanko Bobetko, of the former head of the General Staff. The tribunal turned to the government of Croatia with a request to organize a meeting of his representatives with the general - to give him an indictment. Vice Prime Minister Croatia Goran Gradich personally informed the general about this request.

In the southern regions of Kamchatka, a powerful cyclone with a squallwood wind and showers, which came from the coast of Japan, fell on the southern regions of Kamchatka. In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a storm warning was announced in Ust-Bolshertsky and Elizovsky districts. Classes in schools are canceled. Courts are forbidden to leave the ports. The peak of cyclone is expected on the night of Friday.

Georgy Kobaladze , Tbilisi: the Minister of Defense of Georgia David Tevzadze very harshly commented on the latest statements by his Russian colleague Sergei Ivanov about the application of preventive blows to Georgia: not quite, let's say, a censorship, which General Tevzadze used, can be translated as follows: "Let him only try." Meanwhile, from the sources in the Ministry of Defense of Georgia, it became known that several missiles of the Earth-Army available to the Georgian Army were

The United States has the data that over the past two months, cases of the penetration of Islamic extremists from Pakistan into the Indian part of Kashmir have significantly increased. This was announced today by the US Ambassador to India Robert Blackville. The American ambassador expressed the hope that Pakistan President Perevez Musharraf would hold back the word and put an end to the separatists.

Poland rejected the proposal of the European Union - to introduce special passes for the transit of Russians between the Kalinigrad region and other regions of Russia through Polish territory. The European Union proposed a similar measure in order to facilitate the trips of Russian citizens through Poland and Lithuania after these countries joined the EU. However, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Poland said that since July next year, such a trip would need a visa that will cost 10-12 euros.

Natalya Golitsyna , London: On Thursday, the international film festival entitled "Film Seson of New Europe" starts in the Barbican Center of London, which presented films of the Candidate countries in the European Union. The organizer of the festival is the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs.