Today, mourning events are held in Russia dedicated to the memory of passengers of the aircraft of the Russian airline Siberia, shot down a year ago by mistake by the Ukrainian missile over the Black Sea. In Sochi, the relatives of the dead will lower wreaths in the sea at the site of the fall of the wreckage of the aircraft. In Novosibirsk there will be a mourning memorial service near the memorial, opened at the end of September at one of the city cemeteries.

In the US Congress, debates under the draft resolution are held, which gives the president the right to apply force against Iraq. On Wednesday, the document was agreed by George Bush with the leaders of the House of Representatives of the American Congress. Some lawmakers believe that the president should resort to a military operation only if diplomatic means of solving the problem are exhausted.

On the football fields of Europe, the return meetings of the first round of the UEFA Cup were held. Both Russian clubs dropped out of the struggle, missing the decisive goals at the last minutes of matches. The St. Petersburg "Zenith" on his field played with the Zurich "Grasshoppers" and already by the 20th minute led-2-0 after two accurate strikes by Alexander Kerzhakov.

In Afghanistan, American military personnel discovered and neutralized a large warehouse of explosives. The military representative said that several hundred bombs were found in the line of a dried river near the city of Kandahar. For their destruction, 15 thousand kilograms of explosives were used.

India today has implemented the trial launch of the Earth -ATOSHROUK missile - a few hours after missile tests in Pakistan. Earlier today, Delhi condemned the tests of the ballistic missile conducted by Islamabad, characterizing them as a propaganda trick on the eve of the universal elections in Pakistan this week.

Peter Vail: The Man of Radio Liberty Day is October 3rd-former President of Poland, former leader of the Polish independent union "Solidarity", Nobel laureate of the world Lech Valens, who will in the near future become the leading talk show about fishing. Leh Valens was born in 1943 in the village of Popovo in northern Poland. He graduated from a professional. For 20 years he worked as an electrician of the Academy of Sciences of a shipyard.

Peter Vail: In Yekaterinburg, a seminar on the problems of interaction between state power and the media completed work. In his speech, the chief of information department under the President of Russia Sergey Yastrzhembsky set out the main directions of state policy in this area in the regions. From Yekaterinburg, Evgeny Nazaret is transmitted. Evgenia Nazarets: The creation of a single information space in Russia is a political and one of the main goals of the current Russian government.

In Georgia, several suspects were detained in involvement in the abduction of the British businessman Peter Show. This was announced on Friday by reporters by the head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia Paata Gomelauri. The surnames of the suspects and the circumstances of their arrest are still unknown. The fate of the British businessman is not reported. Peter Show was abducted by a group of armed persons in June this year in Tbilisi.

A number of opposition parties in Moldova called on Russia, as the successor of the USSR, to pay compensation to Moldovan citizens who suffered during the years of Stalin's repressions. As stated in an appeal sent by the Russian leadership, Moscow should follow the example of Germany, fulfilling its obligations to the victims of fascism.

Denmark, which now presides in the European Union, warned of the possibility of an unprecedented crisis in the EU - if voters in Ireland will again vote against the expansion of the European Union. Last year, Irish voters have already voted at a referendum against an agreement on admission to the European Union of twelve new members. A repeated referendum on this issue is scheduled in Ireland on October 19.

The US authorities accused five Americans and one foreigner of trying to take part in the hostilities in Afghanistan on the side of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda terrorists. US Minister of Justice, John Ashcroft, said that last year, a month after the attacks of September 11, some of the suspects tried to go to Afghanistan through China, however, the Chinese authorities prevented them from doing this. So far, only four people were arrested in this case, two more could not be detained.

The Central Election Commission of Russia today approved the results of the governor's elections in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, where Alexander Khloponin won on September 22. Thus, the decision of the Krasnoyarsk regional election commission was canceled, which on October 2 recognized the results of the elections invalid-due to the alleged violations.

The decision of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin - to cancel the decree of Boris Yeltsin on the creation of the Moscow Bureau "Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty" - will not affect the coverage of events in Russia. This was stated by the president of the radio station Thomas Dain. He expressed the hope that the decree of Vladimir Putin does not narrow the possibilities for Radio Liberty to act in Russia along with representations of other foreign media.

The Moscow City Court today recognized the refusal of the Russian Ministry of Justice to register the Liberal Russia party. Thus, the Moscow City Court confirmed the decision of the lower court. A request to register the party to the Ministry of Justice was asked by the Liberal Russia movement, whose co -chairs are the State Duma deputy Sergei Yushenkov and the famous entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky.

British citizen Richard Reed found himself guilty of an attempt to blow up a plane that made a flight from Paris in Miami in December. The trial of it began today in the USA. Reed said that he was a follower of Osama Bin Laden, the leader of the Al -Qaeda International Terrorist Organization. On December 22, on board the aircraft of the Airpower Erins, Reed tried to drive an explosive device hidden in boots. Passengers managed to neutralize the terrorist.