The UN Security Council again demanded from Yugoslavia today - to implicitly fulfill his resolutions on cooperation with the Hague tribunal. Today it became known that the prosecutors of the Hague Tribunal were accused of Belgrade of concealing important documents in the case of the former president of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevich. We are talking about materials that relate to the actions of the Yugoslav army and the police in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo in the 90s.

The host of the St. Petersburg hour of the Liberty Live program Viktor Rezunkov : Today we will talk about journalists, their rights and obligations, about what the journalist should be guided by, illuminating the events in the war or terrorist acts. Our guest is the chairman of the St. Petersburg Union of Journalists Vladimir Gryryumov. Vladimir Borisovich, tell a few words about your Union - the Union of Journalists, how many members, what do you do, and so on?

General Gennady Troshev, by decree of the President of Russia, was released from the duties of the commander of the troops of the North Caucasus District. Earlier, Troshev said that he refused to go to another place of work and head the Siberian Military District. Public discussion of orders is unacceptable, ”the presidential press service notes. Colonel General Vladimir Boldyrev was appointed commander of the North Caucasus District.

The American Giant Insurance Corporation Conseco has announced bankruptcy - the third largest in American history. The company's debts are 6 and a half billion dollars. Despite the bankruptcy procedure, Consecorates will continue insurance payments. The bankruptcy guide is called the previous management of the company, which made large inappropriate expenses.

Donor countries intend to allocate 2 millard dollars to Afghanistan next year - almost seven hundred million more planned. According to Vidar Helgesen, State Secretary of Norway, the public secretary of Norway, the exact dimensions of assistance will be known when the donor countries will approve their budgets for the next year.

The Russian State Duma sent the US Congress a proposal to expand cooperation in the field of eliminating chemical weapons. According to Moscow, without Washington’s financial assistance, Russia will not fulfill its obligations to disarm. In 1997, countries agreed on the complete destruction of Russian chemical ammying until 2007. In 1999, the American Congress imposed a moratorium on financing the Russian program, accusing Moscow of selling weapons to Iraq and Libya.

In Irkutsk, a series of custom -made killings has been committed today - with an interval of half an hour shot four people. Among the dead is the famous businessman Oleg Khrushchev in the city. The other day, another loud crime was committed in Irkutsk - the well -known entrepreneur Pavel Kiselev was killed in criminal circles. Six more people died with him.

Nine Palestinians, including two militants of the Fath group, were injured today in clashes with Israeli troops in the city of Nabluz on the western coast of Jordan. The Palestinians threw stones at the Israeli patrol, after which they began to shoot at the military who opened the fire.

US President George Bush said the missile defense system will be partially deployed by 2004. As Bush said, this is necessary to protect against possible attacks from terrorists or such "storm countries" as North Korea. According to Bush, the project will begin with the placement of missiles and other components about on the ground, at sea and in space.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia recognized the facts of numerous requisitions and the oppression of civilians on checkpoints in Chechnya. As the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Boris Gryzlov, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Chechnya, said today, only last month, 45 police officers were convicted of such offenses. In five cases, criminal cases were instituted against police officers.

In Tehran, representatives of the European Union handed over to the Iranian authorities a list of specific violations of human rights in the country - especially egregious, from the point of view of the EU. The list lists specific cases indicating the names of the perpetrators. The question was raised in the framework of dialogue about the expansion of trade ties between Iran and the European Union.

The UN experts examined today at least 9 Iraqi military facilities - in search of weapons of mass destruction. Inspectors visited the military unit 40 kilometers north of Baghdad, where there is a platform for launching missiles. Experts visited the factory for the production of paint south of the capital, at the Faculty of Faculty of University of Mosul and at other facilities.

Search work at the place of gathering of the glacier in the Genaldom Gorge will continue, despite the great risk to the life of rescuers. According to RIA Novosti, the president of North Ossetia, Alexander Dzasokhov, explained this decision - contrary to the conclusions of a special commission - by numerous requests of relatives of those who have not been able to find yet. In the gorge, where the glacier came down on September 20, the bodies of 19 dead were found, another 108 people are missing.

In Tokyo, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov is discussing today with the Japanese leadership of a crisis around the North Korean nuclear program and the problem of combating international terrorism. Negotiations are held as part of the preparation of the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Dzyunitiro Koizumi to Moscow, scheduled for January.

Great Britain and the USA believe that Iraq has not fulfilled obligations - to provide the UN with comprehensive information about its military programs. According to the British Foreign Minister Jack Stri, even during the preliminary study in the report presented by Baghdad, many gaps were discovered, in particular, in matters relating to weapons of mass destruction.