The last shot of the famous extremist Yesterday, the invisible man who could easily be called the "Bin Laden of the 80s" was declared dead. The best intelligence services in the world, primarily Israeli, were chasing the Palestinian extremist Abu Nidal. And now the Palestinian newspaper Al-Ayam reported that the 65-year-old “father of the struggle” (as the nickname Abu Nidal is translated from Arabic) was found dead in a private apartment in Baghdad on Monday night.

Dmitry Ayatskov has his own plans On August 21, a special plane with representatives of the government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, the Munitions Agency, and environmental public organizations departs from Moscow to the village of Gorny, Saratov Region. There will also be guests from Germany on board - the main sponsor of the chemical weapons destruction (CW) plant being built in the village.

Israel agrees with Palestinians to withdraw troops Israeli troops will leave the Gaza Strip and the city of Bethlehem on the West Bank. Representatives of the security forces of Israel and the Palestinian Authority agreed on this yesterday. The plan was based on an agreement reached on Sunday in Tel Aviv by Israeli Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer and Palestinian leaders.

Damaged Europe is trying to divide 5 billion euros Late on Sunday evening, the German cabinet devoted an emergency meeting to the problem of providing additional assistance to flood victims in Germany. It was primarily about the allocation of financial resources to communities and individuals.

The Moscow City Court yesterday, at the request of the Investigative Department of the FSB of the Russian Federation, extended until October 8 the period of detention of the Russian scientist Igor Sutyagin, accused of high treason.

LUKOIL and Itera promised to become Uzbek intelligence officers The Uzbekneftegaz company recently decided to remind its Russian partners, LUKOIL and Itera, that Tashkent is awaiting a production sharing agreement (PSA) in joint ventures to develop gas fields in the Bukhara-Khiva and Gissar regions of Uzbekistan. A source in the company recalled through ITAR-TASS that LUKOIL and Itera a year ago promised to invest $720 million in the exploration and development of Uzbek hydrocarbons.

The Russian premiere of the film “Oligarch” took place at the festival in Vyborg The word “oligarch” is not known in Europe, and if they do know, it is only in relation to Ancient Greece. Therefore, the film will be released in France under the title “New Russian”. In America, the picture could be called "Gangster".

Special services officers have established who committed the murder of the head of the administration of the village of Kalinovskaya, Naursky district of Chechnya, Khizar Dunaev, whose house was shelled on Monday night. According to the FSB, a gang of field commander Abu Malik is behind this crime. Hiding under this pseudonym is a certain Vitaly Smirnov, who joined the Wahhabis several years ago.

An Orthodox fair opened at the All-Russian Exhibition Center Two honey fairs are being held these days in Moscow. Along with the completely ordinary one, a special Orthodox church has also been opened in Kolomenskoye. An event with a long name “Orthodox Spaso-Preobrazhensk exhibition-fair “Honey Savior” is open at the All-Russian Exhibition Center. On the way from the main entrance to pavilion No.

External manager of MNVK accused of slowness The fate of Pavel Chernovalov as chairman of the liquidation commission of the Moscow Independent Broadcasting Corporation (MNVK) remains in question. On Monday, the Moscow Arbitration Court rejected the petition of minority shareholders - representatives of the LUKOIL-Garant pension fund, who demanded that Mr. Chernovalov be removed from office.

Russian military aviation suffered the largest losses in its history The heaviest losses, perhaps during the entire “second” Chechen campaign, were suffered yesterday by the federal forces. At about 5 pm, a military transport helicopter Mi-26 T crashed in the line of sight from the main Russian military base in Khankala, in the vicinity of Grozny, with, according to various sources, from 115 to 132 people on board. According to the very first estimates, at least 75 people died in the disaster.

Football. German Championship. 2nd round. Werder - Hamburg - 2:1, Wolfsburg - Borussia M - 1:0, Bayer - Borussia D - 1:1, Bayern - " Arminia" - 6:2, "Bochum" - "Energi" - 5:0, "Hannover" - "Munich 1860" - 1:2, "Hansa" - "Nuremberg" - 2:0 , Hertha - Stuttgart - 1:1, Kaiserslautern - Schalke - 1:3. In the match between the champion and vice-champion of Germany, Bayer - Borussia, the home team could have secured victory in the first half.

Kim Jong Il is interested in Russian weapons The “favorite leader” of the North Koreans, Kim Jong Il, begins his third visit to Russia today. At first, Far Eastern plenipotentiary Konstantin Pulikovsky will accompany him on his trip around the region. According to the plan, the train of Comrade Kim, who, as you know, prefers rail transport, after a short stop in Khasan, was supposed to go to Komsomolsk-on-Amur (Khabarovsk Territory).

A thousand Taliban prisoners died from suffocation In the north of Afghanistan, near Shibergan, mass graves were discovered. Most of the remains belong to the Taliban, who surrendered in thousands to the Northern Alliance in November last year near Kunduz. According to the UN, 960 people were buried in the mass grave. Physicians for Human Rights were the first to learn about the tragedy when they visited the Shibergan prison.

The Ministry of Transport is looking for access to the sea On Monday, it was not possible to resume navigation along the Neva, which was stopped after the cargo ship Kaunas crashed into a support of the Liteiny Bridge in the very center of St. Petersburg last Friday and sank, blocking the fairway and paralyzing river transit. 350 dry cargo ships and river-sea tankers, stuck at berths from the Volga and Cherepovets to the Gulf of Finland, are still forced to wait for the fairway to be cleared.