Palestinian extremists use Bin Laden's work Israel will not carry out a massive military retaliation for the terrorist attack by Palestinian extremists near Hadera, but, according to Haaretz, it retains the right to “targeted” a response to the actions of terrorists “at a time and in a place that will serve its interests.” The army and police are on high alert. The regime of strict isolation of Palestinian cities in the West Bank has resumed.

Part of the center of St. Petersburg was cut off yesterday due to a large fire at a transformer substation located on Vasilyevsky Island. At about 5 p.m., a fire broke out in a nearby residential building, and the flames spread to the power facility. Transformer oil containers caught fire. This kind of fire is almost impossible to extinguish. Residents of neighboring houses, driven by fire, were evacuated.

The State Council will discuss local government reform today Yesterday, Vladimir Putin called the reform of local self-government “one of the most difficult and conflict-ridden issues of state construction,” when opening a meeting of the Presidium of the State Council. The meeting was devoted exclusively to this reform, and today the problems of division of powers between the three levels of government will be considered by the State Council itself. The meeting promises to be hot.

In the Omsk region, the military settles accounts with power engineers with their property Such an unprecedented agreement was reached during negotiations between the general director of the Omskenergo company, Alexander Antropenko, and the head of the Omsk garrison, Major General Andrei Shvaichenko. Now the Ministry of Defense owes Omskenergo JSC more than 33 million rubles.

In Kaliningrad, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov checked the work of not only local officials, but also his own ministers. However, the Minister of Economic Development German Gref, responsible for this Baltic exclave, did not make a report to the Prime Minister.

“Those who walk together” visited the leader in his Mausoleum As in the best Soviet times, a dense line of visitors lined up yesterday morning at the Mausoleum of V.I. Lenin. The “head” of the queue consisted of several thousand cheerful pensioners, and the rear were boys and girls from the “Walking Together” movement. Both old and young visitors to Lenin were placed in a column of two by police and security guards of the “Coming” right at the foot of the Kutafya Tower.

These days, the Russian State Council, under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, is discussing a draft law providing for a serious decentralization of power in the country. Interestingly, this trend is typical for most European countries today. And for French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin this is his strong point. How can we explain this pandemic of regionalization and decentralization that has hit Europe?

Andrey Kazmin insists that his bank needs a separate account in the guarantee system Sberbank of Russia intends to seek individual benefits from financial authorities when joining the deposit guarantee system. According to the head of the bank, Andrey Kazmin, Sber should receive the right to a separate cash account in the general deposit insurance fund, from which compensation will be paid to depositors.

Nepalese film actress hanged herself because of journalists In the Kingdom of Nepal, filmmakers have begun to fight against yellow journalism. The reason was the fate of the young actress Srisha Karki. A rising movie star committed suicide. And this happened immediately after her nude photograph was published in the weekly Jana Astha. In addition, journalists richly described the star’s private life, claiming that she was involved in prostitution.

Regions will again have access to the external borrowing market Soon, next year, Russian regions may once again gain the right to borrow abroad not only to refinance old debts, but also to implement certain economic projects. This will happen if a new edition of the Budget Code is adopted, which the Ministry of Finance is preparing to submit to the government by the end of the year.

The former head of Gazprom-Media reappeared in the life of Evgeniy Kiselev’s team The conflict between the shareholders of Channel Six is ​​dragging on. The meeting of the board of directors, at which yesterday it was supposed to elect the chairman of the board and, possibly, re-elect the general director of the channel, was cancelled. Formally, due to lack of quorum.

The RAO UES of Russia strategy development group was unable to answer all questions RAO UES of Russia is looking for an answer to the question of which assets cannot be sold during the reform of the holding.

The lower house of the British Parliament, in the third reading, overwhelmingly approved a bill to deprive tobacco companies of the opportunity to sponsor sporting events held in the United Kingdom since 2003. According to the bill, since 2006, British tobacco companies cannot be title sponsors even of those sports competitions held abroad, including Formula 1.

The second trial in the case of the SBS-Agro loan In the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow yesterday, a retrial of the deputy head of the Central Bank's main territorial administration for Moscow, Alexander Alekseev, began. He is again accused of exceeding his official powers when issuing a stabilization loan to SBS-Agro Bank in 1998. After the August crisis, a number of banks found themselves in a difficult situation, and the Central Bank decided to support some.

Customs intends to spend $140 million on rearmament When passing through customs, many people do not even suspect that technology today allows customs officers to look into the most intimate places of a person, and inside a car wheel, and under an ink stain that has “flooded” a photograph in a passport. Special equipment for customs can be seen this week at the Customs Service exhibition.