The complaint of victims of the terrorist attack on Dubrovka was registered in the Strasbourg court The claims of the former hostages of the Dubrovka Theater Center against the Moscow government will probably soon be considered by the European Court of Human Rights. The victims' lawyer Igor Trunov announced this yesterday.

Kramnik is stuck in the middle of the table, and Ponomarev is a complete outsider The super tournament in Wijk aan Zee crossed the equator. The main intermediate result after seven rounds: both official world champions are not shining yet. During the year of his voluntary absence from major tournaments, Vladimir Kramnik's style underwent certain adjustments.

Petr Svidler is striving for a fourth national champion medal The Russian Men's Chess Championship has entered the final phase. Like previous championships in the modern history of Russia, it is held according to the Swiss system, which makes it possible to determine the winner with a large number of participants in a small number of rounds.

In Ukraine, disputes continue over plans to create a single economic space (SES) with Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. For two days in a row, the Rada and the government have been picketing by representatives of national democratic forces who do not approve of the creation of the Common Economic Space.

The mayor of Moscow and the governor of the Moscow region will be elected together with the State Duma The Moscow City Duma decided yesterday to schedule elections for the mayor of Moscow, and the regional Duma for the governor of the Moscow region on December 7. Thus, the elections will be combined with parliamentary ones. And although the election campaign officially starts today, we can say with great confidence that no changes in the capital region should be expected from these elections.

Only the Bulgarian national team can save our volleyball players from shame At the European Men's Volleyball Championship in Germany, the Russian national team, led by head coach Gennady Shipulin, lost to the Dutch 0:3 (21:25, 25:27, 21:25) in the fourth round of the preliminary stage and put itself in an almost hopeless position. Now, in order to take second place in the group, the Russians must beat the Greeks today, while the outsiders of our six, the Bulgarians, must defeat the Dutch.

Indonesian terrorists celebrate the deaths of foreigners Yesterday, a court in the city of Denpasar on the Indonesian island of Bali sentenced 33-year-old programmer Imam Samudra to death. He was convicted of "planning, preparing and carrying out a terrorist attack" on the world-famous resort on October 12, 2002. The bombings killed 202 people that day, mostly young tourists from Australia and other Western countries.

Boris Berezovsky received political asylum in the UK Yesterday evening it became known that the British authorities decided to grant political asylum to Boris Berezovsky. This decision came as a surprise not only to the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office, which at the end of last year initiated the process of extraditing the entrepreneur, but also to those around Berezovsky himself. Mr. Berezovsky's lawyers received notification of his asylum from the Home Office (British Home Office - Ed.

The Duma will consider amendments to the law on compulsory motor liability insurance The Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) yesterday made an attempt to nip in the bud the pre-election bacchanalia surrounding the possible repeal of the law “On compulsory civil liability insurance of vehicle owners.” As you know, almost every party considers it its duty to play on the feelings of Russian motorists, making attempts to repeal or dilute the law.

Jean-Charles Brizard was one of the first to inform the world about the international financial network behind the al-Qaeda terrorists. Now this French financial and economic expert is the coordinator of the claim process for four thousand families affected by September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York. The lawsuit is brought against banks, charities and individuals involved in the preparation of terrorist attacks. In the coming days, Mr.

Freedom of Speech Defenders Dislike Russia Yesterday, Russian media learned that Russia ranks 121st in the new Western press freedom ranking. Ukraine was ahead - the former fraternal union republic had a more honorable 112th place. The authorship of this stunning ranking, which places the United States below Costa Rica and Italy below Benin, belongs to the French association Reporters Without Borders.

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Based on materials from news agencies and our own information President Congratulated Mustafa Batdyev on his official assumption of office as President of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic. “During the last elections, you received a high level of trust from your fellow countrymen,” the congratulation note states, in particular. - And to justify it is the most important task of the head of the regional executive branch.

Forecast for the coming days An anticyclone is heading towards the middle zone from the northwest, which will provide sunny weather without rain. Residents of the Leningrad, Pskov and Novgorod regions are not overjoyed at the weather, because “Indian summer” has come to them. The weather is gradually getting better in the central regions. If on Thursday afternoon it is only +13...+18oC, then on Friday it is expected to be +15...+20oC and no rain.

The Voentorg reconstruction project did not receive approval from the Moscow Architectural Council The project of replacing Voentorg with an obscure embodiment of the neo-imperial style as interpreted by Mikhail Posokhin Jr. has finally become the subject of discussion among the professional community. Yesterday, the architectural council of the Moskomarkhitektura, chaired by the chief architect of the capital, Alexander Kuzmin, reviewed the design materials presented by workshop No.