Former head of North Ossetia Alexander Dzasokhov testified at Kulaev's trial Yesterday, one of the important witnesses in the case of the only surviving participant in the seizure of Beslan school No. 1, Nurpashi Kulaev, spoke at the Supreme Court of North Ossetia. Relatives of the hostages have long sought the appearance of the former leader of the republic, Alexander Dzasokhov, in court.

According to the official version, the massacre in the synagogue was carried out by a self-taught nationalist Today, as expected, the court will decide on the preventive measure for 20-year-old Muscovite Alexander Koptsev, who committed a massacre in the capital's Agudat Hassidei Chabad synagogue on Bolshaya Bronnaya Street on Wednesday evening. Considering the huge resonance that this emergency caused, there is no doubt that he will be arrested.

The attack on the Moscow synagogue on Bolshaya Bronnaya caused a wide political resonance in Russia. Vremya Novostei correspondent Ksenia VERETENNIKOVA asked representatives of various parties how strong xenophobia is in Russia. Vladimir PEKHTIN, first deputy head of the United Russia faction in the State Duma: -- The State Duma is concerned about the situation related to the daring attack of a criminal armed with a knife on visitors to the synagogue on Bolshaya Bronnaya Street in Moscow.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Rospotrebnadzor do not recommend traveling to Turkey The bird crisis in Turkey, as expected, has created an extremely nervous situation in the Russian tourism business. People who have already purchased vouchers are trying to sell them back to tour operators and return the money or exchange them for a voucher to some safer place.

City Hall will continue to remove snow from the streets even in summer Having found a relatively painless way for Muscovites to deal with illegally parked cars that interfere with the mechanized clearing of snow from the streets, the Moscow authorities seem to have decided to turn tow trucks into the main tool for solving the transport problems of the metropolis.

Yesterday morning, another mysterious story happened with the former leader of the RNU, Alexander Barkashov, who is now under arrest. According to his lawyer Yuri Kachan, on Thursday morning two unknown people beat up Barkashov’s wife. In early December 2005, Barkashov was arrested for attacking an operative of the Organized Crime Control Department, whom he suspected of spying on his house in the village of Sennitsy-2 near Moscow.

According to experts, the pool in the city of Chusovoy was destroyed by builders and owners Yesterday, representatives of the technical commission of the Perm Territory administration, which was investigating the causes of the tragedy in the Dolphin swimming pool in the city of Chusovoy on December 4 last year, announced the completion of their work. Then, as a result of the collapse of the pool roof, 14 people died, including ten children.

Russia and Belarus are moving away from each other Fiery speeches made last September at the economic forum of Belarus and Russia spoke of extraordinary successes and “closer than ever” integration. However, it was in 2005 that it became obvious that in reality there was a process of divergence of the economies of both countries. The geo-economic orientation of Minsk is changing. Essentially, Belarus is leaving Russia.

In the Khabarovsk Territory, the benzene crisis gave way to a fuel oil crisis No sooner had the passions for the benzene stain that traveled along the Amur River as a result of a chemical accident at a Chinese plant died down than new tests befell the Khabarovsk Territory. Almost 30 thousand residents of six suburban villages located in the vicinity of Khabarovsk were left without heat after the New Year holidays.