Sergey Kuznetsov , Last week, the Vietnamese authorities decided to restore order in the music industry. The method of restoring order was chosen by traditional: articles in the press. Perhaps they are followed by seats, but the world public (represented by the Reuters agency) has not yet been informed about them. This time, this time were not politically non-wounded authors, but local pop stars, which, from the point of view of the authorities, began to earn too much.

[08/31/1999, 17:14:05] Earthquake in Turkey In the north-west of Turkey, where a destructive earthquake occurred on August 17, which led to the deaths of more than 14 thousand people, today an underground impetus was recorded by a force of 5.2 points on the Richter scale. Its epicenter, as before, was in the city of Izmit, reported by the seismological observatory of the University of Bosphorus. According to BBC, one person died, 70 were injured.

[31.08.1999, 14:37:53] By decree of the President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, changes were made to the existing structure of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, approved in July last year.

[08/31/1999, 17:19:15] This morning in the areas of the Dagestan villages of Chabanmakhi and Karamakhi, active combat operations of the units of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs resumed. As Interfax was told in the temporary press center of the United Group of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in Dagestan, they meet strong fire resistance from extremists.

[08/31/1999, 21:26:18] In the hall of slot machines in the third tier of the Okhotny Ryad underground complex on Manezhnaya Square in the center of Moscow, a powerful explosion thundered at about 20:00. According to the Moscow FSB, which refers to the RIA Novosti agency, at least four people were killed, 20 people were injured. However, an updated assessment of the number of victims as a result of this explosion can reach a hundred people.

[08/31/1999, 15:11:53] The Hackers Unite hacker group, previously unknown to anyone, took responsibility for the distribution of code, hacking the world-appropriate service of free e-mail Hotmail. The code that opens the "hole" in the Hotmail security system began to be distributed on Sunday, and on Monday, the Swedish newspaper Expressen reported.

[08/31/1999, 05:29:20] The Moscow company Gallup Media, which completed the next stage of its project to measure the number of an Internet audience in the Russian capital last month, evaluates the total number of users addressing the network at least once a month, at 57,8100 people (Monthly Reach). This is 8.2% of the adult population of the capital. As part of the Gallup Net study, 7750 Muscovites at the age of 16 and older were interviewed during the March-July of this year.

[08/31/1999, 15:28:06] The general ceremony of the post of head of the republic of the general, apparently, will not take place. Vladimir Semenov is located in Moscow, where, together with the leaders of the federal center, he is trying to find a way out of the situation. It is expected that today in the afternoon the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will meet with the elected head of Karachay-Cherkessia Vladimir Semenov.

[31.08.1999, 14:49:21] On Monday, the director of the Department of Foreign Relations of the International Monetary Fund, Thomas Dawson, held a selector press conference, at which he said that there are absolutely no evidence of the Participation of the IMF funds in operations conducted through the Bank of New York, although the IMF "very seriously" refers to such accusations.

[08/31/1999, 20:36:35] Katya Mitkina, Sergey Buntman, Julia Mosienko Radio station "Echo of Moscow" Until the first of January 2000, it remained ... one hundred and twenty-three days For some, this day was not only the last day of summer, but also life. On August 31, 1997, the car of Princess Diana Wales, the “Queen of Human Hearts”, in particular, the hearts of her lover Dodi al-Faeda crashed into a tunnel support.

[08/31/1999, 16:40:42] ZDNN (Reuters) European consumers welcome the online revolution, which will lead to a decrease in the cost of walks on the Internet and make it possible to access the web through TVs and mobile phones.

Today, the regional center of Sakhalin and Kurirus received the status of a focus of cholera spread. According to ITAR-TASS with reference to the press center of the administration of the Sakhalin Region, 5 citizens are already located in the medical institutions of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, and in two of them the disease takes place in medium-treacherous form.