Secretary of the Security Council of Russia Vladimir Rushailo began a working trip to Siberia. On Monday evening he arrived in Irkutsk. As RIA "Novosti" was informed in the administration of the Irkutsk region, on September 2, an interdepartmental meeting on the problems of environmental protection and ensuring environmental safety in the territories of the federal subjects of the Baikal region will be held here.

The court of the North Caucasian Military District in Rostov-on-Don released Artur Arakelyan, head of the Mozdok military hospital, on bail. about this Writes "Kommersant". Arakelyan was released on health grounds. The officer who fell ill with bilateral pneumonia will remain in the hospital. When health permits, he will move home. Lieutenant Colonel Arakelyan was arrested the day after the explosion of the hospital.

In the village of Gorki Chirikovy, Ivanovo region, an emergency occurred: a MAZ fuel truck overturned. As RIA "Novosti" was informed in the Information Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, 15 tons of gasoline leaked from the damaged tank. Part of the fuel got into the Teza River, which flows into the Klyazma. Booms have been installed downstream of the Teza, and work is underway to collect and neutralize spilled gasoline.

Russian-Norwegian exercises "Barents-2003" began in the Barents Sea, RIA Novosti reports. As reported on Tuesday at the Marine Rescue Coordination Center of the port of Murmansk, the purpose of the exercises is to work out joint actions to rescue the crews of ships in distress. Helicopters and vessels of the Norwegian Coast Guard, the Northern Fleet, the fishing and commercial ports of Murmansk are taking part in the exercises.

On September 2, RBC Information Systems OJSC launches Russia's first television channel for business people - RBC-TV. This is reported by the RBC agency. According to Yury Rovensky, Chairman of the Board of RBC, RBC-TV is the only business channel in Russia that will cover the situation on the Russian and international financial markets on a daily basis.

On the night of Tuesday, the head of the administration of the village of Chechen-Aul Saipudi Tsitsaev was killed in the Grozny region, Interfax reports. "About between 3-4 o'clock in the morning, a group of armed men in masks and camouflage uniforms broke into Tsitsaev's house. They shot the head of the administration and disappeared," the press center of the republic's Interior Ministry told the agency. The task force went to the scene of the crime.

Last weekend in Moscow, a Jew with sidelocks was removed from advertising posters of the Moscow fair complex. According to Kommersant , his image was closed with a question mark. We are talking about 6 posters with the slogan "'Moscow' works on Saturdays". Religious organizations and human rights activists have been protesting against them since spring, because such advertising, in their opinion, offends the feelings of the Jews.

The retrial in the case of the murder of Dmitry Kholodov has been interrupted until September 23, RIA Novosti reports. A break was announced due to the illness of one of the defendants. Yelena Tomashevskaya, a lawyer defending the main defendant, Pavel Popovskikh, the former head of the intelligence department of the Airborne Forces, told the agency that her client was admitted to the Burdenko hospital on September 1.

A dozen and a half settlements in North Ossetia with a population of about 150,000 inhabitants were left without gas on Tuesday.

Roman Abramovich. Photo from the site www.moscowtimes.ru The owner of the London Chelsea Roman Abramovich is ready to spend another 100 million pounds on strengthening the team, BBC reports. The purchase of Claude Makelel from Madrid Real Madrid for 16 million pounds brought the total amount spent on new players to 111 million. Sources close to management claim that this is not the end: a new money rain is ahead.

The United States is preparing to deploy a missile defense system over Japan as early as 2004 amid threats from North Korea, RBC reports citing Kyodo News. An American warship equipped with SM-3 interceptors and an improved version of the Aegis radar system will appear in Japanese territorial waters. It will help Japan counter the threats of North Korea before building its own missile defense system, which is possible only in a few years.

Photo by ar The Bush administration, when raising funds to restore the Iraq economy, came across unexpected problems. According to Washington Post, many countries stubbornly refuse to help Iraq, because they are not sure that the situation in this country is stable, that their funds will be safe, as well as since they are unhappy with the leadership of the United States in this process. Especially the situation was aggravated after the explosion of the UN representative office in Baghdad.

Valery Karpin has confirmed that he will not play for the Russian national team, reports Sport-Express . He made this decision back in March. The headquarters of the national team has already received a notification from Karpin. "From the bottom of my heart I wish the team good luck in the remaining qualifying matches. I hope Russia will be able to win a ticket to Portugal," the Celta striker kindly wishes.

Abdullah Ben Abdel Aziz Al Saud and Vladimir Putin. Grani.ru collage The world's largest manufacturers and exporters of oil, Russia and Saudi Arabia, within the framework of the first official meeting of the heads of state, signed an agreement in the field of oil and gas on Tuesday, Reuters reports.

Due to heavy rain in Moscow, 24 sections of roads were flooded, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to Interfax. According to the traffic police, by morning, most of the flooding was eliminated. At 8:00 a.m., problems remained at the intersection of 3rd Energeticskaya Street and 1st Kursantsky Proyezd, Rusakovskaya Embankment, as well as at the intersection of Vernadsky Avenue and Lobachevsky Street. At the metro station "Prospect Vernadskogo" a leak formed in the back room.