A native of Azerbaijan, suspected of involvement in a terrorist attack in the city of Kaspiysk, was detained in the Tula region, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Department of Internal Affairs for the Tula Region.

On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed documents pardoning 11 convicted citizens. As RIA Novosti was informed by the press service of the head of state, four women and seven men will be released ahead of schedule. All women have infants kept in orphanages. The majority of men have no previous convictions, are characterized positively by the administration of correctional institutions, and have already served more than half of their sentence. Most of them are seriously ill.

The United States on Sunday vetoed a resolution continuing the UN peacekeeping mission in Bosnia, AP reports. The decision came after the Security Council announced that American peacekeepers would fall under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, which begins on July 1. Members of the Security Council on Monday night will try to pass another resolution extending the mandate of the Bosnian peacekeepers for the next six months.

The Russian Ministry of Finance transferred more than 1 billion rubles to the southern regions affected by the flood. As First Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Ulyukaev told the Interfax news agency , 750 million rubles were transferred to the regions as advance transfers and 350 million as budget loans. According to the deputy minister, work is being completed on a government resolution on the procedure for paying compensation to affected citizens.

The rating of the influence of Russian politicians in June 2002 is given on July 1 on the website of Nezavisimaya Gazeta . According to the online version of the newspaper, this rating was compiled based on the results of a survey commissioned by NG by the public opinion research center "Voice of the People" from June 18 to 24 in 13 largest cities in Russia. Experts from Moscow, St.

The Supreme Court of Russia refused to accept Grigory Pasko, Alexander Nikitin and Viktor Kalyadin's appeal against the order of the Russian Ministry of Defense containing a list of information subject to classification in the Armed Forces. As the online publication Kommersant.Ru reports , the court decision states that the order of the Ministry of Defense is not a normative legal act, and therefore the court is deprived of the opportunity to consider the applicants’ complaints.

The grand opening of the monument to the Russian commander and hero of the War of 1812 Barclay de Tolly took place in Riga. The monument to the Field Marshal first appeared in Riga in October 1913, on the centenary of the Patriotic War of 1812, but was soon dismantled. The former bronze statue by the German sculptor Wilhelm Wandschneider has not survived to this day.

The congress of the Chechen teip Yalkhoi took place on June 19-23 in Baku, according to the website of the head of the Chechen inter-teip association "Nokhchi-Latta-Islam" Khozh-Akhmed Nukhaev. The congress, which was held behind closed doors, was attended by 52 delegates - representatives of clans included in the Yalkhoi teip and, as guests, delegates from another 27 teips.

Natalya Petrovna Bilikhodze, who pretended to be the daughter of the last Russian emperor, Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, died in December 2000 in the Central Clinical Hospital.

Osama bin Laden was alive at least as late as late December last year. According to Time magazine, a letter from the al-Qaeda leader, dated late December, was found in the papers of bin Laden's captured aide Abu Zubaydah. A handwritten message is a kind of guide to action. In it, Osama bin Laden convinces his assistant to continue the fight against the United States even if something happens to bin Laden himself.

Yuri Sukhanov, who was elected president of Slavneft on May 13, 2002, was not allowed into the company’s office on July 1. As the NTV television company reports , all other Slavneft employees entered the office without hindrance. Moreover, Mikhail Gutseriev, who was dismissed from the post of president of the company by decision of the meeting of shareholders of the company on May 13, 2002, is also located in the company building.

On Monday, militants from the terrorist group Hezbollah fired at Israeli Air Force planes, The Jerusalem Post reports. According to eyewitnesses, Israeli planes were making a reconnaissance flight over the southern regions of Lebanon when they were fired upon by Hezbollah air defense systems. The planes were not damaged. Shrapnel fragments damaged the wedding hall of Kiryat Shemona. There are also no reports of casualties.

Speaking with the last word in court, Colonel Yuri Budanov, accused of murdering the Chechen girl Elza Kungaeva and exceeding official authority, asked for forgiveness for what happened, Interfax reports . “So much has been said in court for a year and a half that I have nothing more to add,” Budanov said. The verdict in his case is expected to be announced on Tuesday, July 2. On Monday, a new state prosecutor, Vladimir Melovanov, appeared at the trial.

The official dollar exchange rate announced by the Central Bank on July 2 is 31.5002 rubles per dollar, according to the Department of External and Public Relations of the Central Bank of Russia. Compared to the previous indicator, the exchange rate increased by 5.31 kopecks. According to AK&M, the trading volume of the Unified Trading Session of the interbank currency exchanges amounted to $44.454 million, the number of transactions - 1057.

Bosnia does not have the “financial and human resources” to ensure a sufficient level of security in the country if the UN peacekeepers leave. This was stated by the press secretary of the Bosnian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Amer Kapetanovic, reports Reuters. On Sunday, the United States vetoed a resolution to extend the peacekeeping mission in Bosnia.