Army General Anatoly Kvashnin, relieved of his post as Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, submitted a report of dismissal from military service and refused the position offered to him in return. This was reported today by the Russian Ministry of Defense, ITAR-TASS reports . As the press service of the President of the Russian Federation reported, the head of state awarded Anatoly Kvashnin the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree.

A special center has been created in Georgia, from where the country will be governed in a state of emergency. The Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs reported this to RIA Novosti on Monday . The secret facility “is located in the most protected and safe place in Georgia,” a ministry spokesman said. According to him, the center was created on the recommendation of Western intelligence services. It is equipped with special communication and control technology.

The Philippines announced on Monday that it had completed the withdrawal of its peacekeeping contingent from Iraq, the Associated Press reported. Thus, the government of this Asian country satisfied the demand of Iraqi insurgents who threatened to behead a Filipino hostage they had taken. Speaking on national television, Philippine Foreign Secretary Delia Albert said the soldiers had left in vehicles for Kuwait, from where they would fly home on a commercial flight.

On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the federal law “On the ratification of the Agreement on the Adaptation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe,” RIA Novosti reports . This law was adopted by the State Duma on June 25 and approved by the Federation Council on July 7, 2004. The agreement provides for restrictions on the deployment of conventional weapons on the territory of countries party to the agreement.

In Washington, one of the oldest financial institutions in America, Riggs Bank, has ceased to exist, according to the website of the Washington Post newspaper. The bank's takeover by PNC Financial Services Group was announced Friday. Riggs Bank was founded 165 years ago. He participated in financing the purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire, and American presidents and foreign embassies located in Washington kept their deposits in it.

The doctor on duty at the Voronezh Regional Clinical Hospital said on Monday that the information that another of the victims died as a result of an explosion at a bus stop in Voronezh is not true, RIA Novosti reports . According to him, both wounded people taken to the hospital in the morning - an 18-year-old youth and a 25-year-old man - successfully underwent surgery and their lives are currently out of danger.

19.07.2004, 19:35:38 version Print | PDA/PDA The building of the Department of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties in Moscow. Photo from the site club.handy.ru Taxes are in the database! Since 2001, the incomes of Russians will be included in a single federal database By the fall of 2004, the Federal Tax Service plans to create a nationwide database of income received by citizens since 2001.

The press service of the NTV television company denied information about the dismissal of the host of the Country and World program, Aset Vatsueva. On July 19, the Izvestia newspaper published the material “Leonid Parfenov returns to the air,” signed by Mila Kuzina. In particular, it states that as part of personnel changes at the NTV channel, journalists who worked with Leonid Parfenov, including Aset Vatsueva, may be fired.

The Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Army General Anatoly Kvashnin, will be dismissed. As RIA Novosti reported on Monday , citing a source in Russian law enforcement agencies, “the decision to resign Kvashnin has been made, and this will be announced in the very near future.” The RIA source also stated that Kvashnin’s successor as Chief of the General Staff has already been determined.

Vladimir Putin appointed Yuri Baluevsky chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. As RIA Novosti reported on Monday with reference to the presidential press service, Putin signed a decree dismissing Army General Anatoly Kvashnin from the post of Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces - First Deputy Minister of Defense.

The FBI is warning US authorities that the terrorist group al-Qaeda does not intend to limit itself to citizens of Arab countries, and plans to recruit Americans into its ranks. As stated in the bureau's weekly report, quoted by the Chicago Tribune, terrorists are especially interested in persons who have permanent US citizenship or at least official immigrant status, regardless of their nationality and religion.

Parents of Russian children injured in a car accident in Croatia will be paid compensation. news agency the RIA Novosti Inna Migovich, deputy director of the Adriatic Tour company that organized this trip, told on July 19.

Last night, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, together with Minister of Internal Affairs Irakli Okruashvili and Secretary of the National Security Council Gela Bezhuashvili, visited the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict and met with Georgian military personnel in the village of Eredvi.

British authorities advise citizens of the country to stock up on canned food, medicine and drinking water in order to be prepared for possible terrorist attacks. The head of the Home Office's counter-terrorism department, Hazel Blears, explained to residents of the United Kingdom what to do in the event of a terrorist attack and how to prevent terrorist attacks like the one that took place in March in the Madrid metro.

As part of personnel changes at the NTV channel, journalists who worked with Leonid Parfenov may be fired. newspaper wrote about this on Monday The Izvestia . In particular, the names of one of the hosts of the “Country and World” program created by Parfenov, Aset Vatsueva, and correspondents Anna Loshak, Anton Grishin and Konstantin Tochilin are mentioned. However, sources on the NTV channel do not confirm this information.