The aircraft, at which the President of Georgia and members of the Georgian delegation returned to Tbilisi from New York from the Summit of the millennium threatened. This was confirmed today by Eduard Shevardnadze at a press conference. According to him, the malfunction was discovered at the Shannon Irish airport - in one of the portholes there was a crack. “When experts assessed the situation, they came to the conclusion that there was no particular risk,” the president said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a traditional meeting with government members. The head of state spoke of the main task of the Cabinet of Ministers. According to Putin, this is the current state of the economy and the level of material well -being of the people.

The Vachovski brothers began work at once on two continuations of the film "Matrix" with a set of stuntmen and martial arts masters, the coordinator of which will again be a specialist from Hong Kong Wu Ping. According to Anthony Jones, who heads the Dublers team, Wu Ping intends to recruit stunning masters, and the most impressive side of the Matrix-2 and Matrix-3 will not be special effects, but martial arts. "Wu Ping has not yet found suitable fighters.

Twenty -year -old Marat Safin in the final of US Open managed to easily beat the legendary Samprass, who had previously won the US Open in the opening championship in three sets with a score of 6: 4, 6: 3, 6: 3. Most tennis lovers, and experts were put on the victory of a twenty -navigable samples, but the experience was powerless against the onslaught of a young Russian. “His game is the future of tennis,” said the Stared Pete.

The submariners of the Northern Fleet reached the first combat duty after the death of the Kursk nuclear crossing. The submarine "Karelia" made an exit to the Barents Sea to the place of disaster. On board were the commander of the Russian Navy Admiral Fleet Vladimir Kuroyedov, the commander of the Northern Fleet Admiral Vyacheslav Popov and the Governor of the Murmansk Region Yuri Evdokimov.

Today marks the 27th anniversary of the bloody coup in Chile, as a result of which a military junta led by General Pinochet came to power, and the legally elected President Salvador Allende died. On the eve of this date, a large march of protest was held in Santiago. There were not without clashes by demonstrators with the police. Despite the cold rainy weather, more than 4 thousand people entered the streets of Santiago.

The leadership of the England Champions "Manchester United" decided to make the leading players of the club David Beckham and Roy Kin with the shareholders of the club. Each of the players will receive a stake in 10 thousand pounds. Such a generous gift, according to the leadership, will allow the club to keep Beckham and Kin in its ranks, as well as limit the ceiling of their wages. It is possible that another shareholder will be Manchester United midfielder Paul Skowels.

According to NTV with reference to Interfax, the clash occurred today after 22.00 Moscow time in the area of ​​the triumphal arch, when the motorcade followed Kutuzovsky Prospekt of the capital. “Lada” crashed into one of the escort cars, the driver of which violated the rules of the road. According to the press secretary of President Alexei Gromov, the escort car has turned over, there are no victims. Security officers were injured. The driver of the "Lada" was not injured.

A detachment of warships of naval self-defense forces of Japan arrived in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Having settled ashore, Japanese officers and sailors honored the memory of the dead submariners of the Kursk nuclear submarine with a minute of silence. The visit program is extensive. The main goal is the joint 9-hour exercises that take place in the Avachinsky Gulf.

According to Mikhail Delyagin, director of the Institute of Globalization Problems, “the government presented an unbalanced budget to the State Duma.” According to his calculations, the revenues of the 2001 draft budget are underestimated by more than 100 billion rubles.

The Moscow government intends to increase the rate of income tax credited to the city budget for banks and other credit organizations, stock exchanges, brokerage houses, insurers, banks, as well as other enterprises and organizations on profits received from intermediary operations and transactions. This is stated in the draft law submitted by the Moscow government for consideration to the Moscow City Duma. The bill is expected to come into force on January 1, 2001.

The ex-champion of the world in surfing Tom Carroll fled along the coast when an unknown jumped up to him, pulled out a torch and swung to throw him into the bay. But Carroll was not at a loss and, with the help of the guard, twisted the bully. The police are now interrogated, and Olympic fire is waiting for Sydney today, and five days later - in the bowl at the central stadium of the capital of the 2000.

As an ITAR-TASS correspondent reports, an Islamic cultural forum was held in Budapest, in which more than 200 religious figures and politicians took part. The main topics on the agenda were the issues of preserving Islamic traditions in Western Europe and improving the activities of Islamic centers in European countries. The forum was attended by religious figures and politicians from various countries of the world, primarily from the countries of the Middle East.

Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and American astronaut Ed Lu, part of the Atlantis space shuttle crew, successfully completed work in open space overboard the International Space Station (ISS). According to the Russian flight control center, the entire output output program was fully executed.

The first Catholic communities in Eastern Siberia were founded by Polish exiles at the end of the XVIII √ early XIX centuries. After the 1917 revolution, the Catholics of Siberia divided the common fate of believers of other religions: most of the temples were closed, and their property was confiscated. The revival of Catholic communities in Siberia and the creation of parishes began in 1990.