According to the draft budget for 2001, real cash incomes of the population should increase by approximately 5%, and the inflation rate will be limited to 12%. The Budget Committee of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation expressed disagreement with the government's optimistic forecast for the country's socio-economic development in 2001.

Today in the afternoon, 20 armed people in masks captured the building of the factory administration of one of the largest enterprises in the city of Uralhimmash. According to NTV correspondents, people who penetrated the territory of the plant are the fighters of the local gathering and they acted by decision of the district court. 10 days ago, two meetings of shareholders were simultaneously held at Uralhimmash.

Today marks exactly one year since the explosion of the second residential building in Moscow. On September 13, 1999, at 5 a.m. in a residential building number 6, building 3 on the Kashirskoye highway explosion, which completely destroyed an 8-story brick house. Its power was 300 kg. In the TNT equivalent. At the site of the tragedy, 124 tenants of the house were killed, including 13 children, and another 9 people were injured.

Pazolini was a critic, writer, poet, linguist, screenwriter, director. The collection includes texts that introduce almost all creative hypostases (except, perhaps, linguistics) of the Italian author. The novel "Shpan", written by Pazolini in the mid-50s in a colloquial dialect, other early prosaic and poetic works, articles about Mandelstam, Eisenstein, Chaplin, is included.

Catholic priest Francisco Xavier Serra, known for his passion for scuba diving, arranged a Bible reading in an underwater cave off the coast of Spain. He was accompanied on an underwater excursion to a depth of 8 meters by two students who also took part in the reading. It lasted 15 minutes. Thus, the scuba diver priest wanted to celebrate "the presence of God in sports." This action was part of the continuous Bible reading campaign in 2000, carried out by the Catholic Church of Valencia.

Today in the Kremlin a meeting of deputies of the State Duma with the President of Russia was held. This happened after the people's deputies opened the autumn session of the lower house. What was discussed in the Kremlin is not yet known.

In the doping industry of the silver medalist of the World-95 championship in the triple jump of the Bulgarian Iva Prandzheva, the prohibited substance nandrolon was discovered. It should be noted that Prandzhev was previously noticed in the use of doping: in 1996, it was disqualified for the use of metandyenone. Bengist Chen from Taiwan, a silver medalist of the World Cup among juniors, also came across the use of Metandienon.

There are no longer tickets for the opening ceremony and for athletics, swimming and triathlon competitions. But for competitions in some not very popular sports, such as synchronous swimming, shooting, sailing, about half the tickets were sold. In total, 80 % of all tickets and the organizers are implemented to hope to increase this figure to 90 %. Thus, Sydney 2000 will beat Atlanta’s record, since in 1996 82.3 % of printed tickets were sold.

In Kazakhstan these days, large-scale military exercises of the Central Environmental-2000 are held. About two thousand troops from Russia, the United States, Turkey, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, as well as France and Ukraine as observers take part in them. Each state is represented by a company of paratroopers. According to the scenario of the exercises, soldiers will have to stop the war between the fictional states of Sunoi and Roni.

Pre-Olympic training of boxers and swimmers took place in Vladivostok. Ring fighters have been training at the Olympiets sports complex since August 28, and swimmers since September 7. 12 Russian boxers and 27 swimmers will compete in Sydney. Among them are many world, European and Olympic champions. Boxers and swimmers will begin competition in Australia on September 16.

Last week, the leadership of European football moved for a week - from September 28 to the 21st - the UEFA Cup match between the Yugoslav "Criven Star" and the English "Leicester". Now it has been decided that the game will be held in the third country on September 28th. The reason for all these transfers is fears that after the presidential election in Yugoslavia, popular unrest may begin.

The head of the State Duma budget committee, Alexander Zhukov, reports AFI, is in favor of reaching a compromise between the government and deputies and adopting the budget. The deputy believes that such a compromise can be achieved. To do this, it is necessary to change the macroeconomic indicators of the draft budget even before the first reading.

President Vladimir Putin insists on depriving regions of the right to enter into foreign economic transactions. Yesterday evening, as Ekho Moskvy reports, the corresponding amendment to the budget code was sent to Duma Speaker Seleznev. We are talking about introducing amendments to Article 99 of the Budget Code of the Russian Federation.

Simoni, who rides for the Lampre-Daikin team, won the 16th stage of the Vuelta cycling race across Spain. It took him 4 hours 38 minutes 3 seconds to cover the distance of 168 kilometers between the cities of Gijon and Alto de L'Angliru. The leader's golden jersey was retained by Spaniard Roberto Heras from Kelme.

The Bureau of the Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union decided to punish Spartak Moscow for the hooligan behavior of its fans at the match with Dynamo. Fans of both teams exploded firecrackers and broke plastic seats, and also started fights with the police, for which both clubs were fined 10,000 rubles. In addition, Spartak will play its next home match of the Russian Championship without spectators.