Today, unprecedented security measures have been taken in Stepanakert. There begins the court in the case of attempted NKR President Arkady Gukasyan. All the accused, and among them are many famous people, threatens either the maximum term of imprisonment or the death penalty. The court of the capital of Nagorno -Karabakh will consider the case of the hero of the war, the former commander of the Armed Forces of the NKR Samvel Babayan.

In the opening match, the Russian beat the world champion √ Utkirbek Khaidarov from Uzbekistan √ 11:10 on points. On Monday, the boxing tournament also features fights in the 57 kg category. Russian Kamil Dzhamalutdinov will have a fight with Lithuanian Vidas Bizhiulyitis.

Frenchwoman Sandrin Testu left the competition due to back injury. Instead, another French tennis player - Julie Alar -Syuzhi will perform in a female single discharge. Earlier, for various reasons, the Swiss Martin Hingis and Patti Schnider, Nemka Anke Hubert and Russian Anna Kurnikova refused to participate in the tournament. Links on the topic

Leonardo DiCaprio closed access to the fashionable Los Angeles Night bar "Phoenix" at the Ardhail Hotel after the brawl, which he made there with his friends. The company at 20 threw bottles in the courtyard and smashed furniture in the hall. DiCaprio is not the first star from which this institution suffered. Earlier, the eccentric Dennis Rodman, the famous basketball player and film actor, was excluded from the customers.

Peru is on the verge of a government crisis. The decision of President Alberto Fuhimori on resignation caused a decrease in the national currency and a drop in the shares of Peruvian companies. Immediately after the news of the resignation of the Square in front of the presidential palace in Lima, thousands of demonstrators with white-red Peruvian flags came out.

During the final weekend negotiations in Moscow, Russian and Swiss prosecutors exchanged important materials. Russia handed over to Switzerland more than 500 pages of documents related to the investigation of the Bank of New-York. This was announced today by the Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia Vasily Kolmogorov, NTV reports. “We handed over to the Swiss what they asked: data on some persons, about bank accounts and something else,” said Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.

The cases of 14 Western leaders accused of war crimes today began to consider the court in Belgrade. According to the NTV television company with reference to the British newspaper The Times, the outcome of this case is predetermined in advance. All defendants will be sentenced to 15-20 years in absentia. Among the defendants are US President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The epidemic, which destroyed 16 people in the Saudi province of Jizan, is caused by a viral infection, previously known only in Africa. This is a "rift valley", one of the types of tropical fever, widespread on the African continent. Most often, the disease is rampant in Somalia and Kenya in the rainy seasons, taking a hundreds of lives. However, the "Rift Valley" got out of Africa for the first time.

Margarita Leontyeva, head of the Secondary Education Department of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, denied the information that dictations will write dictations instead of essays on the graduation exams of 11th grades in 2001, NTV reports with reference to Interfax. “This is basically impossible,” said Margarita Leontyeva. The program for 11-year schools includes a literature exam. Dictation is an exam in the Russian language.

The expenses of the social sphere increase by the budget draft by 53%, while total expenses increase by only 39%. This was announced to reporters by Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matvienko after a meeting with President Vladimir Putin.

According to the Interfax agency, several hundred residents of the city of Marneuli, located 30 kilometers east of Tbilisi, did not allow the congress of the religious organization Jehovah's Witnesses to be held in their city. Seven buses carrying Jehovah's Witnesses were stopped by numerous pickets at the entrances to the city and returned back.

In Moscow, on the Boulevard of Jan Rainis, at about 20.30 on the landing of the house number 26, the building 1 took place an explosion. According to NTV with reference to the press center of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, as a result, a 12-year-old child suffered √ his hand was torn off. At the moment, an operational investigation group is working at the scene, which sets the cause of the explosion.

The military leadership began an official investigation about the plot shown on the NTV television channel from Khankala, where the headquarters of the combined group of federal troops is located. Recall that on the eve of the live program “Results”, the deputy head of the Chechen administration, Buslan Gantamirov, was supposed to answer questions from the presenter. However, the NTV correspondent at the appointed time did not get in touch.

The influenza epidemic in Moscow will begin no earlier than the end of the year and will be weakly interactive, the Moscow Center said in the center of the Moscow. It is assumed that in the capital they will circulate groups of viruses similar to last year. And most Muscovites have already developed immunity to these viruses. Nevertheless, from the end of September in Moscow schools, preventive anti -info measures will begin.

More than a million tickets were sold in South Korea during the five-day release of the film "Combined Army Headquarters." This record achievement belongs to a big-budget war film about the events of 1953, when the troops of the North and South fought together for some time against a common enemy.