With the relative normalization of the situation in Chechnya, not only information about the battles, the number of wounded and killed, but also some semblance of economic information begins to flow from this region. True, for now these messages also bear the imprint of wartime. The oil complex of the rebel republic is suffering serious losses. According to rough estimates, up to 2-2.5 thousand tons of crude oil are stolen every day on the territory of Chechnya.

Fethullah Gülen, the leader of one of the branches of the country's influential Islamic Brotherhood Nur (Light), which Turkish authorities call a sect, is on trial in Turkey. Gülen faces up to 10 years in prison on charges of seeking to replace the secular system in Turkey with a Sharia regime and create a “world Turkic-Islamic union.” The trial of Gülen is taking place in absentia: the defendant lives in the United States and, according to doctors, cannot come to Turkey for health reasons.

His final match with Scheng Shalken from Holland, which began on Sunday, was postponed due to the rain. The tennis players stopped the game with a score of 1: 1. The first set was taken by Norman √ 6: 4, the second with the same score won Shalken. The continuation of the game was better than last year's winner of the Shanghai tournament √ Norman. In the decisive set, he confidently outplayed Schalken √ 6: 3.

As the leader of the US Christian Coalition, Pat Robertson, said, in the near future 70 million Christian Americans will receive a “memo for voters” written by him through their parishes. The Christian Coalition is a right-wing conservative religious organization known for its close ties to the Republican Party. Although she doesn't formally endorse either candidate, Robertson encourages her supporters to vote for George W. Bush.

The current process of discussing the budget for next year is becoming a record in many respects. From a procedural point of view, the following can be noted. More than 600 amendments were received for the second reading of the country's main economic document - a kind of record. According to the chairman of the budget subcommittee of the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes, Vitaly Shuba, this has never happened. “Usually about 100 amendments are submitted for the second reading,” he said.

According to NTV, today the Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov accepted the Minister of Regional Cooperation of Israeli Shimon Peres and the deputy of the Israeli Knesset Roman Bronfman located in Moscow. It was about not stopping, despite the agreement reached in Egypt, the conflict in the Middle East.

Today, the Moscow District Military Court continued a preliminary hearing in the case of the murder of the correspondent of the Moscow Komsomolets newspaper Dmitry Kholodov. According to the NTV correspondent, for more than an hour in the building of "sailor silence" a judge, lawyers of the accused and the accused are sitting.

The 54-year-old actress and singer Lisa Minelli in critical condition after several strokes is placed in one of the hospitals of Florida. For a while she was in a coma. Now Lisa Minelli is connected to the artificial respiration apparatus. She got to the hospital two weeks ago and last Monday was aimed at, but on Thursday there was a second blow, and Lisa was again hospitalized. According to relatives, Minelli "fights for his life."

While playing James Bond in his youth, Roger Moore said that he did not notice poverty in the exotic but backward countries where the filming took place. Now, as a goodwill ambassador for the United National Children's Trust, the 73-year-old actor has launched a polio campaign in Ghana. “Now I see the same thing as before, but now it doesn’t leave me indifferent,” said the actor.

Türkiye is ready to develop cooperation with Russia in the field of the military-industrial complex. This was stated by Turkish Prime Minister Bullent Ecevit at a press conference in Ankara today. As you know, Türkiye intends to purchase 145 attack helicopters for the needs of its own army. A tender has been announced, in which the products of the American company Bell and the Russian-Israeli consortium representing the Ka-50-2 helicopter are participating.

Israel temporarily leaves the Middle Eastern peace process. According to Prime Minister Ehud Barak, he made this decision, evaluating the results of the meeting of the leaders of the Arab countries that ended on Sunday in Cairo, as well as the latest events in the Palestinian autonomy. The prime minister did not specify how long the peace process was interrupted, but noticed that over the past decade such "pauses" have been repeatedly made both the Israeli and Palestinian sides.

5 days ago, the US State Department opened the Russian-speaking mirror of his website. The support of this web resource is engaged in the office of international information programs (OMIP) of the State Department. The tasks of the Russian -speaking project are formulated only at the most general level: informing the world community about US policy, the life and values ​​of American society.

According to him, he was tired of being constant pressing the press. The public discontent is understandable: in the last 23 matches, the Croats won only six victories, 11 meetings were drawn and lost six times. In the sixth qualifying group of the World Cup-2002, the Croatian team takes only third place, although only the best team falls directly on the world championship.

The situation with the elections of the Kursk governor caused many various comments. Alexander Rutskaya himself says that he was removed from participation in the elections with the knowledge and approval of the Kremlin.

Despite the fact that the main goal of her visit to North Korea is negotiations, one of the first to whom the US Secretary of State visited this morning, were the children of the Pyongyang kindergarten Chongbek. Singing and dancing, they met Madame Olbright in the sun lit by the sun. Rising to the porch, where the bags of flour with a large inscription "USA" were folded, she shortly joined the dancing kids, then examined the interior.