An organized criminal group engaged in weapons trade is neutralized in the Novolak district of Dagestan. Four local residents were detained while trying to sell weapons and ammunition the day before in the village of Novocchutra. The operation was attended by employees of the Interregional Department of the Organized Crime Control Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Dagestan and employees of the Novolak District Department of Internal Affairs, Interfax reports.

Alexey Teacher, the creator of the film about Bunin's "Diary of his wife", is going to start working on the next project, the Izvestia newspaper reports. He will make a film opening unknown pages of the history of the Great Patriotic War. The script written by Alexander Rogozhkin is based on real events. In 1943, a brothel for the foreign military was created in Murmansk.

For Russians, the name of Marina Tsvetaeva is now comparable to the names of Lermontov or Savrasov, with the difference that only in the last 10 years has it become possible to read her poetic legacy without cuts, reports RIA Novosti . Tsvetaeva fought for the title "poet", despising the word "poetess". In Russian literature of the twentieth century, her name rightfully ranks with such giants as Mandelstam, Platonov, Nabokov and Nobel laureates Pasternak and Brodsky.

The super-planned incomes of the federal budget this year, most likely, will significantly exceed the expected 300 billion rubles, said the chairman of the State Duma of the State Duma, Alexander Zhukov at a press conference, Interfax reports. “I think that there will be no less than 350 billion super -planned income in the year, although the government convinced us in the fall that the budget is verified,” he said.

The bishop of the Colombian diocet Medelin performed a liturgy on August 28 in the place where three days earlier from the bomb explosion were killed and 41 people were wounded, the Blagovers-Info agency reports.

In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the energy supply of 46 schools, on the eve of the electric engineer to the power engineers, was completely restored. The mayor's office of the regional center of Kamchatka paid 500 thousand rubles to the accounts of power engineers to pay off the debt of the city department of education for current electricity consumption, the press service of Kamchatkenergo OJSC said.

The new ready-to-wear collection "Spring-Summer 2002" by Valentin Yudashkin will be presented in New York, Interfax reports. The show will take place on September 8th, the opening day of Brighton Park Fashion Week. According to the designer, his collection was conceived as “a gift to modern, business-minded and even slightly aggressive women who keep up with the times.” The dominant characteristics in Yudashkin's new collection are elegance and sportiness.

The Cuban leadership plans to send to New York to the UN conference on the problems of children Elian Gonzalez √ the protagonist of last year’s scandal between Cuba and the USA, who was with great difficulty returned to the island of freedom from the United States, where his mother, who died with his stepfather in the sea after the crash of their boat, tried to transport him.

The head coach of the Moscow Lokomotiv shared his opinion on the decision of the UEFA commission.

Crimean authorities on Thursday officially denied information that cholera had been discovered on the peninsula. Reports that in one of the villages near Yevpatoria five residents fell ill with cholera were previously broadcast by Russian and Ukrainian television companies and agencies. But, according to the chief sanitary doctor of the republic, Maria Krovyakova, this information was not confirmed.

The Taliban movement that controls most of Afghanistan closed the representative offices of two more charitable organizations in the territory of this country, Interfax reports. The Taliban believes that representative offices supported relations with previously detained employees of the Shelter Ni International organization, accused of the spread of Christianity.

About 500 enterprises in Moscow launched the trade in school-written supplies on the eve of the new school year. At the end of August, a network of school goods fairs was deployed in the city, Interfax reports. For a long time, each school gives its recommendations on the acquisition of the necessary items. Now in the capital's stores a special gift set of a first -grader is being sold. In the Central Children's World, it is presented in two versions: the minimum set for 170 rubles.

The world is worried only by the fate of the Western employees of the Order √ Now, which were arrested in Kabul on charges of spreading Christianity. There are no people about their Afghan colleagues. Relatives of 16 Afghan employees of this organization made such a claim on Friday, ITAR-TASS reports.

The Russian team will open the continental championship in the group "D" in Antalya with a match with the team of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Ankara at the same time, the teams of Ukraine and Lithuania, representing the group "A" will enter the site. According to ITAR-TASS, yesterday the wards of Stanislav Eremin in the sports complex "Anfash" conducted the last training before decisive starts.

Former President of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevich wrote a large letter addressed to the Judicial Chamber of the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, in which he speaks of his attitude to the process above himself and the court as a whole, RIA Novosti reports. In a 36-page message, Milosevich said that the activities of the so-called tribunal have catastrophic consequences for the desire of people to peace, the rule of law, democracy, truth and justice.