On Thursday, during technical work at the Kazan Chemical Plant, five workers were killed, Interfax-Eurasia reports. According to the Office of the GOICHS Kazan, the tragedy became known at 16:20 local time. Rescuers of the Ministry of Emergencies work at the site of the death of the workers. According to the preliminary version, the cause of the tragedy was a violation of safety regulations.

In the Moscow City Court, hearing in the case of a criminal group accused of abduction and murder of several businessmen began, RIA Novosti reports. Five criminals appeared before the court. The investigation proven that from September 1996 to July 1997, members of the gang organized by Valery Basenko nicknamed Valera-Odessa and Sergey Rybchenkov named Serega Athlet, took hostage several merchants in order to receive ransom, and then brutally dealt with them.

Inflation in Russia in 2001 will be 17-18%, and GDP growth √ about 6%, Tatyana Paramonova, First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia. She noted with satisfaction that the growth of the Russian economy is based on internal factors - the growth of real incomes of the population and internal investments. The initial forecast of the Central Bank, made at the beginning of the year, proceeded from the fact that with an increase in GDP in 4%, the inflation rate would not exceed 12-14%.

At the Moscow Art Theater named after Chekhov, the prime minister is again. Opening on September 9, the 104th season, the new performance “Kabala Svyatosh” based on the play by Mikhail Bulgakov, the theater in Kamerhergersky Lane today for the first time presented the spectators on the play by Olga Mukhina called “Yu”, ITAR-TASS reports. This slightly strange, but unusually romantic love story was created specifically for a small scene.

Last night in Gudermes, an attack was attacked on the building of the Leninsky District Court of Grozny, which was transferred to this city. This was reported to "Interfax" in the Supreme Court of Russia. The bandits attacked the police guarding the court building. The shootout began. One guard was injured, the building caused significant damage. Later, an explosive device was discovered on the window of the court of the chairman of the court.

The US Armed Forces continue to prepare for response against terrorists and clarify the list of goals in Afghanistan, which can be struck, ITAR-TASS reports. Retribution operation plans are kept in complete secrecy. However, information has leaked to the American press that the India’s special services transferred the CIA that they had the information about the seven camps of Usama Ben Laden in Afghanistan.

The LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky believes that the attacks in the United States are organized with the participation of American special services, Interfax reports. "This action was held on the territory of the United States as a well -planned provocation on the part of the special services of those states that are beneficial to the political situation that has developed in the world after the events in New York," he said.

In the near future, a change in the commander of the united group of federal troops (OGV) in Chechnya is possible. Instead of the current commander of Colonel General Valery Baranov, Lieutenant General Vladimir Lemenskaya may be appointed to this position. This was reported to Izvestia by a source in the headquarters of the North Caucasus Military District.

“It will be difficult to leave from Afghanistan to such a recognizable person as Ben Laden,” said Sergey Zagidullin, deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, chairman of the subcommittee on international cooperation in combating international terrorism and transnational crime. He expressed his opinion on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station.

On Thursday, the American cable television company MSNBC published a photograph on its website , which, as stated, depicts the leader of the Taliber Mullah Mohammad Omar. Black and white photography, perhaps, is the only high-quality image of Omar, which prohibits the shooting of a member and very rarely gives an interview. Another possible picture of the mullah has previously published BBC today. On the film, Omar is surrounded by his associates, and he himself is hardly visible.

Over 50 thousand Afghan refugees, escaping from possible American attacks, illegally switched to Pakistani territory over the past few days. Every hour, their number increases, despite the fact that the border is officially closed, RIA Novosti reports. According to unofficial information, about 3 million Afghan citizens have already settled in Pakistan. Pakistan Foreign Minister Riyaz Muhammad Khan admitted that several hundred new refugees are concentrated on the border.

Four independent environmentalists who protested against the construction of the Blue Stream underwater gas pipeline were arrested on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. Today they swam reached the Castoro OTTO pipe-laying vessel, the driving gap of work in the bay, and picked themselves on the pipe exit in the sea. Ecologists were freed from voluntary imprisonment and delivered to the Arkhipo-Osipov border post.

Until the last moment, one could doubt whether Mohamed Atta really committed the aft or was it a certain, taking advantage of his documents. Personnel from security monitors at Portland Airport, on which Mohamed Atta calmly lands on the disposal of CNN , dispelled the latest doubts. Presumably, the second person in the frame is Abdulaziz Alomari, another suspect of the attacks in the United States.

In the suburbs of Chicago (Illinois), a man of Arabic descent was detained, looking for a list of persons who may have information about terrorist attacks. There is no information about the capacity of the witness or the accused - the 34 -year -old nabil al -Marab has not been taken into custody. The status of the detainee will apparently be determined after his interrogation, ITAR-TASS reports.

Aeroflot - Russian Airlines is sure that the new passenger terminal "Sheremetyevo -3" in Khimki near Moscow will be built. This was stated on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station, the head of the press service of Aeroflot, Irina Dunnenberg.