The decision announced by the president on the closure of the two military bases of the Russian Federation abroad divided the deputy corps into most of the supporters of the country's comprehensive integration into the world community and critics who regret Russia's refusal of the former superpower.

The Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in the USA, Archbishop Demetrios, received the delegation of the American Jewish Committee, Blagovest-info reports. The representative of the committee, the head of the commission on interreligious affairs, Martin Kaplan, presented the archbishop with a donation in the amount of 10 thousand dollars for the restoration of the New York Church of St. Nicholas, who suffered during the terrorist attacks of September 11.

The Siberia Airlines, which belonged to the Tu-154 passenger aircraft that was breaking up on October 4 over the Black Sea, studies the procedural possibility of filing a claim in connection with the death of the liner.

As a result of American attacks in Afghanistan, at least 1000 people died, most of whom are civilians. This was stated on Sunday by the representative of the Taliban embassy in Islamabad Sukhail Shakhin, RIA Novosti reports. According to him, on Sunday, 18 people died in the residential area of ​​Kabul Han Khan. Among them are 9 members of the same family - three children, four women and two men.

The heads of the Christian communities of Jerusalem made an appeal to the leaders of the world powers, to the Vatican and the UN, ITAR-TASS reports. The appeal contains a demand for the Israeli government to withdraw troops from the biblical city of Bethlehem. The message was transferred to the Israeli government a few hours after the 19-year-old Palestinian Palestinian died in Bethlehem, next to the Church of the Nativity of Christ, from an accidental bullet.

Tonight, American aviation struck new strokes on the positions of the Taliban and the Al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan. According to Associated Press, several fighter-bombers, as well as reconnaissance aircraft, rose from the Arabian Sea of ​​Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea. For the first time since the beginning of hostilities against Afghanistan, the United States bombarded the advanced position of the Taliban near the Bagram airport 40 km from Kabul.

In the suburbs, an attempt on an entrepreneur was committed, Interfax reports. Unknown from automatic weapons fired at a foreign car of an entrepreneur near the village of Toportkovo, Moscow Region. The Volvo car contained a 35-year-old businessman and two employees of the BARS-93 private security company. The guards responded to the fire from IZH-71 pistols. During the ensuing shootouts, an entrepreneur and both guards were injured and were hospitalized.

The editors of Kommersant have at their disposal a bill “On guaranteeing the return of citizens’ deposits in Russian banks,” which should be submitted to the government today. In the version available to the editors, the state for the first time assumed responsibility for the effectiveness of the deposit guarantee system. The author of the bill was the Ministry of Economic Development.

In Russia, from January to August this year, three cases of anthrax were registered. For the same period of last year - nine cases. According to ITAR-TASS, in all these cases the pathogen was transmitted to people during contact with patients or deaths from Siberian ulcer.

The production of products and services in five basic sectors of the Russian economy (industry, agriculture, construction, transport, retail trade) in January-September 2001 increased by 5.7% compared to the same period of 2000, the State Statistics Committee of Russia reports. A year ago, this figure reached 10.9%. However, according to the State Statistics Committee, the volume of industrial production in 2001 exceeded the 2000 indicator by 5.2%, and agricultural - by 7.4%.

In Blagoveshchensk, the Amur Region, as a result of three shots from firearms, killed the general director of Lada JSC, the official VAZ dealer, Interfax reports. Lada JSC has been implementing the VAZ car in the Amur Region since 1988. The corpse of 51-year-old Ilya Kargin was discovered at the entrance of the house along the theater Street at 8:00 in the morning. Law enforcement agencies note that the crime is custom -made. A criminal case has been opened, the search for criminals is underway.

One of the most difficult moments of operations for the disposal of the Kursk Premier League will be the dismantling of granite cruise missiles located in a light body from the second to the fifth compartment of the submarine. As Vice Admiral Mikhail Barsov, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, told Interfax, at present, specialists do not know what condition the installations are in.

Pakistan transferred the United States to the fourth air base in Panjhur (Belujistan Province), News says. Earlier, US aircraft and American troops were seen at military airfields among the cities of the Easter, Jacobabad and Dalbandin.

In Moscow, the annual sanctified cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church (RPSC) completed the work, Blagovet-info reports. At the meetings of the cathedral, which took place in the Assumption Church of the Clain at the Rogozhsky cemetery under the chairmanship of the head of the RPSC of the Metropolitan of Moscow and All Rus' Alimpia (Guseva), there were 6 bishops, about 60 priests and deacons, about 50 lanes.

Osama Ben Laden spent about $ 10 million on the creation of a "whole army" of terrorists in Chechnya. This was announced on Monday by the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, RIA Novosti reports. The publication refers to the agent led by Ben Laden Al-Qaeda, a certain Lassed Ben Heni, Lebanese by origin. According to the newspaper, in a trusting conversation Ben Heni, he spoke about the financial operation to the head of the al-Qaeda department in Milan Ben Hamiz Essida himself.