Army General Vladimir Semenov, according to the results of the preliminary counting of votes, won the election of the head of the Karachay-Cherkesk Republic, which took place on May 16 this year. Such a decision was made today by the Supreme Court of the Karachay -Cherkess Republic, recognizing these elections to the "held", and their results were "valid." Vladimir Semenov significantly ahead of his opponent in the second round of Stanislav a tree.

During the discussion of the agenda, several State Duma deputies expressed concern about the lack of time to consider the government package of laws. Two weeks before the start of the holidays, deputies need to consider 30 bills, and at this time, according to the speakers, the State Duma is involved in other issues - it was meant yesterday's discussion of Yugoslav theme and Chernomyrdin's behavior. This was said, for example, Nikolai Ryzhkov ("democracy") and Vitaly Shuba ("Russian regions").

“A pause is good, but not enough,” Boris Yeltsin appreciated the decision of NATO. This is the first step in the right direction to the ultimate goal - the complete cessation of missile and bombing, the Russian president believes. He also instructed the diplomatic service to continue the energetic efforts to implement the UN Security Council resolutions, Prime-Tass reports.

Today, in the border town of the Profit between Macedonia and Yugoslavia, another meeting of the military representatives of the SRU and NATO will be held. These negotiations are aimed at discussing the details of the withdrawal of the Yugoslav troops from Kosovo, as well as ensuring the consistency of Serbian units and units of the peacekeeping contingent.

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The head of the World Bank, James Wolfenson, speaking today in Washington, said that the WB and the IMF must continue to support Russia - "both in terms of financial assistance and in terms of human resources." The President of the WB continues to hope that Russia has a future, although even “after working with five prime ministers, it is necessary to constantly convince himself of this in order to move on with a sense of confidence.” However, now there is some progress “in the relationship

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The head of the presidential administration, Alexander Voloshin, believes that Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin is a worthy presidential candidate. “I don’t like the term“ successor ”, I didn’t use it, but in general he (Stepashin) is a worthy person, of course,” Voloshin said in an interview with Interfax. When asked about Yeltsin’s personal preferences on this issue, the head of the administration said that "until such preferences have been declared."

The lower house of the parliament adopted a resolution "On urgent measures to resolve the conflict around Yugoslavia." The document prepared by the left -wing factions emphasizes that the actions of Chernomyrdin as the president’s special representative "contradict the state interests of Russia." According to the deputies, "the next ultimatum, imposed by the Subsnya by NATO member states with the participation of the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation to resolve in

The Chinese government said that, before voting for the UN resolution, China was waiting for guarantees of sovereignty and territorial integrity of Yugoslavia.

Negotiations between the American and Russian military began at 11:00 Moscow time in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They will discuss the role and place of the Russian contingent in a peacekeeping operation in Kosovo. The representative of the Russian delegation told Interfax that the Ministry of Defense will no longer conduct consultations and negotiations with representatives of the NATO command.

Leading newspapers - Kommersant, Time MN, Izvestia - was not slow to react today to the development of hostilities of the undertaken by Kiriyenko and Luzhkov as part of the war, which the former Prime Minister declared the Moscow chief. "Kommersant" does not directly claim that Kiriyenko acts at the Kremlin direct instructions.

According to RIA Novosti, on the way between the settlements of Modevo and Merdar, in the north of Kosovo, a long column, consisting of more than hundreds of cars, is moving. Among them is the air defense battery, several launches of anti -aircraft missiles and a large number of trucks and jeeps. In the column of military vehicles there are 20 civilian cars loaded with things.

At the press conference at Interfax, George Soros said that the Kiriyenko government was the most worthy of all, he was simply not allowed to prove it. Soros said that this government had to give a stabilization loan of 7 billion and on August 17 everything would be fine.

At a government meeting, Stepashin said that the case of not admission to the State Duma of the government package of bills, "I will be forced to raise the issue of trust in the government," Prime-Tass reports.