The wife of Yuri Luzhkova Elena Baturina, speaking in Elista at a meeting with the public at the University of Kalmyk, said that it may be a candidacy in the Kalmyk single -mandate district. According to RBC, Baturina has already been nominated by a group of Kalmyk voters as a candidate for deputies.

In the morning, near the village of Chapaevsky near Cherkessk, eight people with machine guns, a grenade launcher, a gun with a rifle and ammunition were detained. All detainees were delivered to Cherkessk, circumstances are being clarified.

A group of important Russian persons received an invitation from the Senate Commission of the US Congress to participate in the hearing on the intended use of IMF loans (i.e., were they stolen). Yuri Skuratov, Yuri Boldyrev, head of the State Duma Commission on Corruption problems, Alexander Kulikov and others, were invited.

According to the United Group in Dagestan, today the aircraft again bombed the bases and clusters of militants in the territory of Chechnya, which is associated with the increased danger of their performance in the Kizlyarsky direction.

In persistently discussed by the press of the last weeks of rumors about the possible voluntary resignation of Yeltsin today, a “new-old” motive about the next deterioration of the president’s health again. The today's paper newspaper today and the Gazeta.ru network newspaper came up with unexplored specific links and rather slurred correspondence, as if Yeltsin was bad.

a dream Monstrous terrorist acts in Russia are an extraordinary phenomenon even against the backdrop of the rich history of world terrorism. The explosion of a peacefully sleeping house with children and their parents is designed precisely to exceed the threshold of mental adaptation of a European person. This is a gesture of breaking the “last taboo of civilization.” Ethics of mayhem.

The Echo of Moscow, quoting the Indian media, claims that Osama Ben Laden announced Jihad against India and urged his supporters to release the states to Jama and Kashmir from the Indian presence. As repeatedly reported, many are confident in the involvement of Ben Laden in the terrorist war in Dagestan and Russia in general, but there is no documentary evidence of this.

Vladimir Putin once again stated that the Russian armed forces have nothing to do with striking on the peaceful objects of Chechnya. " If in Chechnya there are sacrifices among the civilian population, Putin believes, then they are caused by intervaling hostility and gangster attacks on each other.

Today, at the closed plenum of the Central Council of Yabloko, the election lists in single -mandate districts and the project of the election program will be considered. The list and program approved by the Plenum will be submitted to the party’s court, the second stage of which will take place tomorrow, Interfax said.

According to the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, last day, according to the calls of Muscovites, an evacuation was carried out in residential buildings on the streets: boat, Suzdal, sculptor Mukhina and in Angelov Lane. During checks of explosives, no explosives were found.

Two MS military aircraft made planned flights in the neutral zone in the Anadyr area while the Americans raised two fighters to intercept. Although, apparently, the incident ended in the world, the Air Force expressed “surprise and regret”, noting that the US airspace was not violated, and “military-air forces are tracking the barracks of NATO reconnaissance along the borders of the Russian Federation daily, but they do not take such sharp movements.”

The total amount of expenses in the section "Financial assistance to budgets of all levels". The total amount of expenses in the section "Financial assistance to budgets of all levels" is 66.4 billion rubles, of which 52.3 billion rubles. - Federal Fund for Financial Support of Regions (FFPR); 6.7 billion rubles. - subsidies and subventions closed administrative entities, 300 million rubles. - subsidies to the Sochi resort city, 20 million rubles.

"Echo of Moscow" reports that Yuri Luzhkov announced the need to resign Yeltsin. Luzhkov, in the retelling of "Echo of Moscow", withdraws this from the voting results: they say, at yesterday's meeting of the Federation Council, 61 senator out of 104 supported the resignation of Boris Yeltsin (although judging by the information from the closed meeting, they did not vote for this, but for making the issue on the agenda).

The Football Federation of Ukraine denied reports that she turned to UEFA with a request to transfer the qualifying match of the European-Ukraine championship somewhere on a neutral field. The representative of the FFU told the Interfax correspondent: "There is no reason to worry that the match of the national teams of Russia and Ukraine can be overshadowed by any extraordinary events." It is not clear where in this case these messages came from, and who needed it.

The Minister of Nationalities Vyacheslav Mikhailov considers it necessary to organize in the near future a meeting of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and the President of Chechnya, since Maskhadov is “needed”, especially since he is currently not able to control the situation in the republic. Mikhailov said this at a press conference today.