The US State Department made a statement about Sunday riots in Minsk. The Americans insist on the investigation and the immediate release of prisoners who are considered political prisoners (previously the “international amnesty” made the same statement). The State Department accused Belarus of violating the obligations of the country, a member of the OSCE.

According to NRB President Alexander Lebedev, a large group of businessmen and public figures has formed the so -called national investment council today. The head of Vnesheconombank Kostin agreed to take the post of a shift chairman. NIS, in theory of Lebedev, should sit once every six months and create a favorable investment climate. Considering that Lebedev is the deputy of Chernomyrdin in NDR, it seems that NIS can be useful not only for investment and climatic purposes.

The First Deputy Government of the Stavropol Territory, Viktor Khorunzhiy, said that he received a letter from Kazakhstani Cossacks with a request to move to the North Caucasus and settle in three areas of Chechnya on the left bank of the Terek.

Gennady Raikov, Deputy Chairman of the Deputy Group of Russian Regions, made the initiative to create a new deputy group in the State Duma. Raikov assures that he will collect 35 people (the necessary minimum for registration), who want to work a separate united group a few months before the expiration of the term of office. This is necessary, as Raikov says, in order to destroy the monopoly of the current council of the Duma.

"Izvestia" p. 1 Saddam Hussein studies his neighbors from space According to a Western newspaper, Moscow is preparing Iraq for a new war Vladimir DUNAEV The Baghdad demon is gathering its strength again. Iraq's neighbors are in danger. Washington and London, who are fighting Saddam Hussein, are convinced of this. Most recently, the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported on a deal concluded between Moscow and Baghdad.

Vladimir Putin met with the Minister of Justice, US Prosecutor General Junet Rino and said after the meeting that if “specific persons” will be determined during the investigation of “laundering”, they will be held accountable. "We should not interfere in the investigation process, which is really carried out for a rather long time.

The new authorized representative of the government in the Chechen Republic, Deputy Prime Minister Nikolai Koshman arrived today in Mozdok. Together with him, some deputies of the Chechnya parliament in 1996, according to the information from the environment of the nightmare, its main task is to create local authorities in the liberated areas of Chechnya.

“The City Hall of the city hall has accused the authorities - the Kremlin and the government - of organizing explosions in Russian cities. The other day, all this Khinshtein broke into the screen of the TV center. That is, the curator of the TV center Mr. Yastrzhembsky released. Which is all in white and alien to the dirty methods.

The head of the Ministry of Topenergo, Viktor Kalyuzhny, said today that the Ministry of Economic Defense system plans to reform in the near future to reform the access to access to the export main oil pipelines and create the same gas commission (which is caused by the expected accession of oil companies to the number of gas exporters).

The leaders of the northern regions turned to Putin with a request to remove Vladimir Goman from the post of chairman of the State Service, since he did not understand the problems of the North, and because of his personal inaction for several years, the importing of cargo has been breaking away. The Committee of the Federation Council for the North and Small Peoples supported this appeal, the website "Russia. Regions" reports.

Representatives of the Serbian minority in Kosovo announced their intention to create their own military units as opposed to the Cosovo defense corps, created last month by the Albanians, and also demanded the formation of Serbian cantons in the province of the Serbian cantons as the only means of self-defense and prevent the further outcome of the Serbs, BBC reports.

The subcommittee of the State Duma under banking legislation suggested that the budget committee recommends the State Duma to reject the amendment to the Central Bank Law, which would allow the Central Bank to provide the government with loans to finance a budget deficit.

Details of Putin’s speech at a conference on the problems of combating organized crime; The State Duma has chosen its part of the tripartite conciliation commission to finalize the law on countering the legalization of income received illegally; The Chechen command claims that Grad systems and long -range artillery were used against the federal troops; Vakha Ibragimov said that Chechnya is ready to name the organizers of the attacks in Moscow, Volgodonsk and Buinaksk; The support group of Nail

Vladimir Putin will meet today with the chairman of the National Assembly of Armenia Karen Demirchan. Yesterday, the head of the Armenian parliament arrived in Moscow on an official visit. This was reported by the Department of Government Information.

The server "Russia. Regions" reports that the Samara Governor Titov responded to yesterday's statements by Putin's Prime Minister about the problems of the penal system. Konstantin Titov, who is also the coordinator of the Right Bloc ("Union of Right Forces"), said that he was ready to make an initiative to transfer prisons and colonies for the maintenance of the constituent entities of the Federation.