The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, Chairman of the State Duma of Russia Gennady Seleznev, Vice-Speaker of the Duma Arthur Chilingarov, leader of the deputy group "Narrowed" Nikolai Ryzhkov, accompanied by Armenian President Robert Kocharyan, visited the Academic Opera Theater of Armenia, where the civilian memorial service was held and paid tribute to the deceased on October 27 as a result meaningless terrorist act.

The press service of the Ministry of Defense made a statement that states that the deadlines for the completion of the operation in Chechnya (which is not quite logically called counter-terrorism) are in no way connected with the signing of the Treaty on ordinary weapons in Europe in Istanbul on November 19.

The representative of the Chechen community of the Gudermes district, Israelov, addressed the Chechens opposing the Russian troops today, with an appeal to lay down weapons. "Chechnya does not have another road, except for an alliance with Russia. Today you are given the last chance ... We offended Dagestan, we offended Ingushetia, offended Russia. Let's go to the world together with Russia, let's establish life on our land together.

Commenting on the information results of the week, the monitor stops again at the election games, which are most often conducted in Russia without rules. The largest clashes occurred last week between Yabloko and the Unity, which in a personal battle represented Stepashin and Ilyumzhin, as well as between the Kremlin and the OVR - here the main characters, although in absentia, were Yeltsin and Primakov.

According to the commander of the eastern group of the federal forces of General Gennady Troshev, the militants of Shamil Basayev penetrated on Friday in Gudermes. The general also stated that the troops entrusted to him are acting so that everything goes without the destruction of houses and victims among the civilians. According to the ORT correspondent, Russian detachments entered the eastern quarters of Gudermes and carry out "stripping" there.

The Central Election Commission asked the Ministry of Printing to hold ORT liable; Employees of the Moscow City Hall were evacuated in connection with the message about the laid explosive device; Reuters claims that Russian aviation fired at the refugee column, the Rosinform Center refutes these messages - in the evening tape .

According to RIA Novosti, today at 13:20 in Moscow an armed attack on the Lianozovo Internal Affairs Directorate was committed. Data on possible victims have not yet been reported.

In the near future, RAO "UES of Russia" intends to release bonds in the amount of $ 120 million, which will be placed in the western markets. This was announced in an interview with Interfax, the head of the RAO Anatoly Chubais. Securities will be issued in conjunction with the American investment bank "Salomon Smith Barney" under the guarantees of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which will transfer part of export profit as ensuring guarantees.

At the international conference of human rights in Russia in Russia of the 21st Century, which was opened in St. Petersburg, it was announced that the Galina Starovotova Award (the former prize "For Merit in the Struggle for Human Rights and the Building of a Democratic Society", established in 1988) was awarded to the co -chairman of the "soldiers' mothers" Elle Polyakova.

In the past 24 hours, Russian aviation carried out about 50 combat sorties into Chechnya, or rather into areas not yet occupied by federal forces. According to military reports, as a result of airstrikes in Grozny, an electrical appliances factory where militants started producing weapons was destroyed. Strikes were also carried out on places where militants gathered, their headquarters and strongholds, warehouses with ammunition and fuel and lubricants.

Today in Russia there is a day of memory of victims of political repression. Yesterday, Boris Yeltsin, in his appeal to the Russians, said that "in Russia it is difficult to find a family that would not have experienced the horror of a bloody terror unleashed by a totalitarian regime against its people." According to human rights organizations, during the reign of Lenin and Stalin for political reasons, about forty million people were destroyed.

The chairman of the Commission for the Rehabilitation of the Victims of Political Repressions under the President of the Russian Federation, Alexander Yakovlev, believes that "Russia does not get rid of public paralysis if it does not embark on the path of a comprehensive debollization of life." He stated this, speaking at the Solovetsky stone on Lubyanka at a mourning ceremony dedicated to the Day of memory of the victims of political repression.

According to Radio Liberty, Russia and the United States, in a joint statement, called the Pakistani military to the speedy restoration of civil government in the country. The application was published in Washington after negotiations by US Secretary of State Hero Indern and Foreign Minister of Russia Grigory Karasin.

First Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Social Protection of the Moscow Government Olga Gracheva on the air of Echo of Moskvy, the Moscow government completed the payment of compensation to the victims as a result of explosions on Guryanov Street and on the Kashirsky highway. In total, the capital allocated more than 20 million rubles for these purposes. However, she noted that not all problems have been resolved yet.

Emigrants live in the basements of the Dutch churches, and cockroaches in American prisons - a foreigner .