In the West, a discussion continues about the possibility of using genetically changed products. We have already written about the problems associated with the export of such goods to Europe, where the campaign is gaining power against the use of biotechnologies in the food industry. Opponents of genetic engineering remind you that it has not yet been established how harmful the products can be in this way.

Yesterday, in the Kurchaloevsky district of Chechnya, two militants were detained suspected of preparing an attempt on the authorized representative of the government in Chechnya Nikolai Koshman and the military commandant of the security zone of Chechnya, Lieutenant General Ivan Babichev. Koshman and Babichev were sent to Kurchali for a meeting of the certification commission, at which it was planned to approve the heads of the interim administration of the district.

The CEC considered the release and distribution of the book “From the First Person.

The British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who, together with Vladimir Putin at the premiere of Prokofiev’s opera “War and Peace” in Mariinka, appreciated the Russian Io as “a high intellectual person with a clear idea of ​​what he wants to achieve in Russia.” According to Blair, Putin is rapidly mastering the art of managing the country and has a "strong sense of Russia's place in the world." Blair accepted Putin’s invitation to visit Russia, considering it necessary to "renew and strengthen the

Transneft decided to lengthen the oil pipeline bypassing Chechnya, bringing it to the port in Makhachkala, reports Prime-Tass. Thus, the length of the bypass oil pipeline will increase by 17 km (up to 329 km), which will allow Transneft to take transneft volumes of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan for pumping a new oil pipeline with further access to export terminals.

According to Prime-Tass, the first Vice President of the EBRR Charles Frank at a meeting of the advisory council on foreign investments, stated that the state should not actively participate in the recapitalization of the banking sector.

Raduev, who is now sitting in Lefortovo, will appear to the court on charges of taking hostages - the Criminal Code has a specific article with the following name: Article ¦206 paragraph 3. ITAR -TASS sources in the prosecutor's office reported this. Daduev was accused of capturing hostages in absentia back in 1996. However, it is not difficult to assume that Raduyev will be charged under other articles: such as threats in committing terrorist attacks, for example, or terrorism directly.

The New Gazeta is going to sue Sergei Yastrzhembsky, who recently stated that different media, and more specifically, "New Gazeta", "New Izvestia" and NTV, "completely printed negative information about Chechnya." It is easy to guess: they are paid, as the president’s assistant subtly noticed, "from abroad." The rest of the "sold" have not yet responded to this statement.

The book "From the First Person. Talking with Vladimir Putin", an excerpt from which was published last week at Kommersant, and which the public has not yet been waiting for, has not yet entered the sale. The CEC considered that the book published by the Vagrius publishing house has a pre-election-advertising character and therefore cannot go on open sale.

The head of the Russian Embassy of Great Britain in Moscow, James Douuris, called the most secure for investors by the Russian Region, called Tatarstan; In North Ossetia, the assembly of cars of Daimlerchrysler will probably be assembled; Read more - in the press review of the Interregional Information Agency "All Russia" .

The Circassians and Abazins of the KCR gathered for a rally in front of the Republican House of the Government to announce their association in the Circassian Autonomous Region with the exit from Karachay-Cherkessia. The reason for the action was that during the formation of the Government of the KCR, headed by General Vladimir Semenov, the interests of the Circassians and Abazinov were not taken into account.

Neither peace, no war

“No warning of the electronic media for violation of election campaigning is planned in the near future,” Alexander Vesnyakov, head of the CEC and enemy of Zhirinovsky, told reporters immediately after his meeting with the heads of television and radio companies. Recall that in the last election the CEC issued such warnings, and it was they who became the basis for the Ministry of Printing to refuse the ORT and TVC to automatically extend the license.

The bailiffs proceeded to the seizure of the property "Dalenergo". Cars are being arrested now.

In tomorrow, Kommersant read about how the Hermitage tried to count; Putin had a "friend of Tony"; Russia faces an exception to the Council of Europe; And Patriarch Alexy II turned to the readers of the newspaper.