Vladimir Putin stated before the meeting with Peter Luchinsky that Russia was "vitally interested" in that Moldova be an independent, territorially holistic, democratic state, which is developing dynamically and "is a factor in stability in this region." According to the president, "the national interests of Russia are in a field that requires, without any doubt and exaggeration, the achievements of the tasks in which both Russia and Moldova are interested."

After his visit to Germany, which was distinguished by a rich program, Vladimir Putin managed to meet with Moldova President Peter Luchinsky last night. The conversation was short -lived, and the presidents agreed to meet again today "in a narrow composition." Initially, it was assumed that the negotiations of the two presidents will take place in an expanded composition.

Vladimir Putin completed his foreign trip and flew from Chisinau to Moscow. The President of Moldova Pyotr Luchinsky escorted him to the airport. On the way, the presidential motorcade stopped at the Orthodox Cathedral of Chisinau, and both presidents talked with the gathered parishioners and residents of the city.

The All -Russian Officer Assembly is leaving the movement in support of the army. Oyu was announced today at the DPA Congress Chairman of the Officer Assembly, General Vladislav Achalov. According to him, after the death of the former leader of Leo Rokhlin, the movement "lost his face and headlong rushed into his bare politics, becoming the eyes of all the left in the eyes of the public." At the congress, among other things, candidates for the post of leader of the movement are discussed.

Disks with secret materials from a nuclear laboratory in Los Alamos, which were declared missing a week ago, it turns out that “just fell behind a photocopier” in the laboratory, CNN reports. While the discs were lying behind a copying machine, an emergency hearing in the Congress managed to go to ensure security and the safety of secret materials. The investigation was the best experts of the FBI.

On Monday, a meeting of the CIS defense ministers will be held in Moscow, at which the prospects of military cooperation between the Commonwealth countries until 2005 will be discussed. The problems of improving the combined air defense system and peacekeeping issues within the CIS will also be considered.

According to ITAR-TASS, a hail the size of a chicken egg fell on the Volgograd region. The spontaneous disaster was accompanied by the wind, the impulses of which reached 30 meters per second. As a result, about 200 houses were destroyed: the wind pulled the roofs and fell trees. Fortunately, there are no victims.

VTsIOM presents the results of a survey conducted on May 26 V 29, 2000 A according to a sample, representative for adult (18 years and older) of the population of Russia on the floor, age, level of education, region and type of settlement. The survey was conducted in 83 settlements of 33 regions of the country (150 points of the survey) on the sample of 1,600 people. Comparative tables indicate the results of polls conducted on the same samples. The permissible error V is in the range of 3.8%.

The scandal caused by the arrest of Gusinsky, which actually made everyone forget about Putin’s foreign tour; The long -awaited creation of the right coalition, as well as the continuation of the struggle for the redistribution of the spheres of influence in the oil industry - these are the information results of the past week. Read the monitor .

Vladimir Putin sign a decree on the creation of a state commission, the task of which will be the "intensification of the Pridnestrovsky settlement process." The commission will be headed by Evgeny Primakov. In addition, the president sent congratulations to her majesty Elizabeth II, the queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on the occasion of the national holiday - the birthday of Her Majesty, RIA Novosti reports.

Tomorrow the President of Kazakhstan Nazarbayev comes to Moscow. Unlike the leaders of other Central Asian states - diligently and consistently occupied by the transformation of the former Soviet republics into cozy hereditary monarchies - Nazarbayev still cannot part with hopes for more global leadership. (And happiness was like this: after all, Nursultan Abishevich was already appointed to the post of vice president of the USSR - but just before the collapse of this USSR itself).

The names of the murderers of Imam Umar Idrisov are established. According to law enforcement agencies, he was shot by militants from the detachment of the field commander Magomed Tsagaraev. The military suggests that the killers aimed to free up a place for “their” man, since the clergy in Chechnya have a strong influence on the local population.

In the United States, a law has been adopted, which gives electronic signature the same legal force as the usual - written. The US Department of Trade called on the rest of the countries to follow the American example, since such a law will contribute to the development of electronic business. However, some transactions, despite the adoption of a new law, can still be fixed only with a written signature.

The headquarters of the presidential representative in the North Caucasus, Viktor Kazantsev, will be located in the Stavropol region, and not in Rostov-on-Don, as previously assumed. Kazantsev himself announced this in Essentuki at a meeting with representatives of the Mineralnye Vody administration. “I came to see where to create a base for the work of the office of the presidential representative - in the Stavropol Territory or in the Caucasian Mineral Waters.

The leader of the movement in support of the army, Viktor Ilyukhin, saying today that the movement will support any actions of Vladimir Putin aimed at strengthening the army, immediately said that in the fall, it may have begun a campaign to abolish the institution of the presidency as such. At the same time, Ilyukhin welcomes Putin's steps to strengthen statehood. He does not like the president just as a phenomenon.