As RTR reports, an emergency occurred last night in Ingushetia. Yesterday at about 18:00 from the BTR of the internal troops, fire on civilian vehicles was unexpectedly opened. At first, the "Zhiguli" were fired in in which the family was traveling. The driver tried to hide behind the KamAZ that was traveling nearby, after which the truck was opened. The passengers of the Zhiguli were not injured, the driver of KamAZ was taken to a hospital with gunshot wounds. An investigation is underway.

From the Baikonur cosmodrome at 14.05, the Satan intercontinental missile started with five satellites of Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Italy on board. Satellites are brought into orbit. On the same day (apparently, in order to prove that not by commerce of the Unified Strategic Missile Forces) the military launched the Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile.

Who won the elections in Yugoslavia is still unknown. Supporters of both Miloshevich and Koshtunitsa make statements about the victory of their candidate. In Belgrade, there was a thousands of opposition supporters with a demand to recognize the victory of the nighted man in the first round. Meanwhile, the supporters of Milosevich say that both candidates gained less than 50%.

The relevant committees of the State Duma and government officials have begun to consider the bill entered into the parliament "On the immunity of the Russian Federation and its property." It determines one of the most important aspects of state property management abroad is the possibility of using sovereign immunity in protection against court claims, arrests and seizures. However, the bill sharply limits this opportunity.

Deputy Prime Minister Kudrin was trapped. The AFI agency reports that the delegation of Russia made an attempt to leave the building of the congress center, but immediately fell into the thick of the police with demonstrators and was forced to retreat back into the building. Now the deputy prime minister and delegation members are working on various evacuation options.

The section Zagranitsa changed the format. Now here it will be possible to read the digest of international news of the last day. The heading will be updated every morning. In today's issue: the situation in Yugoslavia is still unclear; Two Korea continue rapprochement; The IMF session and the World Bank in Prague is accompanied by the protests of opponents of globalization; The threat of a coup is maintained in Peru. All this is in the new abroad .

The Kremlin met the President of Russia Putin with the President of the USSR Gorbachev, who acted as a NTV lawyer. According to the results of the meeting, the presidential spokesman Alexei Gromov said that Putin did not intend to intervene in the conflict between Gazprom and the Media Most, as this is a dispute between two business entities. “Controversial issues can be resolved in court,” Putin believes.

The director of the Department of Financial Institutions of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development of Elizabeth Wallace said that the bank can reduce investments in the Russian small business if SBS-GRO will not return the money that the EBRD has once sent to lending to small enterprises (about $ 30 million ran with interest). The problem is that SBS-GRO is under the control of Arco, and the issue of paying the debt of the EBRD is not considered by agency.

The price of Russian Urals oil with delivery to the ports of the Mediterranean on Monday was $ 27.05 per barrel, which is $ 1.28 below the value of the price of Spot Friday. Oil prices continue to fall due to the sales of the United States part of their strategic oil reserves. However, experts say that this fall can be short -term.

The Supreme Court recognized the government’s decree on the use of holograms of quality. Thus, the decision, which was extremely unpleasant for consumers and sellers, against which the Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy protested, including, will soon come into effect. With a lawsuit on the ban on holograms, entrepreneurs and the Institute of the National Public Treaty project filed a court.

The investigation in the case against the husband of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Ukrainian government Yulia Tymoshenko continues. Tymoshenko herself was interrogated by representatives of the US Ministry of Justice who came to Kyiv. They tried to find out the schemes by which former Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko took the money through the Corporation "Unified Energy Systems of Ukraine" (Tymoshenko headed this organization when Lazarenko was the prime minister).

Roman Abramovich, one of the best managers of Russia is a well -known master of multi -way and multilateral combinations. That is why the sensational results of the Onaco transaction left so many questions. The last two days have somewhat clarified one of the dark sides of this transaction: Yukos acquired from unknown buyers for a small amount of the control, according to unofficial data, a package of a very promising VSNK. Yukos needs it like no other - in connection with his Chinese plans.

In the third monitor Putin said that Russia agrees with any options for resolving the problem of Nagorno -Karabakh, which would arrange the peoples and leadership of Armenia and Azerbaijan. "Russian Thought" notes that the government does not have a single position on conflicts in RAO "UES".

Yesterday, contrary to the promises of Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and the expectations of an excited media community, the fate of the press Minister Mikhail Lesin did not become clear. But to those who have not yet understood, the authorities made it clear that the situation is very serious, and the ministerial autograph on the agreement of Gusinsky and Koch Lesin simply would not get away with it.

Prime Minister Kasyanov signed a decree that determines the competence of the Government Commission created in July to regulate the alcohol market. Even the fluent listing of areas in which the commission headed by the deputy prime minister will act indicates that it will aggressively defend the interests of alcohol state monopoly.