VTsIOM represents the results of a representative express survey of 1600 Russians conducted on April 20 - 23, 2001 . The distribution of answers to some questions of this study are given as a percentage of the number of respondents. The survey was conducted in 83 settlements, 33 regions of the country (150 points of the survey). Statistical error within 3.8% The data are given in % of the number of respondents. What is the holiday of May 1 personally important for you?

Official accusations were charged to a group of terrorists, led by the notorious Muhammad, Emin Tokchan, who captured a hotel in the center of Istanbul on April 23. According to NTV.ru, their actions were qualified not as terrorism, but as a “restriction of the freedom of one or more people”, as well as “the use of firearms in order to call panic”.

The Communists rally on the Revolution Square. According to the police, about fifteen thousand people gathered for a rally. The head of the suddenly discovered Moscow city communist organization Alexander Kuvaev, who suddenly discovered himself. “Our slogan:“ Anti -people's government is resigned, ”Kuvaev said the Communists, urging him to prevent the“ anti -people land reform ”and demanding to give“ land - peasants, factories to workers, worlds to peoples.

In addition to the most numerous column of demonstrators organized by social democrats and trade unions (according to some reports, it has 17,000 people, the column moves to the Dolgoruky monument), another column was made by the Communists, which, according to tradition, go from Kaluga Square to the monument to Zhukov.

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Today, at 9 am a demonstration organized by the Moscow Federation of Trade Unions and the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia began from the Belorussky station in Tverskaya. According to Interfax, several thousand people participate in the Manifesto, representatives of the Fatherland parties, the Union of Labor, the Russian United Social Democratic Party, led by Mikhail Gorbachev.

Yesterday, Alexei Kudrin, at the head of the Russian delegation, who was in Washington at the spring session of the IMF and the World Bank, met with the President of the World Bank James Wolfenson. According to the results of the meeting, Kudrin said that Russia's decision was discussed not to take in this and next year budget -substituting loans from international financial institutions.

A space tourist from the board of the International Space Station Dennis Tito gave a twenty-minute press conference for CNN, NBC and TV-6. “Everything is wonderful for me, this is an amazing feeling of weightlessness, here things are amazing and incredible here in space. 5 minutes ago we flew over Egypt and Israel, and I saw plowed fields from the station, the borders between these countries V I saw a person on earth,” Tito NTV.ru reports.

According to data at 15.00, today in Russia on May 1 732 thousand people took part in the festive events. As RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, about a thousand mass events took place in the country. 81 thousand internal affairs and more than 5 thousand military servicemen of internal troops were involved in ensuring order. In Moscow, about 28.5 thousand people entered rallies and demonstrations.

Shortly before May 1, VTsIOM asked the respondents the question of what this day is important for them, and what he meant 20-30 years ago. In those days, for the majority - 59% - it was the day of the May Day demonstration (now 11% were remembered). And in the first place - 37% - the answer "This is an opportunity to meet with friends and relatives" The festive table is an indispensable attribute of today for 23% (about the same was in Soviet times).