The number of missing (that is, dead) during the terrorist attack of the past Tuesday still exceeds five thousand people. So far they are not officially declared dead, but all hopes have already been lost to pull someone alive from under the ruins of WTC.

The FSB contributes to the injection of the situation around international terrorism. According to the Office of the FSB of the Russian Federation for Chechnya, the militants found a technical description of the Boeing-737 airliner and a manual for pilots. All this was recorded on a compact disk found in the gang cache, which is a certain Abdurakhman-small leader. The cache, in turn, was in the house of a resident of the village of Tsotsin-Yurt, Kurachalasky district.

"Retribution Operation" can begin in two to three weeks. It is impossible to retreat Bush: its rating reached the unprecedented for the United States 91% only on promises to end terrorism. It is not yet clear which countries, except Afghanistan, will be appointed enemies of the United States (Cheney said only that Iraq is not suspected of involvement in explosions). "Kommersant" recalls that the vast majority from the list of terrorists -enlargers are immigrants from Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

Mikhail Fishman In the war declared America, it is important that there are nothing to compare the attacks with - in fact, no analogies pass. My good acquaintance (he recently moved from Manhattan to Charlotsville), describing the scale of the tragedy in the first hours after the fall of the towers, suggested that the explosion on Oktyabrskaya Square, after which it ceases to exist at all.

The attack of the militants on Gudermes (until recently, the former actual capital of Chechnya) was confirmed by the apparatus of Yastrzhembsky. RIA Novosti correspondent finally presented an official version of what was happening: at 6.00 in several areas of the city, clashes of the federal forces with militants began. The militants of several dozen people were armed with small arms and grenade launchers.

At the MICEX auction, the dollar decreased by 1 kopeck to 29 rubles 44 kopecks. The trading turnover is still insignificant, a little more than $ 60 million. Currency calculations are difficult, and therefore many market operators are trying to minimize activity. Banks still experience a tangible need for ruble liquidity, short-term loans are 10-15% per annum. The world market retains instability.

Putin, while in Sochi, talked on the phone with the Minister of Defense Sergey Ivanov. According to the press secretary of the president Alexei Gromov, the Minister of Defense reported on the situation in Chechnya.

"News time" comments on the project of revolutionary changes for the alcohol industry, "approved on Friday by the College of the Ministry of Economic Development. It is proposed to create a state -owned company for alcohol trade and transfer the entire cargo of excise taxes from the production and turnover of alcohol to alcohol plants. The authors of the reform assure that this will help increase tax collection and overcome underground manufacturers.

Was Russia of rural v became the urban There were 7 cities with more than one hundred thousand inhabitants, now - 163 What happened in the 90s? Three of the four Russians are citizens The uneven location of the urban population Growing and contracting cities Russia in an urbanized world Topics of previous numbers Tatiana Mavrina (Tatiana Mavrina) Tram ring.

The World Bank and the IMF transfer a joint session to a later date. On this occasion, a joint statement was made by WB President James Wolfenson and the director-administrator of the IMF Horst Keller. The session was supposed to take place on September 29-30 in Washington. Now other opportunities are being considered for its conduct, RIA Novosti reports.

If the United States begins a war on terrorism—which few people doubt now—then its arena will be the Middle East and Central Asia. There, all the way from the Mediterranean Sea to the Chinese border, governments and regimes began to stir, hoping to solve their own problems in the coming military turmoil, or at least get out of it with the least losses.

There are conflicting reports about the situation in Gudermes. Sources in the city police department told Interfax that about 100 militants entered the city. According to them, the bandits are now shelling administrative buildings and federal positions. At the same time, Akhmad Kadyrov states that there is a group of 15 militants in Gudermes, which is completely blocked, and now “measures are being taken to neutralize it.”

Igor Fedyukin If the United States begins the war with terrorism v. What few doubts, v, its area will become the Middle East and Central Asia. There, throughout the Mediterranean to the Mediterranean to the Chinese border, the government and regimes stirred, hoping in the advancing military turmoil to solve their own problems or at least get out of it with the least losses.

Vladimir Putin, while in Sochi, really made a phone call. It is logical that the first conversation took place with one of the Central Asian leaders, President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov, the presidential press service reports.

According to Interfax, the inhabitants of Tatarstan protest against the transfer of Tatar writing into Latin. A message of worried citizens was received by the State Council of the Republic. “Again, as before, when changing the alphabet, and there were three such changes over the past seventy years, traditions will be broken, new textbooks will have to be published, to develop a teaching methodology, to translate books, to retrain teachers. Huge funds will be spent on all this.