Oil exports from Russia in January -June grew by 15% and amounted to 90.9 million tons (in the first half of last year - 11.6 million tons less), Interfax reports. However, despite the increase in the volume of supplies in kind, oil exports in value terms were reduced - revenue for export supplies for six months of this year amounted to $ 12.396 billion, which is 6% ($ 801 million) less than in the first six months of 2001.

December 17, 2000 The twenty-three-year-old Said-Hussein Imakaev returned home from the neighboring village of Old Atagi, where he went to the market. He had with him identification documents, as well as documents for the car that he managed. The car was stopped by Russian military personnel of an unknown military unit. According to eyewitnesses, Said-Hussein Imakaev was taken out of the car, put in a UAZ and taken away in an unknown direction.

In Moldova, the missing deputy director of the information technology department, Peter Dimitrov, is declared missing, RIA Novosti reports. This government department is engaged in automated management systems, including to control smuggling and illegal migration. The last development of the department allows you to control the flows of export and imported goods. The internal service colonel Dimitrov was responsible for organizing the production and issuance of documents.

Chechen militants blocked on the Georgian border are detained. The press service of the Georgian border guards reports: "A group of seven armed Chechens, who violated on Sunday at about 23:30 local time, the Georgian-Russian border from the Kerigo Pass on the liability of the Girevi border guard, was detained." The details of this operation are not yet known.

The Georgian border guards again stated that Russian aircraft bombed the Georgian territory two kilometers from the border: several Su-25 aircraft invaded the airspace of Georgia on the Chechen section of the border and dumped bombs in the area of ​​Mount Chontio; There are no victims and victims, - Interfax told the press service of the State Department for the Protection of the State Border of Georgia.

On Sunday evening, the mined car exploded at the Civil Guard building (one of the types of police) in the resort town of Santa Pole in the province of Alikant. In a car left by criminals between the barracks and the bus stop, there was, according to the Voice of America, from 25 to 40 kilograms of explosives. The bomb was filled with nuts and bolts. Therefore, there are many injured. A six -year -old girl and an elderly man were killed, at least 40 people were injured.

In Grozny, work was completed on the project of the Constitution of the Chechen Republic. The head of the Chechen administration Ahmad Kadyrov, under whose leadership, the final meeting of the Constitutional Commission was held, said that until the end of the week it was necessary to register an initiative group of citizens, which will make a proposal for a referendum. The referendum, according to Kadyrov, will have to pass in the fall.

Russia continues to pay debts to the International Monetary Fund. As of June 30, Russia's debt to the fund amounted to 5.5 billion euros. The next payment must be made on August 7. Its amount is 42.4 million SDR (SDR - a special monetary unit used for calculations in the fund). For this, the Ministry of Finance reserved 49.05 million euros. Given the future payment in 2002, Russia will transfer the IMF 551.4 million SDR or about 476 million euros, - reports AK & m.

At today's traditional meeting with the cabinet members, Putin dealt with the payment of salaries to state employees. Valentina Matvienko reported to the president that the salary was delayed in 16 constituent entities of the Federation and teachers suffer most. True, she promised that by September 1 debts would be repaid. Kudrin spoke about the famous financial recovery agreement, which the Ministry of Finance concluded with all subjects in July.

The Russian border service commented on events on the Russian-Chechen border. RIA Novosti reports with reference to the North Caucasus branch of the FPS that the detained militants from the Gelaev gang did not cross the Russian-Georgian border, but returned to the Pankisian gorge from the place of the alleged transition to the territory of the Russian Federation. These data are directed by the border service of Georgia.

From today, Russia has been introducing anti -dumping duties for a period of four months for the import of galvanized rolling of ferrous metals from Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Duties will be installed on Ukrainian metal in the amount of 31.8% of the customs value of the goods, and for Kazakhstan - in the amount of 36.9%, Interfax reports.

In connection with the Law "On Countering Extremist Activities" adopted on July 25, 2002, a number of laws were changed, including "On Public Associations" and "On Mass Media". Changes in the law "On the Prosecutor's Office" expand the powers of the prosecutor "to prevent illegal acts", and the addition to the law "On the legalization (laundering) of income" refers to financial transactions with the participation of extremist organizations to transactions requiring special control.

In Chechnya, a responsible employee of the Chechen government Vakha Saidov disappeared. As the locals say, at dawn in his house in the village of Aldy, six people entered and, introducing themselves as law enforcement officers, forcibly took him with them. These people were in camouflage and spoke Chechen, - Interfax reports. In the afternoon, it became known that not a single official structure of Saidov was delayed, and the district court did not write out the order to arrest him.

The military in Chechnya is concerned that they may have problems tomorrow. On August 6, this is the day of capture of formidable separatists in the first campaign. The militants usually have to celebrate this day with explosions and attacks on Russian blocks. According to the NTV television company, despite the fact that the local administration and the leadership of the OGV say that the situation is under control, federal forces in anxious expectation.

Yesterday, the premises of the editorial office of the newspaper "Evening Chelyabinsk" were painted with swastikas. Although the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate and assumes that this was done from hooligan motives, a person was not at all a boy in hot pursuit - born in 1970 - and he acted not alone. He was taken from him to leave his place, the police are looking for accomplices, ”RIA Novosti reports.