Having conducted Kim Jong Ira, President Putin continued the Far Eastern Voyage and today met with the sailors of the Pacific Fleet. They spoke, in particular, about the prospects for the transfer of the Russian army to contract service. As the president said, the transition will be carried out gradually, as the economy has developed. The contract service should in the future become the main in the army.

Three Russian policemen - Tychkov, Ugryumov and Blinov - detained about a month ago in the Pankisian gorge of Georgia for illegal violation of the border, by the decision of the Tbilisi District Court are exempted to bail, the RTR reports. Having written to Putin an angry rebuke about the bombing of Georgian territory by Russian aircraft, Shevardnadze noted that Georgia does not want to break out diplomatic relations with Russia and leave the CIS.

In the old Achkhoy, an old burial was found, presumably hostages. Four graves were examined. A criminal case has been opened. According to the headquarters of the counter -terrorism operation, the exhumed corpses can belong to people who, even before the start of the second war, the bandits from the Shamil Basayev group were abducted in order to obtain a ransom. Probably, hostages were shot when relatives could not pay the requested amounts for them.

The government introduced a draft budget 2003 to the Duma. Putin visited the seaport of Zarubino. The family members of the Slovak President are sure that he was poisoned. In the Akhmetsky district of Georgia, military exercises began. The UN Deputy Secretary General does not see anything terrible in Russian-Iranian nuclear cooperation. Yesterday's news

Kaliningrad was covered with smoke. The wood waste dump is burning, and the wind carries smoke throughout the city. According to the Ministry of Emergencies, at a landfill, eleven smoldering areas and only strong rains can extinguish them. The difficulty lies in the fact that the fire spread deep into the 20-meter layer of corkh and sawdust, which lay for so long that they partially turned into peat. I have been trying to put out a fire for a week, but to no avail.

Today, the Georgian parliament will discuss the response that Georgia can take in response to the mysterious bombing of the Akhmetsky district on the night of last Friday. As you know, Russia insists that there is no relation to the incident, as a result of which one person died, and six more were injured.

Vladimir Putin met with the sailors of the ship "Marshal Shaposhnikov", and also visited the Far Eastern Shipping Company, during these visits he talked a lot. In particular, in an interview with the sailors, Putin discussed the future of the army and navy, promised that the service life would not increase.

Neither peace, no war

The Moscow International Monetary Association (MMVA) - the most influential organization lobbying the interests of Russian exporters - refused to file a complaint with the European court with a request to cancel the right of the Bank of Russia to establish the procedure for mandatory sale of currency, reports AK & M. This is due to the decision of the Central Bank on the liberalization of foreign currency revenue adopted on Friday.

- Vladimir Vladimirovich, please tell me, the Lukilovsky D-6 project is today the most acute environmental problem of the Kaliningrad region? - This is the most serious potential threat. It is potential, because so far nothing is really dangerous. - Your organization, which has existed for twelve years, has extensive experience in struggle against dangerous industrial projects. Is there something fundamentally new in the D-6 problem, something distinguishes it from the previous similar cases?

The one saw shocked the Ombudsman, whose trips to Chechnya hitherto were organized at the official level. This time he saw the non -paradise side of the current Chechen reality, his contacts were not as usual. As a result, the picture that appeared before him was shocking.

The Mi-26 helicopter, which crashed near Hankala on August 19, was shot down by a rocket from a portable anti-aircraft missile system. This is the official conclusion of the commission to investigate the causes of the disaster, ”RTR reports with reference to ITAR -TASS. The agency was informed about this at the headquarters of the North Caucasus Military District.

ITAR -TASS reports the death of another Basayev ally - the "right hand" of the fighter Abdulkhadzhiev (his name is not given). According to the deputy commander of the OGV Boris Podopigora, Abdulkhadzhiev died as a result of a special operation in Shali. And the "echo of Moscow" recalls that in the first Chechen war Abdulkhadzhiev commanded the so -called Shalin Front.

The Parliamentary Budget Committee today has begun to study the draft federal budget for 2003, introduced by the government the day before ; The first meeting dedicated to the consideration of the budget will take place on September 3-5. The Chairman of the Committee Valery Galchenko believes that the budget will pass through the Duma quickly - by mid -November, deputies will be able to accept the draft main financial document of the country in final reading.

Return to publications Projects archive ABSTRACT Author: G. Kozhevnikova. 2002 (August), 4th edition, 60 USD The fourth edition of the collection contains more than four hundred biographical information about Russian officials - members of the Government of the Russian Federation, heads of federal executive bodies of the Russian Federation, their deputies and employees of the Government Apparatus as of August 20, 2002.