They again started talking about the restoration of the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky on the Lubyanskaya Square. This time, the mayor of Moscow says about the intention to return the monument in August 1991. Like his predecessors in this matter, Yu. M. Luzhkov reminds us of the irreconcilable struggle of Dzerzhinsky with crime and his contribution to the elimination of homelessness. In addition, he refers to the artistic value of the sculpture of Vuchetich.

Today in Minsk, the editor -in -chief of the newspaper "Works" ("Worker") Viktor Ivashkevich was sentenced to two years in prison. According to RIA Novosti, the judge found Ivashkevich guilty "in the attempt to insult and slander" against the President of Belarus. We are talking about the article "A thief should sit in prison, published in the newspaper on the eve of the presidential election in the fall of 2001. The entire circulation of the newspaper was arrested and will now be destroyed.

Oleg Deripaska continues the consolidation of his assets. According to Vedomosti, the general director of Rusala and the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Basic Element said that he was going to transfer his aluminum plants to a single promotion. Until now, the Russian aluminum has been a holding company: each of the factories owned by Rusal has its own board of directors and minority shareholders with detailed rights. Deripaska decided to change this.

Eduard Shevardnadze issued an order to activate the operation to detain criminals, terrorists and the release of hostages in the Pankisi Gorge, - Interfax reports. The President of Georgia does not exclude that the case may reach the armed conflict, but at the same time hopes that after 2-3 weeks, the Panish problem will be completely removed from the agenda and the civilian population will return to ordinary life.

The volume of payments on external debt next year may exceed the amount of funds planned for these purposes in the budget, the Ministry of Finance admitted. Deputy Minister of Finance Sergei Kolotukhin announced this at a joint meeting of the subcommittee on budget legislation and the State Debt Commission of the Duma.

Several people died and 21 received severe injuries as a result of the next terrorist attack in Chechnya. A passenger bus exploded in Grozny in the center of the city on a landmine. Basically, the passengers were injured in it. The number of dead is specified: according to ITAR -TASS, there are three of them - two women and one child, other agencies report six dead. Seven more people were injured.

Following the old hymn, Russia will dawn the granite Dzerzhinsky. The intention expressed by Yuri Luzhkov to return the monument to the founder of the Soviet secret police to Felix Dzerzhinsky to the oncoming initiative to the Lubyanskaya Square of the capital. Yesterday, a protest rally took place, at which signatures were collected against the initiative of the Moscow mayor.

- Opening in April the first All -Russian conference "Public resources of education", you said that a huge concern of the society has appeared at the civilian forum, and the next step was the active inclusion of civilian organizations in the process of reforming it. Soon, a working group was created at the Ministry of Education, which took up the direct security of the interaction of the state and society on this issue. What do the state and society try to work together?

The election of the mayor of Nizhny Novgorod took place. By 21.30 Sundays, 28% of voters came to the plots. According to preliminary data from a survey of voters, Vadim Bulavinov (30.9% of the vote) leads the favorite of the Kremlin. 26.2% voted against all, 25.1% - for the current mayor of Yuri Lebedev.

There is a scandal in the Moscow branch of the Union of Right Forces: the speaker of the Moscow Duma, Vladimir Platonov, addressed the head of the Moscow branch of the party, Eduard Vorobyov, with a letter in which he announced his withdrawal from the Union of Right Forces. The letter says that his decision is related to the ultimatum of the city branch of the party, which, under the threat of expulsion from the Union, demanded that its deputies create a faction in the city duma.

Vladimir Putin drew attention to the fact that Russia has been covered by forest and peat fires for many weeks. On this occasion, he met with Sergey Shoigu and instructed the head of the Ministry of Emergencies by the end of December to present a plan for the joint work of the government and regions to prevent fires in the future.

On September 19, OPEC must decide whether to increase quotas for the production and export of oil-raw or leave everything as it is. There is no unity on this issue inside the cartel. In addition, you will have to make a fateful decision at random: while the United States only play on the nerves of market participants with its military preparations. Whether real military operations will begin when it happens and how much it is delayed, no one takes to predict.

The Ministry of Emergencies reports victory over the fire near Moscow: they are extinguished in all forests of the region. At the same time, however, peat bogs continue to burn. According to rescuers, the most difficult situation is still preserved in the Shatursky district of V there, six kilometers from the village of Rodovitsky moss, a peat on an area of ​​fifty hectares. Almost six thousand people and more than a thousand units of special equipment participate in the liquidation of fires.

The Ka -26 helicopter, which crashed yesterday in Noginsk, took part in extinguishing fires, RIA Novosti reports. He dumped water on fires in the territory of the Noginsky district. The press service of the Governor of the Moscow Region reports that a high-class pilot controlled a helicopter.

In Chechnya, in the village of Alkhazurovo, Ruslanbek Yasaev, the son of the head of the administration of the Urus-Martan region, Shirvani Yasaev, was kidnapped, Interfax reports. According to preliminary data, late at night, unknown masked men entered the house of relatives of Ruslanbek Yasaev’s mother, where he was staying, and, under the threat of force, kidnapped him and took him away in an unknown direction. The investigative team has not yet been able to track down the kidnappers.