Over the past three months, 20% fewer cases have been filed in Russia than in the same period last year. The number of arrests has more than halved: from 23 to 10 thousand people per month. About three thousand people were released from custody in the courtroom due to the lack of evidence of a crime - about a thousand more than during the entire last year.

The chairman of the political council of the Rossiya Movement Georgy Prykhin said that perhaps at the next meeting of the Presidium, a decision would be decided to withdraw the movement from the People’s Patriotic Union of Russia (NPSR).

North Korea "is ready to eliminate problems that cause concern from the point of view of security" if the United States "abandon hostile policy" in relation to Pyongyan. This was announced today at a meeting in Pyongyang with the South Korean official delegation by the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK Kim EN to us, ITAR-TASS reports.

The very idea of ​​Georgian mediation in the dialogue of Putin-Mashadov is not new, and Shevardnadze has repeatedly declared his readiness to serve such a service in the North Caucasus. The position of Russia is also known, which very painfully perceives all attempts by foreign interference in the process of resolving the Chechen conflict and strongly denies the possibility of any international mediation.

The Russian businessman Konstantin Grigorishin, who was detained on October 12 by the Kyiv police and was released from custody and hospitalized yesterday, said that over the past two years he was threatened by Viktor Medvedchuk, the head of the Ukrainian administration, and oligarchs Grigory and Igor Surkisa (the latter is the president of Dynamo, ”RIA Novosti reports.

Grigory Okhotin Over the past three months, Russia has been initiated 20% less than the same period of last year. The number of arrests decreased more than twice: from 23 to 10 thousand people a month. About three thousand people were released from the custody in the courtroom due to the lack of corpus delicti-about a thousand more than for the entire last year. These are the preliminary results of the introduction of the introduction of the new Code of Criminal Procedure last week.

The draft law on nationalization has been submitted to the government. According to the First Deputy Minister of Economic Relations, Alexander Braverman, the bill is primarily aimed at ensuring the country's defense and security. According to the bill, nationalized property can only enter the property of the Russian Federation. “There is no talk of any deprivation,” the deputy minister said.

The Minister of the Interior Boris Gryzlov says that the management of the operation in Chechnya will move from the FSB to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, most likely in the summer of next year.

Today, the investigation group of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the General Prosecutor's Office, which is investigating the murder of the governor of the Magadan region Valentin Tsvetkov, flies to Magadan. According to Echo of Moscow, law enforcement agencies are sure that customers of this high -profile crime must be sought there. The investigation does not exclude that the murder of the governor could be organized by the so -called "fish" or "gold" mafia.

At the IV All -Russian Democratic Meeting passing in Moscow, consultations of the leaders of the right -wing parties in Russia were held. At the initiative of the ATP, the meeting was assigned to the meeting about the nomination of a single democratic leader in the 2004 presidential election.

On Thursday, Putin will go on a brief visit to Portugal, and from there to Mexico, where the leaders of the countries of the Asia -Pacific region will gather on October 26. The main intrigue of the summit will be bilateral meetings of the leaders, one of the most important will be Putin's meeting with Bush. But why is the Russian president flying to Lisbon is a secret for everyone, even for informed experts. On Monday, Mikhail Kasyanov will go to Kaliningrad.

Tomorrow the Presidium of the State Council will consider the organization of local self -government, and the day after tomorrow the State Council will be devoted to the same problem. On the eve of the discussion, Vladimir Putin spoke of local self -government with government members, calling this problem very important for the country.

New data come from Kalmykia: after the counting of more than 90% of Ilyumzhinov, 47.53% of the vote has, RIA Novosti reports. There is no longer any doubt that the second round is inevitable: the current president of Kalmykia is losing ground. This, in particular, means that in rural areas where the data comes later, Ilyumzhinov support less than in the capital, where all officials vote for it.

The unification of reformist liberals and the liberals of Grigory Yavlinsky into a single political force is an eternal plot of post-Soviet Russian history. On Monday, this story will receive new impetus at the All-Russian Democratic Conference - a conference of liberal forces established by Yabloko in the late 90s.

The first deputy head of the Presidential Administration Valery Khoroskovsky denied the accusations of the employees of the administration to arrest Russian entrepreneur Konstantin Grigorishin, while noting that he would like to speak in the language of facts, not statements, RIA Novosti reports.