A common theme for today's press is the creation of a working group to implement the president's message. wrote about this Vremya Novostei , Kommersant and Izvestia . In his annual address, the president especially insisted on “doubling GDP by 2010” - the main task of the working group is precisely to develop business plans for this very doubling. The group was headed by new presidential aide Igor Shuvalov.

In Ulyanovsk, a new Chechen alphabet is being prepared for the publication. The textbook was written in two years by teachers of one of the gymnasiums in Grozny; They considered that the old alphabet, written back in the 50s, is not only strongly politicized, but also inaccurately reflects the phonetics of the Chechen language. Therefore, gymnasium teachers number 97 invented new combinations of letters for a more accurate transmission of the sounds of their language.

The first trial of the Albanian field commander and his associates ended today in Kosovo. Rustem Mustafa, nicknamed Remy, was sentenced by a court consisting of foreign lawyers, to 17 years in prison for war crimes committed by him and his people during the war of 1998V1999. And three of his former subordinates received from 5 to 13 years in prison. However, Remi was not convicted of crimes against the Serbian population of Kosovo.

In Iran, mass arrests of opposition supporters have been going on for the fourth day in the cities of Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Kervanshah and Ahvaz. In Tehran, the warehouses of state-owned stores even had to be converted to accommodate all those arrested. And now they are being dealt with by soldiers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who are demanding that the prisoners confess to connections with America and Israel, as well as drug trafficking, reports the Prima news agency.

After the process of Zaurbek Talhigov , sentenced for conversations with the terrorists on Dubrovka by eight years in prison, judge new “switchmen”. Today in the bench of the defendants of the Supreme Court of Karachay-Cherkessia there are three: Rita Bidzheva, Shadid Borzaev and Louise Daudov. The investigation found that Bijev, working in the passport department of the internal affairs department of the city of Ust-Dzhegut, for a bribe of 5 thousand rubles.

On Leningradsky Prospekt, near the Dynamo stadium, a mine was discovered: two RGD-5 grenades were installed 10 meters from each other and connected by the cord. Sapers were called to the place, visitors to the nearby cafe were evacuated. Explosion equipment examined a mine and neutralized it. According to NTV , the investigation believes that, in addition to the obvious “Chechen version”, a version associated with criminal showdowns is possible.

Yesterday, the Moscow City Court heard the appeal of the lawyers of Alexei Pichugin, head of the economic security department of YUKOS, against the decision of the Basmanny Court of Moscow on his arrest - the defenders sought to change the preventive measure. Pichugin’s case has no legal relation to the oil company itself, but in the public perception (and in the information flow of the security forces) it became the first in a whole series of attacks by the Prosecutor General’s Office.

The return to the homeland of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, expected yesterday, will probably take place today. The oligarch, who was not tolerated by the Prosecutor General’s Office, decided to still breathe a little air of freedom and at the same time visit the economic conference in Aidaho. This morning he must fly to Moscow.

For the first time in his half -century history, NATO will accept the command of a peacekeeping operation outside the zone of its responsibility V in Afghanistan. Today, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government of Afghanistan Abdullah Abdullo arrives on a visit to Brussels to participate in a meeting of the NATO Council.

Today, the Georgian parliament at an extraordinary meeting authorized the participation of Georgian military personnel in a peacekeeping operation in Iraq, RBC reports. The President of the country Eduard Shevardnadze addressed the parliament with such a request. It is planned to send 150 military personnel to Iraq who have undergone special training under the leadership of American military instructors . True, it is still unknown whether Georgia will be able to fulfill the obligations.

The military prosecutor's office of the Leningrad Military District, apparently, does not consider the damage caused by an explosion of a rocket released with the Su-24, so difficult to initiate a criminal case.

For several months, verbal battles around Turkmenistan and the problems of dual citizenship have been going on. Numerous restrictions on human rights in Turkmenistan became noticeable to us only after the cancellation of the double citizenship agreement that allowed Turkmen citizens with Russian citizenship to travel to Russia freely. Saparmurat Niyazov for a long time achieved the abolition of the agreement, because it left a loophole for people to another, more free world.

A common topic for today's press is the creation of a working group for the implementation of the President’s Epistle. This was written by "News Time" , "Kommersant" and "Izvestia" . In his annual message, the president especially insisted on “doubling GDP by 2010” - the main task of the working group is precisely the development of business plans for this doubling. The group was headed by the new assistant to the president Igor Shuvalov.

Another accident involving a minibus occurred in St. Petersburg V, one person died, 10 were injured, reports fontanka.ru. The incident occurred at the crossroads of the Peterhof highway and Budyonny Avenue V minibus, belonging to a private person, collided with KamAZ.

The leadership of the Kaliningrad region, having consulted, decided that the oil spill that occurred the day before yesterday was not scared and the emergency regime has no reason to introduce. According to the spokesman for the vice-governor, the beaches contaminated with fuel oil will be cleaned by the weekend.