The Russian women's football team for the first time in its history reached the final tournament of the World Cup, which will be held next year in the United States. On Sunday, the Russians held a response butt qualifying match in Finland and, like two weeks ago in their field, won - 2: 1.

Doctors from New York University carried out a unique experiment to combat infertility. The method they used are similar to the one used by Scottish embryologists to cloning the Dolly Sheep. The core, extracted from the egg of a 44-year-old woman, was transplanted to a donor egg, previously freed from its own nuclear material. The reconstructed egg was subjected to artificial fertilization, after which the embryo was returned to the uterus of the future mother.

The volume of cash issuance in Russia for the period from 1st to 25th September, according to preliminary data, was 17 and a half billion rubles, the financial information agency was told today in the Department of Regulation of Cash Appeals-the Central Bank of Russia. Thus, the volume of cash emissions in the country in the first 25 days of September more than 3 times exceeded the amount of emission for 8 months of this year.

Lev Roitman: I have never been to Chechnya. I read about her in newspapers - in Russian, in the Western; I see shots shot in Chechnya by operators of all kinds of television companies; I hear about Chechnya on the radio. In other words, I belong to the gigantic majority that receives only negative information about the post -war Chechnya: murders, bloody raspings, showdowns, helpless government, defenseless hostages, and so on. Who is to blame that the picture of Chechnya is just that?

The stay of Russian President Yeltsin in Kazakhstan was reduced by one day - due to health reasons. According to Sergei Mironov, the attending physician of the president who accompanies him on a trip, Boris Yeltsin is tracheobronhit, temperature 37 and two - 37 and four. The president is prescribed anti -inflammatory drugs and antibiotics. In the evening, Yeltsin, who arrived today in Alma-Ata from Tashkent, will fly to Moscow.

Belgrade did not even fulfill the minimum conditions that could prevent NATO military operation in Kosovo, ”said France Minister Richard today. NATO intervention is inevitable if the authorities of Yugoslavia do not withdraw troops from Kosovo, ”the minister warned. According to him, the objects of air strikes will be Serbian weapons warehouses, military airports and headquarters, and the raids will last several days.

On Monday, the employees of the Umorye utility services , despite cold weather and night frosts, turned off hot water in the district center of Kavalerovo and in four more working villages. Since October 12, the energy searches of Primorye announced an unlimited strike. They require complete repayment of wage arrears.

Presenter Yakov Krotov In Russia, traditionally, it seems to me, there is a somewhat suspicious attitude not even towards wealth, but towards property as such. It is believed, and this is indeed the case, that the most Russian type of holiness, a type of holiness that is practically absent from other peoples who accepted the Gospel in the Middle Ages, is foolishness. Of course, no one can imagine a holy fool who owns something.

In Frankfurt, the 50th International Book Fair ended. The 10 pavilions housed 6,700 publishers from 105 countries. 366 thousand names of books, of which 86 thousand are new items, in particular, the electronic book of the California company Nuyuudia, named for their performance by a rocket book, a racket book. An electronic book is a pocket computer with a reading screen. Memory - on 4000 pages of text.

Presenter Lev Roitman Lev Roitman: I have never been to Chechnya. I read about her in newspapers - in Russian, in Western; I see footage filmed in Chechnya by cameramen of all kinds of television companies; I hear about Chechnya on the radio. In other words, I am part of that gigantic majority who receive only negative information about post-war Chechnya: murders, bloody feuds, showdowns, a helpless government, defenseless hostages, and so on.

Historian and priest, leading Radio Freedom Radio "Between Vera and Belief" ykrotov@yahoo.com