In Kazan, after a day of rest, the match was resumed for the title of the world chess champion between Russians Alisa Galyamova and Chinese Cher Jun. In the fifth batch of Cher Dzyun, playing black, she won the 61st move and for the second time went forward in the match. The score was 3: 2 in favor of the Chinese chess player.

Lev Roitman: In the newspaper Krug, it is published in Cologne, in Germany, published an article by the Doctor of Historical Sciences Samson Madievsky, "1953 - did the Soviet Jews have deportation?" Indeed, the question is controversial, despite the fact that not a single serious historian doubts that in the last years of Stalin’s life the anti-Semitic campaign was growing and its climax should be the case of killer doctors in white robes.

The gross grain harvest in Russia will amount to 55-57 million tons this year, which is 3-5 million tons less than the forecast of the Ministry of Agriculture , experts of the Ministry of Economics say. The total volume of grain resources in Russia in 1999-the 2000th agricultural year, according to their assessment, will amount to 67-69 million tons with the country's total annual needs of 79 and a half million. A deficiency of 10-12 million tons falls on a forage grain.

Zoran Dzhindzhich - one of the leaders of the Serbian opposition - calls for continuing the protest to force President Yugoslavia Milosevich to hold early elections in November. Yesterday, another opposition leader - Vuk Drashkovich said that the opposition should unite in order to achieve political changes. At the same time, Drashkovich excluded the union of the party headed by him for renewal with other groups during the election campaign.

The International Film Festival in the Swiss city of Locarnano was opened by the show of the joint French-Russian production "East-West" in the production of the Varnier Direct . The roles are played by Sandrin Bonner, Katrin Denev, Oleg Menshikov and Sergey Bodrov. Scientists from Harvard University and the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences found in Kiev a large collection of musical manuscripts of the Johann-Sebastian Bach family .

Did Stalin prepare the deportation of Jews?

The mass outbreak of dysentery is registered in Cherepovets of the Vologda region . According to the State -Epidemiological Supervision of the Ministry of Health of Russia, 266 people fell ill in total, including 118 children under 14 years of age. As it turned out, the reason for the mass outbreak of dysentery was eating sour cream. This product of the city dairy plant was made in violation of the technology of sourdough and pasteurization.

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In the plants of Garcinia Cola, the seeds of which have long been used by healers in West Africa, substances have been found that prevent the reproduction of the pathogen of the hemorrhagic fever of Ebola . During outbreaks of this severe viral infection, more than 80 percent of the sick dies. Garcinia owes its antivirus properties to coloring pigments that relate to the Flavonoid family. Not being toxic, these substances are strong antiseptics.