The number of those who died last night as a result of a powerful earthquake in the west of Turkey - according to state television - exceeded 800 people . According to other sources, there are slightly less dead. Over two and a half thousand people were injured. Hospitals are crowded. The victims provide medical assistance right on the street. The force of underground shocks reached 6 as many as 8 tenths of the point on the Richter scale.

Chess. The tenth batch of the match for the title of world champion between Chinese, Xi Dziun and Russian Alisa Galyamova ended in a draw on the 44th move. The score in the match was five and a half of a half points in favor of the Chinese chess player. Today, the 11th party will be played in Schinyan. In Las Vegas, the first and second parties of the semifinal meetings took place at the World Championship of the FIDE FIDE on Monday.

Today we will begin with a review of the Lexis-Nexis database, prepared by Alexander Kostinsky. This corner of the Internet is paradoxically larger than the entire world computer network as a whole. Then Vadim Alekseev will talk about the International Internet Festival held in Moscow. Radio "Freedom", the program "Seventh Continent". What, when and where is published? More precisely, any library will answer you the Lexis-Nexis database. Says Alexander Kostinsky.

Andrey Babitsky, Moscow: The chairman of the lower house of the Russian parliament, Gennady Seleznev, proposed his own model of the settlement of the situation in Dagestan. Gennady Seleznev: I believe that our federal authorities are making absolutely correct decisions to suppress gangs. For example, I would like President Maskhadov to be sincere to the end. He repeatedly stated that he would also like to put an end to banditry, terrorism and theft of people. He would help us here.

Mumin Shakirov: The meeting of the Committee on Defense of the State Duma of Russia is held closed, with the participation of the Deputy Director of the FSB Vladimir Pronichev, the chief of the General Staff of the Russian Ministry of Defense Anatoly Kvashnin and Deputy Minister of the Interior Igor Zubov. According to the participants in the meeting, the development of combat operations with the participation of federal troops goes according to the planned plan.

In the August issue of the American magazine Archives of Surgery, a message was published about the new method of diagnosing pulmonary thrombosis, proposed by John Anderson from the University of California in Davis . This test allows a high degree of reliability to judge the presence of blood clots in the lungs in the concentration of carbon dioxide in exhaled air.

Oleg Kusov, North Caucasus: In Western Dagestan, the confrontation continues between the divisions of the Russian army and the internal troops and the detachments of radical Islamists. However, today both sides did not undertake large -scale military actions. Three villages in the Botlikh district are still held by Islamists. Scattered detachments of Islamists occupy hard -to -reach positions in the Sumadinsky district.

Oleg Kusov, North Caucasus: The chairman of the State Council of Dagestan Magomed Ali-Magomedov, at today's press conference in Makhachkala, spoke out against the idea of introducing a state of emergency in Dagestan. According to him, Russian and Dagestan state structures are capable of, without going beyond the constitution, suppress the rebellion of Islamists in a short time.

Andrei Sharogo, the director of the Moscow Institute of Humanitarian and Political Technologies named after Abdurakhmanov Avdurkhanov Abdulkhakim Sultygov, answers the questions of the leading program "Liberty Live". Andrey Sharry: Mr. Sultygov, the official Makhachkala claims that the Dagestan people as one person are actually ready to resist the aggression of Islamic militants. Moscow talks about the export of Islamic extremism from the territory of Chechnya to the territory of Dagestan.

Ethnicity spy For American-Chinese relations, the year was not the best. The press and the US Senate for many months were engaged in the clarification of the origin of some monetary amounts that were included in the budget of the Democratic Party by lobbyists of Chinese origin. Then - the unfortunate hit of the rocket into the building of the PRC Embassy in Belgrade.

Vitaly Portnikov, Macedonia: “The leaders of the Yugoslav opposition are terrorists,” Mirbia Mirbia Mirko Maryanovich, who had accusations against the leaders of the Serbian opposition, learned about this in Serbia. Well, General Momchilo Perishic, the recent chief of the General Staff, who was dismissed just at the height of the Kosovo campaign because he realized that the Yugoslav army could not resist the forces of the North Atlantic Alliance. Who is he?

The number of those who died last night as a result of a powerful earthquake in the west of Turkey - according to state television - reached 470 . According to other sources, there are slightly less dead. Over two and a half thousand people were injured. Hospitals are crowded. The victims provide medical assistance right on the street. The force of underground shocks reached 6 as many as 8 tenths of the point on the Richter scale.

Hasin Raduev, Grozny: This morning, enhanced security measures were taken in Grozny. Police posts blocked all the streets leading to the stadium of manual games. Snipers of the presidential guard took positions on the roofs of neighboring high -rise buildings. However, people with weapons freely passed through the police cordons and took places in the stadium. Today, a congress of war participants and resistance movements were held here. Its initiator was President Maskhadov.

Andrey Babitsky, Moscow: The chairman of the lower house of the Russian parliament, Gennady Seleznev, proposed his own model of the settlement of the situation in Dagestan. Gennady Seleznev: I believe that our federal authorities are making absolutely correct decisions to suppress gangs. For example, I would like President Maskhadov to be sincere to the end. He repeatedly stated that he would also like to put an end to banditry, terrorism and theft of people. He would help us here.

Vladimir Dolin, Moscow: Wahhabism, according to Ramazan Abdulatipov, is a phenomenon alien to Dagestan. Ramazan Abdulatipov: Soils for Wahhabism, if objectively evaluated, in Dagestan, and in the Caucasus, there is no. Vladimir Dolin: This extremist ideology, as Ramazan Abdulatipov evaluates it, is brought to the Caucasus from the outside, and with quite definite goals. Ramazan Abdulatipov: This ideology is brought to the Caucasus. Why?