Hasin Raduev, Grozny: In Chechnya, the news number one is the unexpected end of the war in Dagestan. At least dozens, and maybe hundreds of Chechen volunteers who participated in the "Liberation of Dagestan from Russian occupation" - this is what Mojahideen’s struggle against the Russian troops in the Botlikh and Sumadinsky districts call here, yesterday and today they returned home.

Victor Rezunkov, St. Petersburg: Negotiations between the leader of Yabloko Grigory Yavlinsky, who arrives on an unofficial visit today, August 24, to St. Petersburg and ex-Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin, will take place. This was officially announced in the press service of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko. The main issues that will be discussed at this meeting: the creation of the election coalition and the coordination of candidates in a single-mandate district in St. Petersburg.

Andrei Shari talks about the situation with the connoisseur of North Caucasian problems Andrei Babitsky , who is now in Prague at the headquarters of Radio Liberty. Andrey Sharry: In Moscow, a lot is now talking about the danger of pulling Russia into a new North Caucasian war. It seems to you how justified such fears are?

Oleg Kusov, North Caucasus: During today, federal forces expect to establish control of strategically important heights and villages in the Botlikh district of Dagestan. In particular, the ground forces intend to start the assault on the village of Tandado. For more than a week now, this small Dagestan population on a rocky hill has been subjected to massive artillery and air strikes.

In the city of Nizhnekamsk, a flash of toxico infection was recorded in Tatarstan - the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Republic said. The first cases were noted on August 20, today 170 people were sick, including 100 children, 75 people were hospitalized. The causes of the disease are clarified. The necessary drugs were sent to the city, 650 thousand rubles were allocated from the city budget for their purchase, a reserve for 50 hospital beds was prepared.

Alla Demidova will act as Hamlet, as well as in all other roles of the Shakespearean tragedy . This monospace during the 2001 World Theater Olympics, which will be held in Moscow, will be set by Greek director Theodor Terzopoulos. In San Sebastian in the north of Spain, a “cultural symbol of the new millennium” was laid - a building of the Center for Arts with an area of 50 thousand square meters and worth 60 million dollars .

In Bishkek, a two -day meeting of the leaders of the countries of the "Shanghai Five" is opened - the fourth, for the first time, the leaders of the five states for the first time gathered in Shanghai in the spring of 96th. The presidents of Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and the Chairman of the PRC will discuss regional security problems, in particular - the war in Afghanistan, and the intensification of trade and economic cooperation.

Victor Rezunkov, St. Petersburg: Negotiations between the leader of Yabloko Grigory Yavlinsky, who arrives on an unofficial visit today, August 24, to St. Petersburg and ex-Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin, will take place. This was officially announced in the press service of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko. The main issues that will be discussed at this meeting: the creation of the election coalition and the coordination of candidates in a single-mandate district in St. Petersburg.

Mumin Shakirov, Moscow: In the 1999 election campaign, much fewer blocks and associations will participate than in previous elections. This was stated by the head of the Central Election Commission of Russia Alexander Vishnyakov. In his opinion, the new election law tightly regulates the conditions for registering public movements. “To collect two hundred thousand signatures for registering an electoral block is not such a simple task,” he said at a press conference.

Very high doses of vitamin C protect the body from the negative consequences of stress . This effect was discovered by employees of the University of Alabam, who reported him at a session of the American Chemical Society in New Orleans. Samuel Campbell and his assistants immobilized rats in cramped cells daily for an hour, causing those severe stress in those.

The Ministry of Finance of Russia today submitted a modified draft federal budget for the 2000th year . The volume of gross domestic product is predicted at 5.1 trillion rubles, which at the average annual exchange rate of 32 rubles per US dollar will amount to about $ 160 billion. The budget deficit, as expected, will be 1.13% of the volume of the internal gross product, and the growth of consumer prices in the country for the year is 18%.

Who lost Russia? The Nationalist Party of China, led by Chan Kai-shi, was an ally of the United States in the Second World War and, as expected, in the future perspective. This prospect has completely changed when, in 1947, the power in the country passed into the hands of the Communists, and only a relatively small island remained at the disposal of nationalists.

Athletics. On Monday, the next sets of awards were played at the seventh world championship in Seville. Russian Vyacheslav Voronin won a gold medal in a height with a result of 2 meters 37 centimeters . The second and third places were taken by Canadian Mark Boswell and German Martin Bousse. In the throwing of the disk, women were won by the German Frank Dichch , who sent a shell of 68 meters 14 centimeters.

In the Botlikh district of Dagestan, a military confrontation continues. According to the secretary of the Security Council of the Republic, the Russian troops managed to recapture the villages of the village of Tandado, Ashino and Rakhat from the Islamic extremists. The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, in turn, said that the first two villages were completely captured by paratroopers, but in Rahat, only a few hundred meters managed to advance.

Oleg Kusov, North Caucasus: Today, the federal forces and the Dagestan police continued the assault on the strategically important village of Tando, the Botlikh district of Dagestan. They chose the previous tactics of applying fire and artillery strikes on the positions of militants. Here, according to operational data, up to a hundred armed Islamists hide.