Oleg Kusov, North Caucasus: Weather conditions today intervened in the military operation in the Kadar zone of Dagestan. Due to the abundant rain and fog, the federal units were not able to conduct hostilities in the area of ​​the villages of Karamakhi and Chabanmakhi. According to the military, they were engaged in regrouping forces, the clearance of conquered territories and the identification of persons involved in the detachments of the Islamists.

Inflation on average in Russia in August amounted to 1.2%, in Moscow it reached one and a half percent , the prices in St. Petersburg increased the same amount in a month, the Russian Statistical Agency reports. According to the agency, since the beginning of the year, inflation in Russia amounted to 29.5%, in Moscow - 36.8%, in St. Petersburg - 33.1%. Consumer prices for automobile gasoline on average increased in August by 20.2%, in the previous month - by 15.2%.

Oleg Kusov, North Caucasus: For more than a day, federal forces and the Dagestan police are sieging the village of Chabanmakhi in the Buinak district of Dagestan. Units of Russian special forces took the outskirts of this village and are trying to suppress the resistance of the Mujahideen. They are supported by aviation and artillery. The landing units landed on the top of Mount Kaban. The village of Chabanmakhi and the slopes of Mount Chaban are a well -fortified area.

Alexander Yakovenko, Cherkessk: Around 16 - 16.30 in the area of the Circassian secondary school #13 there was a clash between the supporters of General Semenov and opponents of the decision of the Supreme Court of the Republic. During this collision, bits, reinforcement and a picket fence were used. In total, about 17 people were injured. All of them were taken to the Republican City Hospital.

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Oksana Vladimirovna from Lithuania writes to us: "All my relatives and relatives of the male and some women were in the Gulag, disappeared without a trace. In educational institutions, at work, they earnestly raised hatred for" enemies of the people ", but I realized that the true enemies of the people were Lenin and Stalin and their henchmen. Those who were called bourgeois, and I have been proud of the mask all my life, dutifully carried my cross.

Mikhail Sokolov, Moscow: Scandalous publications accusing the Russian authorities of squandering Western loans, the Minister of Finance of Russia Mikhail Kasyanov rejects: Mikhail Kasyanov: There is no information about the incorrect use of the money fund money. Nobody saw her. She is not and cannot be. Therefore, this is an assumption that is picked up in the press and is executed, it is just a hype. There is no facts, no information and simply cannot be.

In Volgograd, 16 people died of meningitis . Since the beginning of August, more than 300 people fell ill with this infectious disease, the press service of the Department of the Gossanepida School of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation reported on Friday. 60% of the sick are people over 55 years of age, among children under 14 years of age of increased incidence is not registered.

Fierce battles between Russian troops and detachments of Islamic extremists continue in the area of Dagestan villages of Karamakhi and Chabanmakhi. According to the press center of the Russian troops in Dagestan, low cloudiness and rain make a airstrike at the supporting points of the armed extremists difficult to apply. The Islamist defense line has been preserved.

Natalya Golitsyna, London: "Bank of England" - the English bank is one of the oldest and respectable central banks in Europe. He has the right to verify the activities of British commercial banks. The impetus for this large-scale audit was, of course, a scandal with an American New York bank received a wide publicity. Unlike regular, routine banking inspections, the current one was purposeful.

Ilmar Murtazaev, Moscow: “I consider my mission to be fulfilled, and therefore I can leave,” the former Minister of Finance of Russia and now the former special representative of the president for relations with international financial organizations Mikhail Zadornov began his press conference. He did not explain the reasons for his resignation, limiting himself to general diplomatic statements.

Yuri Zhigalkin, New York: Actually, the statement of representatives of the IMF can be read as you like. How do you like it. On Thursday, a long -silent head of the Department of Fund for Relations with the press Thomas Dawson said that he did not have any data confirming that the IMF’s money issued to Russia could be among those that were allegedly laundered by Russian companies in Western banks.

Oleg Kusov, North Caucasus: Weather conditions today intervened in the military operation in the Kadar zone of Dagestan. Due to the abundant rain and fog, the federal units were not able to conduct hostilities in the area of the villages of Karamakhi and Chabanmakhi. According to the military, they were engaged in regrouping forces, the clearance of conquered territories and the identification of persons involved in the detachments of the Islamists.

Irina is worthwhile, Rome: The list compiled by the Swiss prosecutor’s office is named after 24. All of them are Russian citizens, well -known politicians and entrepreneurs. Geneva prosecutor Daniel Dev sent this list of suspects of laundering money to all financial institutions who have representative offices in Switzerland. Now from banks the prosecutor's office expects an answer to the question whether one of these persons was included in any relationship with their offices.

Hasin Raduev, Grozny: The President of Chechnya Maskhadov, perhaps, for the first time recently expressed a desire to introduce Ichkeria in the interstate structure, taking on certain obligations. And it is no accident that we are talking about a problem related to organized crime.