Alexander Yakovenko, Karachay-Cherkessia: That night in the capital of Karachay-Cherkessia, explosions were again sounded. About two hours Moscow time on the ground floor of a five -story residential building along Lenin Street, an explosive device worked. It was laid in the Birikit cafe. Another corps of the same cafe, which is located next to this house, was set on fire, and by the morning of the cafe it burned almost to the ground.

From 700 to a thousand armed people are in the forest in Chechnya - on the border of the Babayurt district of Dagestan. According to the duty department of the internal affairs of the district, units of the internal troops, riot police and local police are pulled to the border. According to him, the residents of the border villages a week ago dug trenches to protect against invasion. In the Novolak district, an operation to eliminate the armed groups of Islamic extremists is continuing.

Ilmar Murtazaev, Moscow: According to USA Today, a few days after the transfer of four and a half billion dollars of IMF funds to Moscow, a number of Russian banks received information about the upcoming ruble devaluation to Moscow. Informed bankers and officials began to sell GKO packages and convert rubles to dollars, buying, among other things, the IMF funds. After that, the purchased currency was transferred abroad, by the way, often, through the ill-fated New York Bank.

Oleg Kusov, Dagestan: In the villages of the Novolaksky district of Dagestan, stripping continues. Two more villages last day passed under the full control of the federal forces and the Dagestan authorities. This is the district center of Novolakskoye and Chapaev-Aul. The initial check showed that there are no longer snipers, but the surroundings of these villages are mined. Today, sappers work here. Last night, apparently, the Islamists tried to impose a battle to federal divisions.

The Champs Elysees in Paris has been turned into an open exhibition hall - this happens every year in the fall since 1970 . More than 50 modern sculptors are exhibited here. This time, the greatest attention is drawn to the work of the Frenchman Daniel Buren: he put a giant rainbow from the flags, which stretches throughout the Champs Elysees from the Consent Square to the triumphal arch. The exposition will remain in Paris until November 14.

Leonid Nikitinsky, Moscow: Having received a message about the new action of the General Prosecutor's Office against the Prosecutor General, even if temporarily detached, I called him and received confirmation. Indeed, yesterday in his office in the presence of Skuratov himself was a search.

Over the past day, more than one and a half thousand people have been held in Moscow for violating the registration regime, the capital’s law enforcement agencies reported. 155 people were detained. In the Volgograd region, 560 cases of meningitis were registered, 33 people have already died - the Russian State -Seniority reported. All sick are hospitalized in serious condition.

The fare with terrestrial city transport in Moscow will increase by 50%in 2000, and one trip will cost 3 rubles . This, according to the AKM agency, said today at a meeting of the Moscow City Duma, the head of the Moscow Government Finance Department Yuri Korostelev. The cost of uniform, as well as travel tickets for all types of public transport, including the metro, will increase, according to him, by 30%. More than 60% of all passengers in Moscow are transported by city transport for free.

The new rally of the European Football Champions League opened on Tuesday eight matches . In group A, Kyiv Dynamo, semi -finalists of last season, in their field lost to rivals from the Slovenian club "Brand Marika" - 0: 1, missing the goal in the 74th minute. The second match of this group went to Germany, where the Leverkuzen Bayer and Roman Lazio, exchanging early goals, tied - 1: 1.

The World Health Organization is close to the implementation of the task assigned to it 11 years ago - to fully end polio no later than the beginning of the next century . This was stated by Senior WHO adviser to combat polio Harry Hall. Hull emphasized that the World Campaign to Delive up of mankind from this disease will be successfully completed either by the end of next year, or with a slight late. Over the past decade, the incidence of poliomyelitis has decreased by 85%.

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Vitaly Portnikov, Moscow: The chairman of the National Assembly of Dagestan, to Mukha Aliyev, believes that Russia should urgently decide on the status of Chechnya. At the same time, according to the head of the Dagestan parliament, you need to understand that today in Chechnya there is not a single serious political force that would agree with the preservation of the republic as part of the Russian Federation.

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Hasin Raduev, Grozny: In Serezhen-Yurt today they bury the dead as a result of a night bombardment. Russian attack aircraft inflicted the first blow at about eight in the evening. Bombs fell to the southern outskirts of the city of Shali. From here, only four kilometers to Sergeni-Yurt. The roar of diving bombers made people rush into the basements. In less than five minutes, the village of Sergeni-Yurt began to shit from the explosions. Not everyone managed to hide.

From today, a special anti -terrorism operation with the involvement of internal troops has been underway in Russia . This was announced yesterday on Russian television, Deputy Minister of the Interior Igor Zubov. The check of non -residential premises in Moscow will continue. The streets are intensely patrolled by the police. According to Zubov, a "network of people who are introduced into the territory of Russia from the Chechen Republic" is revealed.