Lev Roitman: In the queue for receiving a preferential car are 75 thousand veterans of the Second World War in Russia. It ended in the 45th year. If the veteran is waiting for his turn by age, his grandson will drive a preferential car, perhaps great -grandson. Meanwhile, approximately 400 thousand service cars with full service are transported for free Russian officials. In the summer of this year, deputies of the Federal Assembly legally gave themselves benefits that caused a logical scandal.

Inflation in Russia from the beginning of the year to October 18 amounted to 32.3% , the Russian Statistical Agency reported. In the first 18 days of October, the consumer market prices increased by 0.7%. The rate of average daily price growth in October is slightly lower than in September, when monthly inflation was 1.5%. The Swiss Airline Svissair will be a strategic partner of the Polish State Airline Lot , the Polish Ministry of Finance said.

Hasin Raduev, Grozny: Russian land units cost only two dozen kilometers north of the formidable. It is very close. In good weather, the Sunzhensky ridge, on which they dug in, is perfectly visible from the city. Each time artillery is activated, a rumor flashed through the city that the assault on Grozny had begun. Such false anxieties have been here more than once. Only the military do not fuss.

Vitaly Portnikov, Moscow: Vladimir Toporov confirmed the figures of the deceased that died during the last stage of the Chechen operation - about two hundred people. According to Deputy Minister of Defense, federal troops will sooner or later enter Grozny, however, there will be no continuous attack of the Chechen capital - Russian units will operate in Grozny small groups.

Russian aviation last night continued to apply missile and bombing on targets in various areas of Chechnya. According to the headquarters of the Russian group, several cars were destroyed, in which, according to Russian data, terrorists rode. Intelligence and mining the road north of the Terrible were made. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent, Russian aviation and long-range artillery firing objects at a distance of less than 20 kilometers from the formidable.

Interview with Sergey Stepashin and Vladimir Zhirinovsky Mikhail Sokolov: In Moscow, the mayor’s election campaign is in full swing. The current head of the administration Yuri Luzhkov is running, paired with his deputy Valery Shantsev. Vice -mayor Shantsev is a candidate for Luzhkov’s successors if he in 2000 tries to claim the post of president or head of government. Shantsev now firmly declares: he is no longer a communist.

On October 23, a concert dedicated to the 65th anniversary of Alfred Schnita will be held in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. Altist Yuri Bashmet, the Moskvy Tsalist Chamber Orchestra and a large symphony orchestra under the direction of Andrei Chistyakov will take part in it. The program includes the works of the late composer dedicated to Yuri Bashmet: "Monologue", "Trio -Sonata" and a concert for Alta with the orchestra.

The land units of the Russian army forced the Terek and expand the control zone on the right bank of the river. Russian troops cost 20 kilometers from Grozny. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent, Russian artillery fired at the Terek Range and the northern outskirts of Grozny. Shells reach the Karpinsky mound - a few kilometers from the Maskhadov residence. According to the Chechen command, the Defense Plan of Grozny was approved.

He has been cooperating with RS since 1991. The editor and host of the Road to Freedom Program Vitaly Portnikov on Facebook , Twitter Portnikovv@rferl.org

The program is conducted by Tengiz Gudava. The leaders of the Chechen diaspora in Russia are involved in it: the president of the Vainakh Congress of Russia Tops Denis, and two members of the Congress Coordination Council, respectively, the leaders of Diaspor in Yaroslavl and Tver: Nur-El Khasiev and Curie Debir.

Football on Wednesday were the cheese meetings of the fourth round of the first group round of the Champions League. In the group "G" Moscow, Spartak took Bordeaux in Luzhniki and, like three weeks ago in France, lost 1: 2.

Biologists from Princeton University Elizabeth Guld and Charles Gross found that, contrary to long -established scientific ideas, on the periphery of the brain, where higher intellectual functions are concentrated, even in adult organisms, thousands of new brain cells - neurons - occur daily . An article about this opening was published in the journal "Science". Although the opening is made on monkeys, it is, in all likelihood, it will be confirmed in public.

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