According to the Russian command, over the past day, checkpoints and the positions of Russian units in Chechnya were fired 10 times. In the center of Grozny, a car was fired on Friday. Three military personnel died, three were injured. In the Shalinsky district, a truck was blown up on a landmine, four policemen were killed.

Lev Roitman: “Do only according to such Maxim, guided by which you can at the same time wish for it to become a universal law” - this is Immanuel Kant. Undoubtedly, this refers to actions with good intentions. “They wanted the best, but it turned out as always” - this is Viktor Chernomyrdin, who did not think anything evil, but it did not work out. What is our conversation today? He is about humanism and the future.

The international team of physicists working in the United States on the giant accelerator of the Fermi Laboratory for the first time received direct evidence of the existence of the third neutrino variety. This elementary particle, called Tau-Neutrino, has long been predicted by theorists, but its traces could not be found in direct experiments. London doctors found that hematopoietic stem cells of the bone marrow are able to give rise to new hepatocytes - specialized glandular liver cells.

Natalya Golitsyna, London: In the UK, the central topic of discussion of the Big Eight in the Okinawa of events was the problem of writing off debts to the poorest countries of the world. Here, English society turned out to be almost split. On the one hand, Great Britain went further than other members of the "Big Seven" in the case of facilitating the debt burden of the poorest countries of the world and has already written off 9 of them debt totaling 167 million pounds.

At the opening ceremony of the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival, the premiere of Gleb Panfilov’s film “Romanovs: Ventsenos Family”, on which the director worked for about ten years, was held . In the role of Emperor Nicholas II - Alexander Galibin, the Queen is played by the English actress Linda Bellingham. Lenin - Alexander Filipenko. In the Roman Coliseum, the first performance in one and a half thousand years has passed.

The Radio Liberty correspondent in New York Yuri Zhigalkin is talking with the co-director of the Center for Russian Studies of Harvard University Marshall Goldman. Yuri Zhigalkin: What conclusions about how the mission of Vladimir Putin on Okinawa can end can be made from messages about his meeting with Bill Clinton? Marshall Goldman: It is clear that their attention is occupied by two basic issues: the US intention to build a missile defense system and Russia's hope to weaken the debt burden.

Oleg Kusov, North Caucasus: In the city of Tyrnyauz, rescue work continues at the site of the melting flows. Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations do not exclude that several dozen people were buried in the zone of natural disaster under the rubble of dirt and stones. The city of Tyrnyauz still remains a spontaneous zone. At about 17 o’clock on Friday, the next, the fourth sewing stream took place on the previously injured part of the city.

Presenter of the program "Liberty Live" Dmitry Volchek: “In France, justice bodies are completely independent of government instances,” President Shirak said, answering questions from journalists regarding the fate of the Russian sailboat Sedov, arrested in Brest.

Hasin Raduev, North Caucasus: On Saturday, from the early morning, the units of the Russian internal troops and the police began combing the Samashkinsky forest in the north of the Achkhoy-Martan district. In the forest, which stretches along the Caucasus highway for 15 kilometers, they were looking for temporary bases of Chechen detachments. At the same time, the so-called targeted stripping passed in the villages of Samshki and finish.

An increase in electricity tariffs for consumers will most likely occur in August. One kilowatt-hour of electricity will cost about two and a half cents. According to estimates by the board of the RAO "UES of Russia" Anatoly Chubais, currently in Russia every fourth ton of coal and every fourth cubic meter of gas in Russia is burned in vain. Another increase in gas prices in Russia can occur by the fall.

Hasin Raduev, North Caucasus: Over the past day, military commandant’s offices, blocks and temporary regions of the police fired, according to the Russian military, 10 times. Almost all shelling occurs at Grozny. Only in the Leninsky district last night, Chechen fighters put on fire 5 blocks. As a rule, these short attacks end without losses on both sides and are more designed for psychological pressure.

In this issue: - What do residents of Syzran protest against? - products of strict regime in Volgograd; - Is it easy to be a bum in Pyatigorsk? - seven days with the people of Saransk; - disasters of the hot summer in the Amur Region; - Why destroy poppy crops in Syktyvkar? - "Makarov" was resigned; - Yoshkar-Ola: from Chechnya to nowhere; - Pskov: Whose arguments are more significant? - Kostroma: 2 meters 61 centimeters per tenant; - Saratov: Will the barlaks return to the Volga?