The United States allocates more than $ 2 and a half million to help Chechen refugees. According to the representative of the State Department, Richard Bucher, these funds will go to support humanitarian aid programs carried out by the UN. In total, the United States allocated more than $ 20 million for these purposes. As a result of the Chechen conflict, 250 thousand people were forced to leave their homes.

On Thursday, the Russian authorities again did not allow the doctor of the US Embassy in Moscow to visit the American Edmond Poup, who was in the Moscow prison in connection with the accusation of espionage. The representative of the US State Department, Richard Bacight, expressed deep concern in this regard and recalled that Washington has repeatedly asked the doctor to make a patient with cancer.

-The head of the Palestinian autonomy Yasir Arafat, who arrived yesterday in Moscow, is found today with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov. Arafat expects that Russia will support the Palestinians' intention to proclaim its sovereign state on September 13 - regardless of the outcome of negotiations with Israel. Yesterday in a telephone conversation, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak informed Vladimir Putin about the Israeli position on this issue.

About two thousand inhabitants of Berlin were evacuated today during the neutralization of the air bombs of the Second World War, discovered in Treptov Park. The British bomb with an almost one and a half -ton charge belongs to the largest type of reset to Berlin. The police believe that in the event of an explosion, everything would be destroyed within a radius of three hundred meters.

The famous Russian athlete and entrepreneur Alexander Tikhonov was charged on three articles of the Criminal Code, including preparing the attempt on the life of a statesman. Tikhonov was arrested on August 7 on suspicion of preparing an attempt on the life of the governor of the Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev. In Moscow and Novosibirsk, several more people were detained in this case, among them - the brother of Alexander Tikhonov Victor.

The head of the Israeli delegation at peace negotiations with Palestinians, Yossi Bailin, said that there is still the opportunity to sign the final peace treaty by September 13th, as planned. After a meeting in Washington with US Secretary of State Madlin Olbright and a special messenger in the Middle East, Dennis Ross Bailin, noted that many contradictions were settled during the Middle East summit in late July.

The head of the Palestinian autonomy, Yasir Arafat, confirmed the commitment to the Middle Eastern peaceful process and again stated that the Palestinians have the right to proclaim an independent state. Today, on the way from Moscow to Oslo, Arafat made a stop in Helsinki, where he met with the country's president Tarya Helonen.

- Reform of Russian railways: possible scenarios. - Ukraine: the first crop without collective farms. - In Israel, a law was adopted against the "laundering" of capital. - A review of the publications of the next issue of the British weekly "Economist". Sergey Seninsky: In Russia, it is planned to state railway transport system. The process is only at the initial stage, it is only about the concept.

Andrash Tamash, a 75-year-old Hungarian, left Russia, who spent 53 years in a psychiatric hospital in the city of Kotelnichi. Tamash was captured at the end of World War II, and in 1947 the KGB placed it in a psychiatric clinic. In the documents of Tamash, nothing was listed except for the name. He did not learn to speak Russian and the fact that he was a Hungarian, it turned out by chance in the early 90s. Three years ago, Tamasha was amputated, and now he moves on crutches.

The program is conducted by Dmitry Volchek. A search conducted by the Russian tax police on Thursday in the office headed by Roman Abramovich Sibneft is commented on by Russian political scientist Andrei Piontkovsky. The presentation of an article on the same topic published on Friday in the American newspaper Wall Street Jornel is also given. A presentation of an article in the newspaper "Wall Street Jornel": “Few thought that it was this company that would affect searches.

Scientists from the United States and Great Britain used specially designed DNA fragments to create self -collecting tweezers, which, in principle, are able to capture and retain single atoms. Supermicoscopic forceps with a length of not more than six million shares of millimeters can be compressed and unclenched, using the chemical energy that they receive from other DNA molecules. Experts believe that such molecular machines will find use in nanoelectronics in the 21st century.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the time has come to put an end to a dispute between the heads of the Ministry of Defense regarding military reform. The polemic was provoked by the proposal of the head of the General Staff Anatoly Kvashnin to significantly reduce strategic missile forces. Minister of Defense Igor Sergeyev publicly called the Kvashnin plan a crime against Russia.

Russia is ready to recognize the independent Palestinian state, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Igor Ivanov said today after negotiations in Moscow with the leader of the Palestinians Yasir Arafat. Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in the negotiations.

Hasin Raduev, North Caucasus: Today, some details of the shootout, which occurred the day before south of the Ingush village of Nizhny Alkun, became known. The Russian military received operational data that an armed detachment of about 15 people is based in the southern part of the Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia. The intelligence battalion of the Don Internal Don Division was advanced into this area. On the way to the village of Nizhny Alkun, the scouts were fired.

In the pavilions of the Lenfilm film studio, a decoration for the new film by Alexander Sokurov was built "Approaching Paradise". The picture talks about the last days of Lenin's life. The author of the script is Yuri Arabov. In the lead roles of Leonid Mozgova, who played Hitler in the previous film Sokurov, and Irina Sokolova. The film "Ivan Turgenev. Metaphysics of Love" directed by Sergey Solovyov was removed by one third and frozen due to lack of money.