Hasin Raduev, North Caucasus: The final results were summed up in the elections of a deputy of the State Duma of Russia from Chechnya. The winner was declared General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Aslanbek Aslakhanov. Every third voter voted for him. These elections will be approved by the CEC of Russia on August 25. Today it became known that as a result of the artillery shelling of the western outskirts of the village of Serezhen-Yurt, a 24-year-old village of Magomet Izhiev was killed.

The American Stylavest Boxer Mike Tyson was fined in the UK for almost 190 thousand dollars for unworthy behavior during the match in Glasgow with another American Lu Savares. Tyson continued to apply crushing blows after the referee in the ring stopped the battle. If the boxer refuses to pay a fine, he will lose his license again. The 34-year-old Tyson has repeatedly become an object of sharp criticism and even spent three years behind bars for rape.

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office supported the proposal of the tax police service on the creation of an interdepartmental commission to investigate the situation at the Kachkanarsky Mining and Processing Plant. The commissions, which will include representatives of the prosecutor's office, the tax police, the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, have to find out if the bankruptcy of the enterprise was intentional.

The program is conducted by Giovanni Benxi. It participates in it: Yuri Afanasyev - rector of the Moscow State Humanitarian University; Pavel Felgenhauer - journalist, specialist in military problems; Dr. Christoph Royen is an employee of the Institute of International Studies of the Science and Politics Foundation in Ebenhausen, in Germany. Giovanni Bensi: All sailors of the atomic submarine "Kursk" died. We join the mourning and express our deep condolences to the families of victims.

The Norwegian State Radiation Security Agency did not record an increase in the radiation background in the Barents Sea in the area of the accident of the Russian Nuclear Submarine "Kursk". Earlier, the NTV television company has been announced about increasing the level of radiation. According to the representative of the Norway Embassy in Moscow, Norwegian divers took water samples near the Kursk submarine and inside it. Air samples in the area of the accident were also studied.

Yesterday, at a press conference, the participants and organizers of the meeting of “all stars” - the farewell match of the legendary Russian hockey player Vyacheslav Fetisov - announced the abolition of festive events in connection with the mourning in Russia. The festive concert and beauty contest "Miss Sport" will not take place. In addition, the organizers will transfer the proceeds to the families of sailors who died in the Barents Sea.

Relatives of the victims of the reprisal of the Chinese troops with participants in student performances in Beijing in 1989 called on the organization of the United Nations to abandon the invitation of the head of the President Lee Pan to an international meeting at the UN at the end of August. Under the appeal to the UN are signatures of 110 people. As stated in the appeal, Lee Pan is personal responsibility for the death of hundreds of people on Peking Square Tiananmen.

Aya Kuga, Belgrade: In the midst of the conflict, which has been shocked by a democratic block that ruling in Serbia for two weeks, the leaders of the two parties rival in this coalition - Voislav Koshtunitsa and Zoran Dvinzhich - first met and discussed the possibilities of resolving a dispute. This was reported by the president of Yugoslavia Koshtunitsa during his visit to three cities of Serbia yesterday. But he did not publish the details of the meeting.

Mirche Adamchevsky, Skopier: In Macedonia, everyone expects the start of the “crop” operation. Even the situation in the country is somehow improved. From the crisis areas it is reported that this morning it is calmer than yesterday, and at night there were fewer shelling from the armed Albanian extremists and the return fire of the Macedonian security forces.

Typhoon "Bilis" fell on Taiwan today. At least three people were killed, dozens were injured, there are missing. Hundreds of thousands of houses remained on the island without electricity. At this time, the typhoon moves towards mainland China.

Semyon Mirsky, France: While Macedonia was the deployment of the forces of the NATO military contingent, in the capitals of the states of the North Atlantic Union, skeptical statements are heard regarding the chances of disarming the detachments of Albanian separatists.

Gennady Muravin, Helsinki: In Sweden, in connection with the accident of the Kursk nuclear submarine, the Swedish Navy prepares exercises in the area of the fleet base in Karlskron. During the exercise, the Swedes intend to work out an operation to save the crew of the atomic submarine in the event of an accident similar to the one that occurred with the Kursk. About a hundred sailors will take part in the teaching.

Today, a mourning for sailors who died on the Kursk nuclear submarine, which sank in the Barents Sea on August 12, has been announced in Russia. In accordance with the Decree of President Vladimir Putin, state flags will be visible throughout the country. Putin spent yesterday in Severomorsk. At a meeting with the relatives and friends of the dead submariners, which took place in the military town of Vidyevo, Putin sharply criticized the situation with rescue equipment in the Russian fleet.

Aslambek Aslakhanov, elected by the deputy of the Russian State Duma from Chechnya, said that his main task as a member of the parliament was to "stop the murder of innocent peaceful people in the republic." According to the “agency of France Press”, at a press conference in Gudermes, Aslakhanov said that the murders of civilians and looting became a common thing for Russian troops in Chechnya.

The Government of Latvia approved on Tuesday the rules governing the action of the law on the state language that enters into force on September 1. According to the new rules, only the Latvian language should be used in state institutions. Country -servants of different levels are required to own Latvian. In the private sector, the mandatory use of the state language is not provided, except when it comes to security issues.