Swiss law enforcement agencies reported today about the detention of two suspects in the organization of illegal supply of weapons to Kosovo. According to the report, a French citizen and Kosovsky Albanian were arrested on July 13. According to the investigation, they are involved in the smuggling supply of weapons in 1999 for the Kosovo Liberation Army for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Aya Kuga, Belgrade: Last night, almost until the morning, the leaders of the coalition ruling in Serbia - the Democratic Bloc - tried to overcome the crisis in their ranks, caused by the accusations of one member of the Blok - the Democratic Party of Serbia - to the government of corruption and in relations with organized crime. (This party led its representatives from the Cabinet of Ministers). The crisis of the ruling block is not overcome, but suspended indefinitely.

Serbian independent journalists demand to free their colleague Miroslav Filipovich, sentenced to 7 years in prison on charges of espionage. The reason for such a harsh punishment was Filipovich's article on the atrocities of the Yugoslav army in Kosovo last year. Journalists said that they had collected a thousand signatures under the petition demanding that Filipovich be released, which will be sent to President of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevich.

The United States again called for immediately the release of the American citizen Edmond Poup, arrested in April in Moscow on charges of espionage. The representative of the US State Department, Philip Ricker, emphasized that the POP did not violate Russian laws, adding that the United States was generally concerned about the position of American citizens arriving in Russia. Poup, patient with bone cancer, visited his wife in prison yesterday.

The special envoy of the President of Turkmenistan Boris Shikhmuradov met yesterday with the leader of the Afghan Taliban Mullah Mohammad Omar. The meeting took place in Kandahar. Details of negotiations are unknown. The President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov recently stated that it was the Taliban that are responsible for the injection of the situation in the region and for the penetration of Islamic extremists into Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.

The Israeli company Given Imaging Limited has completed the development of an autonomous television camera designed for a diagnostic examination of internal organs. A miniature device of three centimeters long and an eleven millimeters with a diameter is swallowed like an ordinary pill and then moves independently along the esophagus, stomach and intestines of the patient, leaving the body along with feces.

In Chechnya, an attempt was made on the head of the administration of the Nozha-Yurt district, Isita Gayrbekov. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent, her car was blown up on a mine on the road Nozha-Yurt-Zamai-Yurt. Gayrbekova and the driver were not injured. This is the second attempt on the life of Gairbekova. In early August, her brother died as a result of the explosion of the landmine; Mother and sister were injured.

Vladimir Dolin, Moscow: It seems not so difficult to reanimate the extinguished screens in the apartments of millions of Muscovites, at least in technical terms. The entire territory of Moscow is covered with a cable broadcasting network. Most cable situations have antennas that can receive the NTV Plus signal. If there are no such, then the installation of the antenna takes no more than an hour and a half.

The Russian missile forces strategic forces on Monday night launched the Proton Baikonur Cosmodrome with the Globus-1 Military Communications Cosmodrome on board. This is the ninth of the 15 -planned Proton launch launches for this year.

- Workers and peasants through the eyes of the GPU (August 1922) - Letters to the "Peasant Gazeta" on the policy of collectivization (1928-29) - V. Sobolev: From "Letters from Kolyma" (1955) Now you will hear about the moods of Soviet workers and peasants in August 1922 - you will hear from the most reliable source, what was the state political administration - the GPU (before that - the Cheka, then - the MGB and the KGB).

In Grozny, two powerful explosions occurred yesterday. There are victims. The representative of the President of Chechnya Aslan Maskhadov told France Press on Monday that on the eve of Grozny, the fighters of the field commander of Isa Munaev killed 8 Russian troops. This information is not confirmed from independent sources. In Urus -Martan, the Russian military detained about a hundred people - on suspicion of involvement in armed groups.

Specialists of the Gosstroy of Russia began this morning examination of the condition of the Ostankino television tower. The fire on the tower, which arose on Sunday, managed to eliminate only last night. Rescuers continue to work in the elevator mine, where the bodies of three dead were found. According to the ORT television company, several more people who were in the tower at the time of fire are considered missing.

In the Achkhoy -Martan district of Chechnya, two Russian troops were injured today - fire was opened according to their armored personnel carrier. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent, another armored car was fired on the road Samashki-New Shara. The military caused reinforcements, but the attackers managed to hide in the forest. In the south of the Achkhoy-Martan district near the village of Bamut, clashes of Russian units with Chechen detachments continue.

Cheryl Pope, the wife of the American businessman Edmond Pope, accused of espionage against Russia, believes that her husband is in serious condition. After their two -hour meeting in the investigative insulator Lefortovo in Moscow, Cheryl Pope said that an American doctor should be urgently allowed to be urgently admitted to her husband. The Russian authorities refused to meet with the Poup of the American Congressman John Peterson, who was specially arrived in Moscow for this.

In the north of Spain, in the Basque Country, Manuel Indiano Asaustra was killed - a former municipal adviser to Sumarrag. The police are guilty of killing at extremists from the organization "this". Since the beginning of the year, as a result of terrorist attacks organized by Basques-Existromes, 12 people have already died in Spain. The Basques conduct an armed struggle for the creation of an independent state.