September 9 marks the 10th anniversary of the murder of Father Alexander Me. On September 8, a monument was opened in Moscow. This has already become a tradition - to conduct annually in early September in Moscow, in the All -Russian State Library of Foreign Literature, an international conference of memory of Archpriest Alexander Me. This year the conference turned out to be anniversary, the tenth in a row. A representative of 28 regions of Russia and 27 foreign countries took part in it.

Hasin Raduev, North Caucasus: The attack on the column of Russian internal troops was committed on Thursday evening. It happened on the Grozny highway - a shaot, not far from the village of Prigorodnoye. Military police and riot police returned to the military base in Hankala from the village of Old Atagi after the implementation of the special affection. Near the so -called "summer cottages" between the village of Gikal and the village of Privorodnoy, they were ambushed.

Mikhail Sokolov: In September, we will see a sample of political forces before the provincial elections in several regional centers at once. The mayors are elected there - in Salekhard, Khabarovsk. The closest such elections are in Orenburg on September 10. Reports Tatyana Morozova.

The Kazakh authorities decided to withdraw all students studying in Islamic spiritual schools abroad. According to our correspondent, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan made this decision after President Nursultan Nazarbayev expressed concern that students may be guides of the ideas of Islamic extremism. Currently, 30 students from Kazakhstan are studying in Saudi Arabia and 29 in Iran.

In the city of Kosovsk, Minovitsa yesterday there were clashes between local Serbs - supporters and opponents of the President of Yugoslavia Slobodan Miloshevich. According to the International Police, in street skirmishes in the Serbian part of the city one person was wounded, shots were heard in the air. The riots stopped after the intervention of the UN police and Keifor military.

Greece Foreign Minister Georgy Papandreu is on a visit to Belgrade. This is the first visit to Yugoslavia by the head of the foreign policy department of one of the NATO countries since last year’s operation of the North Atlantic Union. Today Papandreu goes to Kosovo and Montenegro. Yesterday, the Greek minister told the Yugoslav President Slobodan Miloshevich that the presidential and parliamentary elections in Yugoslavia, appointed on September 24, should be honest and fair.

The Office of the Federal Security Service for the Novosibirsk Region believes that investigators leading the criminal case of the Olympic champion Alexander Tikhonov are on pressure. Tikhonov was detained on suspicion of involvement in the attempt on the governor of the Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev. Tikhonov’s lawyers appealed to the court with a request to change the client’s subscription to the recognizance not to leave.

The ozone hole over Antarctic expands, and the amount of ozone decreases with speed unprecedented for this time of the year. This was announced today by the World Meteorological Organization. This year - apparently - the area of the ozone hole will reach colossal sizes. Until now, its maximum size has not exceeded 12 million square kilometers.

The American spacecraft Atlantis started from the Cosmodrome at Cape Canaveral. On board the ship, seven astronauts are five American and two Russian. Atlantis has to be delivered to the international orbital station for the next load of equipment. The first crew will arrive at the station in November. The Atlantis expedition will last 11-12 days.

Mark Chapman, who shot the legendary musician John Lennon in December 1980, may have left prison in the coming months. According to the representative of the State Department of Correctional Institutions of the United States, the Chapman will have the right to pardon in connection with the departure of 20 years of punishment. At the same time, many observers consider the liberation of the Chipman unlikely, given the huge popularity of Lennon.

Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the decision of Boris Berezovsky to transfer his stake in public Russian television to the Office of a group of journalists and cultural figures. Putin emphasized that it should be independent people. He also noted that he does not yet know all the details about the transfer of shares of ORT.

Berezovsky - of course, the most contradictory figure of Russian public everyday life. If anything is absent in a complex spectrum of attitude towards it, this is indifference. In the degree of such socio-informational severity, Berezovsky has no equal in Russia. Berezovsky - Newsmaker number one. The word "New Smaker" is one of those lexical innovations that have entered the language and life of a Russian person in recent years.

Japan's police arrested on September 8 to Tokyo a naval officer who is suspected of transferring secret information to the Russian military attache. According to Japanese law enforcement agencies, the officer collaborated with Russian diplomats for at least a year. About what kind of information he transmitted to the Russian Embassy is not reported. The arrested worked at the Defense Studies Institute.

Representatives of the Government of France and the Trade Union of truck drivers continue to attempt to reach an agreement that would stop the blockade of motorways, oil refineries and fuel storage facilities. Drivers require a reduction in gasoline and diesel fuel taxes, they are supported by taxi drivers and farmers. After four days of blockade in many cities of France, including Paris, an acute lack of gasoline began to be felt.

One of the largest transport trade unions of France intends to terminate the protest. This was stated today by the President of the National Federation of Transporters Rene Petit, who said that in negotiations on reducing prices for fuel, the government finally went to serious concessions. However, the second largest transport trade union of France, apparently, is not satisfied with negotiations. So far, the government has only agreed to a 15 percent discount.