Hasin Raduev, North Caucasus: The murder of the head of the administration of the village of Tsatsan-Yurt Kurchaloevsky district of Chechnya Bukhadi Akhmadov was committed on Sunday. On the outskirts of the Tsatsan-Yurt, the car in which he was located was shelling from automatic weapons. Akhmadov received 12 wounds, the attackers made him a control shot in the head and disappeared. Locals ran to the sound of shots and found that Akhmadov was dead.

Kim Eun Sun arrived in Seoul - one of the closest assistants to the DPRK leader Kim Jung Ira. It is expected that the parties will discuss the details of the response visit of the North Korean leader to South Korea. Dates and subpoenas are not yet defined. In June, President of South Korea Kim De Jun visited Pyongyang. The inter -Korean summit led to some discharge on the peninsula.

The head of the Palestinian autonomy, Yasir Arafat, discussed on Monday in Cairo with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak the decision of the Central Council of the OOP to postpone the proclamation of an independent state, which was previously planned on September 13th. US Secretary of State Madlin Albright said the Palestinians' decision will allow Washington to continue the search for a compromise between Israel and Palestinians.

Since September 10, in Russia, tariffs for passenger transportation on long -distance trains, baggage and freight transportation have increased by 25 percent . In addition, from September 10, 20 percent increased tariffs for travel in suburban trains in the Moscow Region, the press service of the October Railway said. Currently, the price of a ticket in a suburban train is 22 percent of its real value.

The Foundation of Irina Arkhipova devotes the 100th anniversary of the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory the Concerts of the Cycle "Russian singers in the opera repertoire" . The performances will be held on September 13 and 14.

Russian official sources refute the statements of Chechen representatives about the captivity in the Republic of the Russian general and two colonels. Yesterday, the Reuters agency reported the captivity of three Russian senior officers with reference to the representative of the Chechen information center in London. “We do not have this kind of information,” said Ivan Babichev, the chief military commandant of Chechnya.

The European currency exchange rate - euro - to the US dollar today fell again, reaching an unprecedentedly low level. For today's morning trading, the Frankfurt exchange for 1 euro gave less than 86 American cents. In January 1999, when the euro was put into circulation, it cost 1 dollar 17 cents. Financial experts warn that a further drop in the euro course can cause inflation and increase in interest rates in Western European countries using a single currency.

The effectiveness of drug treatment of malignant brain tumors can be significantly increased with ultrasound. Under normal conditions, drugs dissolved in the blood cannot penetrate the brain through the walls of the vessels. Scientists from the University of Washington in Seattle have experimentally proved that ultrasonic waves of certain frequencies increase the permeability of capillaries and thereby open medicinal substances access to nervous tissue cells.

Russian divers today began preparations for the operation to raise the bodies of sailors with the Kursk submarine sank in the Barents Sea. According to Gennady Verich, the head of the search and rescue service department of the Navy, training takes place near Murmansk on a similar “Kursk” atomic missile missiles “Eagle”. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent, Norwegian experts also participate in the operation assigned to October. They will advise Russian divers.

The Serbian opposition questioned the authenticity of signatures collected in support of the candidacy of the Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevich in the coming elections of the head of the Union Yugoslavia on September 24. The representative of the opposition said on Sunday that the election commission gave permission to check the list of signatures only to one lawyer-opposition and only within 48 hours.

The representative of the Palestinian delegation at peace negotiations Saab Erekat accused Israel today of unwillingness to resume the peace process. According to Erekat, the Palestinians are still awaiting Israel’s answer to the question of the date of resumption of negotiations. On Sunday, the Palestinian side said that the new round of negotiations could begin today. Israel has not yet confirmed this information.

Andrey Trukhan , Moscow: Sergei Dorenko spoke in detail about his conversation with the general director of ORT Konstantin Ernst on the eve of the air of his program. Sergey Dorenko: On Friday evening, on the eve of Saturday - the day of my broadcast, I had a conversation with Konstantin Ernst. He found me, called me to him, and he said that the previous program caused a sharp irritation in the Kremlin, that this threatens the ORT channel, and that I should be a patriot of the channel.

The number of victims of the explosion on Pushkinskaya Square on August 8 this year reached 13 people. According to the ambulance service, a 19-year-old girl who received severe burns died last night in the hospital. More than 120 people were injured in the explosion. Seven - died on the spot, six more - died in hospitals.

In Chechnya, Russian artillery and aircraft inflicted strikes last day on the alleged positions of Chechen armed groups in the south of the Vedensky and Nozhai-Yurt districts-near the villages of Vedeno, Dargo and Makhketes. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent, the sappers neutralized about ten explosive devices in different areas of Chechnya, including in Grozny.

One of the cars of the Russian President Vladimir Putin had an accident on Monday evening in the Triumphal arch in Moscow. According to the press secretary of the head of state Alexei Gromov, one of the security cars collided with the Zhiguli car and rolled over. There are no victims, the presidential security officers received bruises. The reason for the accident, according to preliminary data, is a violation of the rules of the road by the driver of the Zhiguli.