In the Batken region in the south of Kyrgyzstan, three kilometers from the Uzbek border, another clash of Kyrgyz military personnel with the forces of the Islamic movement of Uzbekistan occurred. The losses of the parties are not reported. The Kyrgyz Ministry of Defense also reported an armed clash with Islamists near the Tajik border Yangidaban.

Representatives of the countries neighboring with Afghanistan at a meeting in New York approved the UN plan to suppress the spread of heroin produced in this country. The plan provides in particular the expansion of regional cooperation in the fight against drug smuggling. According to UN experts, Afghanistan is still the largest manufacturer of heroin in the world. The UN plan was approved by China, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, as well as the United States.

In Kamchatka, the GEC-3 was launched from the cascade of the Tolmachev hydroelectric power station. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent, the construction of a cascade on the Tolmachevka River in the center of the peninsula is at the expense of fishing enterprises. The capacity of the new hydroelectric power station is enough to ensure an e -oktroenergy of two regions of the region, which will now be independent of the supply of fuel oil from the continent.

The opposition candidate in the presidential election in Yugoslavia Voislav Koshtunitsa begins the election campaign in Kosovo. In an interview with Reuters, Koshtunitsa emphasized the need to convince the Serbian residents of Kosovo not to leave the province and ensure the return of all Serbian refugees there. Koshtunitsa, representative of the Bloc Democratic opposition, is the main rival of the current president of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevich.

Former Minister of Justice of the Country of Basque and a member of the leadership of the Spanish Socialist Party Jose Ramon Rekalde is seriously wounded near the Bask city of San Sebastian. Unknown attackers, presumably Basque separatists, fired several shots at it. The day before, the Spanish authorities arrested about 20 people suspected of belonging to the organization of Basque separatists. Since 1968, about 800 people killed this terrorists.

The Federal Court in the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, released Ven Ho Li, who was accused of espionage from custody. He found himself guilty of careless treatment of secret information. The court sentenced him to 9 months of imprisonment, which he had already left for the time of the court session. The court also refused to consider another 58 charges against the former employee of the Los Alamos secret laboratory.

Yesterday's attempt to capture one of the largest enterprises in the Sverdlovsk region of the Uralhimmashvoda, according to observers, was distinguished, by the special impudence and bitterness of the opposing sides: the local oligarch Pavel Fedulev, who claims to be the leadership of this enterprise, and the current director of Alexei Glotov, who is supported by the vast majority of workers and employees.

Leading Marina Katys In Udmurtia, residents of the city of Votkinsk have been protesting against the construction of a plant for the disposal of solid -fuel strategic missiles for the third year. The republican authorities pretend that they do not hear the protest of the hundred thousandth of the city.

In Moscow today, an acceptance of applications for participation in the privatization auction for the sale of 85% of the shares of the ONKO oil company has completed. The starting price of the package is more than 425 million dollars. According to the newspaper Moskow Times, the largest Russian oil and Lukoil, Yukos, Tyumen Oil Company, Sibneft intend to participate in the competition. The results of the auction will be known on September 19.

The German Bundesbank criticized the International Monetary Fund. The Bundesbank statement emphasizes that large loans provided by the IMF and the World Bank in recent years actually went to financing the private sector. Bundesbank considers the effectiveness of such a strategy to stabilize the economy of countries in a crisis situation. The annual session of the IMF and the World Bank opens in two weeks in Prague.

15 people died yesterday as a result of a powerful explosion in the building of the Indonesian stock exchange in Jakarta. The bomb was laid in a car in the underground garage. No one took responsibility for this terrorist attack, but the Indonesian authorities suggest that he is connected with the trial of the former President Sukharto, accused of embezzlement of millions of dollars from charitable foundations.

The Russian Ministry of Communications suspended the seizure of a number of frequency channels from two leading Russian mobile operators - MTS and Vimpelkom, which owns the Bi -Line brand. The leader of the Duma faction of the ATP Boris Nemtsov addressed the situation of Russian President Vladimir Putin to personally understand the situation of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The leaders of the largest corporations in America’s show business rejected the accusations of a number of political figures and the US government that the products of their corporations allegedly gives rise to violence among children and youth. Speaking at the hearing in the Senate Commission, the managers said that the government should first of all prohibit the free sale of weapons, and not limit the freedom of creativity.

Claims of the North Caucasus Regional Directorate for Press and Broadcasting Affairs of Radio Liberty correspondent Sergei Sleptsov. The program is conducted by Savik Schuster. It is participated in the Moscow Editor of Radio Liberty Ilya Dadashidze and the Radio Liberty correspondent in Rostov on the Don Sergey Sleptsov.

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