The President of Chechnya Aslan Maskhadov accused the leading European states - Great Britain, France and Germany - of indifference to mass repressions in Chechnya and called on the organization of security and cooperation in Europe - to intervene in what is happening. Maskhadov’s statement was published today, in connection with the tightening of the so -called “sweeps” conducted in Chechnya by Russian troops.

Zeynovov, Minister of State Revenues, made his statement at a press conference following a meeting of the heads of customs and tax services of the Euro-Asian Economic Community. According to the minister, as an entrepreneur, he personally developed the tax deductions minimization schemes. In other words, for several years, a member of the government, in the past, a businessman, successfully evaded taxes, thus accumulating a significant amount that he refused to name.

Andrey Korolev, Murmansk: On board the Mayo vessel there are 32 specialists accredited to participate in the operation to raise Kursk. Among them are 8 Russian divers, four of which last in the fall of last year took part in an operation to raise the bodies of the dead sailors. On the ship "Mayo" there are also Norwegian deliberate doctors and translators.

In Chechnya in the villages of Roshni, old Atagi and in several settlements of the Achkhoy-Martan district, Russian military conduct the so-called “laid”. According to official figures, about 20 people were detained on suspicion of involvement in the Chechen armed groups. Last day, Russian aviation inflicted a series of blows to Chechen positions in the Argun Gorge and the Itum-Kalinsky district.

- plans for the liberalization of currency regulation in Russia. Ruble exchange rate, price growth rate. What is the Dutch disease for the Russian economy? - Russia has been trading with Ukraine from July 1 in a new way. - The case of Microsoft Corporation. After the decision of the Court of Appeal - a new stage. - A review of the publications of the next issue of the British weekly "Economist".

In Moscow, at 64, an outstanding hockey player, Olympic champion and five -time world champion Viktor Yakushev died. The other day, Yakushev was brutally beaten by hooligans. According to the wife of Yakushev, he was not immediately provided with medical care. Victor Yakushev played for the Moscow Lokomotiv from 1955 to 1977. As part of the Soviet team, he many times won the world championships.

In Moscow, specialists of the Interstate Aviation Committee began decoding these on -board recorders - the so -called “black boxes” of the Tu -154 aircraft, which crashed on July 3 near Irkutsk. The first research results will be known on Monday. On the same day, the government commission, led by Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov, should name the causes of disaster.

Next week, at the Christis auction in London, a drawing of Leonardo da Vinci "Horse and Horseman", made by a silver pencil, will be exhibited. Representatives of the Kristis administration note that the drawing of such a high class enters the auction for the first time since pre -war times. The initial cost of the drawing is about $ 5 million.

The Union of Russian Journalists protested in connection with the detention in Moscow of the Tajik journalist Dodo Atovulloev, the founder of the independent newspaper Charoogi Ruz. He was detained on Thursday late in the request of the Tajik authorities, accusing the journalist of anti -state activities and insulting President Emomali Rakhmonov.

The State Duma of Russia at today's meeting will discuss in the second reading two bills regarding the tax reform and support of entrepreneurship. According to the first bill, a single tax on mining should be introduced in Russia - instead of a number of existing taxes. The second project provides for a sharp decrease in the number of types of entrepreneurial activity, for which a special license is needed, from 415 to 104.

A state -owned enterprise, which is engaged in the maintenance and maintenance of traffic lights in St. Petersburg, owed Lenenergo more than one and a half million rubles. As the general director of Lenenergo Andrei Likhachev admitted, the threat of turning off electricity to debtors became the only way to get money from them. Increasingly, social facilities are among disconnected objects. Only yesterday in St. Petersburg several kindergartens were turned off from power supply.

From the Scottish port of Aberdin, the Mayo ship, equipped with special equipment, came to the place of death of the Kursk nuclear submarine. On board there are 32 specialists who will take part in the operation to raise the nuclear power plant. The group includes 8 Russian and the same number of Norwegian divers. The ship will arrive at the destination in 6-7 days, and experts will immediately start examining the Kursk corps.

Vladimir Dubinsky, Washington: The championship was threatened by a breakdown after one of the leaders of the Football Federation of Colombia was stolen in Columbia - its vice president Ernan Mehia. He was stolen on June 25, when he was heading for a football match in the southwest of the country.

Australia confirmed the exit from the Kyoto Protocol on the restriction of gases atmosphere that promotes global warming. According to the Minister of Environment of Robert Hill, the Australian authorities consider it pointless to adhere to the agreement after the United States lifted their signature under the document. In 1997, a protocol was signed in Kyoto, which obliges industrial countries to reduce by 2012 by 5 percent emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

This year, the Prize of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe for contribution to the development of democracy and journalism awarded posthumously Ukrainian and Spanish journalists - Georgy Gongadze and Jose Luis Lopez. The widow of journalists arrived at the presentation ceremony today in Paris. Georgy Gongadze headed the online publication "Ukrainian Pravda". He disappeared in Kyiv a year and a half ago.