President of Macedonia Boris Trikovsky intends to turn to NATO with an official request - to send additional forces to the country to help international observers who control the implementation of the terms of a peace agreement with the Albanian rebels. We are talking about 150 - two hundred military personnel who should arrive in Macedonia, as soon as the main contingent of NATO ends the operation to collect weapons from the rebels.

The host of the St. Petersburg hour of the Liberty Live program Victor Rezunkov: Guest of the St. Petersburg Studio Radio Liberty - Chairman of the human rights organization Soldiers' mother of St. Petersburg Ella Polyakova. Ella Mikhailovna, we listened to a report from Chechnya ... The first question begs: will it all continue? The armed confrontation in Chechnya, permanent skirmishes will continue, Russian soldiers will die ... Who is all beneficial at all?

At the Moscow Domodedovo airport, the Tu-134 aircraft made an emergency landing today, on board of which there were 44 passengers. No one was injured. The decision to plant an aviliner was made when the chassis malfunction sensor worked in the pilots. Tu-134 was made by Volgograd-Moscow flight.

Leading Ivan Tolstoy Enthusiastically, Mark Twain himself would have written best of all on this subject. He wrote the stories “How I edited an agricultural newspaper”, “How I was a journalist in the Tennesses”, “How I was elected the governor” and could write the same funny story “How Racists made me” because now, almost 100 years after the death of Mark Twain, one of the main claims to him is racism. This is what Lev Losev’s literature professor tells about this.

More than 45 million Russians - according to the Goskomstat - live behind the poverty line. According to the federal law, the cost of living for residents of Russia in the second quarter of this year amounted to 1507 rubles per person per month. The indicator is calculated on the basis of the cost of the minimum monthly set of food, industrial goods and services plus mandatory payments.

Religious leaders and elders of Afghanistan tribes are discussing today in Kabul the question of the fate of the international terrorist of Osama Bin Laden, the issuance of which is achieved by the United States. US President George Bush said yesterday that Bin Laden needs Washington "alive or dead." The American authorities accuse him of organizing recent unprecedented terrorist attacks.

Thousands of Afghan refugees go to the borders with Pakistan and Iran, fearing the consequences of a military operation against Afghanistan, which is prepared by the United States. According to the UN, only from the city of Kandahar, located near the Pakistani border, about one hundred thousand inhabitants fled. Iran and Pakistan closed their borders with Afghanistan. In each of these countries there are already about a million Afghan refugees.

In the United States, clinical trials of the drug that preserves the elasticity of blood vessels began . The chemical compound, which is still known only under the code name ALT-711, destroys the chains of polysaccharides in the thickness of the arterial walls, which are formed both in diabetes and as a result of aging of the body. These molecules make the walls of the vessels more rigid, which increases the load on the heart and contributes to the occurrence of atherosclerosis and hypertension.

Russian human rights activists, activists of democratic organizations from the CIS countries and representatives of the Chechen diaspora intend to go to Strasbourg to express a protest against the war in Chechnya. Participants of the action will arrive in Strasbourg on September 20, when the situation in Chechnya will be discussed by the special commission of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe - with the participation of the delegation of the Russian State Duma.

The Russian military states that they control the situation in Gudermes, where several hundred Chechen fighters were included the day before. According to the Russian command, additional army units were introduced into the city, a passport regime is being checked. The Chechen side, however, claims that last night the battles in Gudermes resumed. Chechen sources report significant losses among the Russian military.

The Russian authorities are considering the creation of special protection of especially important Moscow objects from “air terrorists”. This was stated in an interview with Interfax, the Commander -in -Chief of the Russian Air Force Anatoly Kornukov. Kornukov proposes to use portable anti -aircraft missile systems, installing them, in particular, on Moscow high -rise buildings.

The United States again sharply criticized the presidential election, held on September 9 in Belarus, at which, according to official figures, President Alexander Lukashenko won a convincing victory. The representative of the White House Ari Flysher said on Monday that US President George Bush does not consider the elections in Belarus honest, free and democratic.

Russia turned to Georgia today with the demand to immediately issue participants in the Chechen armed groups located on its territory. In addition, Russia requires the elimination of all representative offices of these formations in Georgia. The note of the Russian Foreign Ministry calls for Georgia - to abandon the policy of tolerance in relation to terrorists.

In anticipation of the American military operation in Afghanistan, the international community discusses the issue of ways to combat terrorism. US allies in NATO expressed full support for Washington. In Japan, a discussion of a new bill began, which will allow the United States to provide technical assistance during the anti -terrorist operation. The willingness to provide assistance to Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.

Unknown Dmitry Shostakovich - an evening on this subject will be held in the Tchaikovsky concert hall on September 19. The program includes the first performance of Shostakovich's works in Russia.