In Chechnya, on Sunday, the head of the administration of the village of Starogladkovskaya of the Silkovsky district, Ruslan Khutuev, was seriously wounded. Fire was opened on it when he was going to work. In the factory district of Grozny, a Russian soldier was injured last night - as a result of shelling of a checkpoint. One of the attackers is killed. Private Aleksei Isaev, captured in hostage on May 25, was released from captivity.

In Washington, the 39th annual conference of the Muslim Association of North America is being held. On Sunday, terrorism and violence adopted on Sunday are sharply condemned. The conference announced the first anniversary of the day of tragic events in New York and Washington "Day of National Unity and Prayer" for American Muslims. The leaders of leading Muslim organizations in the United States and Canada participate in a four -day meeting.

In the South African city of Johannesburg, participants in the Earth summit are trying to overcome disagreements and agree on the final documents of the meetings. To sign them in Johannesburg, dozens of heads and governments have already begun to arrive. The purpose of the summit is to outline measures to combat poverty in the world while maintaining environmental equilibrium.

In Iran, Russian experts began assembling the equipment of the first reactor for the nuclear power plant in the city of Busher. The head of the Russian company Atomstroyxport Viktor Kozlov said today that all the materials provided for by the contract have already been delivered to Busher. In August, the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy reported that the nuclear power plant in the Bushera would go into operation in mid -2004.

In Belarus, on Sunday, a strike of private entrepreneurs selling at exhibitions-fairs was held. They demanded the abolition of the mandatory use of cash registers and refusal to increase the unified tax rates. The merchants also protested against compulsory social insurance. The duffel markets of Minsk and a number of regional cities of the republic did not work on Sunday. In a number of regions, taxi drivers joined the striking.

At the Bulavinskaya mine in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, an accident occurred today - the release of coal and methane. At the time of the explosion, nine miners were in an emergency area at a depth of 500 meters. Six of them are brought to the surface. The fate of the other three miners is still unknown. This year, 195 people died in Ukraine as a result of accidents at the mines.

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Andrei Sharry: 20 years ago, Stanislav Eremin was the captain and leader of the CSKA team and the USSR national team in basketball. Together with the team, he rose to the pedestals of the honor of the Olympic Games, the World and European Championships. Now Stanislav Eremin, the head coach of the Russian national team and the UNICS team, creates his own Dream Tim. Hello, Stanislav Georgievich. Tell me, should the coach be a dictator? Stanislav Eremin: I, of course, are not a dictator.

In the capital of Chechnya - Grozny - the Ural car was blown up, at which a group of policemen returned from the assignment, Chechnya reported today. The incident occurred on Saturday evening. None of the police were injured. In the Urus -Martan district, five people were arrested, who - as law enforcement officers say - were part of the detachment of the field commander Idatdi Isaev.

A local resident was detained in the Pankisian Gorge of Georgia, who was looking for people on charges of robberies and abduction of people. This is the third detention during the anti -terrorist operation of the Georgian internal troops, which began a week ago. A native of Morocco Khalid Omar Mali, who was arrested in Pankisi two days ago -, according to the sanction of the Supreme Court of Georgia issued on Sunday, will be in preliminary imprisonment for three months.

In the South African city of Johannesburg, participants in the Earth summit on Sunday discussed the role of entrepreneurial activity and trade relations in achieving the goals of stable development. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called on a private business to invest in developing countries both in order to combat poverty and as a long -term strategy.

In Afghanistan, the UN Department of Refugees temporarily closes its mission in Zaranha - on the border with Iran due to the threat of security of employees. According to the representative of the department, the decision was made after the armed incident - one of the Iranian border guards began to shoot in the air to stop the group of Afghans who tried to switch to Iran. No one was injured.

Four Afghans died and 18 were injured today as a result of explosions for two minutes near the Bagram air base. According to a representative of international security forces, a group of Afghans and employees of international organizations cleared a minefield when one of them stepped on a mine. The ambulance, which came to the aid of the wounded, ran into another mine.

Andrei Babitsky: One of my friends, a Chechen from a distant mountain village told me what sensations he experienced, being for the first time in the Stavropol Territory. Being still a very young man, he, along with his relatives, went for the summer, as it was called, “step” to the neighboring Stavropol Territory, and was absolutely amazed, if not crushed, opened with paintings.

In Moscow, in the 83rd year of his life, one of the partners of Russian cinema film art film director Samson Samsonov died. Among the widely known films of Samsonov are “Jumping”, “Fiery Miles”, “Optimistic Tragedy”, “Three Sisters”, “Purely English Murder”, “A lot of noise from nothing”, “Lonely, a hostel is provided”. The director died on August 31 from a serious oncological disease.