Georgian Security Minister Valery Khaburzania said that the detachment of the Chechen field commander Ruslan Gelaev left the Pankisi Gorge. Haburzania, who performed on Monday evening on Georgian television, refused to report where - in his opinion - could go to Gelaev’s fighters. On Monday, the Georgian authorities announced that the internal troops and the police are proceeding to more active actions within the framework of the anti -Criminal operation carried out in the Pankisian gorge.

The peasants in the Afghan province of Nangarhar threaten to double the plantation of opium poppy, if the government does not immediately pay compensation for the destroyed crop. According to the Afghan Afghan Press, the Afghan authorities, which destroyed Maca Plantation in 30 villages of the province in the winter, promised to pay money to peasants back in April. The opium poppy has long been the main source of income for Afghan peasants.

In the Khabarovsk Territory Today is a day of mourning for sixteen dead in a plane crash on August 29. The An-28 aircraft flying from Khabarovsk to the village of Ayan on the shores of the Sea of Okhotsk, crashed into a rock at a landing. 16 people on board died. According to the preliminary version of the investigation, the disaster occurred due to poor visibility.

The international terrorist organization Al -Qaeda and the Taliban movement recently sent a large amount of gold from Pakistan to Sudan, the Washington Post newspaper said today. The newspaper - with reference to the American and European special services - claims that the gold in the boxes was first transported on a small vessel from Karachi to Iran or Dubai, and then on airplanes in Sudan. According to the special services, al-Qaeda and Taliban are still with significant financial resources.

The Russian government did not fully pay off the debts on wages to teachers. This was reported on September 3 in a telegram addressed to the President, employees of the city of Sayanogorsk of the Republic of Khakassia. Sayanogorsk teachers sent a telegram to Vladimir Putin in response to a statement by Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matvienko, which sounded the day before on all central television channels. In particular, it was said that the Russian government paid all wage debts to teachers.

In the US Senate, debates began to adopt legislation on the creation of the Department of Internal Security. The new department will unite a number of existing state institutions. US President George Bush believes that the internal security department will be able to prevent possible terrorist attacks in the country.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. Participation: a researcher at the Russian Academy of Education and a history teacher of the Moscow School League Dmitry Prokudin - Marina Timasheva spoke with him, and Radio Liberty correspondent in Kyiv Vladimir Ivakhnenko. Andrei Sharry: On September 2, the school year began for millions of Russian schoolchildren. Traditionally, one of the most problematic subjects of the school curriculum, not only Russian, history.

The Spanish government appealed to the Supreme Court with a request to ban the Batasun Basque Party. The document submitted by the government provides materials indicating the connections of Batasunes with an extremist group of Basque-Saratutists, which is accused of organizing numerous terrorist attacks. Spain authorities accuse the political party of the Basque, in particular, of the persecution of Basque politicians who do not support nationalists.

On the western coast of Jordan, the Israeli soldiers shot two Palestinians who approached the Jewish settlement. The military claims that the dead were armed. Not far from the city of Ramallah, the Jewish settler was seriously wounded - his car was fired. The Supreme Court of Israel today confirmed the legality of the eviction of relatives of the Palestinian self -assassin terrorists - as measures to prevent new terrorist attacks.

In Chechnya, in the district center of Shali - according to the latest data - 8 policemen were killed and at least 12 were injured as a result of the shelling of an army truck on Tuesday night. This was stated by a representative of the President of Russia for Human Rights in Chechnya Abdul-Khakim Sultygov, who spoke on Tuesday in Chechen television. Previously, reports were received that the truck was blown up on a landmine.

On the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, a significant decrease in the main indicators of business activity was noted on Tuesday. The Dow Jones index fell by 3 percent. The index of high -tech sectors of Nasdak decreased almost as much. Experts associate this with the publication of a report on the state of American industrial production, in which, although growth is observed, but not as fast pace, as it was predicted.

150 thousand residents of Bratsk - half of the population of the city - were left today without electricity due to the theft of the wire of the power line. According to the ITAR-TASS agency, two local residents removed the wire made of non-ferrous metals, and wanted to sell it. However, since the wire was energized, both attackers received burns and in a state of shock were taken to the hospital. One of them had to amputate his hands. Damage on the power line was quickly eliminated.

From September 4 to 9 in Moscow, an international book fair will be held in Moscow. The leading publishers of Great Britain, Germany, Canada, USA, Spain, Poland will take part in it. The Brazilian writer Paolo Coelho and the Polish writer John Khmelevskaya arrived. Meetings with Beata Tyshkevich, Eduard Uspensky, Leonid Yuzefovich, Peter Aleshkovsky, Andrei Bitov and others will be held at the fair.

Grigory Omelchenko, the head of the Commission of the Ukrainian Parliament on the investigation of the accusations made by the opposition against President Leonid Kuchma, said on Tuesday that he had information about the involvement of the head of state and other senior persons in military transactions with Iraq in violation of the UN sanctions.

Natalya Golitsyna , London: In England, a firefighters' strike begins, which threatens to paralyze the life of the British capital. The lack of fire control will force the work of the metro, suburban trains and the railway near La Mansh, which connects Britain with the European continent. This is the first strike of British firefighters in the last 25 years and the second in the history of this service.