Marina Timasheva: On September 30, 85 years old Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov - the creator and artistic director, the chief director of the Moscow Drama and Comedy on Taganka. One of the last performances of the master is Shakespearean Chronicles. Yuri Lyubimov seemed to set out to prove that he could claim not only the title of legend, but also a much more honorable one - the title of director of the new century.

In Kaliningrad today - mayor’s elections. Seven candidates apply to the post of head of the city administration, including the current mayor of Yuri Savenko, two deputies of the Kaliningrad Regional Duma and the deputy head of one of the city regions. For the first time in Russia, three candidates were registered after they made a cash deposit of 300 thousand rubles - instead of voter signatures.

Yemen’s authorities deny that the explosion on board the French tanker on the raid of the Yemensky port of El Mukalla occurred as a result of a terrorist attack. The Ministry of Transport of Yemen claims that oil couples exploded in one of the tanker compartments. Earlier, a representative of the French embassy in Yemen said that a small boat with explosives crashed into the tanker.

The presidents of Russia and Ukraine Volodymyr Putin and Leonid Kuchma will conduct negotiations in Zaporozhye today. According to the Interfax agency, the meeting participants will focus on the problems of bilateral cooperation in the field of energy and the creation of an international gas consortium. The President of Russia will also take part in the celebrations on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Dneproges.

The areas of Ingushetia, border with Chechnya, are blocked by Russian troops. Additional checkpoints are exhibited on the roads. According to the command, these measures were taken to prevent small groups of Chechen fighters from the field commander Ruslan Gelaev, who are hiding in the forest of Bamut in Chechnya in the village of Ingushetia.

The President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez said that a new conspiracy has been disclosed in the country to overthrow it - the second over the past six months. The special services agents have discovered evidence of the essential of the conspiracy during a search in the house of the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the country. The coup was planned for today, the authorities say. In mid -April, a group of rebellious officers made an unsuccessful attempt to remove Chavez from power.

Baghdad is trying to convince the Arab countries - not to support Washington in a possible military action against the regime of Saddam Hussein. Foreign Minister Iraq Naji Sabri arrived today on an visit to Oman. After Oman, he will go to Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Next week, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tarik Aziz will visit Syria and Qatar.

In Brazil, the presidential election will be held today. According to public opinion polls, the candidate from the Left Working Party Inasiu Lula da Silva has the greatest chances to win. He can already get the absolute majority of votes in the first round. His main rival is the representative of the ruling Social Democratic Party Jose Serra. Voting will take place against the backdrop of an unstable situation in Brazil's financial markets.

In the suburbs, a two -day meeting of the United Russia party leadership began today. The tasks facing the party in the period of preparation for the 2003 parliamentary elections are discussed.

In Latvia, in the parliamentary elections, the right -wing party "New Time" won the parliamentary elections yesterday. For this party, created by the former head of the Central Bank of Latvia, Einars Repshe, 23 and a half percent of voters voted. The movement "For human rights in the Unified Latvia", which, in particular, protects the interests of the Russian -speaking population, lagged behind it by almost 6 percent.

An explosion on board the French tanker on the Raid of the Yemensky port of El -Mukalla, located on the coast of the Arabian Sea, became the result of a terrorist attack, the representative of the French embassy in Yemen said. According to a diplomat, a small boat loaded with an excuse, crashed into the board of a tanker. Eleven crew people jumping into the water after a fire began on the ship, saved. Another 14 sailors remained on board, where they fight fire.

Our children grow up, and if we want to speak the same language with them, we have to follow the rules that arrange them: "Dad, mom, I have such problems, help me. And dad-mam is actively harnessed. Then this is good.

Leading Sergey Yuryenen Sergey Yuryenen: Eduard Topol is one of the leaders of the thriller in the Russian -speaking world, and not only in him. Exactly twenty years ago, he graduated from Red Square - a book first published in England and translated into fourteen languages. On the eve of September 11, the heads of the new book of Topol sounded in our program. Just in his Miami, he finished her. The twentieth with something in a row, the book may be a name - "Personal connections.

The Right Party "New Time" leads to the parliamentary elections that have been held yesterday in Latvia. According to preliminary data, more than 23 percent of voters voted for this party, created by the former head of the Central Bank of Latvia by Einars, the former head of the Central Bank of Latvia. In second place - which gained about 19 percent - the movement "for human rights in the Unified Latvia", which protects, in particular, the interests of the Russian -speaking population.

One of the leaders of the European Union Javier Solan, who arrived in the Middle East with a peacekeeping mission, held negotiations with high -ranking representatives of Israel and Palestinian autonomy. Israeli Minister of Defense Benjamin Ben-Elizer at a meeting with Solanna called on the European Union to put pressure on the Palestinian leadership to stop attacks on the Isralltans.