Maxim Yaroshevsky , Moscow: About 200 criminal cases have been instituted in Moscow for six months on the facts of giving and receiving bribes. Most often, traffic police officers, police and doctors came across bribes. Not a single case related to corruption has been instituted this year at teachers of higher educational institutions. The number of crimes related to corruption compared to the last six months has grown by almost 20 percent.

Andrei Shary: We introduce you to the reports of Chechnya of a special correspondent of radio, Freedom Andrei Babitsky, who, in accordance with the principles of our radio, visited the territory under the control of both warring parties. Today's reports of Andrei is dedicated to the detachments subordinating the current head of the Chechnya administration Akhmad Kadyrov: Andrei Babitsky: “To get to the feds now, like a wedding,” one of the Mujahideen in a mountain camp told me.

Azerbaijan President Heydar Aliyev arrived for treatment in the United States. 80-year-old Aliyev will be treated by cardiologists in Cleveland (Ohio). Azerbaijani president arrived in the United States from Turkey, where a month was in a military hospital. Aliyev intends to participate in the presidential election scheduled for October 15. The list of candidates is his son Ilham, who was appointed Prime Minister on Monday.

Marina Timasheva , Moscow: Six years ago, the jazz festival was the first to return the Moscow Hermitage Garden to its former glory. Since then, who was not there: Glory Polunin with carnivals and clowns, and the wine festival, and pyrotechnic shows, but the visiting festive card of the Hermitage still remains open -air jazz. The headliners of three festival days will be: the British quartet of Peter King, and the American saxophonist and flutist Lew Tabakin.

Ivan Trefilov , Moscow: the banking community celebrates today, August 7, the anniversary. In August 1988, the USSR State Bank issued the first license to the Chimkent Cooperative Bank from Kazakhstan. And already at the end of the same month, the Russian Bank Viking received license number two, and today working in St. Petersburg.

Boris Berezovsky can run for elections to the State Duma of Russia, ”said Chairman of the Central Election Commission Alexander Veshnyakov. According to him, Berezovsky has the right to be elected to the authorities - like any citizen of Russia who has reached the age of 21 and is not imprisoned by the court sentence.

In Germany, due to an unprecedented heat, the oldest nuclear power plant in the city of Obrigheim was stopped in the south-west of the country. The nuclear power plant had to be stopped, since the temperature of the water used to cool the units rose markedly. For the same reason, six other nuclear power plants in Germany were reduced the other day.

Ukraine today sends the first batch of military personnel to the international forces of stabilization in Iraq. More than 340 Ukrainian military will be trained in the territory of Kuwait, after which they will be deployed in the province of Vit in the east of Iraq, which is the Polish liability sector. In total, 1800 troops from Ukraine will be placed there.

Film actor Arnold Schwarzeneger announced his intention to participate in the upcoming re -election of the Governor of California. The main role in the film "Terminator", a member of the Republican Party, Schwarzeneger reported his plans last night in a television show. The current governor Gray Davis can be shifted in a special referendum - more than a million signatures have been collected for his resignation. Davis is responsible for the financial crisis in the state.

About 450 members of armed groups, mainly Kurdish, asked for an amnesty to the Turkish authorities - on the first day after the entry into force of the law giving them such an opportunity. As the Turkish Minister of Internal Affairs Abdulkadir Aksu said today, over a day over 110 rebels surrendered to the authorities. Another 330, in custody, filed a petition for pardon.

In the Amur Region, in the village of Beregovoy, 14 children aged 2 to 5 years are hospitalized with an acute intestinal infection. Four doctors found a dysentery. Presumably, the culprit of the incident is one of the employees of the kindergarten, where all the children went. The garden is closed by quarantine.

In Baghdad today there was an explosion near the Embassy of Jordan. At least 11 people died, dozens were injured. Apparently, a car was blown up next to the building. So far, the background of the sabotage is unclear. Last week, Jordan provided political asylum to the two daughters of Saddam Hussein. Last night, two American soldiers and a translator were killed in the Iraqi capital.

The court in Ireland today sentenced the leader of the True Irish Republican Army group Michael McC-Kevitt to 20 years in prison. McC-Kevitt is found guilty of organizing terrorist attacks and participating in a prohibited organization. “True Ira”, which broke out in the late 90s from the Irish Republican Army, is suspected of conducting a number of terrorist attacks, including an explosion in the town of Oma (North Ireland) in 1998, as a result of which 29 people were killed.

18 employees of the Palestinian security services were detained by Israeli military in the area of the city of Jericho on the western coast of Jordan on suspicion of terrorist activities. According to the Radio of Israel today, the arrested, apparently, belong to the local terrorist group, which prepared terrorist attacks and the production of home -made missiles. On Wednesday, the Israeli authorities freed more than 300 Palestinians who were in Israeli prisons from custody.

In the vicinity of Kabul, a Soviet -made missile battery was found, ready to open fire around the city. Kabul television reported the find today. Over the past few months, the capital of Afghanistan has been repeatedly subjected to missile shelling.