In the elections of the mayor of Volgograd, the State Duma deputy Yevgeny Ishchenko won, who gained about forty percent of the vote. In second place is the president of the Rotor sports club Vladimir Goryunov (more than 29 percent of the vote). The remaining applicants, including the acting mayor Alexander Tyurin, received support for less than six percent of voters.

Prepared by Leonid Gergeo: On the morning of September 15, 1991, in Paris, an unknown pilot set, as newspapers wrote then, a record of “Mastery and arrogance”. On an airplane with a 8 -meter scale of wings, he flew under the arch of the triumphal arch, the distance between the columns of which is 14 and a half meters. Then, making a circle over the Champs Elysees, the plane flew between the northern and southern supports of the Eiffel Tower.

Ildar Nizametdinov , Moscow: at a referendum in Estonia, held on Sunday, 67 percent of voters voted for the country's entry into the EU. The turnout of the voters amounted to 63 percent. Thus, in May 2004, Estonia will join the EU. Most of Estonia believed politicians who say that joining the EU will give impetus to the political, economic and social development of the country.

In Sochi on Monday, a meeting of the presidents of Russia and Belarus - Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko took place. At a press conference, at the end of negotiations that took place at the closed doors, Putin said that Russia and Belarus agreed to switch to market relations for the calculations for the supply of Minsk Russian gas.

100 million rubles made damage from summer forest fires in Buryatia. 180 thousand hectares of taiga burned out. According to local authorities, the main causes of fires are drought and careless treatment of people with fire. About two thousand materials on the facts of fires were sent to law enforcement agencies.

In Sochi, a meeting of the presidents of Russia and Belarus - Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko was held today. The issues of export of Russian gas to Belarus, the introduction of the ruble as a single currency and other problems of bilateral cooperation were discussed. The meeting took place in the residence of the President of Russia "Bocharov stream." Details of negotiations are unknown. Before the meeting, Lukashenko expressed concern about the state of Russian-Belarusian relations.

In the south of Afghanistan, at least 15 Taliban were killed yesterday in a battle with the Afghan and American units yesterday. According to representatives of local authorities, among the dead - the field commander of the Taliban Abdur Rakhim. Another battle with the Taliban group occurred on Saturday in the southern province of Pactik, the American military patrol pushed the militants to the Pakistani border.

The Swedish police managed to get data on the DNA of the killer of Foreign Minister Anna Lind. The attacker left his headdress and a knife next to the crime scene. The video cameras installed in the supermarket, where the murder was committed, was photographed by the young man who hastily left the hall. The film was shown to all witnesses. The motives for the murder of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Sweden remain unknown.

In Afghanistan, in the province of Pactica on Saturday there was a collision between the American military patrol and a group of armed persons. According to representatives of the American command today, there are no losses among US troops. The militants retreated to the Pakistani border. Also on Saturday in the neighboring province of the host, the base of the coalition forces was fired. There were no reports of the victims.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell, on a visit to Iraq, visited today the city of Halabja in the north of the country here in 1988, Saddam Hussein’s troops used chemical weapons against the Kurds - as a result, at least five thousand people were killed. The American Secretary of State took part in a mourning ceremony dedicated to the memory of the dead. During the day, Powell will hold negotiations with Masud Barzani and Jalal Talabani - the leaders of the two main Kurdish fractions.

Neo -Nazis pose an increasing threat to Germany’s security, ”warns the Minister of Internal Affairs of Germany Otto sewed. The conspiracy of the neo -Nazis, who were about to blow up the Jewish center in Munich, once again confirms the seriousness of the situation, the minister said in an interview with German television today. In this case, at least 10 people were arrested last week, a large number of explosives and weapons were seized.

As long as the leader of the Palestinian autonomy, Yasir Arfat, remains in power, the peaceful settlement of the Middle East conflict is impossible, - said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel Sylvana Shalom. He emphasized, however, that the Israeli government did not intend to immediately fulfill its decision on the deportation of Arafat. Shalom also denied reports that the Israeli cabinet considered the possibility of eliminating the head of the Palestinian autonomy.

The leaders of the Palestinian autonomy again made sharp statements today at Israel for the intention to send the head of the autonomy of Yasir Arafat. The Minister of Justice of Autonomy Nabil Shaat called Israel's decision "criminal." The head of the Security Service, Mohammad Dahlan, said that the deportation of Arafat would destroy all chances of resuming a peaceful process.

In the capital of Ingushetia, Magas, as a result of the explosion near the FSB building, according to preliminary data, at least four people died. Wounded - from fifteen to twenty. A powerful explosion occurred today about noon. According to investigators, explosives were in a truck. The FSB building was partially destroyed, the building of the Republican Treasury located nearby was also injured. Rescuers disassemble the rubble.

In Columbia, 8 foreign tourists were stolen - 4 Israeli, two British, German and Spaniard. According to local authorities, they examined the ancient ruins in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the north of the country and were captured on Friday, presumably, ultra-decisions. The conductor, whom the abductors released, announced the incident of the police.