Musa Khasanov , North Caucasus: October 5, the President of the Republic will be held in Chechnya, a large number of Russian and international observers are expected. To ensure the safety and public order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya, he allocates 16 thousand employees.

Leading Sergey Seninsky Overview of publications of the next issue of the British weekly "Economist". Sergey Seninsky: The release opens the panorama of economic news and events of recent days - one week of the year ... "One week of the year." Irina Lagunina: The US dollar exchange rate to the euro from the beginning of this week has decreased by 2.5% - to the level of 1 dollar and 17 cents per euro, the lowest in the last three months.

Israel will buy 15 million cubic meters of fresh water from Turkey for 20 years. This was announced after negotiations in Istanbul, a member of the Israeli government, Josef Paritski. It remains to solve the parties about the transportation of water, which will be delivered to Israel either by a special pipeline or tankers.

In the southeast of Afghanistan, clashes between the troops of the United States and scattered taliban troops continue. At 180 kilometers from Kabul, the military base of Urgun underwent a missile shelling. In response, artillery fire was opened. In Kabul, at least four people died and six were injured as a result of an accident. The explosives, which the locals kept at home, detonated.

In Afghanistan, 7 people died and six were injured as a result of a powerful explosion in a village near the American military base of Bagram. Presumably, accidentally detonated explosives, stored in one of the houses. Many Afghans make money that they collect fragments of military equipment and sell it as scrap metal.

In Grozny, as a result of shelling of a checkpoint, two were killed today and seven police officers were injured. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent, the attack was committed by a group of 20 Chechen Mujahideen. Last night, 8 Russian police officers were injured in the Vedensky district of Chechnya. Two groups of armed Chechens simultaneously fired at the police of the villages of the villages of Makhkete and Khatuni. The search for attackers is being conducted.

Representatives of the Yukos oil company believe that searches in its structures should become the subject of open court hearings. The press service of Yukos has distributed a statement today, which especially indicates the lack of logic in the actions of the prosecutor's office and attempts to intimidate the company's shareholders.

The UK, following the United States, sharply criticized the intention of the head of the Bulgarian government to appoint a human security Minister, who headed the intelligence service under the communist regime. Last week, the US government announced an appeal to the Prime Minister of Bulgaria Simeon Sax Koburgksky with an appeal to abandon these plans.

The election commission of St. Petersburg said that the media may be held accountable in case of publication on October 3 of “doubtful information” about candidates for the city governors. According to the law, the election campaign ends on October 3, so the media will no longer have the opportunity to refute information that could damage the honor and achieve candidates during the election campaign.

The Radio Liberty correspondent in New York Yuri Zhigalkin is talking with an American expert in Russia, Professor Marshall Goldman, and with the editor of Forbes magazine, a famous American journalist Paul Khlebnikov. Yuri Zhigalkin: The next ten minutes of the program we will devote to the Yukos case, how it is perceived in the United States. And the reason for the conversation was the book of the famous American expert in Russia, Professor Marshall Goldman.

American troops in Iraq detained one of the proxies of Saddam Hussein, a former general who performed the dictator of the executioner under the dictator. According to the command, the ex-General, whose name is not called, was detained in the city of En-Nakuba, north of Baghdad. No more details are given.

The film of Andrei Zvyagintsev was nominated for the Oscar film awards "Oscar" from Russia. The decision was made by the commission led by director Vladimir Menshov. Zvyagintseva received the debut picture at the Venice Film Festival of two Golden Lviv - mainly competition and for the best debut.

In Grozny this morning - two days before the elections of the President of Chechnya - telephone communication with all regions of Russia ceased to work. The work of the Mobile Communications System of Megafon is also violated. According to preliminary data, a large fiberglass cable is damaged outside Grozny. The causes and place of the accident are unknown. The elections of the President of Chechnya are scheduled for October 5.

Elena Fanailova , Moscow: on the initiative of the Czech art group "Orbis-Pictus" in the Czech Cultural Center in Moscow, an exhibition was held to create the image of the future united Europe. Russian artists joined their European colleagues in creating an infinite, according to the organizers, paintings.

The Russian cargo spacecraft "Progress M-1-7" today will be sold out from the International Space Station and flooded in the Pacific Ocean. On board the ship accumulated on the ISS garbage. According to the representative of the flight management center, the estimated place of the decline in the ship is located about three thousand kilometers east of the capital of New Zealand of the city of Wellington.