More than 10 thousand armed Pakistanis went to Afghanistan to help the Taliban, ABC News reports. These are representatives of one of the most militant tribes in Pakistan, friendly towards the Taliban movement. The militants went to Afghanistan in trucks, buses and cars, armed with bladed weapons and small arms. The main detachments have not yet crossed the border into Afghanistan, and at the moment there are only a few hundred fanatics in the eastern Afghan province of Kunar.

There were no searches at the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, and no charges were brought against anyone in this department. This was stated by its leader, head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu, closing the 3rd congress of the Unity party today. “I was also not called to the Prosecutor General’s Office,” he emphasized.

Today, at about 4.00 Moscow time, Tamerlan Aliyev, previously sentenced to life imprisonment by the Supreme Court of the republic, escaped from the temporary detention center in Buinaksk in Dagestan. As reported by the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs, T. Aliyev was convicted of participation in the preparation in September 1998. terrorist attack on the street Parkhomenko in Makhachkala, which killed 20 people and injured over 60 people. Last Friday, T.

The death of the crew members of the Kursk nuclear submarine was caused by carbon monoxide poisoning. Russian Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov told reporters about this today at a press conference in Murmansk. According to him, during the fire that occurred on board the nuclear submarine, the temperature in some compartments reached 8 thousand degrees, and the boat itself was completely flooded within 8 hours.

The coup attempt was prevented by the special services of Azerbaijan. As RBC was informed by the Ministry of National Security of the Republic of Azerbaijan, operatives identified a group preparing a coup d'état, which included the physical destruction of the country's President Heydar Aliyev and the seizure of government buildings. The group was led by former Baku prosecutor Mamed Guliyev, who now lives in Moscow and is in Iran, former prosecutor of the Khatai district of Baku Mahir Javadov.

Terrorist Tamerlan Aliyev, who escaped from the Buinaksk temporary detention center this morning, was released by his overseer “to visit his family.” As Madomedarip Aliyev, head of the Buinaksk Municipal Internal Affairs Directorate, told RBC, policeman Sharip Chupaev, who was guarding the terrorist, admitted that he had indeed released Tamerlan Aliyev, sentenced to life imprisonment, “on his word of honor so that he could see his family.” It turned out that T.

Trade turnover between Russia and Yugoslavia amounted to 1 October 2001. 500 million dollars, in general, according to experts, it could exceed 550 million dollars for the year. These data were announced in Belgrade on the eve of the next meeting of the bilateral intergovernmental commission on trade, economic, scientific and technical cooperation, which will be held in Moscow. Currently, Russia has a positive balance in trade with the FRY, which according to the results of 7 months of 2001.

The Taliban say they have executed 5 Northern Alliance commanders they captured, DPA reports, citing the Pakistani agency Afghan Islamic Press. According to AIP, 5 commanders and 15 members of their squads were captured during the fighting near Mazar-i-Sharif on Friday night and hanged this morning. There has not yet been any confirmation from independent sources of information about the capture and execution of fighters from forces opposing the Taliban.

In the near future, a commission to investigate the events in the Kodori Gorge may be created in the Georgian parliament. According to the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Zurab Zhvania, military actions in this territory "caused a storm of emotions among Georgian parliamentarians." At the same time, Z. Zhvania noted that he does not have information about the location of the Chechen field commander Ruslan Gelayev, whose detachment conducted military operations on the territory of Abkhazia.

"Unity", "Fatherland" and "All Russia" must unite to create a party in power, which has the support of the majority of society, and which actually exercises power in the name and in the interests of society. This was stated by its leader Sergei Shoigu, speaking at the 3rd congress of the Unity party in Moscow.

A small earthquake occurred in New York tonight. Tremors measuring 2.6 on the Richter scale were felt in lower Manhattan at 10:42 Moscow time and were recorded by the Weston Observatory at Boston College, AP reports. According to police, immediately after this, the number of calls to the 911 rescue service sharply increased, with people reporting shaking walls in their houses and an incomprehensible hum. There are no reports of casualties or damage yet.

The Congress of the Union "Unity" and "Fatherland" to transform the Union into a political party will be held on December 1, 2001. in Moscow. This decision was made at the second congress of the Union held today in Moscow. Today, the leader of “All Russia”, President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev, was elected as the third co-chairman of the Union, along with the leader of “Unity” S. Shoigu and the leader of “Fatherland” Yu. Luzhkov, and “All Russia” was accepted into the Union.