The remains of the soldiers of the first Chechen war were buried Very fresh graves of unknown soldiers have appeared in Russia. The remains of ten servicemen who died in the first Chechen campaign and have not yet been identified were buried yesterday at the Bogorodskoe cemetery near Noginsk.

Norilsk Nickel management believes that it has persuaded minority shareholders It would seem that everything has already been said about the restructuring of the Norilsk Mining Company (NGK). However, questions for RAO management still remain. For example, the influential The Wall Street Journal Europe announced last week the dissatisfaction of small shareholders, whose interests are allegedly being ignored as part of the restructuring of RAO.

The controlling stake in the shipping company now belongs to its managers YUKOS executives officially announced to whom the company sold a controlling stake in the Volgotanker shipping company. Its new owners were a group of shipping company managers headed by the director of its subsidiary Volgotanker-AMS, Alexander Alexandrovich. All of them are united by a close relationship between each and Yukos, which is unlikely to remain a thing of the past.

The authorities of Khabarovsk overdid the cleansing of the political field At the early elections held in Khabarovsk on Sunday, September 24, fifty-year-old Alexander Sokolov was elected mayor of the city. According to representatives of the city election commission, no violations were identified during the voting. 84.2% of voters who came to vote voted for Alexander Sokolov. Two other mayoral candidates - Konstantin Oshkin and Vadim Sukharev - received 4.8 and 3.15% of the votes, respectively.

Local software developers unite in an association The largest Russian companies - manufacturers of business software products intend to unite into an association of suppliers of software products and information technologies. The idea of ​​its creation came from the research company Laminfo. One of the main tasks of the association will be the fight against piracy.

Yesterday, a number of central media outlets received a press release on the letterhead of the Tyumen Oil Company (TNK), in which, with reference to the company's president, Semyon Kukes, it was stated that TNK was considering the possibility of selling the 85 percent stake in ONAKO that it had just acquired. The press service of TNK officially stated that it did not send out such a press release and the information contained in it does not correspond to reality.

The most difficult cases of identification of remains are entrusted to the department of molecular genetic scientific and expert research of the Republican Center for Forensic Medicine. According to the deputy head of the department, Svetlana Frolova, experts also participated in identifying those who died in both the first Chechen campaign and the current one. Because only here the latest identification method is used - sequence analysis.

Cellular operators are now competing in the area of ​​discounts Cellular operators have entered a new stage of the struggle. If earlier Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) and VimpelCom (Bee Line brand) raced to reduce prices, now they compete in the field of discounts and bonuses. At the same time, the cost of a minute fluctuates within a few cents. VimpelCom announced yesterday the introduction of new tariff plans that will replace the entire “metal” system (“Platinum”, “Silver”, etc.).

UNICON refused to participate in the tender to conduct an audit of the Central Bank As has become customary in recent years, the competition for the right to audit the Central Bank began with a scandal. The parties involved are the same - the Russian auditor UNICON, the Western PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Central Bank itself and deputies.

Football. Men. Quarter final matches . Spain - Italy - 1:0, Chile - Nigeria - 4:1, USA - Japan - 2:2 (on penalties - 5:4), Cameroon - Brazil - 2:1. Women. Semi-final matches . USA - Brazil - 1:0, Norway - Germany - 1:0. The Olympic football tournament brought several sensations. Firstly, the Brazilian team lost to the Cameroonians in the quarterfinals. Secondly, the reigning Olympic champions, the Nigerians, who were literally defeated by the Chilean football players, resigned early.

Russian athletes, participants in the Himalayan expedition of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, which takes place in Nepal, once again, due to bad weather, had to temporarily stop searching for Vladimir Bondarev, who disappeared on September 17 while climbing Lhotse Peak. He and three other athletes were supposed to set up an intermediate camp at an altitude of 6,500 meters, but avalanches came down from the mountains while setting up tents.

Turkmenistan is ready to sell gas to anyone In the near future, the presidents of Ukraine, Armenia, Moldova, and Iran will arrive in the capital of Turkmenistan. The head of the Russian Gazprom, Rem Vyakhirev, is also going there. All of them are driven to Ashgabat by one main interest - Turkmen gas. President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat NIYAZOV answers questions from Vremya Novostei newspaper columnist Arkady DUBNOV. - Mr.

Elena Dementieva will compete for victory with Venus Williams Russian tennis players have the right to count on two medals in the individual competition of the 2000 Olympics. Or rather, one of them has already been guaranteed by the young Russian Elena Dementieva, who yesterday in the semi-finals, in a very difficult fight, defeated the favorite of the local public, Elena Dokic, and will now compete with Venus Williams in the decisive match for the “gold” of the Games.

Bislan Gantamirov, leader of the Chechen police, former first deputy head of Chechnya: - Actually, it’s time for the federal center to stop playing around; it must clearly decide what we want to do in the republic. If we want to end terrorism and separatism, if we want to restore the republic and bring it into Russia, we must use all available methods to bring the anti-terrorist campaign to its logical conclusion. And here everything will depend on who will lead it.

Häkkinen revved up his engine in pursuit of the leader Michael Schumacher was the first to cross the finish line of the US Grand Prix and immediately rushed to hug everyone in the Ferrari team paddock. Of course, he not only regained the lead in the World Championship, eight points ahead of Mika Hakkinen, but also, with the help of his partner Rubens Barrichello, ensured the Scuderia's leadership in the Constructors' Championship.