A message from the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Ichkeria, Movladi Udugov, appeared on the website of the Chechen militants “Caucasus Center”, in which he informs about the impending coup in Azerbaijan. The organizers of the rebellion have also been named - ex-President Ayaz Mutalibov and the current Minister of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan Ramil Usubov. Russia is actively involved in preparing the coup, says the ideologist of the Chechen resistance.

Volleyball . Women. 1/2 finals . Russia - USA - 3:2, Cuba - Brazil - 3:2. The Russian team beat the US team with great difficulty. Victory came to Nikolai Karpol's team only in a tiebreaker with a score of 15:8. The second finalist, as expected, was the Cuban team, which, however, also barely managed to beat the Brazilians in the semifinals.

The results of BITEF are finally summed up As we expected, the main fight for prizes took place at the jury meeting between the German “Bodies” of Sasha Waltz (Schaubühne) and “K.I. from “Crime” by Kama Ginkas (MTYUZ). As a result, friendship won. The German choreographer received the Grand Prix, and Ginkas received the special prize.

The Arbitration Court of the Sverdlovsk Region recognized the illegality of the transaction for the assignment of claims on loans issued to the regional administration by SBS-Agro Bank in favor of Zoloto-Platina Bank in the amount of $6.8 million and 7.1 million rubles. As reported by the Agency for Restructuring of Credit Institutions (ARCO), which manages SBS-Agro, the basis for such a decision of the arbitration court was gross violations in the procedure for registering this transaction.

Deputies of the Khabarovsk Regional Duma refused to accept amendments to the charter of the region, despite the fact that in certain provisions this document does not comply with the federal law “On the general principles of the organization of legislative, representative and executive bodies of state power in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.” Amendments to the charter of the Khabarovsk Territory were prepared by a working group consisting of seven deputies and seven

Today is the first meeting of the Presidium of the State Council Today, the first seven members of the presidium of the newly created State Council will meet with the president in the Kremlin. The first meeting of the presidium will be held according to the formula “seven plus one,” but what the “influential governors” will actually be meeting about, they themselves do not seem to know.

At a meeting of the Russian cabinet on Thursday, a program for state accounting and control of nuclear materials was discussed. It was originally planned that the system, which strictly monitors the production, use, processing, storage, transportation of nuclear materials, as well as their export and import, would start working within three months, from January 1, 2001.

Russia is introducing a “green card” for residents of neighboring countries From October 1, Russia will tighten the rules for registering CIS citizens who intend to settle in our country for a long time. This was announced yesterday at a press conference by the head of the Department of Visas and Registration of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, Vladimir Ivanov, citing the corresponding instructions from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

At the Internetcom exhibition opening on October 3 in Moscow, the country's first Internet radio - 101.ru - will be presented at the stand of the Rossiya Online company. Let us recall that after the radio station “Radio 101” stopped broadcasting on the frequency 101.2 FM, a 24-hour automated music broadcast (without presenters) was organized in the same hard rock format, which was no longer on the Moscow airwaves after the disappearance of “Radio 101”.

The antitrust case against Microsoft has been returned by the US Supreme Court. Thus, the execution of the decision made by Judge Thomas Jackson to divide the Bill Gates empire into two independent companies is postponed indefinitely. The Justice Department's case against Microsoft will head to the D.C. Court of Appeals, the high court ruled eight to one. It was Judge Jackson who asked the Supreme Court to consider Microsoft's possible appeal in order to avoid delaying the decision.

Ukraine may be left without a main TV channel The Ukrainian State Company for Radio Broadcasting, Radio Communications and Television (RRT) announced that from the beginning of October the broadcast of programs of the National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU), the country's largest television channel, which is considered the “mouthpiece” of President Leonid Kuchma, may be stopped.

Deputy Minister of Trade and Economic Development Maxim MEDVEDKOV told Vremya Novostei newspaper correspondent Olga ANTONOVA about the immediate prospects for Russia's foreign trade activities. — In recent years, Russia has not had a clear foreign trade policy; has it appeared now? -- Trade policy cannot exist separately from economic policy. Since Russia had no clear economic policy, but only numerous programs, there could be no trade policy. Now the situation has changed.

Yevgeny Kafelnikov achieved his greatest success on the professional tour in February 1999, becoming the first racket of the world. In total, he has 20 victories in professional tournaments, including two Grand Slam competitions - the French and Australian Opens. Evgeniy began his conversation with Vremya Novostei newspaper correspondent Olga ERMOLINA by saying that he puts Olympic success on a par with victories in Paris and Melbourne. - Which of the Olympic fights gave you pleasure?

The Russian government allocated 50 million rubles yesterday to provide assistance to refugees from Chechnya in 2000. This money, the government decree says, will be allocated to the Ministry of Federation Affairs, National and Migration Policy from the reserve fund for the prevention and response to emergency situations.

The assassination attempt on the head of the tax police department for North Ossetia, Major General Ruslan Kabaloev, took place on Wednesday evening in Vladikavkaz. An unknown criminal fired at the entrance to Kabaloev’s house when the general was returning from work. The tax police department building is located on the territory of the Vesna military camp, where the official lives. The town is guarded by reinforced police and military personnel.