Suspects of terrorist attacks in the Stavropol region detained More than 40 people, according to final data, were injured as a result of three powerful explosions that occurred almost simultaneously on Friday evening in the Stavropol Territory, in the cities of Pyatigorsk and Nevinnomyssk. Two of them died on the spot, another - 46-year-old resident of the Kursk region Nikolai Bondar - died in hospital on Sunday night.

The visitors dominate the Intercontinental Cup The IV Intercontinental Futsal Cup started in Moscow on Saturday. The four best club teams in the world took part in the fight for the honorary trophy: the Brazilian Atlético Mineiro and Ulbra, the Spanish Caja Segovia and the capital Dina. The tournament began with a meeting of compatriots from South America, but, oddly enough, there was no stubborn struggle in the Brazilian derby.

The IMF cautiously praises the government and criticizes the Central Bank Having approved the draft budget for 2001 in the first reading, the deputies succumbed not only to the government’s assurances of the accuracy of the main budget parameters, but also, without knowing it, to the recommendations of the International Monetary Fund.

CSKA hockey players beat fellow Dynamo players The hockey match between CSKA and Dynamo gathered in Luzhniki an impressive audience by capital standards - about 6 thousand spectators. And this despite the permanent failures of both clubs at the beginning of the Russian championship. It seems that the team's fans believe in their favorites and were ready to forgive them for their unimpressive start in the championship for the victory over their fellow countrymen.

At the name of this man, Russian politicians wince, and Iraqis become furious, considering him the culprit of many troubles. In July 1997, Australian Richard Butler headed UNSCOM, the UN special commission for the disarmament of Iraq. In December 1998, it depended on him whether Great Britain and the United States would begin a massive bombing of Iraq.

England coach resigns after losing historic match The second round games took place in the European qualifying groups for the 2002 World Cup. In Group 1, where our team also plays, the Swiss team defeated the Faroe Islands players - 5:1 (Türkilmaz scored a hat-trick, and the Swiss of Turkish origin scored all three goals from the penalty spot).

Has the right The country's railways received instructions last Friday from Russian Railways Minister Nikolai Aksenenko to raise fees for export transportation of petroleum products and ferrous metallurgy products from October 1. Exports "by sleepers" will rise in price for oil workers by 32%, and for metallurgists - by 22%. For oil industry companies, the tariff increase is a punishment for intractability and lack of understanding of the needs of the railways.

With the fall of Milosevic, the “free world” is left with the last “evil incarnate” - Saddam Hussein In the decade that has passed since the Cold War, several chronic problems have emerged in world politics, which in the eyes of the “civilized world” have acquired the symbolic meaning of a clash between the forces of “good” and “evil,” freedom and totalitarianism. At the center of each of them is the embodiment of this very evil, the head of the dictatorial regime.

TNK initiates a meeting of Slavneft shareholders Today, the board of directors of JSC Slavneft, which began on Friday, must decide on holding an extraordinary meeting of the company’s shareholders. If it is appointed, then the Tyumen Oil Company will have a chance to introduce its representative to the board of directors of Slavneft. However, according to the law, this can happen no earlier than in a month.

Today Mikhail Shvydkoy will meet with journalists to explain the meaning of his actions. The reforms of the new Minister of Culture are causing a lot of controversy. The abolition of Goskino took place amid the roar of scandal, then everything calmed down, but so far no one has answered the question: was it necessary to do this, is there any sense in the changes? The change of power in the Bolshoi is the second administrative scandal caused by the new policy of Mikhail Shvydkoy’s department.

Farewell to the Yeltsin era took place On Saturday, the unofficial closing of Yeltsin's political season took place in Moscow - so far the most significant in the history of post-Soviet Russia. The presentation of Boris Yeltsin's long-awaited book, which took place on October 7 in one of the Foreign Ministry's mansions on Kosygina Street, turned out to be a surprisingly intimate event, but nevertheless became a real - informal - farewell to the Yeltsin era.

Another earthquake occurred on Saturday evening on Sakhalin. According to preliminary data, the maximum force of the earthquake was noted in the city of Uglegorsk - 5 points on the Richter scale, in the cities of Tomari, Krasnogorsk, Shakhtersk and Makarov - from 3 to 4 points. In Uglegorsk, there is new destruction in houses that have not yet been fully restored after the previous earthquake.

Vadim Gaevsky - about his concept of reform of the ballet troupe — Vadim Moiseevich, people have been talking about you lately as Shvydky’s ballet consultant, a kind of “gray eminence.” - Officially, I am not anyone. Over the past three months, I have been to the ministry only twice and to the Bolshoi twice. I was never familiar with Rozhdestvensky and still am not. I’m saving a few repertoire suggestions for a personal meeting. Although he has already made two sensational proposals.

Presentation of the single “Forever Young” by the group “Semantic Hallucinations” took place The song “Forever Young,” which was included in the soundtrack of the film “Brother-2,” gained all-Russian popularity upon the release of the film, thus becoming one of the most successful hits of this summer. Two more compositions from “Semantic Hallucinations” - “Rose-Colored Glasses” and “DJs Go Crazy” - were included in the “Invasion” collections.

Court proceedings are dragging on On October 6, the Arbitration Court of the Rostov Region was unable to render a verdict on the claim of the Silver company to invalidate the results of an investment competition five years ago for the sale of a state-owned stake in the Taganrog Metallurgical Plant to its current largest shareholder, the Shelf group of companies. The meeting was rescheduled for October 26.