By winter, they want to resettle Chechen refugees from tents in Ingushetia back to Chechnya. This was discussed at the next meeting of the operational headquarters for managing counter-terrorism operations in the North Caucasus, held at the end of last week in Moscow under the leadership of the head of the FSB Nikolai Patrushev and with the participation of top officials of Chechnya and Ingushetia.

Russian and Japanese rescuers spent the entire day yesterday working together to search for a private twin-engine plane that disappeared over the Sea of ​​Okhotsk on Sunday morning. The plane was flying from the city of Hakodate, located on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, to Magadan and crashed over the sea in the Sakhalin region, about 100 kilometers northeast of Cape Terpeniya. The distress signal from the RS-12 aircraft, registered in the USA, arrived at 11.50 local time.

Entrepreneurs of Chechnya united Chechnya has its own Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. Chechen businessmen, however, mostly do not live in the republic and they flew to Grozny, where the congress was held, from Moscow. However, there were also a small number of local business representatives at the founding congress. One of them, Usman Masayev, whose team will, according to him, restore the republican wine and vodka complex, became chairman of the Chechen Union of Entrepreneurs.

To increase budget revenues, the capital's authorities intend to legitimize a new concept - “state-owned lands.” At the same time, according to the plans of the deputies and the Moscow government, the main form of land relations in the capital will remain rent, which will become more expensive next year.

The FBI is headed by a man who wants to solve crimes The Federal Bureau of Investigation finally has a new director. The previous head of the FBI, Louis Freeh, announced his resignation back in May, but President Bush was able to find a replacement for him only two months later - during eight years of work, Freeh brought the bureau into an almost catastrophic state, so that his replacement had to be a real kamikaze.

The fight for disputed islands near Khabarovsk is being carried out with the help of dams Russia and China cannot resolve the issue of ownership of the disputed territories - the Bolshoy Ussuriysky and Tarabarov islands, located near Khabarovsk. The Russian side has been successfully delaying the negotiation process for five years, and China, year after year, carries out irrigation work to change the course of the Amur River - in order to shift the state border in its favor.

The Duma “halved” the rights of foreigners to own Russian television companies by approving a corresponding amendment to the media law on Friday. Foreign legal entities and citizens are not at all allowed to “establish television broadcasting organizations and television or video programs in Russia.” Russians with dual citizenship cannot be founders. Nevertheless, foreign capital can be invested in domestic electronic media through Russian legal entities.

The new president of the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC), Leonid Nevzlin, who was elected to this position about two months ago, recently returned from a trip to Israel. A well-known Russian businessman, vice-president of the YUKOS company, and in the recent past, deputy general director of ITAR-TASS, headed RJC after the founder and first president of the organization, Vladimir Gusinsky, resigned.

The head of the government commission, Ilya Klebanov, is due to officially announce the cause of the crash of the Tu-154 passenger plane that crashed on July 3 near Irkutsk. Yesterday at the Irkutsk airport before flying to Moscow, he announced that on Saturday, after listening to the “black boxes” found at the scene of the tragedy, the commission was able to establish what exactly happened on board the deceased airliner in the last seconds before the fall. Mr.

The ballet “Monsieur Moliere and Don Juan” ended the Moscow tour of the Boris Eifman Ballet Theater The premiere of the play took place last season in America, where they were delighted with Molière - as, indeed, with everything that Boris Eifman has been showing in the States in recent years, in whom local critics see the heir and continuer of the Russian-Soviet drama ballet tradition .

All the sand was stolen from the Leningrad region In the Leningrad region, sand is stolen - by hundreds of dump trucks and hundreds of thousands of cubic meters. This building material, the demand for which has increased sharply with the start of construction of the ring road around St. Petersburg, is stolen mainly from lands used by the military. According to the vice-governor of the region, Grigory Dvas, the volume of illegal sand mining ranges from 800 thousand to 1 million tons per year.

Yesterday the first stage of the Tour de France cycling race took place, in which seven Russian cyclists started. President of the Russian Cycling Federation Alexander GUSYATNIKOV told Vremya Novostey correspondent Olga ERMOLINA about the chances of our athletes, about the doping scandals that shook world cycling. — Alexander Mikhailovich, what can Russian cyclists really count on in the stage race that has started?

Wagner's music was performed for the first time in Israel On Saturday evening, at a concert in Jerusalem, for the first time in the history of the State of Israel, fragments of the works of Richard Wagner were performed. As you know, the performance of this composer’s music is prohibited in Israel.

The international tribunal becomes a threat to states and governments The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) is becoming a devastating weapon. Last weekend, under the pressure of the Hague Themis, the government of the second European country was shaken. After Yugoslavia, whose cabinet could not stand the extradition of Slobodan Milosevic, the government of Croatia also collapsed.

The entire police force of the Kaliningrad region was put on alert last Saturday to detain an armed deserter. Border guard Maxim Starostin with a weapon left his post without permission at the Ozersky training center. Near the village of Kodynka, he took an Audi 100 car from a passing driver, but lost control and crashed into a tree. After that, the police were on his trail. Noticing his pursuers, Starostin opened fire on them from a machine gun.