Hockey. Russian Championship. "Metallurg" (Nk) -- "Torpedo" -- 5:0, "Metallurg" (MG) -- "Ak Bars" 3:1, "Avangard" -- "Dynamo" -- 2:2, "Mechel" -- "Neftekhimik" 5:4. The leaders of the championship, Dynamo Moscow, true to the habit of creating problems for themselves, let the puck into the goal in Omsk already in the 10th second (!) of the meeting. By the middle of the match, thanks to the efforts of Savchenkov and Gribko, the blue and white were already ahead.

The Kremlin Cup is no longer a “passing yard” The current Kremlin Cup tournament, perhaps for the first time in eight years of existence, has taken its rightful place among the prestigious tennis competitions. This is explained by the fact that the organizers were not only able to agree on shifting the dates of the event, but also collected a fairly decent prize fund - 2 million 185 thousand dollars.

The Belgian authorities could not figure out how to protect themselves from the terrible Russians The problem of visa relations between Russia and Belgium, which seemed to have been resolved six months ago, was unexpectedly revived at the negotiations currently underway as part of Vladimir Putin’s visit to Brussels.

The Arbitration Court of the Irkutsk Region postponed indefinitely the consideration of the claim of RAO UES of Russia against Irkutskenergo for the collection of debt on subscription fees in connection with the energy holding's petition for a possible settlement agreement. Alexander Ptashkin, director of public relations at Irkutskenergo, reported this to the Vremya Novostei newspaper. He does not know when the settlement agreement will be signed and on what terms.

Three employees of the Butyrsky detention center were detained yesterday in connection with the scandalous escape on Monday of one of the defendants. Ivan Vinogradov, accused of several articles of the Criminal Code, managed to freely leave prison using a fake ID of a law enforcement officer. The leadership of the GUIN Ministry of Justice immediately began checking the circumstances of the escape.

The government's "tuning" will continue. Today in the White House they are talking about four victims: the head of the State Construction Committee Anvar Shamuzafarov, the Minister of Industry Alexander Dondukov, the Minister of Federal Affairs Alexander Blokhin and the head of the Ministry of Education Vladimir Filippov. The latter, according to the newspaper Vremya Novostey, causes especially many complaints.

The trial of five members of Shamil Basayev's gang, which attacked the city of Budennovsk in 1995, began yesterday in one of the colonies of the Stavropol Territory. In the dock are participants in the seizure of the Budyonnovsk hospital: Raisa Dundaeva, Aslan Yakubov, Vakhit Aidamirov, Saslambek Aidamirov and Saslambek Dautov. All of them are accused of terrorism, participation in illegal armed groups, banditry, and hostage-taking.

The failure of the experiment to create a special economic zone (SEZ) in the Kaliningrad region of Russia was determined by the results of an audit carried out by the Accounts Chamber. In 2001 alone, the total volume of customs and tax benefits operating in the territory of the exclave, thanks to the law “On SEZ in the Kaliningrad Region” adopted in 1996, exceeded ten times the revenue side of the regional budget (1.3 billion rubles).

You can get to America by denunciation Those wishing to emigrate to the United States had a reason to rejoice on Monday. President Bush passed a resolution that would allow foreigners with “critical information about criminal or terrorist groups” to receive a special S entry visa and eventually even permanent resident status in the United States. In principle, S-visas (from the English snitch - denunciation) were issued by the USA before - up to 250 per year.

An officer of the Ministry of Defense died on Tuesday night in the Moscow region. The tragedy occurred around one in the morning in the village of Severny, Balashikha District, on the territory of an air defense military unit. Near the army canteen, just 100 meters from the checkpoint, an unknown person attacked the garrison duty officer, 39-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Viktor Tutenkov. The criminal stabbed the officer in the neck and finished him off with a shot from a shotgun.

Israeli citizens know this well The Jewish state is preparing with all its might for the retaliation campaign announced by President Bush. The Israelis are confident that they too will have to pay for the American strikes. The head of military intelligence AMAN, General Amos Malka, in an interview with the Yedioth Ahronot newspaper, formulated “three circles of danger as a consequence of the American military action.” The first involves an attack on Osama Bin Laden and his infrastructure.

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Moscow has appointed a new curator of Transnistria Yesterday, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Vyacheslav Trubnikov paid an introductory visit to Chisinau and Tiraspol. As a high-ranking diplomat told the Vremya Novostey newspaper, he will now be the main Russian supervisor of negotiations between Chisinau and Tiraspol. Mr. Trubnikov added that the Russian State Commission on Transnistria, which was headed by Yevgeny Primakov, no longer exists.

The extraordinary meeting of shareholders of OJSC Electrosvyaz of Primorsky Krai, held in the form of absentee voting and ending on October 1, opened the door for the transformation of seven Far Eastern telecommunications operators into a single Far Eastern Telecommunications Company.

On the day of accession to the WTO, no duties will be reduced Vladimir Putin said yesterday in Brussels that Russia “will join the World Trade Organization only on general terms and does not agree with the presentation of demands to it that are not presented to anyone else.” Mr. Putin does not like the fact that Russia is required to adjust its laws “to comply with the WTO” even before joining the organization.