The leader of the Northern Alliance, Burhanuddin RABBANI, who is recognized throughout the world as the legitimate president of Afghanistan, gave an exclusive interview on Tuesday evening by telephone from Kabul to the special correspondent of the Vremya Novostei newspaper Elena SUPONINA. - Dr. Rabbani, is Osama Bin Laden still in Afghanistan? - Yes. We are sure of this. Bin Laden, according to our information, is in Afghanistan.

At the problematic discussion “New Personnel for Society and the State,” held as part of the Civil Forum, the all-Russian national personnel initiative, presented by the Russian Institute and the Center for Corporate Entrepreneurship, was discussed. This event turned out to be one of the most productive.

Perm and Vologda will see European level games Yesterday the Russian men's and women's national teams started their qualifying round for the 2003 European Championship. Basketball players in the capital's USC CSKA won against their rivals from the Czech Republic, and the girls finished their away match against Slovenia late in the evening.

At 15.00 in the foyer of the State Kremlin Palace, a discussion took place within the framework of the Global Fund on the topic “Mobilization of public potential in national programs of state building and economic reforms.” The discussion was started by the head of the presidential administration, Alexander Voloshin, who was greeted with applause by the Forum participants.

Society needs a law on self-regulation of business, its responsibility for behavior in the market and to consumers. This opinion was reached by the participants in the discussion “Society - Business - Government”, held within the framework of the Civil Forum. Many participants expressed the opinion that one law is not enough; a permanent negotiation platform is needed for dialogue “government - business - society”.

Terrorist attacks and refugees helped For the first time since 1929, conservative parties won an absolute majority in parliamentary elections in Denmark last Tuesday. The main winner was Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the leader of the Liberal Party (Venstre), which took the largest number of parliamentary seats. He will replace his namesake, Social Democrat Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, as prime minister.

The capital wants to help with housing only for its own people Moscow authorities continue to try to reduce the queue of people wishing to acquire housing in Moscow. Yesterday, deputies of the Moscow City Duma updated the “Fundamentals of the housing policy of the city of Moscow” - the basic law according to which relations are built between 500 thousand citizens applying for improved housing conditions and the relevant capital officials.

Two hundred years ago Vladimir Dal was born “He was, first of all, a man of what is called a jack of all trades. Whatever Dahl undertook, he managed to master everything,” this is how the great surgeon Nikolai Pirogov recalled his senior friend at the University of Dorpat.

There are fewer than a million prisoners in Russia Reports from the leadership of the Ministry of Justice to parliamentarians on the progress of criminal justice reform are becoming regular. Yesterday, Deputy Minister of Justice Yuri Kalinin once again spoke in the State Duma, where he spoke about the latest achievements in the humanization of places of detention. The GUIN considers the most important of them to be the recently overcome fundamentally important “millionth” milestone.

There is a plan to establish truly permanent and constructive cooperation with the apparatus One of the founding fathers of the Civil Forum refutes the secret intentions attributed to the organizers.

The Department for Combating Economic Crimes of the Yekaterinburg Internal Affairs Directorate opened a criminal case against the Chairman of the Regional Federation of Trade Unions, Yuri Ilyin. The region's main trade union leader is accused of abuse of power. According to the police, in January 2001 he sold a government apartment owned by the federation to an outsider. The damage caused by the sale to the regional trade union movement amounted to 240 thousand rubles.

The film by Konstantin Murzenko was finally shown in Moscow Yesterday, journalists were finally shown the painting “April” by Konstantin Murzenko. Until now, the directorial debut of the cult domestic film playwright could be seen at the Vyborg festival “Window to Europe”, and the film will be released in February 2002 - then the time will come for serious analyzes and reviews, but first impressions are important today.

Long live the new Perfect One! In Malaysia, King Salahuddin Abdul Aziz died at the age of 76. Two months ago in Singapore he underwent a heart muscle transplant, and in recent days he was connected to an “artificial kidney” and a ventilator. The deceased left behind ten sons and four daughters, but none of them will succeed him on the throne.

I haven't had any luck lately. No matter how you come to the theater, every time you see something completely indecent - not in the sense of indecent, but in the sense of vulgar and demonstrating a lack of the very foundations of the craft. And every time the names of such venerable directors and famous artists appear on the poster, it literally fills you with awe. Therefore, we will not write about them, but rather write about the public.

King Abdullah II of Jordan would like his “meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin to become regular.” Yesterday the king left Moscow, where he paid a short visit, during which he talked with the Russian leader for more than two hours and did not meet with anyone else. The king's arrival was quite unexpected, because he had already paid an official visit to Moscow quite recently - in August.