The leadership of the Chechen Internal Affairs Directorate began an internal investigation into the disarmament of the detachment of the local private security department (SVO) by militants. According to preliminary data, the emergency occurred on Monday evening, when eight policemen of the UVO regiment in two UAZ vehicles were returning to their unit after completing a mission.

Experts have found out how the plane that died at Sheremetyevo fell The first “interim” version of the accident of the Pulkovo Airlines Il-86 passenger plane, which crashed on Sunday at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, was announced yesterday by experts from the Interstate Aviation Committee and the State Civil Aviation Service.

Komarova won, Sludnov lost Russian swimmers brought two more medals - gold and silver - yesterday at the European Championships. Swimming in a warm pool began for ours no worse than in open 15-degree water. Both awards can safely be called sensational, with the only difference being that the “gold” of the young Muscovite Stanislava Komarova is regarded as a victory, and the “silver” of Omsk resident Roman Sludnov is more likely to be a defeat.

The program of the 59th Venice Festival turned out to have a Russian twist Yesterday's press conference by the President of the Venice Biennale, Franco Bernabe, and the newly appointed director of the Venice Film Festival, Moritz de Hadeln, was eagerly awaited. She had to answer the question of whether the change of leadership (before that, de Hadeln led the Berlin IFF for 22 years) meant a change in the concept of the festival.

Yuri Sukhanov took up restructuring After many investment company analysts called Slavneft’s first reporting according to international standards the worst in the industry, the company’s management decided to tell them about its plans for the near future. The main task is to restructure activities and reduce costs. There is no talk yet about increasing production; analysts assume this will be done by the new owner of Slavneft.

Wholesalers are pushing out ice cream producers At the height of summer, the largest ice cream producers in Russia seriously thought about the results of their work. To be more precise, ice cream makers sounded the alarm.

The team tactics, for which Ferrari had to pay a million fine (at the Austrian Grand Prix, Rubens Barrichello missed Michael Schumacher at the finish), are also used in Sauber. Moreover, it has an inexplicable character. Hardly anyone noticed anything unusual in the fact that in the dispute for sixth place between the two Sauber pilots, Nick Heidfeld was ahead of Philippe Massa.

A truly revolutionary decision was made in overseas basketball. From now on, referees are allowed to use video replays in the final seconds of quarters or matches. According to NBA representatives, this procedure will not take more than two minutes, and therefore will not lead to delays in the match. These video replays will not examine referee decisions regarding player violations. We are talking only about moments related to timing.

On the first day of the Masters men's tennis tournament in Toronto, Canada, with a prize fund of $2,950,000, a huge sensation occurred. The leader of the ATA championship race, Australian Lleyton Hewitt, dropped out of the fight for the title, losing to Spaniard Felix Mantilla - 6:2, 4:6, 3:6. Another “seeded” player was also defeated. The 10th racket of the tournament, Swiss Roger Federer, could not cope with Argentinean Guillermo Canas - 6:7 (10:12), 5:7.

Gosha Kutsenko is one of the most notable faces of the current film year. At Kinotavr, two films with his participation were presented in the debut competition: “The Road” by Natalya Petrova and “The Mixer” by Alexander Shein. At the XXIV Moscow IFF, Kutsenko could be seen in the competition film “Loneliness of Blood” and in “Antikiller” by Yegor Konchalovsky, where he played Major Korenev, nicknamed Lis, a crime fighter and cruel avenger.

Policemen take strangers from camps As part of the campaign to combat homelessness, the Ministry of Internal Affairs completed an inspection of Roma camps. Law enforcement officials examined the living conditions of children in nomadic Roma families. As one would expect, the childhood of young gypsies is spent mainly at train stations, in passages and on electric trains, where children carry out a “labor shift” together with their mothers.

The EU and Russia are “adjusting their positions” Russian relations with the European Union largely depend on how the problem of the Kaliningrad region is resolved. This is what Vladimir Putin associates “both the vector and the quality of our relations with the European Union.” The President considers the Kaliningrad issue “without any doubt a serious geopolitical aspect,” as became known after his meeting yesterday with the head of the Duma Committee on International Affairs, Dmitry Rogozin.

The Patriarch reacted favorably to the idea of ​​​​returning the land to the church The Federation Council, together with the Moscow Patriarchate, is beginning to develop legislation that will make it possible to revive church land ownership in our country.

For Dynamo Moscow midfielder Evgeniy KHARLACHEV this season is shaping up differently. On the one hand, he starts all matches in the starting lineup, on the other, his productivity leaves much to be desired. However, it was his scoring strike that brought Dynamo a draw in the 17th round match with Saturn. -- After a confident performance in most of the last matches, as well as a recent victory over Saturn with a score of 3:0, the team relaxed.

The government commission recognized the restoration of Chechnya as unsatisfactory The reconstruction program for Chechnya has been 17% completed over the past six months. The government commission, which yesterday discussed the results of the first half of 2002, according to its chairman, Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko, recognized “the work of a number of government customers as unsatisfactory.” However, it seems that no one will have to answer for the slowness.