In terms of the scale and intensity of combat training, the Russian army has caught up with the Soviet one Today, for the first time in the history of Soviet and Russian interaction with foreign fleets, the nuclear submarine of the Northern Fleet "Vepr" will call at a foreign home port of the nuclear fleet.

In a week the company will limit the supply of raw materials to the country The darkest expectations of traders on the world oil market may come true - YUKOS threatens to limit supplies of raw materials. Yesterday, the company officially confirmed that from September 28 it will temporarily stop shipping oil to the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC).

At the top of the September hit parade are two brilliant English novels. Both have nothing in common with the cheerful Anglo-Saxon fiction that Russian publishers churn out in abundance. One begins with suicide, the other is written from the perspective of a mentally ill child. The stories are clearly not suitable for retelling in a glossy magazine column. But after reading, contrary to expectations, you experience an unhealthy elation.

Russians can get their registration back Among other anti-terrorist initiatives, the State Duma is preparing a law with the working title “On the right of citizens to freedom of movement, choice of place of stay, and registration rules.” This law could significantly limit the freedom of movement of Russian citizens and - in violation of the current Constitution - actually revive the institution of registration.

The only way to force businesses to invest money in the North Caucasus is by force Perhaps the main strategic recipe for curing the North Caucasus from the terrorist infection, the Kremlin proclaimed an economic breakthrough in this region. It has long been no secret to anyone that the North Caucasus is almost the most problematic place on the map of Russia from the point of view of the economy and social sphere.

Yesterday, Berlin police officially banned the holding of the “First Arab Islamic Congress in Europe” in early October. The city authorities considered this an “anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli” action. “I believe that such incitement should not be allowed, and we will not allow it,” said Erhart Kerting, Minister of the Interior of the Berlin state government.

The issue of pardoning Yuri Budanov will not be considered for formal reasons The Ministry of Justice and the prosecutor's office gave Vladimir Putin a chance to almost painlessly get out of the uncomfortable situation in which the Ulyanovsk pardon commission put him.

The Moscow City Duma collects proposals to combat terrorism in the markets The widespread tightening of the screws in connection with the terrorist threat in Moscow seems to be reflected in the capital's food markets. At a joint meeting of two Moscow City Duma commissions - on entrepreneurship and security - held yesterday, deputies demanded from the city executive a clear answer to the question of what measures have been taken to ensure the safety of customers.

The observation deck at Ostankino will open in six months It will be possible to dine on the “Seventh Heaven”, looking at Moscow from a height of several hundred meters, already in March - in six months the Ostankino Tower will begin to receive tourists. This was stated yesterday at a press conference by Gennady Sklyar, General Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network”.

Israel continues "targeted liquidations" Yesterday, the Israeli city of Sderot came under rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. A rocket fired by Palestinian militants hit an uninhabited building located in a residential area of ​​the city. No one died, but four people were shell-shocked. There has been no shooting in the city for ten days. Now the Israeli military is investigating why the early warning system for missile attacks, which is being tested in Sderot these days, did not work.

Fellow countrymen persuaded the escaped Caucasian soldiers to return to their unit Eight servicemen of the internal troops, who escaped from their unit in Moscow on Sunday, were returned to their place of service by the police and relatives. The soldiers do not face anything more serious than a conversation with the commander of the internal troops of the Moscow District and disciplinary sanctions.

The ensign of the border service allowed everyone through Employees of the UBEP of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate announced yesterday the exposure of a criminal group that helped any person, even those on the federal wanted list, to calmly cross the Russian border. The client was provided with a full set of documents necessary for this, including from the FSB border service. However, most of these papers were fakes.

Mosenergo shares migrated from Gazprombank to Gazfond Gazprom yesterday published the group's financial statements according to international standards, which indicated the fact of the sale of a 15.76% stake in Mosenergo in July of this year for 11.7 billion rubles. ($400 million).

The Chekhov Moscow Art Theater staged a play by the Presnyakov brothers While the audience is taking their seats, a young man Valya (student of the Moscow Art School-Studio Pyotr Kislov) lies on the bed, tossing and turning under the sheet. The lights go out; and the audience begins to see the nightmares that torment the young man. His dead father's head appears on the television; then this father (Vitaly Khaev) comes out of the white, white wall in a white, white captain’s jacket.

Iraqi PM threatens Saddam Hussein with execution The presence of foreign troops and the approach of long-promised democratic elections are not helping to calm the situation in Iraq. On the contrary, a country freed from tyranny becomes less and less safe. Fighting, shelling and terrorist attacks have claimed the lives of more than 300 people in Iraq over the past week.