TV Program Summary 3180: MNT 00-611

This document is a summary of a Russian television broadcast titled Segodnya, presented by Andrey Norkin, aired on August 3, 2000. The report covers several key political and administrative events in Russia. The primary item details an assassination attempt on August 2 against Aleksandr Papura, the Interior Minister of Karachay-Cherkessia, noting that he escaped the attempt and was featured in a video report alongside Boris Batchayev, the Secretary of the Republic's Security Council. Other segments include a report on President Putin attending a regional governors' conference in Valday to discuss the future of the State Council, featuring comments from St. Petersburg Governor Vladimir Yakovlev. Additionally, the broadcast mentions Viktor Cherkesov, the Presidential Representative in the Northwestern Federal District, discussing the Valday conference, a Paris court decision to unfreeze Russian accounts in France, and the Russian Prosecutor-General's office returning a tax evasion suit against the AvtoVAZ car manufacturing giant for further investigation.