Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Sergei Kislyak Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. According to RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the head of state, the corresponding decree was signed by the president on Saturday, July 5.

Boris Yeltsin came to rest in Kyrgyzstan. Speaking with journalists at the airport, he stressed that for the second year in a row he comes to rest and gain health here, as he intends to live to be 100 years old.

In Karlovy Vary on Friday /at 21.00 Moscow time/ the 38th International Film Festival opened. Popular artists and directors from the Czech Republic, the USA, Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia and other countries drove in a parade through the center of the resort city to the main stage of the festival - the Termal cinema. In total, over a thousand filmmakers from almost 30 countries of the world arrived in Karlovy Vary.

Famed American soul singer Barry White has died in Los Angeles at the age of 58, according to Reuters. According to the singer's manager Ned Shankman, White was preparing for a kidney transplant at the medical center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, as his own failed due to worsening hypertension. Barry White is the winner of two Grammy awards, 106 gold and 41 platinum discs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/sci/tech/newsid_2749000/2749859.stm For the fifth time, the launch of the Second American Space Station with a Mars -road on board, called the Opportunity ("Opportunity"), was laid out to Mars. This time the launch is supposed to be held on the night of July 7.

A girl with four legs and three arms was born in Zambia, Channel One reports . In addition, the child has 3 kidneys. The newborn has a good appetite and is quite active. Doctors believe that Siamese twins initially developed in the mother's body, but the embryos did not completely separate.

As a result of an explosion in a police station in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, located 100 kilometers west of Baghdad, seven people were killed and 54 were injured. According to local doctors, 15 wounded are undergoing urgent operations. Doctors emphasize that the hospital is filled with the wounded, and calls to donate blood are heard from the loudspeakers in the minarets in the city.

Photo from Newsru.com According to Echo of Moscow, the death of the victim with a terrorist attack in the 36th city hospital turned out to be false. Earlier it was reported that a 32-year-old man died in intensive care. Currently, according to RIA Novosti, in the intensive care of the 36th hospital in extremely serious condition is also a girl who looks 25 years old. Her personality is not established.

In Ulan-Ude, 26 people were hospitalized with signs of salmonellosis. According to RBC with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, in the period from June 30 to July 4, 2003, 26 patients and doctors from the Semashko city hospital were admitted to the infectious diseases department of the city hospital. The prosecutor's office of Buryatia is establishing the causes of the outbreak.

The head of the Chechen administration, Akhmad Kadyrov, said at a meeting with Vladimir Putin that all Chechen refugees would be able not only to vote in the presidential elections on October 5, but also to return home. According to him, by September there won't be any tent camps in Ingushetia, Ekho Moskvy reports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with the participation of Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, head of the Kremlin administration Alexander Voloshin, Secretary of the Security Council Vladimir Rushailo, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov and Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov. At the meeting, various issues of domestic and foreign policy of the Russian state were discussed, RIA Novosti reports.

The military court of the Krasnorechensk garrison issued a verdict in the criminal case of three soldiers from one of the Khabarovsk military units who deserted from the unit and committed a number of criminal offenses.

The rock concert "Wings", which takes place on Saturday in Moscow at the Tushino airfield, continues. Most viewers are still unaware of the attacks that took place here. This is evidenced by eyewitnesses - spectators of the rock festival, who spoke with journalists. "Nobody is announcing terrorist acts from the stage, they say that the situation is calm. Apparently, this is done so that there is no panic among the spectators," one of the spectators told an Interfax correspondent.

The director of a vocational school was killed in Chechnya. According to Sergey Ayubov, deputy head of the administration of the Naursky district, on Saturday morning, armed men in camouflage uniforms and masks in the village of Kalinovskaya entered the office of the director of vocational school #17 Ramzan Mudayev and shot him with automatic weapons. It was not possible to detain the criminals, they fled in an unknown direction, Ayubov noted.

Due to the ongoing hunger strike of Vologda air traffic controllers on Saturday from 8.00 am, the airspace in this area is completely closed for the passage of aircraft. Now the planes bypass Vologda north or south, depending on the purpose of the flight, ITAR-TASS reports. The strike of air traffic controllers was caused by the refusal of the management of the state unitary enterprise "Sevzapaeronavigatsia" to fulfill the demands of air traffic controllers to increase wages.