Alexander Lukashenko. Filming NTV Alexander Lukashenko recently achieved another success in the implementation of the program of ideological processing of the population. According to the "Independent Gazeta", the film "Earth under the white wings" shown the other day on local television, the Belarusian leader acted as a guide acquaintance of the audience with Belarus.

A storm warning has been issued for the entire south of Russia. According to "Echo of Moscow", according to weather forecasters Showers are possible from tonight until Saturday. First, bad weather will come to the mountainous regions of Karachay-Cherkessia, and then to Kabardino-Balkaria, North Ossetia, Ingushetia and Chechnya. Also, heavy rains are possible in Adygea, Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories and the Rostov Region. Experts also warn of a sharp increase in wind.

With the onset of heat in Moscow, accidents on the water have become more frequent. As Interfax was informed in the ambulance service of the capital, five people drowned in the city over the past day. In total, more than 50 people have died in the reservoirs since the beginning of the swimming season. Most accidents on the water are associated with drunken swimming.

Vladimir Ustinov and Vladimir Putin. Grani.ru collage On April 28, 2003, Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov handed over a letter to President Vladimir Putin, which contained the results of an audit of the sale of shares of Apatit OJSC. The letter that Yukos lawyers handed over the newspapers to reporters, it is said that there are no grounds for initiating a criminal case in the case of Apatite.

According to a survey commissioned by Intervoice , a company that develops speech recognition software, 44% of respondents need such software products to adjust curtains, curtains, blinds and other similar items. 49% of the surveyed users, however, reported that they want to communicate with the web browser through voice control. 43% want to use their voice to control security systems, and 33%% want to turn on the air conditioner in the car. The Register

Photo from Newsru.com A mass fight occurred in the north of Moscow. According to preliminary data, two people received severe injuries, RIA Novosti was told in law enforcement agencies of the capital. According to the source, the incident occurred on Wednesday around 11.30 Moscow time at the Cherkizovskaya metro station. According to the information available at this hour, more than 10 people participated in the fight - all immigrants from the Caucasian republics.

Yesterday, the European Commission finally confirmed its plans to combat spam in Europe. EU Member States must complete their national legislation by the end of October 2003 in order to comply with the European Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications. According to the directive, the distribution of promotional messages by e-mail or via SMS is only permitted in the EU with the prior consent of the user (opt-in mode).

A former US Marine who fled to France with an English schoolgirl was arrested on Wednesday in Germany. According to Reuters, 12-year-old Siobhan Pennington, whom the man met via the Internet, did not receive any injuries and has already been sent back to the UK. Toby Studebaker, 31, was detained in Frankfurt. He was searched for four days by an international team of detectives from Britain, France, Germany, Ireland and the United States.

Four years and two months lasted a solo trip around the world on a yacht 69-year-old resident of Makhachkala Yevgeny Gvozdev. On July 12, the yachtsman arrived at the port of Sochi, the traveler's friend, deputy editor-in-chief of the Dagestanskaya Pravda newspaper, Oleg Sanaev, told Interfax on Wednesday. The traveler went on a circumnavigation on May 19, 1999 from the port of Makhachkala on the Said yacht.

The Indian peasant Somanath Bahinipati was forced to cut off his left hand, around which a cobra wrapped around. According to Ananova.com, the incident occurred in the village of Khajuripada in the state of Orissa. A cobra attacked a farmer in his garden while he was cutting trees. When the poisonous snake could not be shaken off, Somanath cut off his hand with a sickle. Local residents arrived in time to help the victim. He was taken to a hospital in Bhubaneshwar.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky at the seminar of the club of regional journalism. Photo from the site www.openrussia.info The chairman of the board of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky returns from a trip to the United States on Wednesday at 11 a.m. Moscow time. This was reported to the oil industry by the press secretary of the Yukos NK Alexander Shadrin. Khodorkovsky flew to America on Friday.

In St. Petersburg, a minibus collided with a Kamaz. The incident occurred at about 12.30 at the intersection of Peterhof highway and Budyonny Avenue, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the main department for civil defense and emergency situations in St. Petersburg. Rescuers arrived at the scene at 12:46 p.m. According to preliminary data, as a result of the accident, 1 person died, 3 people were seriously injured and 7 people received minor injuries. All victims were hospitalized.

Israeli commandos released a taxi driver kidnapped by Palestinians on Wednesday. 61-year-old Eliyahu Gurel was in captivity for 5 days. "Israel is proud," Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was quoted as saying by Reuters, "that it has again not tolerated kidnappings and will not give in to extortionists, because we know that there can be no compromise with terrorists." Now Sharon is visiting Norway. Gurel went missing on Friday. His car was found in an Arab neighborhood in east Jerusalem.

At least two people were killed and more than 60 injured in a massive hurricane that hit western France. An unusually strong wind rose in almost all areas of the country, which has been experiencing very hot weather lately. The wind speed reached 160 kilometers per hour, according to the BBC. As a result of the hurricane, transportation, electricity and telephone communications were disrupted in many communities.

A contract killing has been committed in the west of Moscow. This was reported to RIA "Novosti" in the capital's police department. According to the interlocutor of the agency, the crime was committed at 23.10 on Tuesday near the house number 144 on Leninsky Prospekt, where the victim lived. Unidentified criminals fired several shots at a 35-year-old man and fled the scene in a car. The victim died on the spot from his injuries.