Rudolf Bindig. Photo from the site www.bundestag.de At the end of last week, a visit to Russia of the PACE speakers in Chechnya Andreas Gross and Russia in Rudolf Bindiga ended. Their main goal was to visit the North Caucasus. This was the first arrival of PACE representatives in Chechnya over the past year and a half. Upon returning from Grozny, Rudolf Bindig gave an interview to the “Independent Gazeta”. According to him, "the situation in the North Caucasus is distinguished by duality.

Photo of the press service of the Kuibyshev Railway Samara hospitals are currently 42 victims as a result of the explosion in the Kirov clothing market on June 4, Interfax was told in the regional center for disaster medicine. In particular, in the hospital to them. Semashko is treating 24 people, in the hospital to them. Pirogov - 10, in the hospital to them. Kalinina - 6, in the clinics of the Samara medical university - 2 patients.

'' Wolves-teni ''. Photo from Smithsonian Magazine At the invitation of the Polish government, fighters of the US Wolves-Teni detachment will guard the border with Ukraine. This was reported to the Prima correspondent on Monday at the Polish Embassy in Ukraine. Americans should help the Polish border guards to detain illegal immigrants and criminals - from Ukraine to Poland annually, illegally penetrates to ten thousand people.

Dwight C. Shepler '' The Battle for Fox Green Beach, D-Day Normandy ''. Oil On Canvas, 1944. Image from History.navy.mil In France, solemn events were held dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the allied landing in Normandy. Among the heads of states - the President of Russia and the German Chancellor, first invited to such an event, the Air Force reports.

In the city zoo of Yekaterinburg, a bear on Monday injured a visitor and her two-year-old son, Interfax was told in the Owl rescue service. As the rescue service said, the child, who was at the zoo with his mother, made his way through the bars to the bear's enclosure. As a result, the beast bit the boy's hand, and the woman who tried to take the child away from the cage was injured and fractured. Rescuers and ambulance crews were called to the scene.

Law enforcement officers detained two activists of the international environmental group Ecodefense, who on Monday tried to hold a picket in front of the US Embassy in Moscow. It is reported by Gazeta.Ru with reference to Interfax. As the organizers of the picket said, the event is timed to coincide with the G8 summit starting tomorrow. Environmentalists urged representatives of the G8, and above all the United States, to abandon the Russian-American plutonium disposition program.

The miners of the Yeniseiskaya mine in the city of Chernogorsk in the Republic of Khakassia are demanding tougher punishment for the former director of the mine, Ten Yong Tak, for delaying wages, RIA Novosti reports. At a meeting of the labor collective on Monday, the miners decided to appeal to the Supreme Court of the republic against the sentence handed down to the ex-director. For a long time, the former director did not give the 376 employees of the enterprise their wages due to them.

Fire. Photo from Newsru.com A hostel is on fire in the southeast of Moscow, RIA Novosti was told in the information department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry. "The fire occurred at 10.47 in the house number nine on Konovalov Street," said the representative of the department. According to him, the fire began on the seventh floor of a sixteen -story dormitory. "At the site of the fire, 20 fire bills work, as well as a detachment of rescuers.

A book has been opened at the US Embassy in Moscow to express condolences on the death of former United States President Ronald Reagan. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the press service of the diplomatic mission. "Everyone can sign the book," the embassy stressed. "It will be located at the southern gate of the diplomatic mission."

Ronald Reagan first participated in the presidential campaign in 1976 - at the age of 65. In a stubborn struggle, he lost the struggle for nomination from the Republican Party Gerald Ford, who in the final lost to Jimmy Carter. Four years later, he became a favorite of the Republicans and defeated Carter, receiving 489 votes of electors against 49.

Grateful contemporaries of politicians are remembered by a well -known set of various qualities. The villains and cunning, Hamlets and radicals, cruel patriots and a good -natured thief - a number of familiar since the long -standing that people began to unite in the states. Against this background, the late Ronald Reagan stood out with a feature, very rare on the political Olympus. He was simple -minded. Simply should not be confused with stupidity.

Camp of Chechen refugees. Photo from the Chechen-Press website The last tent camp in Ingushetia is closed for forced immigrants from Chechnya, which was called "Sacita". This was reported to Interfax on Monday by the deputy chairman of the Government of Ingushetia Magomet Markiev. There are no more “camps” camps. There are no more tents left there, ”he said. Markiyev said that most immigrants left Satsita to Chechnya.

The Khamovniki Court of Moscow sentenced Andrei Anokhin, one of the defendants in the case of the explosion at the Kotlyakovskoye cemetery, to three years in prison, RIA Novosti reports. The court found him guilty under Article 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - "Storage and transportation of firearms." Anokhin is also accused of involvement in the explosion at the Kotlyakovsky cemetery, this criminal case has not yet been received by the court.

Washington Times Logo The United States open the front of the fight against terror in the south of the Sahara Desert. According to Washington Times, this happened after it became known about the acquisition of a local group associated with al-Qaeda, heavy weapons. According to American military and diplomatic sources, terrorists from the Salafi Proaching and Wrestling Group acquired $ 7.3 million received from the German government as a ransom for 32 Europeans taken last year.

The Consul of the Russian Federation in Qatar met with the detained Russians accused of involvement in the murder of one of the leaders of the Chechen separatists, Zelimkhan Yandarbiev. As a representative of the Russian embassy in Doha told RIA Novosti by phone, such meetings are held no more than once a week.