ALU Alkhanov, presidential candidate of Chechnya. Image from the information server of the Government of the Chechen Republic. The Minister of Internal Affairs of Chechnya, General ALU Alkhanov, has not yet made the final decision to run for the presidency of Chechnya, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to Interfax. According to Alkhanov, hundreds and thousands of people who ask him to nominate their candidacy really turn to him.

Three powerful explosions were heard in the center of the Iraqi capital on the territory of the "green zone", where the headquarters of the command of the coalition forces is located. According to a RIA Novosti correspondent from the scene, an alarm went off in the "green zone". Helicopters are lifted into the air, black clouds of smoke rise from the center of Baghdad. Other details of the incident are not yet known.

The Spaniards celebrate a goal clogged into the goal of Russia. Photo from the site www.uefa.com Even before the match, I knew what phrase to write after a possible defeat of the Russian national team. She would be like this: "The Greeks are to blame." Firstly, they created a sensation, defeating the owners-portugals-2: 1. Thus, the limit on surprise on the first day of Euro 2004 was exhausted. And that's why ours could not defeat powerful Spain - that would be too much.

A telephone conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili took place on Sunday at the initiative of the Georgian side, Interfax reports. According to the press secretary of the President of Russia Alexei Gromov, "in the course of the conversation, which was held in a constructive spirit, issues of Russian-Georgian relations were discussed in detail."

Two large forest fires were recorded in the Khabarovsk Territory on Sunday. As the operational duty officer of the Far East Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations told the correspondent of the news agency Data.RU, the centers of two large forest fires out of ten registered in the Khabarovsk Territory are located in Sovetskaya Gavan and Nikolaevsk-on-Amur.

In Australia, a residential building was subjected to a meteor bombardment In the Australian city of Ellersley, a one and a half kilogram meteorite fell on the roof of one of the houses. According to Lenta.Ru with reference to France Presse, the meteorite broke through the roof of the building, ceilings and finished on a sofa in the center of an apartment owned by the Archer family.

Flag and Chechnya map. From the site Chechnya.ru The number of candidates for the position of President Chechnya increased. On Saturday, a resident of the district center of Tolstoy-Yurt Magomed Aydamirov submitted to the Republican Election Commission on the President of the President on Saturday. As reports with reference to Interfax Gazeta.ru, this was announced by the deputy chairman of the election commission of Buvaisari Arsakhanov.

Opening of the European Championship. Photo by ar The Russian team lost its first match for Euro-04 Spain with a score of 0: 1. Earlier, in the first mast of the championship that started in Portugal, the hosts of the tournament lost Greece with a score of 1: 2. From the very beginning of the match, the Greeks looked stronger. Already in the seventh minute, Georgios Karagunis definitely broke into the corner of the Portuguese gates from 25 meters.

Abdula Khamzaev. Image from the site Lenta.ru. On Saturday evening, at the 68th year of his life, the famous lawyer, Honored Lawyer of Russia Abdullah Khamzaev, who defended the interests of the Kungaev family in the process over Colonel Budanov, died. This was announced on Sunday on Sunday of the Echo of Moscow radio station by a close friend and colleague of the late Musa Khabisov.

About 300 construction projects in 40 settlements of Chukotka are planned to be commissioned in 2004. As a correspondent of the news agency Data.RU was told in the press service of the district administration, there are 832 construction sites in Chukotka, of which 546 are housing, and 10 are social and cultural facilities. This is four times more than in 2001.

In the Polish city of Krakow on Sunday, a lady in a Nazi uniform with a swastika came to vote at the polling station for the European Parliament elections, RIA Novosti reports. The incident took place at polling station number 153 in Krakow. According to the chairman of the district election commission, Piotr Lekhovsky, the lady said that she was an artist, so she was accompanied by a photographer.

Three Iraqi policemen were killed in a terrorist attack in Baghdad, according to the Dubai-based Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya. A car filled with explosives, in which there were several unknown people, collided with a police car in the Baghdad district of Ar-Rastamiya near the building of a military school. As a result of the thundering explosion, the perpetrators of the attack also died.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, in connection with the introduction of a military motorcade into the territory of South Ossetia on the night of June 11, the night before sent a note of protest to the Russian Foreign Ministry, in which it demanded appropriate explanations. It is reported by Gazeta.Ru with reference to Interfax.

In Japan, 578 characters have been added to the list of characters that are allowed to be used in names. This decision was made by the Ministry of Justice of the country in order to avoid confusion in reading the names. It is reported by RIA Novosti. The first restrictions on the use of characters in names were introduced in Japan after the Second World War, and this list was periodically revised in accordance with changes in the language.

Critical mass. Photos of faces On Independence Day in Moscow, a second unauthorized bike roller called "Critical Mass" took place. As the correspondent of the Grani.ru reports, this time along the central streets of the city - from Turgenevskaya Square to the university - about 300 cyclists under the slogan "Independence from cars" drove.