Early on Thursday morning, in the south of Sakhalin near Lake Changeable, a bear attacked three young people who were spending the night in a tent. According to RIA Novosti, one of the victims, Andrei Grekov from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, was wounded, but managed to get to the village of Okhotskoye and call for help. He showed the rescuers the way to the place where the tent was. Another young man - Sergey Drobyshev from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk - was found and is safe.

Scientists from the United States and Austria independently carried out quantum teleportation of single atoms. Information about these experiments is contained in two articles that appeared on June 17 in the journal Nature . When physicists talk about teleportation, they do not mean instant transportation of things and living creatures into distant distances, which the authors of fantastic novels write so much.

The Interim Investigation Commission of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the case of the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze intends to re-demand the initiation of a criminal case against President Leonid Kuchma. According to ForUm, the chairman of the commission Grigory Omelchenko from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc faction published the interim conclusions of the commission.

Explosion in Baghdad. Photo from the Air Force website. On Thursday in Baghdad there was a strong explosion, reports Reuters. Black smoke rises above the western part of the city. Rescuers and doctors go to the place of the explosion. According to the Arab satellite channels, the explosion occurred near the center of the recruitment in the Iraqi army. This center is located next to the buildings occupied by the coalition. Nearby is an old airport and a military base.

Media. Filming NTV "The dominant of today's process - we were waiting and angry." So the first day of the court in the case of Khodorkovsky -Lebedev described the lawyer of the former head of the Yukos Yuri Schmidt. With these words, more than a hundred journalists would agree, who on this day came to the building of the philistine court. Troubles began at the entrance.

Vladimir Putin. Photo by ar Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Russian government is not interested in the bankruptcy of Yukos. This is reported by Interfax. “The official authorities, the government, and the country's economic authorities are not interested in bankruptcy of such a company as Yukos,” Putin said, answering on Thursday in Tashkent to questions from journalists. He noted that the problem of Yukos debts is a matter of courts while they consider these debts.

A well-known Polish dissident, publicist, politician and opposition leader of the era of socialist Poland, Jacek Kuron, died in Poland. According to RIA Novosti, Kuron died on Thursday night at the Central Hospital of the Polish Ministry of Internal Affairs, where he had been in the intensive care unit for several weeks. He turned 70 in March.

Employees of the Sebezh customs together with traffic police officers detained two residents of the Leningrad region near the city of Opochka (Pskov region) who were trying to transport armored vehicles from Belarus across the border, Gazeta.Ru reports citing ITAR-TASS. As reported on Thursday at the Sebezh customs, the detention took place on the night of June 10. The detainees were transporting two combat reconnaissance vehicles along country roads, bypassing the border.

Two American soldiers were killed in Iraq on Wednesday, AFP reports. Another 23 soldiers were injured in a rocket explosion in the village of Balad, 75 kilometers north of Baghdad.

Photo: Dmitry outsider, especially for faces.ru Cheremushkinsky court of Moscow postponed on June 21 a consideration of the claim of Tamara Papitashvili, which suffered as a result of the collapse of the Transval-Park dome, reports RIA Novosti. Tamara’s lawyer Igor Trunov said that the court granted the defense of Petatsashvili and appointed medical and social examination, which should establish the costs of treatment, the acquisition of drugs and psychological and social rehabilitation.

The Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX) plans to stop trading due to a sharp rise in Yukos shares. "In five to ten minutes we will announce the suspension of trading," RIA Novosti reported at 5:07 pm the words of a MICEX representative. As of 4:34 pm Moscow time, YUKOS quotes grew by an average of 10%. The growth of Yukos securities is taking place on the MICEX and on the RTS. According to traders, the reason for such a large-scale growth of quotations was the words of Vladimir Putin.

The growth of Yukos share quotations continues - as of 4:44 pm Moscow time they have grown by 23%, RIA Novosti reports. At the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange, prices for shares of NK Yukos rose by 24.9% as of 17.00 Moscow time, and by 30.65% on the RTS, RBC notes. According to traders, the reason for such a large-scale growth of quotations was the words of Vladimir Putin.

On Thursday, the Russian government began discussing the main parameters of the forecast for the country's socio-economic development, as well as the draft federal budget for 2005 and for the period up to 2007, RIA Novosti reports. According to Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, these documents should ensure the solution of several important tasks.

Fight. The Moscow metro prosecutor’s office opened a criminal case against a policeman who scored the offender before his death. According to Vesti.ru with reference to Interfax, on June 11, the senior sergeant of the police, whose last name was not called, beat a man delivered to the police room at the metro station "Nakhimovsky Prospekt" for an administrative offense. The victim died of beatings.

The military registration and enlistment office. Photo from the site www.saratov.rfn.ru “In the fall, the State Duma will take a bill to consider the abolition of all types of delay, except for medical,” the State Duma Committee on Defense reported this to the Frances.