Denmark - Sweden, Italy - Bulgaria. Image from the official website of the championship On Wednesday night, the quarter-finalists of Euro-2004 from the group S. Bulgarian team, until the last minutes, resisted the Italians, but in the end she lost with a score of 1: 2. Despite this, the Italian team returns home - the Swedes with the Danes, as everyone expected, tied - 2: 2. In addition, friendly Scandinavians sluggishly kicked the ball in the center of the field.

Housing and communal services workers of Tambov are on strike - announcements about this appeared on the entrances of houses in the northern microdistrict of the city. Janitors, plumbers and other staff do not come to work for the second day. As the participants of the action informed IA REGNUM, the reason for the strike was a four-month arrears in payment of wages.

On Wednesday, the Federation Council approved at a plenary session the federal constitutional law "On the referendum of the Russian Federation." According to RIA Novosti, 136 people voted for him, five were against, four abstained. Now the president has to sign the law.

On Tuesday, Azerbaijani police prevented an act of self-immolation by an activist of the Karabakh Liberation Organization, reports PRIMA . The organization opposes the participation of Armenian servicemen in the NATO conference held in Baku within the framework of the "Partnership for Peace". The conference is attended by two Armenian soldiers - Colonel Murad Isakhanyan and Lieutenant Aram Hovhannisyan.

The Ministry of Justice refused to register the all-Russian movement "For a Decent Life", which is headed by Sergei Glazyev. It is reported by Gazeta.Ru with reference to Interfax.

Seizures of documents took place at the headquarters of several of Lithuania's main political parties on Tuesday. According to Gazeta.Ru with reference to Interfax, the seizures are being carried out by the country's special investigation service. Looking for accounting records.

As of 4:00 pm Moscow time, as a result of a terrorist attack by militants in Ingushetia, 93 people were killed, an operational duty officer of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the republic told RIA Novosti by telephone. Eighteen people died among civilians in Nazran, one in Karabulak, two in the Sunzha district and 20 in the Nazran district of the republic.

Recently, technologies have become increasingly widespread that allow additional programs (or applets, midlets) written in the Java language to be loaded into mobile phones (a modification of the language is designated Java2ME). Such programs can be a small computer toy or even something more “serious” and useful for work (diaries, calculators).

Vladimir Putin visited the Sergeevsky training ground in Primorye. From the command post, he observed battalion and company exercises that took place as part of the large-scale Mobility-2004 maneuvers. According to the scenario of the exercises, up to 1,500 people blocked the area of ​​the armed conflict, and then destroyed the gangs. Following the results of the exercises, the President handed over nominal watches to those who distinguished themselves.

On Wednesday night, checkpoint #16 was attacked in the Shali district of Chechnya, RIA Novosti reports. According to a source at the headquarters of the United Group of Forces in the North Caucasus, the police officers on duty at the checkpoint exchanged fire with the attackers, who numbered about 50. This happened at about 23.00 Moscow time near the village of Avtury in the Shali district.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev. Grani.ru collage On Wednesday, a press conference of lawyers Platon Lebedev and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, dedicated to the results of today's court session, took place. According to the correspondent of the faces, the lawyers were annoyed by the fact that the defenders of the former general director of the Volna company Andrei Krainov, who was accused of complicity of embezzlement of Apatite shares, did not agree on their actions with them.

Bank 'Dialog-Optim'. The commercial banking bank suspended its work, referring to liquidity problems due to the "general crisis of the banking system", the Vedomosti writes . According to the source of the publication, from June 21 the bank stopped work, 95% of its employees were fired to reduce the staff. In the bank itself, they say that it "does not work for technical reasons", and money is not issued to customers.

Vladimir Putin. Photo from the site www.svd.se On Tuesday, President Vladimir Putin visited Ingushetia. According to Gazeta.ru, the president’s trip to Ingushetia was completely conspicuated. On the tape of information agencies, messages about it appeared only after the presidential plane climbed and headed for Moscow.

On Wednesday afternoon, Rodand Beridze, the former head of security for Aslan Abashidze's son Giorgi, voluntarily surrendered to police. According to RIA Novosti, Beridze surrendered after it became known that the police were preparing an operation to detain him. Roland Beridze (nickname "Chaki") is suspected of participating in the dispersal of a peaceful demonstration of representatives of the National Movement party near the office of Our Adjaria movement in Batumi on February 20, 2004.

Federal. Photo from Newsru.com During the battles in Ingushetia, 57 people were killed, the acting prosecutor of the Republic Umarbek Galaev said on Tuesday. According to him, 47 dead are law enforcement officers, police and military personnel. As Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax, Galaev said that the number of dead will be specified. According to him, about 50 people were injured.