On Friday, the State Duma ratified the Agreement on Adaptation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), RIA Novosti reports. 355 deputies voted for the ratification of the document, 28 voted against, two abstained. The adopted agreement provides for a restriction on the deployment of conventional weapons on the territory of the countries participating in the agreement. The document was submitted to the State Duma by the President of Russia in February 2002.

On Thursday evening, a man was killed near the Torpedo stadium in Moscow, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to Interfax. The victim is Mikhail Pishchik, a native of Georgia. After boxing training, he put his gym bag in the trunk of his Mercedes-500. At that moment, a young man ran up to Pishchik and shot him several times with a pistol. Pishchik died on the spot. The killer then fired several shots at the driver. He was injured, but survived. The perpetrator fled the scene.

On Friday, several dozen residents of Batumi held a protest outside the home of Diana Abashidze, daughter of the former head of Adjara, Aslan Abashidze. According to PRIMA, the residents of the city demanded the confiscation of the family's property and Diana's departure from the country. Over the past four days, Diana Abashidze has been interrogated three times by the financial police.

Green Monkey - an experimental organism for studying a vaccine from atypical pneumonia Employees of the American National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases conducted extremely successful preclinical trials of the prototype of the vaccine that protects SARS. This was reported by the British medical journal Lancet. The new vaccine was based on the experimental antifungal BHPiv3 vaccine, which also undergoes a laboratory check.

Irina Khakamada and Boris Nemtsov. Photo from the site www.gzt.ru At the congress of the Union of Right Forces (ATP), which will open on Saturday, the new leader, most likely, will not be elected. Thus, the right ones will not fulfill their promises to find the new party chairman in six months given in January, write Vedomosti.

A laptop containing information about many law enforcement informants was stolen from an Israeli police officer, writes Ha'aretz. The computer was stolen from her apartment in Kfar Saba. Since the thieves took away more than just a laptop, the police assume that no one specifically hunted for this data, especially since the woman did not advertise her work with the police. She is a psychologist and gives police advice.

Lawyers for Yukos on Friday filed yet another challenge to the court of appeals considering a complaint about the collection of taxes by the Ministry of Taxation, RIA Novosti reports. According to representatives of the oil company, "interest in the outcome of the case is seen in the actions of the court, and there are doubts about the impartiality of the judges." The court, in turn, again rejected the challenge to the appeal composition of the court.

A message appeared on the "official website of the" government of the Russian Republic ", which refers to the execution of the sentence against the "enemy of the Russian people" Nikolai Girenko. The death sentence was passed on June 12, 2004 by the so-called "supreme ruler of the self-proclaimed Russian The photo is posted on the website. The verdict was allegedly issued for the participation of Nikolai Girenko in numerous lawsuits against Russian nationalists as an expert.

The State Duma on Friday lifted restrictions on paid admission of students to state secondary and higher educational institutions majoring in jurisprudence, economics, management, state and municipal administration. 340 deputies voted for the adoption of amendments to the law "On Education" in the third reading, 90 deputies voted against, there were no abstentions, RIA Novosti reports.

Czech fakir Zdeněk Zahradka set the world record for the longest time to be buried alive. He spent ten days without water and food in a wooden coffin under a meter layer of earth. The 50-year-old fakir, who voluntarily descended into the "grave" in the city of Jaromnerzh on June 15, left it on June 24. Air entered the coffin through a specially designed pipe.

The Moscow City Court postponed to July 7 preliminary hearings on the case of Alexei Pichugin, head of the Yukos security service department. As Georgy Kaganer, one of Pichugin's lawyers, told ITAR-TASS, the postponement is due to the fact that new lawyers have joined the case and they need time to familiarize themselves with its materials. However, according to Caganer, the lawyers requested that they be given 30 working days to familiarize themselves, and they were given a week.

In September, the Accounts Chamber will consider the results of an audit of OAO NK Yukos, NK LUKOIL and Sibneft. This is envisaged by the work plan for the III quarter of 2004, which was approved on Friday by the board of the chamber, RIA Novosti reports.

Autocatastrophe. Photo by ar On Thursday evening, in the south-east of Iran, the gas outlet crashed into a passenger bus. As a result, 90 people were killed, 114 received injuries, reports the Air Force with reference to local television. Many bodies were so burned that they cannot be identified. Rescuers work at the scene. The gas outlet, transporting 18 thousand liters of fuel, crashed into the bus when he stopped at a police post. There were five more buses nearby.

A representative of the Penitentiary Department of the Ministry of Justice for the Southern Federal District said on Thursday that seven Russian prisoners of Guantanamo were released from custody in Pyatigorsk. According to Gazeta.ru, the Russian Taliban were released on June 22 by a court decision. According to the source, they could change the preventive measure, but there is no official information on this. It is known that all the released people left for Nalchik.

Law enforcement agencies of Ingushetia admitted that they detained several people in refugee camps on suspicion of involvement in the attack of militants on the night of June 22. Acting Interior Minister of Ingushetia Beslan Khamkhoev refused to give the exact number of detainees, citing investigative secrecy, Interfax reports. "The checks in the places of residence of the migrants were effective, otherwise there was no point in them.