19:00 // 07/07/2007 The Armenian Foreign Ministry refused observers from Turkey in accreditation in the parliamentary elections on May 12.

12:45 // 07/07/2007 The installation of the largest floating automobile bridge in Russia is completed in the suburbs of Khabarovsk, ITAR-TASS reports. The pontoon crossing of almost 750 meters has reliably connected a large Ussuri island and a regional center for six months. As explained by representatives of the corps of railway troops that mounted the crossing, the bridge is designed to pass heavy vehicles and is able to withstand even the load of railway trains.

21:03 // 07/07/2007 At the end of this month, the government may approve the rules for using direct numbers with mobile operators. In this case, cellular operators will have the opportunity to fix the numbers they use in the ABC geographical code, provided that the local communication network is built in this region. “This will significantly make life easier for operators who are now spending big forces to circumvent the rules (on the ban on direct numbers.

12:36 // 07/07/2007 The FSB officers detained a member of a criminal group put on an international wanted list for murders in the Stavropol Territory in the village of Pestravka of the Samara region. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the press service of the Samara department of the FSB. "It was established that the detainee was part of an organized criminal group operating in the Stavropol Territory and specializing in custom -made murders.

15:21 // 07/07/2007 In the Seversky district of the Krasnodar Territory, a criminal case was opened on the death of a newborn girl who died from meningitis. As the acting prosecutor of the Seversky district, Natalya Gololobova, told REGNUM , the criminal case was opened under Part 2 of Article 109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("causing death by negligence due to improper performance by a person of his professional duties").

The Poles prepared bills allowing the "destruction of monuments of the period of socialism" in Poland have prepared two bills that allow to dismantle monuments from the times of socialism. This, first of all, is about monuments associated with the liberation of the country by Soviet troops from fascism. The author of one of the bills is the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Casimezh Mikhal Ulizdovsky.

14:07 // 07/07/2007 The monument to the legendary Marshal of Victory, four times the Hero of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov is solemnly open in the Belarusian capital. The magnificent granite bust of the famous commander is installed on a high granite pedestal in the central part of Minsk, in the square next to the Zhukov Avenue.

20:02 // 07/07/2007 Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Federal Law "On the Banner of Victory", adopted by the State Duma on April 25 and approved by the Federation Council on May 4, 2007, ITAR-TASS reports.

17:51 // 07/07/2007 The special forces of European peacekeepers in Bosnia and Herzegovina Eufor searched the house of the former (1997-1998) Minister for Religious Affairs of the Republic of Serbian Voislav Topalovich, who is suspected of aiding from international justice by the ex-president of the Republic of Serbian, Radovan Karadzhich. This was reported to reporters by a spokeswoman for the National Security Service of the District of East Sarajevo Danka Teshich.

15:44 // 07/07/2007 The kidnappers of the Belarusian citizen Irina EkPO-Umo went to the leadership of the British Service Compass Group, where she worked, RIA Novosti said by telephone as an adviser to the Russian Embassy in Nigeria Viktor Goncharov. "A certain gang went to the management of the company in which Irina works and put forward certain requirements," he said.

A review of the new books Spring Book Assortment pleases us with fundamental works that do not claim to be a great artistry, but they comprehensively cover the subject studied. Alexey Ivanov in his book "Message: Chusovaya" talks about those places where the action of his novels unfolds. In all annotations, biographical certificates and interviews, intriguing information about the local history focus of the Perm writer was invariably reported.

22:04 // 07/07/2007 American aluminum manufacturer Alcoa Inc. It plans to make an offer to buy Canadian Alcan at $ 58.6 per share and at 0.4108 ALCOA shares for each promotion of the Canadian company. According to Alcoa, the cost of the planned transaction will be about $ 33 billion. The transaction will lead to the formation of a new leader in the world aluminum industry.

11:07 // 07/07/2007 The abductors of the BBC correspondent Alan Johnston put forward three preliminary conditions for his release, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Palestinian newspaper published in London. Firstly, they require the authorities of the Palestinian autonomy to provide them with a land plot, however, which site was interested in the kidnappers, the newspaper does not specify.

10:02 // 07/07/2007 The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Abdullah Gul, on the eve of the president’s nationwide elections, called a “right exit” in the context of the political situation in Turkey, ITAR-TASS reports. "There is no point in conducting useless voting tours more. We already had such a bitter experience in the past. In order to maintain the honor of the great national assembly of Turkey (parliament), I withdrew my candidacy from the elections," Gul said.

09:26 // 07/07/2007 The 8-year-old Archynai Tsymin was found in Gorno-Altaysk on April 29 in Gorno-Altaysk. The body of the child was found in a secluded place on the banks of the Maima River, which is flowing near the house. This was reported by ITAR-TASS by the deputy prosecutor of the Altai Republic Edurad Oshlykov.