On Sunday evening, a meeting was held in the studio of the TVS channel's "Itogi" program to mark the end of the channel's work. The meeting was headed by TVS editor-in-chief Evgeny Kiselev. As you know, on the night from Saturday June 21 to Sunday June 22, the Ministry of Press of the Russian Federation turned off the channel’s broadcasting.

As a result of the cessation of broadcasting of the TVS channel, a large number of financial and legal issues remain unresolved. It is likely that bankruptcy proceedings may be applied to the TV channel. The total amount of TVS's debts to creditors, telecom operators (in particular, the Moscow company Mostelecom, which previously disconnected the TVS signal from Moscow cable networks) and third-party manufacturers is about $100 million.

Operation "Order on the Road" to identify corrupt traffic police officers was launched by the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs together with its colleagues from the control and preventive department of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate. As reported on the GZT.Ru website, this is due to the fact that, despite the large-scale operation carried out last year, the flow of complaints about extortions from traffic police officers does not stop.

Legendary Hollywood special effects master Stan Winston shared some secrets of the production of the most anticipated film of the summer of 2003 - " Terminator 3 ". In an interview, excerpts of which are shown on the Coming Soon website, Winston claims that the process of creating both main characters of the project: the killer robot TX and Schwarzenegger's hero, the cyborg T-800, was fundamentally different from the work on the first two series.

The police detained a suicide bomber who was heading to Grozny to carry out a terrorist attack. this to the RIA Novosti A representative of the Regional Operational Headquarters for the counter-terrorism operation in the North Caucasus reported news agency. On the woman’s body there was a so-called “suicide belt” - an explosive device consisting of one and a half kilograms of plastic, an electric detonator and scraps of metal objects and wire.

On June 23, Russian Minister of Internal Affairs Boris Gryzlov presented the first plastic card allowing foreigners to engage in labor activities on the territory of the Russian Federation. According to the RIA Novosti news agency , the card was received by a Bulgarian citizen, builder Ivan Demitrov. “Now we have taken another step towards strengthening statehood and establishing order in our country,” Gryzlov said.

The US Supreme Court upheld as constitutional a law requiring the installation of filters on computers in public libraries that block access to web pages with pornographic content. This decision was made by a vote of six judges to three, the Associated Press reports. According to the majority of judges, the law does not violate freedom of access to information, despite the fact that filters, along with pornographic content, often block completely legal information resources.

Pakistani police on Monday announced the arrest of dangerous Islamic terrorist Shahab-uddin and four of his accomplices, Reuters reports. All those arrested belong to the Lashkar e-Jhangvi group, which was involved in the murder of journalist Daniel Pearl and the organization of explosions at diplomatic missions of Western countries. Shahab-uddin, also known as Imran and the head of one of the regional divisions of Lashkar e-Jhangvi, was arrested in the city of Multan.

Two policemen suspected of involvement in the activities of a criminal group were detained in the center of Moscow. Members of this group planted weapons and drugs on citizens, and then opened criminal cases and demanded money to stop them. According to the online publication NEWSru.com , a senior detective and a deputy head of one of the departments of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department were detained.

Special units of the Greek army detained on Sunday a ship carrying 680 tons of explosives, BBC News reports. According to Greek authorities, the Baltic Sky ship was heading to Africa, but it has not yet been possible to establish a more precise destination. The BBC correspondent in Greece suggests that such a large cargo of explosives could have been intended for the government of one of the countries rather than for any organization.

In the North Caucasus Military District Court, prosecutor Vladimir Milovanov presented documents refuting Colonel Yuri Budanov’s assertion that in January-February 1995 he took part in hostilities in Chechnya and was shell-shocked, the Kommersant newspaper reports. From the documents it follows that the colonel was in the Chita region in the city of Gusinozersk.

One person was killed and three were injured in a plane accident that occurred on Sunday evening in northwestern France, reports Reuters. The plane, owned by Brit Air, a division of Air France, crashed onto the road near Brest airport at approximately midnight local time. There were 24 people on board the plane, including three crew members. As a result of the accident, one of the pilots was killed and three more people were injured. The remaining passengers were not injured.

A problem has been detected at the European research station Mars Express, heading to Mars, RIA Novosti reports . As reported by Rosaviakosmos, the station’s on-board computer was unable to establish communication with the Beagle 2 landing module on board and activate its control system. It is not yet clear what caused the malfunction of the interplanetary station’s computer.

In the Ulyanovsk separate 31st brigade of the Airborne Forces, 39-year-old warrant officer Alexander Dobrynkin opened fire from a machine gun at his colleague, 22-year-old warrant officer Andrei Degtyarev. As military prosecutor of the Ulyanovsk garrison Vladimir Khokhlov told RIA Novosti , on June 21 at 23:00, paratroopers were driving a convoy of vehicles with equipment from Ulyanovsk to the village of Polivna, located in the right-bank part of the city.

A closed meeting of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs is scheduled for June 25, at which the situation arising in connection with the letter from the head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Arkady Volsky, to the president will be discussed. As the daily newspaper GAZETA notes , for most members of the RUIE bureau, the letter written on their behalf and initiated by the head of Basic Element, Oleg Deripaska, turned out to be a surprise.