The retrial of former journalist of the newspaper "Boevaya Vakhta" Grigory Pasko, accused of high treason, which was supposed to resume in Vladivostok on Monday in the military court of the Pacific Fleet, has been postponed to June 20. As a RIA Novosti correspondent was told in court, the reason for the postponement was the continuation of the court's acquaintance with Pasko's voluminous criminal case.

Two people have already died during the unrest in Nepal on Monday, Nepalnews.com reports. Two participants in the demonstration, which brought together several thousand Nepalese who took to the streets of Kathmandu to demand the death penalty for the killers of King Birendra, Queen Aishwarya and seven other members of the royal family, died during a clash with police.

According to the press center of the Moscow City Duma, on June 4, at the regular meeting of the Moscow City Duma commission on social policy, the initiative of deputy Evgeny Balashov to amend the draft federal law “On restricting tobacco smoking and consumption of tobacco products” was considered. The bill was adopted by the State Duma in the first reading in June 1999 and is now in the process of being finalized.

In the near future, the Ministry of Internal Affairs group in Chechnya will increase by 1-1.5 thousand people. As RIA Novosti reports, Russian Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov told reporters on Monday. At the same time, he recalled that the 46th Special Purpose Brigade of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, numbering 6.5 thousand people, is currently stationed at the Severny airport in Grozny. According to him, after the planned increase, its number will become optimal.

The commander of the North Caucasus District, Gennady Troshev, considers it necessary to introduce the death penalty for Chechen terrorists. According to the general, life imprisonment is too lenient a punishment for people who are responsible for the deaths of dozens of civilians. “Yes, I am for the death penalty for Chechen militants!” Troshev said in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper.

A commission is working on Sakhalin to study the incident that occurred at the airport of the regional center last weekend. As Andrei Lobkin, general director of the Sakhalin Air Routes company, told an ITAR-TASS correspondent today, while clearing the runway, the Il-96 plane of Domodedovo Airlines damaged the rudder of the Sakhalin Il-62 airliner with its right wing. There were no casualties, but the economic damage was significant - flights to Moscow and Seoul were disrupted.

Parliamentary hearings on the topic “On the development of cultural ties with the CIS and Baltic states” will be held today in the State Duma. The hearings are conducted by the Committee on CIS Affairs and Relations with Compatriots.

The Kaluga Regional Court will continue today the hearing of the case of scientist Igor Sutyagin, who is accused of high treason. On Friday, the court once again did not grant his request to lift his preventive measure. Sutyagin does not admit guilt and claims that he did not transfer any secret data about Russian weapons to employees of the English consulting firm Alternative Futures.

Russian citizens in Nepal were not harmed as a result of the riots that broke out on Monday in the capital of this South Asian country.

The Israeli Prime Minister's visit to Germany, scheduled to begin on Monday, will not take place. Ariel Sharon canceled a trip to Europe, during which he planned to visit Berlin, Brussels and Paris. As a RIA Novosti correspondent reports, Ariel Sharon made the decision to cancel his European tour on Saturday in connection with the latest terrorist attack in Tel Aviv and after a many-hour emergency meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers, during which responses to the terrorist attack were discussed.

The main indicators of the draft federal budget for 2002 will be submitted by the Ministry of Finance to the government early this week. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin told reporters about this. He recalled that this document will be considered at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on June 7.

In western Macedonia, in the area of ​​the second largest city of Tetovo, clashes between Albanian terrorists and government troops have resumed, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Radio Skopje. Shots and shell explosions are heard in Tetovo. Clashes are reportedly taking place in the area of ​​the villages of Lisets, Gaile, Brodets and Shipkovitsa. Militants fire at Macedonian army positions with machine guns, machine guns, grenade launchers and mortars.

On Monday morning, another victim died in an Israeli hospital as a result of a terrorist attack on the night from Friday to Saturday at the entrance to a youth disco in Tel Aviv. As RIA Novosti reports, the total number of deaths from the bomb explosion has now reached 20 people. The deceased, Jan Blum, 25, from Ramat Gan, worked as a security guard at a discotheque. He left behind a two-year-old son.

The personal plane of the world famous English musician Sting landed at Vnukovo-2 airport at 13:00. The singer is accompanied by members of his band, wife Trudy and friends. The singer came to the Russian capital for only one day to give a concert today at the Olimpiysky sports complex. Sting flew in from St. Petersburg, where he performed a concert the day before.

The European Central Bank has sufficient foreign exchange reserves to carry out interventions if the bank decides to carry out such an action, the head of the Bundesbank, Ernst Welteke, said on Sunday, June 3. “We have significant reserves and have the ability to intervene if such a step is considered appropriate to the situation and effective,” he said in a radio interview, Bloomberg reports.