In a giant garbage dump with a parking lot, a protected meadow and the old man at these summer days at the famous temple of the Intercession on Nerl in the Vladimir region are turned. The ITAR-TASS correspondent, together with the rector of the temple Archimandrite Jerome, counted today at noon in the former once reserved meadow with rare types of herbs more than two hundred cars: Volga, Landrovois, Mercedes, UAZ.

On September 13-17, 2002, the UEFA inspection group will visit Russia, which will get acquainted with the Russian Candidates cities, where the Che-2008 matches may take place. Among them are Moscow, St. Petersburg, Samara, Saratov, Rostov, Krasnodar, Kazan, Voronezh, Volgograd.

The death of the legendary baseball player Ted William gave America a reason for gloomy speculation. When Ted Williams died last Friday at the age of 83, his death was perceived in the United States about the same as the recent death of Fritz Walter in Germany. Williams was considered one of the most outstanding baseball players of all time. He played for the Chicago team Red Sox and in the history of the most important American game was on a par with Beib Rutu and Joe Dimajio.

The famous Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci begins on July 18 in Paris, shooting his new film "Dreamers", Interfax reports. The picture is dedicated to what happened in May 1968 in France to student unrest. This is the third film that makes Bertolluchi in the French capital.

The calendar for 2002-2003, which marked the most significant dates of the cultural life of the followers of Islam in Russia, was published in St. Petersburg by the Women's Society Ak Kalfak Neva, MK-News from the Northern capital reports. As the agency was told in the Society of AK Kalfak Neva, great attention in the calendar is paid to the contribution of the Muslims to the history of Islam in our country.

On the night of July 12, the leader of the legendary Russian group "Quarter" Arthur Pilyavin, Interfax reports in a car disaster. The creator of the famous team and the author of most songs performed by the group died on the site of a traffic accident. Colleagues in the workshop met this news with sadness. In particular, Stas Namin in an interview with ITAR-TASS said that it was deeply saddened by the tragic death of the founder of the popular group "Quarter" Arthur Pilyavin.

The rapid growth of the popularity of mobile phones with built -in digital cameras is observed in Japan. According to the estimates of the Yano Institute, which has published the results of a marketing study today, this financial year, which ends on March 31 next year, the number of such devices will increase almost four times and reach 23 million, ITAR-TASS reports.

The Central Bank changes the methodology for calculating gold and foreign exchange reserves. As explained by the Reuters Vyugin, from July 1, the Bank of Russia will not include in the data on the volume of gold and foreign exchange reserves of the exchange of currency from the short -term operations of the repo. Repo is a financial operation consisting of two parts.

Ukrainian nationalists have published "The Law on the Deportation of the Jews." According to Izvestia.Ru , the law has already been printed in the All -Ukrainian newspaper Ideal. In the published document, nationalists urge to raise the pedigree of all Ukrainian figures, and those who have the roots from Jews and Muscovites - to expel from the country. The initial list has more than 200 people. He is headed by the first and second presidents of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma.

Two Palestinians, one of whom was a journalist, received a injury on Thursday evening as a result of shooting opened by Israeli military in the city of Jenin on the western bank of the Jordan River. According to Palestinian sources, the incident occurred when the Israeli troops entered Jenin some time after the abolition of commandant.

The unknown threatened to blow up the Canadian embassy in Delhi. In the first half of the day on Thursday, the anonymous Anonymous called the Canadian Embassy in India and said that three bombs were laid in the building, RIA Novosti reports. According to the Canadian press, all 250 employees of the embassy were urgently evacuated. The territory around the building of the Canadian diplomatic representative office in Delhi was freed from people and blocked by police cordons.

Representatives of the Ministry of Religions of Israel and the municipality of the city of Haifa officially expressed regret the Russian Theological Mission in Jerusalem in connection with the incident that had a place on the territory of the Orthodox Church of the Prophet Elijah in Haifa, RIA Novosti reports. As already reported , an unknown attacker made his way to the territory of the temple at night and applied images of inverted crosses and stars and satanic inscriptions on his walls.

In the port of Yuzhno-Kurilsk, the island of Kunashir, on Friday at 7:15 in the morning local time, a small vessel of the "mustache" village was stolen. This was reported in the Marine Rescue Center "Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk", ITAR-TASS reports. The ship converted for the overload of fish products belongs to the Yuzhno -Kuril enterprise "Avangard". The team is crossing the shore, there are no victims.

Four people were killed, 12 were injured as a result of an attack by unknown persons on the Hippodrome in the Pakistani city of Ravalpindi, RIA Novosti reports. Three young people in masks drove up on motorcycles without numbers to the central gate of the hippodrome, where about 300 people gathered. One motorcyclist remained outside, and the other two went inside and immediately opened shooting at the audience from pistols.

In Volgograd, during the operational-search measures, four adolescents aged 14 to 16 years old, who made an act of vandalism in the cemetery of the Traktorozavodsky district, were detained on Wednesday, RIA Novosti reports. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Volgograd Region, the offenders were detained by employees of the regional department for combating organized crime. All adolescents are residents of the district. Two of them study at the 51st school of Volgograd.