Moscow may already be prepared for the 2012 Olympics, the president of the Russian Olympic Committee, Leonid Tyagachev, said at a meeting of the Moscow government today. At the meeting, a plan of the main measures for the nomination of Moscow as a Candidate city for the 2012 Olympics was approved, ITAR-TASS reports.

On Tuesday in the US Senate, hearings begin, which should shed light on the role of banks in Enron fraud, which helped her for a long time hide their true financial situation from investors. In particular, it is necessary to find out the degree of guilt of the leadership of the largest financial company in the world, Citigroup, which organized a complex scheme for hiding debts for Enron.

The oldest leopard on the planet died in the National Zoo of the Indian state of Madhya-Pradesh: he lived here to a very advanced cat's age √ 25 years. Leopard McLl, named after the Wild Forest, where he was left by his mother, “died of old age,” Annil Sharma, a veterinarian of the zoo, told French journalists today.

President of Pakistan, General Perevez Musharraf, assured the leaders of six leading Muslim parties and organizations in an effort to "preserve the Islamic character" of the state, ITAR-TASS reports. "Pakistan was born as an Islamic state, and no one has the right or the strength to change it," he said during a meeting with religious figures.

Miss Universe 2002 Oksana Fedorova arrives on Tuesday in Panama, RIA Novosti reports. The Russian woman will take part in the ceremony of signing an agreement with the government of this Central American country, in accordance with which Panama will receive the right to hold the Miss Universe contest next year.

Michael Jackson, recently passionate about the battle with the well -known sound recording Corporation Sony Music, intends to sue the media giant for violation of the contract. The singer accuses the company of "dubious methods of leaking," Reuters reports. This move was perhaps the culmination in the Jackson Contra Sony battles (Jackson against Sony) unleashed by a pop star.

In the near future, in the ranks of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic, large cleaning will be carried out, writes the Renaissance of the Republic produced in the formidable military commandant of Chechnya. The material claims that the Russian special services received new information that militants and their accomplices entered the structures of the Internal Affairs Directorate.

At the entrance to the garrison of the Northern Fleet submariners Vidyevo, from where the nuclear submarine Kursk submarine cruiser went on the last campaign, and the work on the construction of the monument to its crew is being completed. The opening ceremony of the monument will be held on August 12 - on the day of the second anniversary of the death of the nuclear crossing, ITAR -TASS reported at the headquarters of the Northern Fleet.

In the southern district of the capital, on Tuesday, as a result of a leak of tanker ZIL, about a ton of hydrochloric acid resulted in. According to Interfax, sources in the Office for Civil Defense and Emergencies, the signal arrived at about 11:00. Rescuers of the Mosgorspas, police officers and other services were immediately sent to the scene.

The police of the American city of Auckland (North California) are searching for parents whose newborn child was found in the garbage tank on Monday, RIA Novosti reports. The newborn girl was accidentally discovered by residents of the house who heard the cry of the baby. As it turned out, the child was not even removed in the umbilical cord. The child was immediately taken to the Odland children's hospital, where it was connected in a dropper and introduced antibiotics. Now she feels good.

The temperature record in Moscow and the region, which was predicted on Tuesday, did not take place. According to weather forecasters, in Moscow and the region the maximum temperature was on Tuesday plus 32.5 degrees with a record of 32.8 degrees belonging to 1882 and 1885. According to RIA Novosti in the Moscow meteoro, most likely, the thermometer columns did not rise higher due to cloudiness. Currently, in Moscow, the temperature has already begun to decline and is a plus of 31.8 degrees.

The court hearing in the case of Viktor Tikhonov, one of the accused of organizing an assassination attempt on the Governor of the Kemerovo Region Aman Tuleyev, was torn to be torn by the Novosibirsk Regional Court of one of the three lawyers of the defendant - Alexei Dudnik, RIA Novosti reports. The chairman in the trial, Mikhail Potapov announced that the court did not know anything about the reasons for the failure to appear a lawyer.

The Kaliningrad problem is solved simply, according to Lithuanian professor Algimantas Ambrazyaviciyus. He offers to dig a 70-kilometer tunnel, which in the shortest way would connect Belarus with the Kaliningrad region. True, Poland should give consent to the digging, since the tunnel must be laid under its territory, the Latvian newspaper "Hour" reports. Work, according to the plan of Ambrazyavicius, can be carried out by opening.

The daughter of the former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Dalia Rabin-Philosof, resigned from the post of Deputy Minister of Defense, ITAR-TASS reports. Rabin-philosopher considers the further participation of the members of the Avoda party, to which the "Government of National Unity" led by Ariel Sharon belongs to the "Government of National Unity".

The death of a soldier is investigated in the educational part of the Elansk garrison of the Sverdlovsk region. Numerous blows with an ax on the head were the cause of the death of the new recruit Dmitry Lisovsky. According to the Russian News Service , the 19-year-old soldier died on July 2, having served only 11 days and not even having time to take the oath. During the investigation, one of the garrison officers put forward an extravagant version of the death of a young man.