Cooperation of Moscow and New Delhi on the fight against international terrorism and religious extremism will become a key topic during the visit of the Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov to India on June 16-17. This was announced in an interview with RIA Novosti by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Alexander Yakovenko.

Russia does not consider the presence of its military personnel as part of the Iraqi peacekeepers, said Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov on Thursday in Brussels after a meeting with his American colleague Donald Ramsfeld.

The London Supreme Court for the first time confirmed that the diseases of one of the veterans of the war in the Persian Gulf are directly related to his participation in the hostilities against Iraq in 1991. The court granted the lawsuit of the former sergeant of the parachute regiment of the British Armed Forces on Friday Sean Rolling, who had previously been refused to receive a military pension, RIA Novosti reports.

The first of the Russian companies that worked in Iraq before the military operation of Russian companies returned to the country "Technopromesport". As the chairman of this association, Valentin Kuznetsov, said on Friday in an interview with ITAR-TASS, the supply of equipment to the USIFIA thermal power plant under construction in the Persian Gulf region continued in May.

In the Far East, the total number of forest fires reached 142 on Friday, RIA Novosti was told on Friday in the dispatch service of the Far Eastern base of the aircraft protection of forests. According to dispatchers, the most difficult situation is on the coast of the Tatar Strait. There are covered with fires covered with forests of mountain, rocky areas where there are almost no roads and where it is impossible to deliver heavy equipment.

The Kazakhstan parliament with an overwhelming number of votes approved the candidacy of the 49-year-old governor of the Pavlodar region Daniil Akhmetov for the position of new prime minister of the country. On Friday, Daniil Akhmetov’s candidacy for the post of head of government was proposed to parliament by the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, speaking at a joint meeting of the chambers of the Parliament of Kazakhstan.

Vladimir Putin awarded the composer Nikita of the theological and artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater named after M. Gorky Tatyana Doronin by the orders "For Merit to the Fatherland" of the III degree.

In the Czech Republic on Friday, a two -day referendum will begin on the country's entry into the European Union. In accordance with the country's constitution, the decree on the conduct of plebiscite was signed by President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic.

American and Japanese diplomats during a meeting with the participation of representatives of the United States, Japan and South Korea spoke out for a five -way consultation format for the DPRK nuclear program. They propose to connect to the problem of representatives of the north and south of Korea, the USA, Japan and China.

The ruling liberal-democratic party of Japan, and after it the government of the country approved the bill, authorizing the sending of Japanese troops to Iraq, and the Prime Minister Dzyunitiro Koizumi immediately submitted him to the parliament. In the case of approval of the bill, another step will be taken to ensure that Japan plays a more tangible military role in the world, ITAR-TASS reports.

This summer, Moscow can “suffocate” from the poplar fluff, which will be much larger than last year. According to ITAR-TASS, the head of the plant protection department and monitoring of Moszelenkhoz Alexander Matsuk, a protracted and cool spring, as well as the very warm end of April and the beginning of May led to the active and almost simultaneous flowering of many trees and plants.

Very soon, the captain of the England national team David Beckham must leave Manchester United and move to Spain or Italy. However, this transition can be associated with a great risk to Beckham. In particular, Reuters gives examples of football players such as Jimmy Graves, Ian Rush and Dennis Lowe. All of them played very successfully in England, but in moving to the continent the brilliance of their football was lost.

The Swedish season in the NHL was crowned with an awarding by individual prizes, where the power of the hockey players of this country was demonstrated in all its glory. Many, in connection with this, began to hint at a certain rivalry of Peter Forsberg and Marcus Neuschund.

During the investigation of the causes of the death of the COLUMBIA space shuttle, NASA experts found a problem that could align the date of resumption of the operation of the shuttle, AP reports. Huge bolts fasten high -power solid -fuel accelerators of shuttle and its external fuel tank. After the ship is in orbit, pyropatrons break the fasteners and rockets are separated from the shuttle.

In the future, Russia and NATO will be able to create joint weapons samples, said Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov. "So far, in the field of military-technical cooperation of Russia and NATO, more than being done, but joint weapons can be created in the future," Ivanov told reporters on Friday in Brussels, where a meeting of the Russian Council at the level of military departments in the "twenty" format was opened.