Residents of the Czech Republic during the referendum overwhelming majority approved the country's entry into the European Union, reports Reuters. For the accession of the Republic of Czech Republic to the EU in May 2004, 81 percent of the Czechs that took part in the elections voted. This is EXIT POLL (a survey at the exit from the polling stations), which announced Czech television. The data was obtained by SC & C Agency.

The former first racket of the world, the American Pete Samprass will never perform at the French open championship again. It was this “large helmet” tournament that Sampras never won in his career. However, Pete promised to return to Wimbledon. The 31-year-old Pistol Pete won the tournaments of the Grand Slam 14 times, which is so far an absolute record.

A fire that arose about two hours ago on the territory of the current Simonov Orthodox Monastery in the south of Moscow was liquidated. The fire occurred at about 16.00 Moscow time in the repaired old tower of the monastery, which is located in house number 4 (building 10) on East Street, near the Avtozavodskaya metro station. The building materials that were stored in the tower lit up. Immediately 20 fire crews were sent to extinguish the fire. As it turned out, lumber burned.

On the border of North and South Korea on Saturday, a symbolic ceremony of restoration of railway communication between the North and the south of the disconnected peninsula was held on Saturday. On Saturday, in a demilitarized zone separating two countries that once former one, two 25-meter sections of the rails were laid, BBC reports. Thus, the railway will now pass through the most fortified border in the world. The railway was divided half a century ago after the Korean War.

Over eight hundred Rostov fans go on Saturday to Moscow in order to organize for their favorites in the final match of the Russian Cup, where Rostov will fight with the Moscow Spartak. The meeting will be held in Moscow at the Lokomotiv stadium. Fans from Rostov-on-Don will go in a special support train, which was formed specifically for Rostov fans. The composition will be provided with protection and medical care.

The Arab newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi , published in London, received another message signed by the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The message received by the newspaper on the eve contains the threat of terrorist attacks against the countries whose military personnel are in Iraq. "We warn all foreign citizens and all those who came to occupy our country: they must leave it until June 17," the letter said in three pages.

Due to the rain, many pilots failed to avoid mistakes. In particular, the winner of the race in Monaco, the Colombian Juan-Pablo Montaoya turned out to be only the twelfth. This happened due to the fact that he flew out on a wet highway, and lost a few seconds. For the same reasons, not the best results were shown by Ralph Schumacher and Yarno Truly, who took only the nineteenth place. An even greater failure befell the local hero Jacques Vilnev.

While European clubs arrange prices for prices in the hope of getting the Englishman David Beckham, the football player continues to popularize his image around the world. Now the David Beckham trademark costs $ 334.5 million. On Monday, Beckham begins his advertising tour of Japan, during which he will show master classes on playing football, and besides this, Beckham will be present at different commercial promotions. "Beckham is a very interesting phenomenon in sports.

Three people died and eight more were injured as a result of a car accident near Makhachkala. This was reported on Saturday in the Salvation Service "01" of the Ministry of Emergencies of Dagestan. According to the republican traffic police, on the eve of the day on the 820th kilometer of the Caucasus federal highway, VAZ-2106 and Gazelle minibus collided with passengers, which executed the flight along the Makhachkala-Gergil route.

In the UK, on ​​Saturday, the birthday of Queen Elizabeth II is 77 years old. The queen was born on April 21, 1926, however, according to tradition, every year her next birthday is celebrated on the second Saturday of June. On Saturday, state flags are posted on all government buildings. As part of the celebrations at noon in London time over the state residence of the queen, a Buckingham palace, eight aircraft of various types will fly.

Since the beginning of the season, the third mentor of Spartak-Alania was the assistant to the head coach of the Russian football team Nick Khudiev. He played for this team for 15 years, from 1968 to 1983, and played 415 matches for the team. Today the ceremony of presenting a new mentor took place. The press was announced by the President of the Club, Prime Minister of North Ossetia Mikhail Shatalov.

Over the past decades, the largest exhibition of personal belongings of actress Marlene Dietrich opened on Saturday in Paris. The exhibition presents unique dresses and costumes that Dietrich wore during her long career in the cinema and theater. The exhibition is located in the famous Gallier Museum and will last until mid -October. It presented 250 personal belongings of the actress, reports ITAR-TASS.

In the Evenki Autonomous Okrug on the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, 140 km from her merger with the Yenisei sat in a melted barge, loaded with 400 tons of oil. This was reported on Saturday at the Siberian Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation. According to the operational duty officer, there are no holes on the oil vessel, so there are no threats of spill along the oil products river.

A mourning rally, morning prayers in churches and at the graves in the city cemetery honors on Saturday Budennovsk memory of 147 of their fellow countrymen, killed by the bandits of Shamil Basayev 8 years ago during the gang attack on the city. In the morning, the inhabitants of Budennovsk laid flowers to the monuments who died in a fight with terrorists to police officers, aviators located in the vicinity of the city of the helicopter regiment.

NASA ordered one of the largest American aerospace companies a project for the development of new revolutionary engines. Thus, NASA laid the beginning of a new program to conquer the solar system using atomic spaceships. The purpose of the project is to build an interplanetary spaceship that can overcome a huge distance in space in a short time, collect the necessary information and transfer it to Earth, writes today Independent .