On Wednesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry commented on the incident in Lviv, which occurred on June 20. "The Russian Foreign Ministry hopes for the punishment of the participants in the incident related to the Russian Book store in Lviv," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. As noted in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on June 20, in Lviv, unknown persons were defeated by the showcase of the Russian Book store. This store was opened recently - June 12 of the current year.

The Kassam type missile exploded on Wednesday morning on the territory of the Israeli city of Deerot. According to the local radio, there are no injuries, the damage was caused to the car standing near the residential quarter. The city of Deerot is located in Western Negev, about 5 km northeast of the gas sector.

In the Grozny district of Chechnya, an attack on the Haian-Cort oil park was attacked. A group of bandits fired at an object from machine guns and under -barrel grenade launchers, the Grozneftegaz association reported. The attack of the attackers managed to recapture. There are no victims among police officers. The object is damaged - tangent hits are available on four tanks, in each of which 5 thousand tons of oil are stored.

The Ministry of Defense of Australia approved the project according to which Pakupunal’s military personnel is prescribed to kill 15,000 kangaroo. Otherwise, the base faces closing, and the area of ​​its location can be declared a "dead zone". The fact is that over the past few years, the livestock of the kangaroo in the country has grown exponentially. Such operations to control the Kangaroo population are carried out in Australia annually.

In Russia, the production of not only vodka, but also beer falls. Russians consume strong drinks less and less, giving preference to guilt. Representatives of the industry associate a decrease in production with an increase in excise taxes on vodka and beer. The Goskomstat noted significantly a decrease in the production of vodka at the beginning of the year, while in the second quarter the trend is oxy.

According to the National Hockey League, Detroit is a number one club for the sale of club hockey sweaters in the USA, North America and around the world. True, in Canada, Detroit is inferior in popularity of sweaters to the local Toronto, Montreal, Ottava, Vancouver, and Boston. By the way, according to sales of nominal sweaters per season 2001/02, the top ten included four representatives of Detroit at once, Sport-Express notes.

US President George Bush, as part of the annual US Summit, will meet on Wednesday in the White House with a delegation of the European Union, headed by Greece Prime Minister Konstantin Simitis. The European Union delegation will negotiate with the US Vice President Richard Cheini, US Secretary of State Colin Powell, US President Condolizes Condolism and a number of other key figures in the Bush cabinet.

Despite the variable cloud cover, most of the day in the metropolitan region will be clear, weather forecasters promise. Those who will be on their feet in the morning are waiting for very cool weather - about 10 degrees of heat. In the afternoon, the air in Moscow warms up to plus 19-21 degrees, in the region-to plus 17-22. Short-term rains are expected, ITAR-TASS reports. Toward evening, the likelihood of a short -term rain will increase.

How many Nobel laureates do you need to evaluate the legality of tax care scheme? At least three. Two are the defendants, another-a consultant in the trial in which the US Tax Administration accuses the partners of the Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) hedge fund of tax evasion.

The ex-head of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Viktor Gerashchenko considers the obsolete idea of ​​creating in Russia a system of insurance of citizens' deposits in banks. “Now the whole world is gradually coming to the fact that deposits insurance is a relic,” Gerashchenko said in an interview with the weekly arguments and facts . He explained that this system was created in the world in the 20-30s of the last century, when people could place savings only in banks.

On the construction site in the Western Administrative District of Moscow, two artillery shells were discovered from the Great Patriotic War. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the Main Directorate for Civil Defense and Emergency Situations of the capital. The message about the detection of shells was received by the police on Wednesday at about 12:00. The workers dug a pit for the construction of a new house, and found 2 ammunition. The construction is located at 10 Filevsky Boulevard, 10.

At the airport of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Wednesday morning, the Av-12 of the Moscow Avilual NV Moscow Airline was an emergency landing. This was reported in the Main Directorate for Civil Defense and Emergencies of the Sakhalin Region. Cargo aircraft (on-board number 11339), which performed flight number 9686 Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk-Seoul, flew out of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk airport at 09:20 local time (2:20 in Moscow).

Rapper Eminem during his last concert in the UK in the town of Milton Kiinis north of London, during the Anger Management round, shocked fans with generosity. The singer shot a chain with a pendant from his neck, which, according to him, costs 450 thousand dollars, and gave it to one of his fans. “I give this thing the sexiest woman of all I see now,” the American musician said, leaned down from the stage to the crowd and handed over the jewel to the girl in the forefront, BBC reports.

Extreme strictity was shown by German judges in relation to the 45-year-old gardener, who got behind the wheel of his lawn mower while intoxicated. The court sentenced him to a fine of 400 euros, and also selected a driver’s license for a period of three months, AFP reports. The detainee’s lawyer is outraged by the verdict: "The maximum speed of the lawn mower is 6 km per hour! My behavior was not even the slightest threat to society!

Mikhail Yuzhny, sown at the Uimbledon tennis tournament under the 16th number, could not go to the third circle of competitions. The last representative of Russia in a male solitary discharge lost to the Spaniard Felician Lopez in three sets with a score of 7: 6, 3: 6, 2: 6. In the female part of the tournament, Vera Zvonareva once again pleased Russian tennis fans, breaking through the third round of the UK Open Championship.