The working group led by Presidential Assistant Igor Shuvalov, on behalf of the president, took up the reform of the draft system for military service. Experts are now working on two options for changes.

Foreign security agencies leave Iraq, writes on Wednesday the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan. According to the newspaper, the Romanian company "Company", the South African agency Executive & Commerce and the British company Sand Line, which provided the protection and protection of individuals and companies, closed their representative offices in Iraq, RIA Novosti reports. In total, recent representative offices of five such companies have been closed in Iraq due to low income.

The ghost of nationalization can return to Russia, the German newspaper Die Welt is confident, which is published by Inopressa . Analyzing what is happening in Russia, the newspaper concludes that the state wants to regain strategic industrial enterprises. And finds in this matter the support of the population - 80% of Russians consider the privatization of the 90s of the predatory. In today's Russia, the abyss runs between the poor and rich.

On Tuesday, the House of Representatives failed the vote of no confidence in the cabinet of Prime Minister Dzyuniitiro Koizumi, which was nominated by the parties to the opposition the day before the end of the current session of the parliament.

One of the Portuguese newspapers published unusual recommendations for football fans - a list of saints that you can turn to for help, reports Echo of Moscow . Local journalists, apparently very informed in how national priorities are distributed among representatives of the face of saints, decided that Portuguese and Spanish players can rely on the intercession of the Virgin Mary herself. The assistants of the Greeks are defined by St. Nicholas and Apostle Andrey.

The village of Nisanit, in the north of the gas sector, is ten kilometers south of Ashkelon, on the Green Line itself, separating Israel from the territory of PA. To the south of it, 250 meters from the Egyptian border, is the Rafia-Yam. These two settlements, along with the other 19, should be evacuated "until the end of 2005," says Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The 37-year-old taxi driver ICIK Givi left Ashkelon 11 years ago to settle in Nisanit with Lydia.

In Germany, the woman went about 100 km from the car service to the house, because she thought that her husband had thrown her in the parking lot and left without her. As it turned out later, the German simply did not notice her car in the parking lot at the service, Ananova reports. Meanwhile, her husband, vainly waiting for her in a car, decided that something had happened to her wife, and reported the disappearance of the police. However, the help of law enforcement was not required.

At the Haifa City in the North of Israel, an explosion thundered at an oil refinery in the city of Haifa, as a result of which 11 people received mild injuries. Sources in police circles claim that this explosion is in no way connected with terrorist activities. The police also found out that there are no threats to the atmosphere of dangerous chemicals into the atmosphere, the Ha'aretz newspaper writes on Wednesday.

Pictures with a resolution of one meter made from the American satellites of Ikonos and Quickbird during the Euro 2004 football matches can be ordered by any Russian. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the representative of the Russian company "Obzond", which has official licensing agreements with a number of American companies to disseminate data from satellites of remote sensing of the Earth.

Participants in the conference of donor countries in Brussels decided to allocate Georgia as a three-year financial assistance of $ 1 billion. Help will be allocated to the Georgian government to finance various projects for 2004-2006, the Rustavi-2 television company reports. Among the priority projects are energy, public administration, social sphere, healthcare, education. In addition, funds will go to projects for the economic reintegration of Adjara.

On June 16, in St. Petersburg there will be events dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the world famous Petersburg composer Sergei Kurekhin. In the afternoon, relatives, friends and fans of his work gathered at the composer’s grave in Komarov, where a requiem took place and flowers were entered, and in the evening the premiere of the documentary Kurekhin began in the Rodina cinema. Sergey Anatolyevich Kurekhin was born on June 16, 1954 in Murmansk.

In the Primorsky Territory of Russia, as a result of special operations, 72 girls were released, who were prepared for sale abroad for prostitution. This was announced by RIA Novosti by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Rashid Nurgaliev, who takes part in a meeting of the Council of the Heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the CIS State Magic University, which ends on Wednesday in Chisinau.

Some of the leaders of the Chechen Sepatarists Shamil Basayev was secretly exported to one of the European countries in connection with a sharp deterioration in health status. This was stated by the chairman of the State Council of the Republic of Taus Dzhabrailov.

The head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Arkady Volsky does not exclude the possibility of Yukos bankruptcy. “The situation is going to this,” he said on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station. Volsky categorically opposed the bankruptcy of Yukos.

The Pope John Paul II called on believers around the world to share with the near "gift of life", donating blood to medical institutions. The pontiff made this call on the eve of World blood Donors, which is celebrated on June 14, Blagovet-info reports. “To give your blood voluntarily and without any compensation - high -moral and civil gesture,” dad said.