2005 will become in Belarus the year of culture of Russia. The signing of the program of its implementation will be held on Tuesday in Vitebsk, where the XIII art festival "Slavic Bazaar" takes place. The ceremony will be attended by the Minister of Culture of Belarus Leonid Gulyako and the head of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography of the Russian Federation Mikhail Shvydka.

Ukrainian striker Sergei Rebrov began training as part of the English football club West Ham United. The former striker of Dynamo Kyiv spent the last year in Turkish Fenerbahce on lease. He moved to Tottenham in the summer of 2000. The Ukrainian agent Sandor Warga said that his ward trained with West Ham the day before. According to the agent, Rebrov would like to return to English football.

All-Russian celebrations dedicated to the 250th anniversary of the birth of the Monk Seraphim Sarovsky will be held on July 20-21 in Kursk-in the homeland of this saint, especially revered and beloved by Orthodox Christians. According to RIA Novosti in the Moscow Patriarchate, the celebration will be headed by Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine Volodymyr (Sabodan). The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II will not arrive in Kursk, since after a rich program of celebrations in St.

Ten people were sentenced in Sudan for banditry to amputation of the limbs and six years in prison. Such a verdict was issued on the eve of the special military court of the city of Nyala, the Sudanese region of Darfur. According to reports received on Tuesday, the convicts were found guilty of robberies, robberies and rape. All sentenced - members of the Arab militarized formations "Janjavid".

The American Halliburton is a company that US Vice President Dick Cheney headed before his arrival at the White House - again in the center of the scandal. On Monday, the Texas prosecutor’s office demanded that Halliburton provide documents about work in Iran. This was reported the day before by representatives of the company. According to them, the company intends to cooperate with law enforcement agencies conducting the corresponding investigation, reports Reuters.

As a result of the clashes between the Israeli army and the militants of the Hizballi terrorist movement, two Israelis died. This was announced by the Lebanese television channel Al-Manar. The Israeli Ministry of Defense has not yet officially confirmed the fact of the death of military personnel. The incident occurred in the area of ​​the Livano-Israeli border.

About 200 people gathered on Tuesday for a rally near the building of the Ministry of Economic Development of Georgia, protesting against the privatization process declared by the Minister of Economics. During the promotion, the protesters blocked a car in which Kakha Bendukidze drove up to the building, RIA Novosti reports. The participants in the action for about half an hour kept the minister’s car surrounded, swinging it. Bendukidze tried to calm the protesters and went to them.

The foreign press on Tuesday comments on information programs on Russian television, where President Vladimir Putin has long been the main and almost only hero. According to the script, the image of the folk hero is extremely positive - like any standard, he is infallible. Such an image for Vladimir Putin was created in 1999 with the help of TV and fixed to this day.

The world famous Kyrgyz writer Genghis Aitmatov is under treatment in Turkey. This was reported on Tuesday "Interfax" in Bishkek at the National Center for Cardiology and Therapy. According to the doctors of the cardiocenter, the health status of the writer, who suffered the acute myocardial infarction on July 12 , improved markedly.

The Chinese delegation at the Olympiad in Athens will have 407 people. This is the largest delegation of the Middle Kingdom, which has ever participated in the Olympic Games. However, the Chinese themselves believe that athletes of Russia and the USA will become the main leaders at the Athenian Olympiad. This was announced at a press conference in Beijing by the deputy head of the Olympic delegation of China Lee Fujun.

A few weeks before the murder of Paul Khlebnikov, the unknown to the correspondent of The Times in Russia threatened with reprisals for the materials unflattering for the Russian image. The voice on the other end of the telephone wire was squeezed, but sounded menacingly: “You should be careful with what you are writing,” the man said, not introducing himself. “And then something may happen to you when you walk along the street.” After that, they put the phone.

A ten -day picket, the purpose of which was to increase wages, began representatives of the trade union associations of firefighters, police and teachers of New York on Monday on Manhattan. The action, in which dozens of trade union activists take part, will go 24 hours a day near the major Madison-Square-Garden concert center. In time, the so -called "information picket" coincides with the preparation of the site for the national congress of the Republican Party of the United States.

The first oceanarium in the north-west will open in St. Petersburg in the first half of 2005, the chief financial manager of the project Julia Gladkova told Interfax. A special room for him will be built by the New Zealand construction company. “The total cost of the project is $ 12 million. Currently, the center of the center building has been built. The construction of the oceanarium is planned to be completed in the first quarter of 2005, and it will open after all the necessary procedures.

A large traffic accident occurred on Monday evening in Germany. As a result of the accident, about 40 people were injured under the cell bus with German tourists. According to the North Rhine-Westphalia Police, the incident occurred when the bus arrived at the parking lot. For an unknown reason, the bus did not slow down and crashed into a standing truck. About 200 police officers, rescuers and doctors arrived at the scene.

The Meshchansky Court of Moscow on Tuesday began to study evidence of the prosecution in the criminal case against Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev and Andrei Krainov, the court said. In the philistine court, the state prosecutor announced a document in which the whole background of the attack on Apatit is revealed, lawyer Mikhail Khodorkovsky Yuri Schmidt told reporters.