The DPRK drew attention to the fact that US President George Bush in one of his recent statements, which concerned the North Korean leader Kim Jong Ira, used the word "master", reports the South Korean news agency "Renhap". Until now, the agency notes, the North Korean side has reacted very angrily to how George Bush or other US official representatives criticized the North Korean leader or DPRK system.

The International Monetary Fund, whose mission on Thursday graduated in Moscow, spoke about the problems of the Russian economy. The head of the IMF mission in Russia Paul Thomsen at a press conference on Friday as a positive initiative noted the decision of Russia to repay the debts to the Parisian club of creditors ahead of schedule. The government’s work in other areas causes serious concern in the IMF.

The foreign ministers of Russia, India and China on Thursday held a tripartite meeting in Vladivostok, which, according to the ministers, will not be the latter. At the meeting, a free tripartite exchange of views took place. This event was suspicious by Japan, writes The Washington Times , the translation of the article of which is published by Inopressa.ru .

As part of the investigation of the murder of the editor -in -chief of the Russian version of the Forbes magazine Paul Khlebnikov, the notary of the city of Moscow was arrested, a source close to the investigation said. Last week, the Moscow Basmanny Court issued a sanction for the arrest of the detained notary public Fail Sadretdinov. He has already been charged under Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hiring), RBC reports.

The stolen database of the Central Bank for banking wiring for the fourth quarter of 2004 contains "explosive" information capable of shed light on the financing scheme for the purchase "Yuganskneftegaz". Vedomosti , having restored the alleged transaction scheme, argue that budget funds could be used in the transaction. Such actions are defined as the misuse of the funds of the state treasury. Recall that Rosneft still keeps a secret to financing the transaction on the purchase of "Yugansk".

NASA continues to work on the launching of the North Pole of the Mars of the descent apparatus, which will look for water and possible traces of life, on Thursday at the space agency said on Thursday. It is planned that the descent device "Phoenix Mars" will land in the Martian Arctic in May 2008. The apparatus with the manipulator’s hand will penetrate deep into the ice cover and collect samples of soil for analyzes, reports Ar.

In Primorye in the village of Volnov-Nadezhdin, 10-year-old boy drowned 5 years. In the afternoon, two boys played in the courtyard of one of the houses, and in the evening in a ditch of water near this house, local residents found the body of the youngest child. After a conversation with the police, a 10-year-old boy confessed his deed, saying that he had pushed his neighbor in the water when he began to call him, reports REGNUM .

The Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Junker confirmed his intention on Friday to resign if in a referendum on July 10 the country will vote against the European constitution. Residents of the Netherlands and France have already voted against the adoption of this law. Luxembourg currently presides in the EU, RIA Novosti reports.

The primary placement of shares (IPO) "Rosneft" may take place in mid -2006, the director of the Department of State Regulation of Tariffs and Infrastructure Reforms of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Kirill Androsov told reporters. In his opinion, for Rosneft IPO, it is necessary, firstly, to complete the transaction on the purchase of 10.74% of Gazprom’s shares, as well as complete the integration of Yuganskneftegaz in Rosneft.

The Japanese student died in Tokyo on May 23 as a result of the fact that she took the Chinese medicine Tiantyans, intended to reduce weight, the Chinese media said on Friday. The preliminary investigation showed that taking this drug produced by the pharmaceutical company EMA Province Guangdun, 44 people in Japan harm.

Kyiv has no special intentions to destroy Russian property in Ukraine. “We don’t have such plans,” said Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko following a meeting with the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Fradkov in Tbilisi.

The Spanish police stopped the activities of a criminal group, which "laundered" in Spain and a number of other countries at least 100 million euros. According to a representative of the Ministry of the Interior on Friday, during the operation, under the code name "Red Marble", 13 people were arrested - 9 Spaniards, three Ukrainians and a Russian citizen.

The interdepartmental commission on adoption (adoption) and other forms of children to educate refused to extend permission to activities in Russia by representatives of three American organizations involved in the adoption of Russian children by US citizens.

This, of course, is not about bribery. Just in Germany, a doll depicting Roman dad appeared on sale, Ananova reports. It was released by a limited batch of 999 pieces of a well -known company Schildkröt in Germany, which produces dolls, and will surely soon become a rarity among collectors. The doll, the size of which is a little more than 40 cm (16 inches), the typical face of the peps, mobile arms and legs. At least the color of the hair, it remotely resembles the current pontiff.

Three teenagers were discovered hanged in the village of Khokhorsk, Ust-Ordynsky Buryat Autonomous Okrug. This was reported on Friday in the prosecutor's office of the Bokhansky district, on the territory of which there was a tragedy. According to Interfax, the district prosecutor Sergei Chaplin said on Friday, adolescents wrote death notes before suicide, where they said goodbye to their parents and accused of a man who allegedly convicted them of the theft of gasoline.