The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II will send Kazan on July 21 a copy of the historical Kazan icon of the Virgin, which was recently transferred to Russia by the Vatican , Iar-Tass reports, citing the press service of the Moscow Patriarchate of the priest Vladimir Vigilyansky. The visit of the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church in Kazan begins on July 20 and will last two days.

On Tuesday, during the operation in Jennin on the western bank of the Jordan of the Israeli, the military destroyed the two militants of the El-Kuds brigades, the militarized wing of the Islamic Jihad organization. According to Reuters , citing a source in the Israeli army and to eyewitnesses, military arrived in the village to arrest the wanted action movie. The soldiers surrounded the house and called on two militants who were there to surrender.

The American magazine Fortune has published a list of 500 largest companies in the world in 2004. The magazine evaluates the business of sales. Among the 500 largest companies in the world this year, only three Russian ones turned out to be: Gazprom took off from 167th to the 139th, Lukoil took 178th place. Yukos, who flew out of the ranking, which last year also entered the 500 largest, replaced the RAO UES energy holding.

On Tuesday night, unknown persons hacked the Internet site of the Kyrgyzstan government, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the department of informatization and telecommunications management of the apparatus of the Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan. The attackers managed to produce a “partial defavis”, that is, change individual pages of the site, placing foreign information on them.

In the Amur Region, a pensioner of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was detained, who established the production of explosive devices. According to Interfax Tuesday in the information department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Far Eastern Federal District, during the operational-search measures in the city of free, employees of the UBOP of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Amur Region detained a 49-year-old man.

The publishing house "Eksmo" was published by a new collection of articles by Arturo Peres-Reverte "Corsar Patent". The book included more than one and a half hundred essays of the famous Spanish writer and journalist, who were published weekly during 1993-1998 in the popular weekly El Semal , whose audience has more than 4 million readers.

In London, the court began on the claim of the famous director Roman Polanski to Vanity Fair about slander. Polanski filed a lawsuit to the publishers of Vanity Fair for an article published in July 2002, which described how the director flirted with a certain Swede in a New York restaurant on the way to the funeral of his murdered wife Sharon Teit. Polanski claims that there was no such incident. The Supreme Court of England granted Polanski the right to testify from the video from France.

A team of floodplain elephants from Germany is preparing for touring in Europe. The heavyweights of football skill train the coach Sonny Frankello. His team has seven elephants that belong to the nursery of the crying. An unusual training base is located on the border between the federal lands of Mecklenburg and Brandenburg. Seven elephants and 43 people live in this place. And also here is the first football club of elephants.

The Transport Prosecutor's Office of the Primorsky Territory charged the deputy chief of the border customs post of Grodeca customs and 10 to his colleagues engaged in smuggling. According to the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Primorsky Territory, the accused were engaged in smuggling goods in the border area.

The governor of the Ivanovo region Vladimir Tikhonov on Monday was called to the prosecutor’s office in the evening and questioned as a witness in the case of a bribe by one of the regional administration officials Valery Tsoem. This was announced on Tuesday by the official representative of the prosecutor's office of the Ivanovo region, Alexander Kopytov.

The US Ambassador to the Russian Federation, Alexander Vershbow, on the eve of his departure from Russia, told what questions prompted him to public activity in Moscow: these are Chechnya, Yukos and bribes among officials. In an interview with Kommersant, Vershbow also explained the reasons for the failure of the Russian-American energy dialogue. “When in October 2002 in Houston we started our dialogue, which was continued at the Summit in St.

On Tuesday, the next general meeting of members of the Russian Football Premier League (Premier League) was held, which considered the results of the first round of the Russian football championship. On the agenda, according to the Premier League press service , there was also a discussion of the main provisions of the 2006 football season calendar.

For the first time in the history of domestic sports, an American will speak for the Russian national team. On the eve of the 28-year-old defender of the CSKA basketball club John Robert Holden agreed to play for the national team of our country at the 2005 European Championship, which will be held on September 16-25 in Serbia and Montenegro, Sport-Express reports.

In Israel on Tuesday, clashes occurred between opponents of the government program for the demarcation with Palestinian autonomy and Israeli security forces. At least 20 people were arrested, ten police officers received slight injuries, some of them were hospitalized, Ha'aretz reports. On the border with the gas sector, thousands of non -consonants concentrated with the actions of the Government of the Israelis and the large forces of the law enforcement agencies.

In the Uporovsky district of the Tyumen region, a fire occurred on the eve of the Patriot Children's Militarized Camp on the eve. In the fire, one adult who worked as a watchman died. As Interfax was told in the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies, fire destroyed two wagons in size 3x6 m on the territory of the camp. A 52-year-old man died. The fire department was not called for a fire.