The President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, visited Wednesday, in Wednesday, in Wednesday, in Wednesday, in Wednesday. “The Belarusian leader was demonstrated by the first national Belarusian satellite of the remote sensing of the Earth called“ Squirrel ”, ” the representative of the RSC Energia told RIA Novosti .

The popular Malaysian rock band Thunderstorm from Kuala Lumpur set a record for the duration of the performance, playing the concert within 12 hours. This achievement of musicians was entered in the national book of records. “The idea of ​​playing such an unusual concert was offered to us by the employees of our recording company. We discussed this opportunity with our manager, who picked up the corresponding site and went to the stage.

The Olympians of the CIS countries support the initiative of their Ukrainian colleagues - the horses of Natalia, Tedeeva Elbrus, Merleni Marina and Goncharov Alexander, who made a joint statement of their decision to abandon the prizes for victory in Athens, in protest against the persecution of former president of the Ukrainian Ukrainian Viktor Yanukovych.

Georgia hopes for the help of Russia in saving Georgian climbers who cannot go down from the Ushba Mountain due to loss of equipment. According to various messages, there are three climbers or four. The climbers climbed the mountain as part of the Georgian-Holland expedition four days ago. Due to the deterioration of the health of one of the team members, the group was divided - two Dutch climbers continued their way, and three Georgian citizens should follow them after a short respite.

The seventh film festival "They fought for their homeland" on Tuesday opened events dedicated to the memory of Vasily Shukshin in Altai. The Shukshin festival opened with unique shots from the film "They Fought for their Motherland." The day before, the opening ceremony of the VII Shukshin Film Festival, which takes place in Altai as part of traditional Shukshin days, was held at the Drama Theater.

In Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, a France citizen, the manager of Starstroy, which carries out work on laying a main pipeline as part of the second stage of the Sakhalin-2 project, was killed. As Interfax was told in the prosecutor’s office, the body of a foreigner, born in 1956, with six stab wounds, was found on Wednesday morning in an apartment, which he rented at 182 Mira Avenue.

The best football player in Europe last season, Ukrainian Andrei Shevchenko, on Wednesday, denied rumors that he was ready to leave the Italian Milan and accept a tempting proposal to move to the London Chelsea. ITAR-TASS informs about this with reference to the last messages of the Italian sports media. Talk about the possible transition of Andrei Shevchenko from Milan to Chelsea appeared in the Italian press last Tuesday .

The investigation of the impudent terrorist attack in the Chechen village of Znamenskoye , is moving on Wednesday with seven -mini steps, as follows from the reports of officials. On Tuesday evening, the first suspects appeared. On Wednesday, the President of the Republic of ALU Alkhanov said that both performers and organizers of the attack are known to the investigation.

Despite the decree of President Viktor Yushchenko on the liquidation of the traffic police due to her corruption, the traffic inspectorate has not gone anywhere, its employees continued to serve on Tuesday. The results of the first day of the operation of vehicles without traffic police can be considered conditional. From many cities of the country, there were reports that she worked in the same mode.

The Israeli Knesset by a majority vote rejected the proposal to transfer the evacuation of Jewish settlements from mid -August to a later date. 68 deputies of the Knesset spoke out against the transfer of evacuation, for 43, two deputies abstained. Thus, the "Sharon plan" - the program of one -way demarcation with the Palestinians could not be stopped. This plan provides for the evacuation of all Jewish settlements of the gas sector and the northern part of the western bank of the Jordan River.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair proclaimed a tough course to combat terrorism. The new initiatives were devoted to his performance in the House of Commons of the British Parliament. In particular, Blair proposed to convene an international conference to eradicate Islamic extremism. In his opinion, it is necessary to consider the issues of education and make sure that extremist teaching is not taught in the madrasah (Muslim religious schools).

A man who is suspected of committing a series of brutal murders is arrested in the Pakistani city of Lahore. According to Pakistani news agencies with reference to sources in the Lahore police, the criminal was caught with a red -handed night watchman and his assistant. Hearing the scream and moans of the wounded, the watchman rushed in pursuit. They detained and handed the criminal into the hands of the police.

The largest corporate loan in Russia, which Rosneftegaz is trying to attract 10.7% of Gazprom shares for payment of 10.7% of the Gazprom. According to Bloomberg, six foreign banks are ready to strip him $ 7.3 billion at Libor+1.55%. Libor is the interest rate of the London Exchange, is often used as a “starting point” to provide international loans.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko signed a decree on the liquidation of the Department of the State traffic inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. The text of the Decree "On the Elimination of the State Automobile Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine" on Tuesday evening is published on the official website of the President of Ukraine.

The Kazan icon of the Virgin, which was brought today by the capital of Tatarstan, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II , will be temporarily located in one of the monasteries of the city, until the "care of the place of storage of the historical image - the Bogoroditsky Monastery" will not be restored. This was reported to the ITAR-TASS agency by the head of the press service of the Moscow Patriarchate Priest Vladimir Vigilyansky.