Representatives of the Shiite majority in the National Assembly (parliament) of Iraq proposed to the Sunni politicians a new version of the constitution project, which, according to them, is the "last compromise". He was prepared after the personal intervention of US President George Bush, who conducted telephone conversations with one of the spiritual leaders of the country's Shiites, ITAR-TASS reports.

The neglected satellite of the Monitor-E did not contact the ground. This was reported to ITAR-TASS today in the space forces of the Russian Federation. “At the sixth round, the team from the ground did not go on board the satellite, telemetry information from the apparatus does not come,” the agency’s interlocutor said. According to experts, there may be several reasons for the "silence" of the satellite.

Since the beginning of August in Romania, as a result of the strongest floods, 33 people were killed, two are considered missing, including several children aged 4 to 12 years. This was reported on Friday by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Romania. The most affected by the elements are the central and northeastern regions of Romania. In the County of Khargit (the center of the country), two people have died over the past day, including a 2-year-old girl.

"Lenta" from St. Petersburg became the winner of the first international championship cashiers, which took place in Moscow. The team from the shores of the Neva conquer the audience with his professional speed and politeness. As the chairman of the jury Alexei Filatov told ITAR -TASS to the ITAR -TASS correspondent, the St. Petersburg cashiers became leaders in two nominations - the “best team” and “prize of the audience sympathies”. He noted that the Cup was played out in four "disciplines".

The presidents of Belarus and Ukraine Alexander Lukashenko and Viktor Yushchenko on Saturday in Kazan discussed a number of problems existing in bilateral relations, and confirmed their intention to solve them. “I think that in the near future we will add in our relations and remove the problems that exist today,” the president of Belarus said.

In Western Kazakhstan, the diagnosis of Siberian ulcer was confirmed by 3 people. The victim of a dangerous disease, as ITAR-TASS reported today in the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic, was livestock breeders from the Chaban parking lot 150 km from Uralsk, the regional center of the West Kazakhstan region.

The American tennis player Lindsay Davenport was able to shift the Russian woman Maria Sharapova from the upper line of the world ranking after she made his way to the final Pilot Pen Tennis in New Hive. In the semi-final match, the 29-year-old Davenport confidently passed the young Russian tennis player Anna Chakvetadze. A titled American outplayed Anna in two sets - 6: 3, 6: 3. Lindsay spent only one hour and 11 minutes on this procedure.

The presidents of Russia and Ukraine Volodymyr Putin and Viktor Yushchenko held a bilateral meeting in Kazan today, during which Yushchenko handed over to Putin an invitation to visit Ukraine. The head of the Russian state thanked the Ukrainian colleague for the invitation.

The Congress of Democratic Forces of the Moscow Region was held today in Moscow. The event was initiated by the Union of Right Forces Party with the aim of probing the prospects and the possibility of uniting democratic parties and movements in the regional elections, ITAR-TASS reports. The leader of the ATP Nikita Belykh, who led the party only in May of this year, is optimistic about the possibilities of such an association.

The opening of a memorial sign in the village of Buchaka of the Tula region will take place on Saturday at the site of the Tu-134 plane crash, which broke up in August 2004. Three buses with relatives of those who died in this plane crash set off on Friday from Volgograd to the site of the fall of the ship, Interfax was told in the administration of the Volgograd region.

A special team of the State Scientific Center for Social and Judicial Psychiatry named after Serbian will work in Beslan before the start of the school year and in its first days. “This weekend, we will have a whole department, headed by Professor Zurab Kikelidze, who was engaged in this problem from Professor Zuraba Kikelid, our specialists will stay there for at least ten days in such a wide composition,” the director of the Center of Serbian Tatyana Dmitrieva said on Saturday on Saturday.

The representative of the NTV+regarded a message about the detention of the deputy head of the television company security service. The NTV+television company states that she has not received any notification confirming the detention of an employee of the company from law enforcement agencies.

On Sunday, a demonstration arrival with the participation of Formula-1 stars of the Renault Pilots Fernando Alonso and Dzhancarlo Physicelle will take place in Moscow. The car will make a circle: he will pass along the Moskvoretskaya embankment past the Rossiya Hotel, then along the Big Moskvoretsky bridge and vice versa. At a press conference, Fernando Alonso said that a very remarkable place was chosen.

Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus will sign 29 documents on the creation of a single economic space (EEP) until December 1, 2005, said Russian President Vladimir Putin to reporters in Kazan. "I want to inform you about the work during the meeting to create a single economic space. We completed a certain stage and signed the application," the president said, RIA Novosti said.

The initiative group for the nomination of the ex-head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky to deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation intends to officially announce its creation on Wednesday. “While we continue to form the composition of the group, and it is expanding.