Anti-Globalists tried to arrange a procession in the center of St. Petersburg, joining the permitted procession of the Communist Party and RKRP. At the end of the procession, people in civilian clothes, according to Fontanka.ru , were employees of the UBOP, beat and detained the leader of the Left Front Ilya Ponomarev and his comrades. A little earlier in the same way, the leader of the Vanguard of Red Youth was removed from the crowd.

The key defender of the CSKA basketball club Theodoros Papalukas, without waiting for a tempting offer from the NBA, decided to continue his performance in the army team. “I stay in CSKA,” said Papalukas. “I am pleased with this circumstance. Even when signing the contract, I said that I could not think of any other European team except the army.

Russia and the United States could not agree on the entry of the Russian Federation to the WTO, Maxim Medvedkov, head of the Russian delegation at the negotiations, told Interfax. "Neither today nor in the coming weeks the protocol will be signed," he said. Herman Gref said that the chances of joining the WTO of Russia are still high, the signing of the protocol with the United States may take place at the end of October, and joining the WTO in March 2007.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko said the new parliamentary elections are too expensive. The resident said about this today in his traditional Saturday radio show to the Ukrainians, which was dedicated to the parliamentary crisis, Forum reports. “I am standing in the position that extraordinary parliamentary elections are too expensive for the country.

If the Georgian parliament decides to withdraw peacekeepers from South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Russia will ask the other side of the conflict, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov said, answering the question of journalists about the opinion of Russia about the possible decision of the Georgian parliament on the withdrawal of peacekeeping forces.

"I will finish with big sports if I am elected president of the Russian Halls Union." Such a statement was made by the Olympic champion-2006 Svetlana Zhurova at the SKR reporting and election congress in Nizhny Novgorod. The President of the Investigative Committee of Zhurov, who nominated the president, says that in the event of an election he wants to purposefully concentrate on working with the regions.

The bodies of two Israeli sailors were discovered, which went missing as a result of the shelling of the Israeli Navy ship with Hizballlah missiles near Beirut, Sky News reports. The fate of two more sailors remains unknown. According to Newsru Israel , at the moment the body of one of the missing sailors has been found and recognized-this is 21-year-old Tal Amgar from Ashdod.

The Central Form Form Form Form Form of the Detroit Red Wings Pavel Datsyuk in the city of Serov, in the Sverdlovsk region, held his first master class for young pupils of the local team Metallurg. The 25th best players aged 9-10 years of age entered the ice with the star of world hockey. Datsyuk, who was born in Sverdlovsk, demonstrated an impeccable technique of possession of a club, playing one against three beginner hockey players.

Participants in illegal armed groups are invited to enter into negotiations with representatives of legal authorities in Chechnya or federal authorities until August 1, the director of the FSB of Russia, chairman of the National Anti -Terrorism Committee of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev, said on Saturday in Moscow.

Nine years after the death of Lady Diana, the Italian magazine ChI published on the cover a photograph of the dying princess Diana. In black and white photography, Lady Diana lies in a frightened car, doctors try to help her. Children Lady Diana, Princes William and Harry made a sharp official statement about this. Ordinary British and the national press expressed their solidarity with them, writes the British newspaper The Daily Mirror . “We are deeply saddened that such baseness occurred ...

The former mentor of the German national team, living in California, left Bundestim this week after two years spent at its steering wheel, motivating this step by the desire to spend more time with his family. “He is a very interesting specialist, and even lives in America, and expressed a desire to stay in our country, so I think we will agree,” said the President of the US Football Federation, Sunil Gulati.

The Brazilian coach of the Portuguese football team Luis Philippe Skolari remains at his post at least until mid 2008. "The leadership of the Portuguese Football Federation approved the extension of the Skolary contract and its technical assistants. This contract will be valid from August 1, 2006 to July 31, 2008," the official statement said.

In the East Chinese Sea, the fishermen of the commercial ship saved the last Russian sailor, whom Russian and Chinese rescuers were looking for from Friday. 10 people from the team of the floating dock sank on July 14 were saved immediately. Captain, the 11th crew member, was declared missing. Now he was found. According to RIA Novosti , the rescue-coordination center of Vladivostok reports that the Russian sailor found and raised on board the fishermen of a foreign fishing vessel.

In Strelna, the official negotiations of the presidents of the Russian Federation and the USA Vladimir Putin and George Bush ended in Strelna. The meeting of the presidents of the two countries was held in the Konstantinovsky Palace. According to the results of negotiations that lasted a little longer than the planned time, the leaders of the two countries held a joint press conference. The President of the Russian Federation said that he was pleased with the outcome of the meeting.

Israeli aviation destroyed on Saturday the complex of buildings of the military and political leadership of the Hizballlah group in Beirut. As a result of a missile strike in the southern district of Beirut, the residence of Hassan Nasellla , the head of the Hizballah group, was destroyed. According to the Arab television channel Al-Jazeera, the combat aircraft of the Israeli Air Force attacked the building, in which the spiritual leader of the Hizballah, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Fadlalla.