In the final stage, the referendum is preparing about the possibility of a third term for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Activists of the North Ossetian public organization "Consent and Stability" who made such an initiative suggest that the referendum will take place on December 15 this year. This was announced on the air of the Echo of Moskvy radio station by the head of the executive committee of the organization "Consent and Stability" Valery Gizoev.

Thirty-year-old entrepreneur Alexander Gaidamak, who is the son of an Israeli businessman of Russian origin Arkady Gaidamak, on Wednesday received full control over the football club of the British Premier League Portsmouth, bought a remaining stock of shares from President Milan Mandarich. In January 2006, having French citizenship, Gaidamak Jr. acquired 50 percent of the club’s shares for 15 million pounds.

In Moscow, a meeting of Yukos lenders began. Steve Tidi President will not take part in him, since, according to him, he does not want to "express his presence in the process that is a farce." Without it, the company's creditors will decide to bankrupt Yukos or allow him to pay off debts. Yukos managers have already stated that they consider the company solvent, and the valuation of the manager is inaccurate.

The fighting navigator of the F-16 squadron was called up for service on the first day of hostilities and took part in the bombing of the positions of Hizballlah. However, on Tuesday, with the permission of the commanders, he left the battlefield for two days to save a two -year -old girl, a sick leukemia, reports Newsru Israel with reference to the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper. The story began a few months ago, when D.

The Russian Emergencies Ministry continues to evacuate the citizens of the Russian Federation and other CIS countries from the zone of armed conflict in Lebanon. Atlant-Soiuz aircraft arrived at Vnukovo, which delivered 305 passengers from the Middle East to Moscow. According to the latest data, 1407 citizens of Russia, as well as Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine, were evacuated from Lebanon to Russia, RIA Novosti was told in the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The Bill and Melinda Gates fund allocated $ 287 million to accelerate the work on creating a vaccine against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This amount will be divided into 16 grants that will receive the teams of researchers in 19 countries of the world so that they conduct their work in closer coordination with each other.

In a prison in the American state of Texas, a gang participant, found guilty of killing a person during an attempt to rob. 31-year-old Maurisio Brown committed a murder in 1996. According to AR, before the killer made a deadly injection, he apologized to the brothers who were present on the execution of the deceased man. Earlier, Maurisio Brown found himself guilty of the murder of a 25-year-old man. Brown and his three accomplices were arrested in the case.

The largest military exercises have been held in Taiwan over the past twenty years, in which more than 13 thousand soldiers and officers took part, and more than 500 units of military equipment were involved, the Central News Agency Taiwan reports on Thursday. During the exercises, the interaction of various branches of troops was worked out in a possible attack by mainland China. Han Kuang military exercises ("Chinese glory") are held in Taiwan for the twenty -second time, RIA Novosti reports.

The police of the border Chinese city of Suifenhe detained four local robbers who regularly attacked Russian tourists and shutters. According to the National News Agency with reference to the Vladivostok newspaper, the Chinese police are now looking for Russian victims who could suffer from robbers. Photos of criminals will be sent to the Tourism Committee on Tourism of the Primorsky Territory.

The Israeli Air Force on Thursday night struck on a number of objects of the Hizballah terrorist organization in Lebanon. In particular, bunkers were attacked in the southern part of Beirut, where, according to intelligence, the leadership of Hizballlah, including Sheikh Hassan Nasellla, was hidden. According to military sources, 23 tons of bombs were dropped in the terrorist shelters in the quarter of the bourgeois, Newsru Israel was dropped.

Two Israeli soldiers were injured today as a result of a rocket in the tank, reports Newsru Israel . The incident occurred in the Lebanese territory, in the area of ​​the Israeli village of Avivim, during the shootout of the Israeli units with the Hizballlah militants. Not far from this place, two Israeli soldiers died yesterday and 9 were injured.

To the immediate cessation of fire in Lebanon, the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called on. Having performed on Thursday at an open meeting of the UN Security Council, he said that "this step is necessary in order to stop the death of innocent people, to ensure full access to humanitarian aid." Kofi Annan condemned the actions of the Hizballah, provoking an armed confrontation and demanded the immediate liberation of the Israeli troops captured by the militants.

On Thursday, July 20, about 40 American marine infantrymen landed in the capital of Lebanon Beirut. Morpokhov to the shore delivered the boat of the USS NASHVILLE Marine Corps. American marines for the first time landed in Lebanon after they left these shores 23 years ago. Then, in 1983, Hizballah blew up the barracks of the Americans, having killed more than 240 American troops, Reuters notes.

The jury of the fourth international film festival "Pasifik Meridian" of the countries of the Asia-Pacific region, which will be held in Vladivostok, will be headed by the Russian director and screenwriter Ivan Dykhovichny. Representatives of Canada, Australia, China and Thailand will help him, ITAR-TASS reported on Thursday at the Cinema Organizing Committee.

The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc faction, in full force on Thursday, left the Verkhovna Rada Rada Hall of meetings in protest. As the leader of the faction said, speaking from the rostrum of the Rada, her "deputies cannot work in the sale parliament." Tymoshenko stated that she expects the President of Ukraine by the President of the Parliament until July 25. "The corresponding document with the legal justification of this possibility BYUT has already sent the head of state," Tymoshenko said.