The flight control center completed the operation to increase the height of the ISS by 1350 meters as part of preparation for launching and adding to the station of the next Atlantis shuttle, Interfax was told to the Central Administration. "According to preliminary telemetric information, the engines worked out the calculated 183 seconds. Thus, the orbit correction can be considered completed," the agency’s interlocutor said.

Greenpeace Russia activists discovered radioactive materials near St. Petersburg, the radiation power exceeds the norm by almost 20 times. “Six containers with the“ Radioactive Material Market ”were found today by Greenpeace employees at the Kapitolovo railway station (6 km from St. Petersburg). The capacity of radioactive radiation on the surface of containers reaches 19 MKZV/h,” the organization’s press release distributed on Wednesday.

As a result of the Israeli raid in the eastern part of the city of Gaza on Wednesday morning, eight people died and 20 were injured. As a result of several other Israeli strokes, there are numerous wounded on the gas sector. These attacks were aimed at the objects of the radical Palestinian movement "Hamas", ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the information of the Palestinian doctors.

The day before, the court of appeal, having examined the complaints of clubs involved in a loud corruption scandal in Italian football, softened the punishment . Recall that the translation of Juventus into series B and the deprivation of the last two championship titles are upheld, but the new season of the “Old Signora” will begin with a fine of 17 points instead of 30.

The former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was transferred to the intensive care unit of the Shiba hospital in Tel Aviv. This was stated by representatives of the medical institution. Doctors reported that the deterioration in the state of health of Sharon did not occur. The former Prime Minister is placed in the intensive care unit in order to remove the accumulated fluid from his body.

The general representative of the Tabachi company Philip Morris in Macedonia and Kosovo was stolen in Skopier, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Macedonia reported on Tuesday evening. On the night of Monday, on Tuesday, unknown persons took hostage by the general representative of the Tabachi company Philip Morris in Macedonia and Kosovo 47-year-old Besnik, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said.

NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hop Scheffer did not change vacation plans. As planned, he will leave on August 1 after he transfers the authority to his married Alessandro Minutes Ritizo. Both the American Messenger Victoria Newland and the head of the French delegation Richard Duke are preparing for the holidays. So far, nothing is changing: the headquarters of the North Atlantic Alliance is asleep, as if there is nothing new on the horizon, writes Corriere Della Sera .

The evidence of the “Sychev case” by Private Oleg Makarin, who did not return from dismissal to part last Saturday and did not appear on Monday, appeared at a meeting of the Chelyabinsk garrison military court on Wednesday, Interfax reports. Makarin, which appeared in court, said that in the morning he came to the military prosecutor's office on Wednesday. He explained his absence within three days by the fact that he had personal cases not related to this trial.

In London, an interdepartmental group of representatives of the General Prosecutor's Office, the Ministry of Justice and the Russian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday begins to work with British colleagues. The group is headed by the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Alexander Zvyagintsev.

In Udmurtia, four suspects in crimes escaped from a temporary detention center. As Interfax was told in the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Udmurtia on Wednesday, the escape was made on Wednesday night from the temporary detention of the Kezsky District Department of Internal Affairs. Four detainees at the age of 18-29 at about 2:00 defeated the window glass, broke out the grilles and escaped.

Brazilian footballer of CSKA Moscow Daniel Carvalia is disqualified for three matches of the Russian championship. Such a decision was made on Wednesday by the Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union. In the match of the 12th round with the Samara "wings of the Soviets", which ended in a draw 1: 1, Carvalia pushed the Frenchman Serge Branco and was removed from the field.

The Moscow City Court sentenced the organizer of the explosion in October 2002 at the McDonald's restaurant Aslanbek Khashanov by 22 years in prison. He will serve his sentence in a maximum security colony. According to Interfax, the court found Khashanov guilty of all incriminated articles - in terrorism (Article 205), storage and transportation of ammunition (Article 222) and murder (Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

The Austrian government has provided citizenship of the famous Russian opera singer Anna Netrebko. Such a decision was made the day before at a meeting of the Government of the Alpine Republic. Unlike other applicants for receiving the Austrian passport, Netrebko will not have to go through a special test, which provides for an exam for knowledge of the German language, history and modern realities of Austria.

China expressed his readiness to rent 1 million hectares of forest in Siberia as part of a “pilot project for joint development of forest resources”, the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia said, citing Russian-Chinese negotiations on the eve of the day before. The deputy head of the State Administration of China for the Forestry Lee Yuchi, at a meeting with the deputy head of Rosleskhoz, Boris Bolshakov discussed the possibility of the pilot project of cooperation, ITAR-TASS reports.

The attack of Israel on Lebanon can complicate attempts to reach an agreement to resolve Iran’s nuclear problem, says a prominent Iranian diplomat. Sadek Harrazi, who had been the post of Iran’s ambassador in France until last year, expressed this opinion in an interview with the British newspaper Financial Times , published on Wednesday. The newspaper characterizes it as a “key figure in negotiations (Iran - Ed.) With the European Union” (full text on the website inopressa.ru ).