At the festival of ice cream in the capital's Park "Sokolniki", which opened on June 3 for visitors at 10 a.m., 50 types of ice cream will be presented and at least 20 tons of cold treats are eaten. This was announced to reporters by the general director of the Union of Freezers of Russia Valery Elkhov. "The ice cream festival takes place in Moscow for the 11th time. This year five companies will be presented on it, each of which will offer at least 10 varieties of ice cream.

The former leader of the Rodina party Dmitry Rogozin said that at the Congress of Great Russia, which will be held after the party’s registration, the Great Russians will support the candidacy of the former head of the Central Bank, and now the chairman of the Yukos directors as a candidate from the United Opposition for the President of Russia in the upcoming elections in 2008.

In the Yakutsk Selo Styk-Kuel, 768 houses remain flooded, despite the decline in water in the Tattinsky district of the republic. From almost 200 houses, the water left, washing the foundations and destroying the stoves, Interfax reports. During the flood, which began on May 18, 13 settlements were injured in this area. Now the outgoing flows of water lead to the destruction of roads and arable land, wash out huge ditches.

Members of the church and public project "Return" turned to the mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov with a request to return the previous names to a number of metropolitan streets renamed in Soviet times. It is reported by "Interfax." “The return of historical names in Moscow will have the most favorable impact on the life of our glorious city. Only Russia returning to its roots becomes an irresistible obstacle to universal globalization and“ orange ”revolutions,” the project participants said.

The head of the Provisional Administration (Government) Bangladesh Fakhruddin Ahmed, during his Sunday performance, lost consciousness, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Reuters. The incident occurred at an official event 72 kilometers north of the capital of the country of Dacca. "Fakhruddin Ahmed, who spoke under the program of planting trees, lost consciousness and fell," said the representative of the government. The head of the interim administration was urgently taken to the hospital.

With the advent of summer, cases of unrest during and after football matches have become more frequent. And if in Denmark, where a fan of the local national team ran out onto the field to get even with the referee, everything ended relatively well, then in Zambia there was a tragedy. In the city of Chilelabwe, located in the north of Zabia about 450 kilometers from the capital of the Lusaki country in a crush, 12 fans were killed at the football stadium.

The Ukrainian national team for a long time held a draw in the match of the qualifying tournament of the European Football Championship in 2008 with a team of France, which was held on Saturday in Paris, but in the second half of the goals of Frank Ribury and Nikolai Anelka, they still decided the outcome of the match in favor of the owners. After this victory, the wards of Raymon Domenec led group B, three points ahead of the Ukrainians who rolled to third place, letting the Italians ahead.

Russia demanded urgent measures from Nigeria to liberate the stolen Russian citizens. “We have an extreme concern about what happened in Nigeria,” the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Mikhail Kaminin, who is part of the Russian delegation, headed by the Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who arrived today with an official visit to the capital of South Korea, told reporters.

The Big Eight countries, which will be held on June 6-8 in Germany, should support the UK demand for the issuance of Andrei Lugovoi, suspected of poisoning a former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko, Marina Litvinenko believes. In an interview with the British television and radio corporation, BBC on Sunday Litvinenko noted that she expected Russia to give a meadow to give out a meadow.

In New York, a group of Russian emigrants and their like-minded people put forward the idea of ​​perpetuating the memory of the journalist Anna Politkov’s named after one of the streets of New York. It is reported by Primamedia.ru with reference to the newspaper "Pacific Star" . Among the authors of the initiative are the names of Vladimir Bukovsky, Elena Bonner and Harry Kasparov.

Cleveland defeated Detroit in the sixth match as part of the semifinals of the playoffs of the National Basketball Association (NBA) with a score of 98:82 and for the first time in 36 years went to the final, where San Antonio would withstand. Cleveland made a real feat - won the last four matches of the series, losing the first two meetings. Earlier in the history of the NBA, this happened only twice.

According to the German police, as a result of clashes with anti -globalists in the city of Rostok, 128 people were detained, Interfax reports with reference to AFP. The Rostok prosecutor’s office (the Land of Mecklenburg-Pomerania) intends to charges about 10 detainees who were thrown in police stones, Molotov cocktails and bottles, and also set fire to several cars. In turn, the organizers of the protest reported about 165 detainees and 500 victims.

In Sochi, on June 3, one of the most prestigious Russian festivals-Kinotavr for the 18th time opened, ITAR-TASS reports. A special qualifying commission watched 104 playing films shot over the past year. Only 14 of them will be offered to the attention of the authoritative jury, which is headed by director Vadim Abdrashitov.

In Kamchatka, two powerful mudflowers destroyed the unique natural monuments of one of the pearls of the peninsula - the valleys of geysers. It is reported by RIA "Novosti" . Mud and stones buried a platform with the world -famous geysers, tourist houses and outbuildings, said the representative of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation in the Kamchatka region. The damage caused by a unique natural park is established.

The head coach of the Denmark of the Denmark, Morten Olsen, apologized to the German referee, Herbert Fandel, who served the Euro-2008 qualifying match between the teams of Denmark and Sweden on Saturday and was attacked by the Danish fan, the French press reports.