At negotiations in the Kremlin with President Vladimir Putin, NATO Secretary General JAP de Hoop Scheffer gave an unpleasant assessment of the Kremlin’s latest statements regarding the agreement on ordinary armed forces in Europe (DOVS) and the alleged placement of American Pro in Poland and the Czech Republic.

The Rosprirodnadzor Commission, together with the environmental prosecutor's office of Moscow, the environmental police, and the Department of Nature Management and Environmental Protection, examined the treatment facilities of the Moscow-City MMDC in the area of ​​the Studenets-Vagankovsky stream. Inspectors measured treatment facilities. It has already been established that on the territory of the facility it is planned to build an entertainment center and a parking lot with 40 seats.

At the initiative of the Deputy Chairman of the Council of the Kralov-Paul of the Czech city of Brno, Rene Plan, on Tuesday night, an attempt was made to remove a sickle and a hammer from the monument to the Soviet soldiers of Brno. These actions were suppressed by the police. This is not the first case of an attempt on a monument. Soviet symbolism was removed from the monument earlier, but at the request of the Russian consulate, it was restored on it.

At the annual assembly of the energy holding of the RAO UES of Russia, a new board of directors was elected. Representatives of the minority shareholders took four places in it, the state -owned experts - eleven.

At negotiations in the White House, the presidents of Estonia and the USA agreed to the speedy introduction of a visa -free regime between the two countries. Both sides consider it unfair to preserve the special visa rules between NATO partners. As the American President George Bush admitted, his Estonian colleague, Toomas Hendrick Ilves, especially rested on the question of a visa -free regime, and he fully understands him.

The campaign against file -sharing networks reached a high glow, after the Universal studio accused them of reducing the profits of the US farms, reports The Inquirer . In a complaint sent to the US Federal Communications Commission, the studio lawyers demand that the commission forced Internet providers to block their clients with the opportunity to download pirate content. As an argument, they lead to the opinion that the development of video piracy leads to a fall in corn sales.

The delegation of specialists of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) arrived in Pyongyang to discuss the details of the nuclear reactor stop in Yonben with the North Korean side, RIA Novosti reports on Tuesday with reference to AFP. Deputy General Director of the Magate Olli Hinone, who arrived in the DPRK at the head of the agency’s delegation, expressed optimism about the upcoming negotiations with the North Korean side to stop the reactor in Yonben.

In the upcoming season, Russia will be represented in the second most important European club basketball tournament, not two, as before, and not three, as expected until recently, but four teams. According to the official website of the tournament , the composition of the participants of the Uleb Cup is expanded from 48 to 54 clubs. At the same time, one of the six additional vacancies will be occupied by Dynamo near Moscow.

The prints of all ten fingers will be removed from foreign citizens entering the United States of America, CBS News reports. The pilot project provides for continuous fingerprinting at 10 international airports, including Washington airports, New York and Chicago. Now the current order prescribes to take from each visitor the prints of only two fingers.

In Ulyanovsk, the results of the “Patriot's Modern on the Day of Russia” were summed up: on June 12, 78 patriotic babies were born to the light of the Russian anthem. The cherished prize - the all -terrain vehicle "UAZ -patriot" received only one family , where parents showed the greatest zeal. The Ulyanovsk Governor Sergei Morozov was pleased with the fulfillment of the order, only the fact that among the winners there are no subordinates to the head of the region, “New Izvestia” is upset.

In Moscow, the day before, a meeting of the Bureau of the Presidium of the World Russian People’s Cathedral (VRNS) was cooked, on which some issues of the activities of this organization were considered. The bureau decided to open the VRNS department in France. A member of the Board of Trustees of the Council, head of the National Reserve Bank, Alexander Lebedev, previously made a proposal to open the French representative office.

In the Leningrad region, a VAZ car hit a bicycle with two children. As a result of the incident, one child died, another was seriously injured and hospitalized. As the traffic police department of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region reported on Tuesday, the accident occurred at about 14:00 on Monday in the Volkhov district of the Leningrad region on 2 km of the Volkhov - Kiselnaya highway.

The leadership of Syria believes that Israel and the United States are interested in exacerbation of the situation in Lebanon, and the attack against the Spanish military personnel, when four UN peacekeepers and six were injured - part of their plan, the purpose of which is to disarm the Hizballah organization. The anonymous representative of the Syrian authorities expressed this opinion on the pages of the Arab-speaking Internet publication Syria-News , RIA Novosti reports.

Russian secret services are currently showing the same activity in Poland as during the Cold War, said the head of the Polish counterintelligence service Antoni Maderevich in an interview published on Tuesday in the weekly Gazeta Polska , Interfax reports. “The penetration of Russian services, agents in Poland has increased significantly, especially in recent years,” Maderevich said. “This is especially evident in the search for new sources of information.

In the Holy Assumption Orthodox community of Beijing, located on the territory of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the PRC, on the eve, on the day of memory of 222 Chinese martyrs, a divine liturgy was committed.