In the Novosibirsk region, a criminal case has been instituted on the fact of infection of 22 children aged 3 to 17 years of tuberculosis. The case was opened by the Tatar interdistrict prosecutor’s office under Art. 293 Part 2 of the Criminal Code (negligence).

Russian President Vladimir Putin will end today an official visit to Mexico and will arrive in the United States for the Big Eight summit on the island of Si Alend. As part of the summit, Vladimir Putin will hold a number of bilateral meetings, including with US President George Bush. The summit participants plan to accept about a dozen documents.

The authorities of the Samara region promise 500 thousand rubles for information that will help the investigation of the explosion in the Kirov market, the Echo of Moscow radio station reports. Eyewitnesses of the incident can apply to the HUVD of the Samara Region (02, 70-35-10, 34-62-03, 78-13-40) or the regional prosecutor's office (32-10-50). Confidentiality is guaranteed. Meanwhile, the day before, a man, a man, died from an explosion the day before.

RAO Gazprom signed a package of agreements with Magnum Oil and Victory OIL for the purchase of Gazprom 12.8% of the stakes of ZAO ZAO ZAO ZAO ZAO ZAO ZAO ZAO ZAO ZAO ZAO ZAO and mutual settlement of all disputes between the parties, the monitor writes. According to the press release of the gas monopolist, according to signed documents, Gazprom will redeem 12.8% of ZAO ZAO ZAO ZAO Victory Oil.

Russia and Belarus signed a government agreement on interaction during the operation of main oil pipelines located in Belarus, RIA Novosti reports. In addition, a protocol on the right of ownership of the Russian Federation to the property complex of Belarus "West-Transnefteprodukt" and related power supply enterprises have been signed.

The European Union of Football Associations (UEFA) is seriously concerned about the behavior of English fans in large tournaments. For this reason, UEFA officials decided to assign responsibility for possible riots by British fans to the football association of England (FA). The leadership of the association according to control fans who bought tickets for the European Championship through the official clubs of Great Britain, but does not intend to be responsible for other English fans.

The Meshchansky Court of Moscow, perhaps today will solve the issue of combining the affairs of the ex-head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the head of the ME MENATEP MFO Platon Lebedev. In the Meshchansky court, preliminary hearings in the Khodorkovsky case will continue, RIA Novosti told one of the lawyers of the ex-head of the Yukos, Heinrich Padva. On this day, hearing in the case of Platon Lebedev will resume in the same court.

The need for laboratory animals will disappear in the near future. With such pleasant wildlife defenders, Scottish biotechnologists from CXR BIOSCIENCES, together with the Edinburgh Roslin Institute, as well as the American company Geron, made a statement. The idea is to replace experimental animals with tissues grown from stem cells, in particular, create an “artificial liver”, BBC reports.

On Tuesday, the Katar prosecutor’s office demanded the highest punishment for two Russians accused of the murder of the former leader of Chechen separatists Zelimkhan Yandarbiev. This was announced by Interfax Lawyer Dmitry Afanasyev, who provides legal assistance to the defendants, writes Gazeta.Ru . According to him, representatives of the prosecution made such a statement during the judicial debate that ended on Tuesday in the capital of Qatar.

Vladimir Putin arrived at Si Alend , RIA Novosti reports. The Russian President flew by helicopter from the Hunter airbase , located about 100 km from the island, which will take place the Great Eight summit. From the helicopter platform, Putin went to his residence "AP Bot".

Two representatives of the National Religious Party (Mafdal) came out on Tuesday from the Israeli government, RIA Novosti reports. The Minister of Construction by Efraim Eight and the Deputy Minister for Religious Affairs, Yitzhak Levy, submitted applications for resignation to the Chancellery of the Prime Minister.

On June 6, at his Ranch in California, after a serious and prolonged illness, at the age of 93, the fortieth President Ronald Reagan died. The activity of this, frankly, an extraordinary policy has always caused and causes a lot of emotions, but not disputes, since the methods were sometimes very rigid, but he almost always achieved his goals.

In the capital, a monument "Kopeika" was opened - the first car of the Volga Automobile Plant - VAZ -2101.

The Ministry of Defense of Armenia reported that last night in the area of ​​the village of Bergaber Tavush region, an attempt to cross the border from Azerbaijan was stopped. In response to this, fire was opened from the Azerbaijani side, Interfax reports. In turn, the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan reports that as a result of shelling from the Armenian side in the area of ​​the village of Goradiz (260 km southwest of Baku), the Azerbaijani officer was killed and a soldier was wounded.

The speaker of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov supports the idea of ​​adopting a law on nationalization of ineffectively used property, the Monitor reports. According to the speaker, the nationalization mechanism should look as follows: the ineffective owner loses its property free for the state. “Thus, you don’t need to buy anything.