Today, the term expires during which the representative office of the British Council in Russia longly submit its own financial statements to the Federal Service for Economic and Tax Crimes (FSENP). Sentinels of economic order have complaints about the activities of this organization in Russia. “We just want to introduce the work of the Council in the legal field,” said General Verevkin -Rakhalsky, head of the FSNP.

Hungary is completely switched to the horse army. It is reported by " Echo of Moscow ." The decision to refuse to call was made at a meeting of the government on Wednesday. According to the representative of the ruling coalition, Gabor Kunts, this means the end of the military duty. And the Minister of Defense of Hungary, Ferenz Johas, promised that by the end of this year the army would leave the last recruit.

In the Spanish province of Asturia, six people were arrested, who are suspected of selling explosives to the Moroccan terrorists, used by them in terrorist attacks on March 11 in Madrid. As a result of these attacks, 192 people were killed and more than two thousand were injured. As RIA Novosti reports with reference to the National Radio of Spain, all the arrested are Spanish citizens living in Ovedo.

Vnesheconombank (VEB), which performs the functions of the state management company of pension savings, invested 79% of their volume in ruble government securities, Monitor reports . This was announced by Deputy Chairman of the Bank Vasily Kirpichev. 2.5% of funds from VEB’s pension savings portfolio were invested in government securities denominated in foreign currency, and 18.5% in the form of cash was placed by the bank in accounts with the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.

In Moscow, the activities of a criminal group engaged in illegal stigma of jewelry are suppressed, reports the newspaper.p . The gang consisted of owners of 10 jewelry stores and several employees of the Central State Inspectorate of Assembly Supervision. According to the Main Directorate for Combating Economic Crimes, couriers delivered smuggling gold to the store, which was then sent to the inspectorate of tested supervision. The inspection staff placed real brands on fake jewelry.

The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution of 1546 on Iraq, as transmitted by RIA Novosti agency. The draft resolution was officially submitted to the US Security Council and Great Britain on Monday. The message about this was received by Si Alend (Georgia, USA), where the Big Eight summit is taking place. At the request of Iraq, a representative of this country was invited to the vote, but without the right to vote.

The Ministry of Culture and Information of Vietnam has obliged local authorities throughout the country to control the use of Internet citizens for the spread of "bad information". According to new instructions, the owners of the Internet cafe can be fined or imprisoned for allowing customers to receive or send "bad information". The owners of the cafe must document which sites their customers visit, and how long they are on them, reports siliconvalley.com .

The leaders of the "Big Eight" during the summit session in the midst of the School will impose the problem of protecting national airports from terrorist attacks using portable anti-aircraft missile systems (MANPADS). They will also approve the uniform principles by which in the countries of the Eight will be conducted by inspections of international and local airports to determine their vulnerability to strike MANPADS.

Participants in the Big Eight summit today will consider the problem of protecting national airports from terrorist attacks using portable anti-aircraft missile systems (MANPADS). US President George Bush will be forced to interrupt his stay at the summit in order to take part in the official ceremony of the state funeral of Ronald Reagan in Washington on Wednesday.

On the Indonesian island of Sanga, the eruption of the EVU volcano, one of the most active in the country, began. The first signs of the eruption - ashes and moderate force, underground tremors - were observed from Monday. On Tuesday, two tourists were killed due to the eruption, after which it was decided to evacuate more than 20 thousand inhabitants from the surrounding settlements, Reuters reported. The volcano has been regularly erupted since the XVII century.

Beverly Davidson and other researchers from the University of Aiova announced the results of a study that showed that with the help of genetic therapy, some brain damage caused by defective heredity can be treated. In particular, biologists studied diseases in which a defective gene (or mutant gene) determines the production of “wrong” proteins in the brain.

Irina Savitskaya Recently, so much has written about the case of Sutyagin that it is simply no sense in proved the absurdity of everything that happened. Although the prosecution won the process, it is rather a “merit” of the court, not the investigation. Low evidence base, distorting facts, all as in the 1930s-the 40s. Nothing new.

American lawmakers seriously consider the option of placing a portrait of the newly dead ex-president of the United States Reagan to banknotes. This is reported today by Newsinfo . Currently, three versions of the “dollarization” of the late president are known. A number of legislators propose to place a portrait of the former head of state on a 10-dollar banknote instead of Alexander Hamilton.

The Moscow Prosecutor's Office charged the former deputy chairman of the State Medical Sciences of the Russian Federation Alexander Tugushev. This was reported to RIA Novosti in the press service of the prosecutor's office of the capital. Earlier, the lawyer of the head of the liquidation committee of the State Medical Science Alexander Tugushev appealed his arrest.

On the eve of the opening of the European championship, June 10, the joint campaign of the European Union of Football Associations (UEFA) and the International Committee of the Red Cross “Protect Children in the War” under the motto “Let us play,” RIA Novosti, will start. The main characters of this campaign will be famous football arbitrators: Italian Pierliji Collin (who, at the end of Euro 2004 plans to complete his career), Swede Anders Frisk, German Marcus Merk and Slovak Lyubash Michel.