The leadership of the English hotel Linthwaite House Hotel decided to declare its hotel a zone free of football for the next few weeks. Thus, the administration expects to attract guests tired of the dominance of information about the World Cup in Germany, reports Lenta.ru .

The head of the Federal Agency for Printing and Mass Communications (Rospping) Mikhail Seslavinsky did not rule out that in the future, Russian monopolists will have to part with media assets. Seslavinsky announced today on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station that the World Gazeta Congress has repeatedly asked why Gazprom and Russian Railways Actives.

In the west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra and in the eastern part of the country, two new earthquakes occurred this afternoon, RIA Novosti reports. According to updated data, the magnitude of the first shock amounted to 4.7 on the Richter scale, and its epicenter was 98 kilometers northwest of the capital of the province of the Western Sumatra of the city of Padang. The hearth lay at a depth of 33 kilometers - in the area of ​​the Kerinchi National Park.

The Google search engine site was blocked in most China provinces, reports Lenta.ru . Beijing deliberately took this step to limit the population access to information. According to Reporters Without Borders, access to the site was already difficult in most large Chinese cities last week. In addition to the search engine itself, the Chinese authorities also blocked the news and postal services of Google - Google News and Gmail .

The Kommersant Publishing House was not sold - it was announced by the General Director Demyan Kudryavtsev about this. At the same time, Kudryavtsev did not exclude the possibility of such a deal in the future, but now, according to him, everything remains still. Earlier in the media there was information that the Kommersant newspaper was sold to the structures of Roman Abramovich.

A storm warning has been announced in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug on Wednesday, RIA Novosti reports. According to the district Ministry of Emergencies, today in the afternoon in the southern regions of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and in the city of Khanty-Mansiysk, a storm wind, a thunderstorm, a squally strengthening of winds up to 17-23 meters per second, and places city are expected.

The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine believes that the “hype” around the arrival of American builders in Feodosia for the preparation of military exercises “Sea Breeze -2006” raise certain political forces in order to destabilize the situation in Ukraine, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Andrei Veselovsky.

Today, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine resumes its work after a two -week break, RIA Novosti reports. The newly elected Ukrainian parliament announced a break immediately at the end of the first meeting on May 25 at the initiative of the factions of the blocks of Yulia Tymoshenko (BYUT), our Ukraine and the Socialist Party (SPA) for consultations on the creation of a parliamentary coalition.

Sergey Markedonov On June 3, 2006, at a meeting of the National Security Council of Georgia, President Mikhail Saakashvili said that on June 13, his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin will be held in St. Petersburg. “We re -extend the hand of Russia again, but it must be understood that there is not enough time, and the issues are sharp,” said Mikhail Saakashvili.

The first pictures from the new NASA meteorological satellite for the first time allowed to see a detailed three-dimensional image of the clouds, the press service of the American National Aerospace Agency said. “The first pictures from the Cloudsat satellite have already shown that have never previously seen three-dimensional details regarding the clouds,” the press service said in a statement. The pictures were taken in test mode at the end of May, and the satellite was launched on April 28.

Just like a year ago, now there is not a single country in the world that more than half of Russians call a “friend” or “enemy” of Russia. The greatest unanimity of opinion remains in relation to Belarus and Latvia. Belarus is one of the closest friends and allies of Russia for 46-47% of Russians. And Latvia is one of the most unfriendly, hostile countries towards Russia for 49-46% of Russians. (The first digit hereinafter is 2005, the second is 2006). A.

The Palestinian movement of Hamas agreed to bring the fighters of his police from the streets of Gaza, who conflict with regular police formations, Loyal PNU Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, RIA Novosti reports. The agreement between the Hamas, which controls the Palestinian government and the competing movement of the FATH was reached during long -term negotiations that took place through the mediation of Egyptian diplomats.

The key role in solving the problem of informatizing the city management system, simplifying the process of interaction between state organizations with citizens and entrepreneurs belongs to information and communication technologies, said Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.

At the meeting of President Vladimir Putin with the Secretary General of the organization, the Islamic Conference (OIK) Ecmeeleddin Imeleddin Ihsanoglu was talking about Russian diplomats stolen last Saturday in Iraq. The search for Russians was talked about today in the State Duma and the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The Secretary General of OIK said in the Kremlin that the Islamic conference was ready to provide any assistance in the search and release of Russian diplomats.

The Extreme Conference of Interpol will be held in Lyon As expected, representatives of all 46 countries included in the European regional organization of Interpol will take part in the meeting. For the previous regional conference in May in Minsk, for political reasons, 34 delegations refused. On Wednesday, in the Lyon headquarters of the organization, the organization will, in particular, about the problem of impaired independence and political neutrality of Interpol.