As a result of a joint operation of law enforcement agencies of the United States and Colombia, 56 people suspected of involvement in the illegal drug trade, RBC reports with reference to AP. According to representatives of the American authorities, during operational-search measures, a drug delivery channel to New York was stopped. About 60 kg of heroin was seized, the cost of which in the black market is $ 15 million.

The US Senate today did not support any of the two proposed projects of the resolution on the withdrawal of the US troops from Iraq, RIA Novosti reports. Projects were submitted in the form of amendments to the US defense budget in 2007. Both projects were offered by democrats senators. The first version of the resolution involved the withdrawal of troops from Iraq until July 1, 2007. He was offered by a former US presidential candidate John Kerry, as well as Barbara boxer and Russell Fingold.

Today, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia Vuk Drashkovich and Montenegro Miodrage Vlakhovich signed protocols in Belgrade on the establishment of diplomatic relations at the embassy level, RIA Novosti reports. As Vuk Drashkovich noted, the Serbian authorities are ready to ensure that the Embassy of Serbia is in the historical capital of Montenegro - the city of Tsitignya.

** What to expect in the coming hours. Announcement of events ** In Moscow: Under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister M. Fradkov, a meeting of the Government of the Russian Federation will be held. It is planned to consider the main characteristics of the federal budget draft for 2007, as well as a promising financial plan for 2007-2009 and the issue of distributing the expenses of the federal budget in 2007 (speaker - Minister of Finance A. Kudrin).

About two thousand people came on the day of the start of the Great Patriotic War to the grave of an unknown soldier near the Kremlin wall to honor the memory of the victims in the war, which claimed the lives of millions of citizens of our country, RIA Novosti reports. Exactly at 4.00 Moscow time, at the time of the beginning of the war, a minute of silence was declared in the Alexander Garden.

Anatoly Kucheren, lawyer and member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, declares that the police illegally used the force against the evicted residents in the village of Yuzhnoy Botovo, RIA Novosti reports.

Leonid Klein A strange thing: I have never been a fan of the political views of Lyubov Konstantinovna Slusky, but recently I have increasingly want to become like her. Not an appearance, of course, but with a appearance. I mean a moral appearance. I would like to look at the world with the pure eyes of the co -chair of the Public Council to support socially significant projects and public morality in the media at the Ministry of Culture of Russia.

The Russian government at the meeting today generally approved and decided to finalize the bill providing for the introduction of a single state exam (USE) throughout the country, RIA Novosti reports. At the same time, as part of the finalization of the document, the government decided to clarify the terms of introduction of the exam - perhaps it will be introduced not from 2008, but from 2009.

A bus turned over in Chuvashia, 14 children and one adult were injured, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Volga-Ural Regional Center of the Russian Emergencies Ministry. The accident occurred on the eve of the local road near the village of Atnara of the Krasnchetai district. The driver of the GAZ-53A bus, moving at high speed, made the tractor overtake and did not cope with the control, which was why the car drove into a ditch and rolled over.

President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Jacques Rogge will call cities today, which received the official status of candidates for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, RIA Novosti reports. Seven cities apply for the 2014 Olympics: Sochi, Salzburg, Haka, Alma-Ata, Pyeongchang, Sofia and Borjomi.

Tonight in Moscow, dozens of cars parked according to the Rules were evacuated from Vovarskaya Street without preliminary warning, Echo Moscow reports. Cars were moved not to the parking lot, but to neighboring streets. According to some reports, the tow trucks moved about a hundred cars.

Yesterday, the terrorist group “Council of Mujahideen Iraq” announced the death sentence issued by the four Russians stolen on June 3 in Baghdad. On Monday, terrorists demanded that Moscow withdraw troops from Chechnya and free all the Muslim prisoners within 48 hours. The Russian authorities refused to satisfy this ultimatum, but called on the abductors to preserve their lives to the Russians.

On the night of Thursday on Povarskaya Street and adjacent lanes, at the new building of the Supreme Court, a mass evacuation of cars took place. Dozens of evacuators participated in the work, and those cars that were parked in the places permitted for parking were also taken away. In total, about a hundred cars were evacuated, but, as it turned out, they were not taken away to the fine, but to neighboring streets. True, drivers were not said about this.

Today, an optional protocol has entered into force to the International Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or humiliating the dignity of types of circulation and punishment, RIA Novosti reports. This protocol enables UN experts to visit prisons and investigative insulators of the participating countries of the Convention and calls for the creation of national mechanisms aimed at preventing torture. The protocol was adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 18, 2002.

Abkhazia is building its independent state. In 1999, the people of the republic voted in 1999, and the leadership of Abkhazia will not turn off the chosen path, said the president of the self-proclaimed Republic of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh by Russian and Abkhaz journalists on June 21 in Sukhumi, reports News-Georgia with reference to the ApsnePress. Sergei Bagapsh is convinced that Abkhazia, if not even soon, but will be recognized as a world community.