Over time, Serbia has the opportunity to join NATO, RIA Novosti reports. Such a statement was made today in Washington, US Deputy Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia Daniel Fried. “Today, the process continues and Albania, Croatia, Macedonia, Georgia, Ukraine carry out reforms and ultimately strive for membership in NATO and possible membership in the EU.

Planting Atlantis shuttle is again delayed, reports Reuters . The reason for this was weather conditions. Now the landing of the shuttle is assigned at the Edwards air base in California or in the Kennedy center. Earlier, the representative of the flight management center in Houston (Texas) Brandy Dean said that on Saturday weather conditions will be more likely to make shuttle planting.

The board of the missile and space corporation (RSC) “Energia” expressed full confidence and support to the current president of the corporation Nikolai Sevastyanov, the issue of removing from the post of which the Government of the Russian Federation plans to raise, RIA Novosti reports.

In the south of Thailand, two explosions thundered in the morning, six people were injured, reports the Associated Press with reference to the statement of the local police. According to him, the first explosion occurred in the province of Yala - two soldiers and three passers -by were injured. The explosive device was acted using a mobile phone. In the province of Narathivat, a bomb laid on the side of the road exploded, one soldier was injured.

** Themes of the day ** One of the few common topics covered in today's issue of the central media is the day before the meeting of President V. Putin with delegates of the All -Russian conference of teachers of social sciences .

The company TNK-BP decided to sell 62.9% of the shares in the project to master the Kovyktinsky deposit and 50% of the Eastern Siberian gas company for $ 700-900 million, according to the British Petroleum press release. There is information that after the closing of the transaction, Gazprom and BP can create a joint venture with assets of $ 3 billion, which will work both in Russia and abroad.

In Tajikistan, at about 09.00 Moscow time, an earthquake of magnitude 4.5 occurred, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the statement of the employee of the Dushanbinsky seismic station. According to seismologists, the epicenter was on the border with Afghanistan - in the Kumsangira district 160 kilometers southwest of Dushanbe. In the capital of Tajikistan, the strength of the push was three points. According to preliminary data, there are no victims and destruction.

The opening ceremony of the XXIX MMKF, held on June 21 at the Pushkinsky cinema, was dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Mikhail Kalatozov’s film “Cranes fly”. The famous black and white shots were played on the screen-the kiss of Samoilova and Batalov in the wedding veil, the Batalov’s mileage on the stairs, the crane wedge in the sky, crying Samoilov at the end; On the stage they sang "It seems to me that the soldiers ...".

The head of Rosatom, Sergei Kiriyenko and the governor of the Irkutsk region, Alexander Tishanin, has concluded an agreement on the cooperation of the agency and the region in the environmental, social, scientific and tourism areas, RIA Novosti reports. The document signed during the trip to Irkutsk, involves interaction in issues of radiation and environmental safety, in particular, in conducting environmental examinations, the implementation of projects for the peaceful use of atomic energy.

In France, employees of the Eiffel Tower Company were convicted, the France-Info radio station reports. The court reported that fifteen people (12 women and three men aged 35 to 64) were convicted of the theft of more than 700,000 euros when selling entrance tickets. They are sentenced to imprisonment from three months to one year conditionally. In addition, they are required to pay a fine of two to ten thousand euros.

The Secretary of the General Council of United Russia, the Vice Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin may soon lose the post of the head of the election party headquarters, writes the newspaper " News Time " with reference to a source in the Duma faction of United Russia.

The PRC police established the identity of the suspect in the robbery and murder of a Russian tourist in the city of Udalyanchi in the northeast of China, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to the statement of the Russian Consulate General in Shennyan. The Consulate General received a written response to the public security department of the province of Heilongjiang.

The head of the FSB Nikolai Patrushev said at the government hour in the Federation Council that it is necessary to establish control over the Internet at the international level. Patrushev once again repeated that criminals use the Internet "to propagate criminal ideology and the spread of textbooks." As reported by Polit.ru, in early June, the head of the FSB, speaking at a meeting of NAK, said that on the Internet, terrorism manuals are uncontrollably spread.

The Constitutional Assembly of Chechnya unanimously approved the amendments to the main law of the republic, which were, among other things, imply extending the extension from four to five years of the term of powers of the President. The amendments also provide for the transformation of a bicapalate parliament to a single -fingered one. Now these amendments must go through a referendum, which is planned to be held in December, simultaneously with the elections to the State Duma.

In the coming years, an increase in the number of Olympic federations is expected. This was announced by the Honorary President of the Olympic Committee of Russia (OKR), the third oldest member of the IOC Vitaly Smirnov.