Today, the Israeli government approved the decision to release 250 Palestinian prisoners belonging to the ruling movement of the FATH. This is done in order to support the head of the Palestinian National Administration of Mahmoud Abbas in the confrontation with the Islamists, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Israeli media. The list of prisoners who are subject to release is still not ready.

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anatoly Gritsenko considers the decision of the Verkhovna Rada to the appointment of General Alexander Kuzmuk to the post of deputy prime minister of the country's government, Radio Liberty reports. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on May 25 - at the height of the political crisis in the country - appointed ex -Minister of Defense of Kuzmuk as Deputy Prime Minister on National Security and Defense.

In Spain today, on suspicion of attacking the African, Russian Rustam Gadaev was detained, RIA Novosti reports. Tomorrow he will appear before the judicial investigator. “Russian citizen Rustam Gadaev is still in the cell of the regional commissariat (branches) of the National Police of Spain in the Madrid suburb of Usera. Most likely, tomorrow he will appear before a judicial investigator who will determine a preventive measure for him, ”Suders on duty said to the commissariat.

The representative of the US State Department called on Russia to cooperate in solving the problem of Kosovo in the UN, AP reports. “The United States wants to work with Russia to find a solution to the problem,” said Daniel Freud, deputy Secretary of State of USA after negotiations with representatives of Montenegro leadership.

A large accident occurred in Somalia. The driver of the truck transporting people who were saved from the country of the country reigning in the capital of the country did not cope with the management, the car drove off the road and rolled over, AP reports with reference to local authorities. Ten people were killed, including a two -year -old child, more than 60 people were injured. Among the victims are 20 children under the age of ten years.

Ukrainian heavyweight Vladimir Klitschko defended his IBF and IBO titles. At the same time, he took revenge for his defeat three years ago against American Lamon Brewster. The fight started at a very fast pace. Having withstood the American’s starting attack, Klitschko Jr. carried out several precise combinations at the end of the first round, somewhat shocking his opponent, RIA Novosti comments.

Vladimir Mau In the Soviet period, several attempts were made to reform the economic system, but all of them did not provide for a change in the form of ownership and in practice quickly turned off, not bringing the expected results. And the new economic reform conceived in 1970-1971 was deliberately stopped after a well-known jump in 1973 oil prices, as a result of which the country's leadership considered that economic reforms were no longer needed.

The Nissan plant in St. Petersburg will begin to produce a teana passenger car and a X-Trail SUV, reports Gazeta.Ru with reference to Interfax. According to the executive vice president-a member of the board of directors of Nissan-Motor CO, Carlos Tavares, "the first model should be released in the first half of 2009." Today in St. Petersburg, a ceremony of laying the first stone of the Nissan plant was held.

The famous director Roman Viktyuk, who was attacked, will be discharged from the hospital next week, reports Ekho Moskvy with reference to ITAR-TASS. According to the deputy director of the Viktyuk Theater Grigory Tumasov, the director “feels fine and is already joking.” He clarified that 70-year-old Viktyuk underwent a CT scan of the brain and checked the blood vessels.

During the Soviet period, several attempts were made to reform the economic system, but all of them did not provide for a change in the form of ownership and, in practice, quickly collapsed without bringing the expected results. And the new economic reform conceived in 1970-1971 was deliberately stopped after the famous jump in oil prices in 1973, as a result of which the country’s leadership decided that economic reforms were no longer needed.

France President Nicolas Sarkozi said that this year is not going to follow traditions and declare an amnesty of prisoners for the country's main national holiday - the day of the capture of the Bastille, which is celebrated on July 14, reports AP . The head of state said that he would not sign the order of an amnesty of 3 thousand prisoners, adding that each case should be considered individually.

More than 10 thousand Palestinians are blocked on the border of Egypt with the gas sector, and every day their number increases, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to ITAR-TASS. Since the beginning of June, when the Rafach’s checkpoint, by decision of Israel, stopped his work in connection with the events in the territory of the enclave and the followed coup, 28 people have already died. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the dead are elderly people, small children and several women.

Russian and Georgian peacekeepers are negotiating on the relocation of several peacekeeping posts in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict in connection with yesterday's exacerbation of the situation in South Ossetia, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the head of the Information and Press of the Unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia Irina Gagloeva.

The referendum under the law "On the activities of the special services", which took place in Latvia yesterday, was recognized as failed due to the lack of quorum, RIA Novosti reports. According to preliminary data from the CEC of Latvia, 337 thousand people voted at the referendum - 74% of the required number of votes. The referendum made the question of whether to allow or not allow the Latvian government to completely control the country's special services.

President of Pakistan Perevez Musharraf presented an ultimatum in the “Red Mosque” in Islamabad with Islamic radicals demanding to surrender to the authorities. “I claim that if they do not give up, they will be destroyed,” he said. “We show great patience, because we do not want the deaths of people. We can do everything, the government has enough power for this. But there are women and children, ”the president emphasized.