On June 21, Khazbi Gods, who supported about 39 percent of the voting participants, was elected deputy of the State Duma of North Ossetia. Until recently, little -known in his homeland, the Muscovite of the gods - the protege of the current president of North Ossetia Alexander Dzasokhov. The court litigation around the elections in the Altai Mountains ended.

Football . On Wednesday, at the World Cup in France, tournaments in groups “C” and “D” ended. First, matches in Lyon and Bordeaux were held, where France - Denmark and South Africa - Saudi Arabia met respectively. The owners of the championship beat the Danes with a score of 2: 1. The score for the 13th minute from the penalty was opened by Yuri Jorkeff. Shortly before the break, the Scandinavians equalized the chances. Also, Michael Laudrupe distinguished himself from the 11-meter mark.

The Moscow authorities will perform in the Federation Council with the initiative to adopt a law on the protection of the Russian language and culture. According to the mayor of Moscow Luzhkov, "Russian speech is blurred by words that have full synonyms in our language." “It is unacceptable,” Luzhkov also said, “that television screens are filled with Western, most American films that propagate violence.” Luzhkov proposes to introduce restrictions on the show of Western films.

In Washington, the Board of Directors of the International Monetary Fund today discusses the issue of allocating Russia to the next part of the 10 millionth loan worth 670 million dollars. The deputy head of the IMF - Stanley Fisher - said yesterday before departure from Moscow that he would recommend providing a loan. According to Fisher, each next loan should be due to economic and structural reforms.

The volume of Russia's gold and foreign exchange reserves decreased from June 12 to June 19 by $ 1 billion and amounted to $ 14 billion, the press department of the Central Bank of Russia said. Before the start of the currency and financial crisis in October last year, the Bank of Russia gold and foreign exchange reserves amounted to about $ 23 billion.

The Microsoft Corporation has released the Windows 98 operating system with the built -in search program on the Internet Explorer. This system can be installed on personal computers with the Pentium processor, having an RAM of at least sixteen megabytes. Currently, about a hundred million computers are equipped with the previous version of Windows 95. According to analysts, the new modification of the Windows system, which was on sale on June 25, will double this record.

At least 16 people died today in the city of Nalchik in Kabardino -Balkaria - when the balcony collapsed in the sports complex "Labor reserves". The tragedy occurred at the opening of the Russian freestyle wrestling championship. Over forty people are hospitalized. Rescuers continue to extract people from under the fragments of a 50-meter balcony. The causes of the disaster are still unknown.

On June 21, Khazbi Gods, who supported about 39 percent of the voting participants, was elected deputy of the State Duma of North Ossetia. Until recently, little -known in his homeland, the Muscovite of the gods - the protege of the current president of North Ossetia Alexander Dzasokhov. The court litigation around the elections in the Altai Mountains ended.