The Prime Minister of Russia Kiriyenko ordered to terminate the Trust agreement with Gazprom and arrest his property. The agreement with the chairman of the Board of the Vyakhirev concern on trust management 35 percent of the shares was signed in December 97 by Kiriyenko himself, who at that time served as Minister of Fuel and Energy. The validity of the contract expires in March next year.

American neurosurgeons from Pittsburgh University first applied a transplant of specially grown human nerve cells to treat the consequences of a stroke. In the seventies, the "ancestors" of these cells were extracted from the tumor of a young man with Yaichka cancer. Tumor cells were propagated on nutrient media and were processed with chemicals that transformed them into healthy neurons.

In Moscow, an open competition was organized for the best project of the monument to the writer Mikhail Bulgakov. The competition should be completed on the first of September this year. The monument will be erected on the Patriarchal Ponds, where the action of the novel "Master and Margarita" opens.

Football. On Wednesday, at the World Cup in France was a day off. The organizing committee of the championship called the names of the arbitrators who will judge the quarterfinal meetings. On July 3, in Saint -Deny, the Scot Hugh Dallas will hold the match Italy - France. On the same day, the meeting of Brazil in Nantes - Denmark will judge the Egyptian Gamal Handur.

The chairman of the Central Election Commission of Russia, Alexander Ivanchenko, said that additional elections in the State Duma will be held in 1998 in five districts and the latter on December 6. After that, preparations for the new parliamentary elections will begin. But it is not yet clear what innovations will be included in the election law.

The State Duma has overcome today the veto of the President of Russia for changes in the Federal Law on the tax on the purchase of foreign currency and payment documents in foreign currency. In accordance with the accepted changes, the tax rate on the purchase of foreign banknotes and payment documents expressed in foreign currency doubles - from 0.5 percent to 1 percent.

The chairman of the Central Election Commission of Russia, Alexander Ivanchenko, said that additional elections in the State Duma will be held in 1998 in five districts and the latter on December 6. After that, preparations for the new parliamentary elections will begin. But it is not yet clear what innovations will be included in the election law.

Russian President Yeltsin denied reports of the alleged arrest of Gazprom accounts and the change of company management.