Serbian troops use new tactics , now skipping from Kosovo to Macedonia only those Albanians who have passports, the rest are sent back, ”the UN department for refugee matters said today. The main border checkpoint in the blat at the Macedonian border is almost blocked. Over the past night, 330 Kosovars moved to Macedonia - in a roundabout way. About three hundred refugees moved from Kosovo to Albania yesterday - despite the artillery shootout in the border area.

The volume of production in the main sectors of the Russian economy was reduced in January -April of this year by 3 percent compared to the same period last year, the Interfax agency said. According to the State Statistics Committee, the decline in industrial production amounted to half a percent, agricultural production - 4.7, retail trade - 15.6 percent.

At the opening championship of the French tennis, quarter -finalists in a male single category were determined. Brazilian Gustavo Kuerten, winner of the 1997 championship, met with Czech Bogdan Urakh and easily won - 6: 4, 6: 4, 6: 2. The next rival of Kuerten will be Andrei Medvedev from Ukraine, who also prevailed in three parties over the Frenchman Arno Di Paskual. Another representative of Brazil Fernando Meligeni, who beat the Spaniard Felix Mantile, successfully performed.

Lev Roitman: At the end of May, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia celebrated their national days of independence. We congratulate, albeit with some delay, our listeners in these countries and, of course, their compatriots living in the diaspora, is also clear in Russia, where Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Armenians are most. As they feel in today's Russia - as at home or visiting, as in a friendly, hostile or neutral or national indifferent environment - this is our conversation today.

At the University of Hawaii, for the first time, cloning from the somatic cage of an adult mammal mammary was carried out. Biologists Terhiko Vakayama and Ryuzo Yanagimachi as a source of genetic information were chosen by fibroblasts - connective tissue cells extracted from the tails of males. Having kept fibroblasts for some time in a nutrient solution, scientists removed their nuclei and transplanted them into isolated mouse eggs, from which their own DNA was previously removed.

Georgians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Moscow Leading Lev Roitman Lev Roitman: At the end of May, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia celebrated their national days of independence. We congratulate, albeit with some delay, our listeners in these countries and, of course, their compatriots living in the diaspora, is also clear in Russia, where Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Armenians are most.

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Vladimir Dubinsky is talking with a senior researcher at the Washington Institute of International Strategic Studies, a specialist in preventive diplomacy by Edward Lutvak. In his opinion, the EU proposals for the so-called stabilization pact rather reflect the nervousness of European countries about the situation in the Balkans, and their concern about the future southeastern Europe.

Evgeny Bovkun , Bonn: The Bonn hotel "Petersberg" this time became the venue for the Small Summit. German Chancellor Schroeder and his deputy Fisher meet with intermediaries to eliminate the Balkan crisis from the USA, Finland and Russia. Local political scientists appreciated this forum as tug of war. The West is trying to arm Viktor Chernomyrdin before a trip to Belgrade with his arguments. Chernomyrdin would like to move the West towards the position of Belgrade.

From June 3 to 14, the tenth anniversary of the Kinotavr festival will be held in Sochi . In the program of the International Festival - 19 paintings of the 98th year, the jury is headed by Krzyshtof Zanussi. In the Russian program - 15 films, including the "Siberian barber" Nikita Mikhalkov, "Moloch" Alexander Sokurov and "Voroshilovsky shooter" Stanislav Govorukhin. The jury of the Russian festival is headed by Armen Medvedev.

Andrey Sharry, Macedonia: The idea of ​​uniting a collapsed over the past decade due to the instability of the former Yugoslavia of the geopolitical space was nominated shortly after the signing of a peace treaty in Deuton.

Raya Weil: Marilyn Monroe's anniversary - 70 years since her birth - was celebrated three years ago. Adding 3 to 70 years does not mean getting at least some kind of round figure. Today, however, Marilyn Monroe is remembered almost more often than three years ago. The explanation is simple: an even more significant anniversary is approaching - the end of the century and the end of the millennium.

Citizens and organizations transferred 600 thousand rubles to the Children's Fund of the Primorsky Territory to help needing children. In total, during the year, the Children's Fund of Primorye manages to collect and transfer to children about four million rubles. In Russia, there are 43 thousand children's health camps.

Aya Kuga , Belgrade: In the city of Novy Pazar in South Serbia ten civilians were killed, more than twenty were injured. Serbian sources report that twenty bombs were dropped at the center of the town. The printing house, the building of local television, the radio were destroyed. One of the shells fell into a large residential building of the workers of a textile factory. The large -scale bombing of Serbia continues today.

Andrey Sharry , Macedonia: In recent days in Macedonia, 35 degree heat. The largest camp for Albanian refugees from Kosovo -Chegrand is located at the foot of Mount Suva Gora, next to the city of a guestvar. From the highway to the camp you go down, and a giant series of dozens, hundreds of light tents appears in the trembling haze of preheated air.