- A single trading session on the currency exchange in Moscow. - In the European Union, duty -free trade was canceled. - In Belarus, bankers are invited to reduce their earnings. - The export of Russian steel in the USA: a bilateral agreement and a bill on quotas. - The structure and features of direct foreign investment in the countries of Central Europe.

Military personnel of international peacekeeping forces detained today in Kosovo, near the border with Serbia, five Yugoslav soldiers. The representative of Keiphon forces said that the command of the peacekeepers is expecting explanations from the Yugoslav authorities about the incident. In the city of Uroshevans in the south of Kosovo today, six Serbs were detained - presumably employees of the special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Yugoslavia.

Prices for Russian oil on July 1 rose by 16 cents per barrel , reports Bloomberg. The cost of futures for oil in London rose to 11 cents per barrel, in New York - by 10 cents. The increase in oil prices in international markets is associated with high demand for this raw materials and a planned decrease in production in OPEC countries. The Russian Federation of Russia approved the Law "On Tax for certain types of vehicles" .

In Yakutsk, two more participants in the hunger strike were hospitalized, which from June 15 at the city of the city of Sakha-Avia was held at the city airport . Techniques require repayment of wage debts. In total, eight participants in the action have been hospitalized today. The airline has already paid six and a half thousand rubles to protesters, but the salary debt for each aircraft is on average 90 thousand rubles.

The Moscow Balkanist, Dr. Artem Ulunyan, answers the questions of the leading program "Liberty Live". Peter Vile: Dr. Ulunyan, now in Kosovo there is already some equilibrium and relative, very relative stability. At least the forces of peacekeeping contingents of different countries act in some consent to each other. In your opinion, how can this existing balance of the forces of the arrival of Russian peacekeepers affect?

At the European Basketball Championship, which is held in France, the semi -finalists were decided. The Russian team did not fall into the four of the strongest, which lost to the Italian team in the quarter -finals - 79: 102. Now the Russians, in order to get to the Sydney Olympics, in today's match in the struggle for the fifth to eighth places it will be necessary to beat another loser of the quarter-finals-the German national team.

A senior representative of the UN Affairs Department said today that out of 400 million dollars necessary to help Kosovo Albanians returning to their homeland, the department has only 140 million. The UN considers this situation "completely unacceptable" and criticizes the international community for insufficient financing of refugee assistance programs. According to the UN, more than 500 thousand Kosovo refugees have already returned to their homeland.

Sergey Novikov, Tula: The headquarters of the Tula Division of the Airborne Forces received a rather unexpected order of the Minister of Defense Sergeyev: "To carry out the relocation in Kosovo the main forces of the peacekeeping brigade by rail and sea transport." The press service of the division explained to me that such a decision was made in connection with the need to save money.

Aya Kuga, Belgrade: Demonstrations of pensioners were held in Belgrade, who, in addition to the payment of pensions, first put forward the political requirements of the resignation of Slobodan Milosevich. In the Northern Serbian province of Voivodina, in its capital, the city of Novaya Sad, today an opposition rally should take place under the name: "What and how after bombs"?

Aya Kuga, Belgrade: The political crisis in Yugoslavia and Serbia continues and deepens. In Belgrade on Thursday, demonstrations of pensioners were held, who, in addition to paying pensions, first put forward the political requirements of the resignation of Slobodan Milosevich.

Yuri Zhigalkin, New York: Despite the defeat in Kosovo and the manifestation of opposition sentiments in Serbia, Slobodan Miloshevich continues to firmly control the Yugoslav army and is quite possible on it in order to suppress his main political rival, President of Montenegro Dzhukanovich. As General Clark said, Western intelligence was noticed by the movement of additional units of the Yugoslav army to Montenegro and the increased activity of the Belgrade special services in the republic.

Leading Sergey Seninsky - A single trading session on the currency exchange in Moscow. - In the European Union, duty -free trade was canceled. - In Belarus, bankers are invited to reduce their earnings. - The export of Russian steel in the USA: a bilateral agreement and a bill on quotas. - The structure and features of direct foreign investment in the countries of Central Europe.

At the opened film festival in Karlovy Vary, Russia is represented by the film by Alexander Rogozhkin, "checkpoint" . Outside the competition, several Russian paintings will be shown, among them "Khrustalov, car!" Alexei German and the "Siberian barber" Nikita Mikhalkov. On July 10, the premiere of the documentary "Gulag" is planned on the British TV channel of the BBC-2 . The film lasts three hours in a row, which in itself is unprecedented for English television.