The representative of the US State Department, James Fowley, said that Belgrade increased his military presence in Montenegro. “The United States and NATO,” said Fowley, “states that any step of the President of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevich in order to overthrow the legal government of Montenegro will be considered as a provocation.” Montenegro - a part of federal Yugoslavia - refuses to follow the policy of Milosevich.

A diet that limits the amount of fats and cholesterol and including lean beef, veal and pork, normalizes the body cholesterol balance no worse and no better than a diet in which protein sources are represented by fish and poultry meat . These are the results of clinical experiments conducted at the University of Jones Hopkins, the Minnesotsky University and the Chicago Center for Clinical Research.

On July 2, the International Film Festival has opened in Karlovy Vary , at which Peter Greenaei, Takeesi Kitano and Pedro Almodovara will be shown among other films. Russian cinema is widely represented: in the competition - the painting by Alexander Rogozhkin "checkpoint", in the out -of -end program - "Moloch" Alexander Sokurov, "Outskirts" of Petra Lucik, "Totalitarian novel" Vladislav Sorokin, "Calendy flowers" Sergey Snezhkin, "Happy Birthday" by Larisa Sadilova.

Lev Roitman: I will not start with the subject of our conversation, but with the one who participates in it: by phone from Minsk, writer Svetlana Aleksievich; from Geneva Professor Slavist, director of the European Institute Georges Niva; And in Prague, a writer, literary critic, our employee Peter Vail. And now about not quite clear to me, excuse me, the topic of our conversation, or rather, the conversation that I will invite the program participants to conduct with each other.

In the Moscow region, a threatening atmosphere with forest fires has developed in a week. About 130 foci of peat and forest fires operate on the territory of 150 hectares. The most difficult situation is in Dmitrovsky, Yegoryevsky, Sergiev-Posad, Lukhovitsky and Pavlovo-Posadsky districts. Experts fear a repetition of the situation of the 72nd year. Forests are also burning in the Leningrad, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Novgorod, Yaroslavl regions, in Karelia and in the Far East.

In this issue: - Karelian newspaper "Northern Courier" under the aim of uninvited investors; - Why do the Stavropol farmers do not suffer from a lack of fuel? - Residents of the village of Gorny under Saratov collect suitcases; - There is no one to extinguish fires on Mount Beshtau; - Divate drivers threaten to stop Nizhny Novgorod; - Yekaterinburg: How many weapons do Russia need?

Heroes and anti -heroes in Russia Leading Lev Roitman Lev Roitman: I will not start with the subject of our conversation, but with the one who participates in it: by phone from Minsk, writer Svetlana Aleksievich; from Geneva Professor Slavist, director of the European Institute Georges Niva; And in Prague, a writer, literary critic, our employee Peter Vail.

Vitaly Portnikov, Macedonia: The main event of the Kosovo settlement this week can be considered the beginning of the organized return of refugees to Kosovo. This return from Macedonia and Albania is carried out under the control of the UN Refugees Office. However, along with this, a much more intense process of inorganized return of refugees continues.

In this issue: - Karelian newspaper "Northern Courier" under the gun of uninvited investors; - Why don’t Stavropol farmers suffer from a lack of fuel? - Residents of the village of Gorny near Saratov are packing their bags; - There is no one left to put out the fires on Mount Beshtau; - Truck drivers threaten to stop Nizhny Novgorod; - Yekaterinburg: how many weapons does Russia need?

The average salary in Russia on June 1 amounted to 1350 rubles a month , said Sergey Kalashnikov, the head of the Ministry of Labor and Social Development. In terms of the current exchange rate of the ruble, the average wage in Russia is about $ 56 per month. The order of the Russian government on the exclusion of a number of food products from the list of preferential taxation entered force .