Retail prices for gasoline from July 1 to 12 rose in Russia by 6.8 percent . According to the Minister of Fuel and the energy of Viktor Kalyuzhny, by the end of the year their growth will be no more than 15-20 percent. The Bulgarian government decided to sell 51 percent of the shares of the Bulgarian Telecom state company consortium as part of telecommunication companies - Dutch - KPN and Greek - “OTE. The transaction amount is $ 510 million.

His consent to come to the XXI Moscow International Film Festival, which will be held from July 19 to 29, was confirmed by Vanessa Redgrave, Michael York, Alain Delon, Claus Maria Brandauer, Franco Nero, Pierre Richar . A competitive show opens on July 19 by the Italian film "Cormilica". Russia is represented by the "passionate boulevard" of Vladimir Khotinenko. The Moscow Museum of Cinema prepared for the festival a show of two movie cycles.

In Moscow, the Minister of State Security of Chechnya Turpal Ali Aushiyev, arrested yesterday, was released from prison "Sailor Silence". The representative of Chechnya in Moscow, Edilbek Ibrahimov, has positively appreciated the decision of the Russian Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin on the liberation of Austeriev.

New ideas and new drugs in the treatment of migraine, genetic therapy of deadly liver disease - Criegler -Naair syndrome, as well as the latest medical news - these are the topics of our transmission. Evgeny Muslin: It is unlikely that there will be at least one person who would not know what migraine is. And very many not only know about its existence, but also suffer from this disease, which can torment a person for many years, and sometimes even all life.

Gennady Muravin, Helsinki: The President of the Republic of Montenegro, which is part of Yugoslavia, who has a trip to the capitals of the countries of Northern Europe, today visited Helsinki. This short -term visit - it lasted only half a day, characterized by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a worker. Now there are especially a lot of visits of foreign politicians and statesmen in Helsinki, since Finland has been chairing the EU from July 1.

Presenter Ivan Tolstoy : Olga Gagarina: Hi all! On the air of Radio Maria - this is how until recently I addressed radio listeners living a thousand kilometers northeast of Moscow... Wandering the streets of one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, looking at the ancient buildings of Prague - this produces something of a shock on the consciousness of a girl from a distant Russian city with such a Soviet name.

On Thursday, in Moscow, in the Olympic sports complex, the draw of the quarterfinal match of the Davis Tennis Cup took place, in which the Russian team will play against the Slovakia team. Marat Safin and Karol Kucher, then Evgeny Kafelnikov will meet with the dominic of Hrbata on Friday, will be the first to enter the court. On Saturday, at a pair of tiles, paired with Andrei Olkhovsky, they will play with Kucher and Kharbata.

The Radio Liberty correspondent in London Natalya Golitsyna is talking with Tim Bucher, the correspondent of the British newspaper Daily Telegraph in Kosovo. Natalya Golitsyna: Now the relations between the moderate grouping of Kosovo Albanians, led by Ibrahim Rugova and KOA, have become aggravated in Kosovo. How do you assess their political confrontation? Tim buch: Dr. Rugova has been involved in Kosovo policy for eight or nine years. However, the Coa has only about three years involved in it.

Throughout Russia - from the Khabarovsk and Primorsky regions to the Leningrad and Novgorod regions - forest fires operate. Only on Friday, a record number of fires arose in the country - 763. Almost every fifth Moscow child spends all summer in the city. However, this indicator decreases: this year 18 and 6 tenths of Moscow children remained in the city, while in the 98th there were 20 and 7 tenths, and in the 97th-22 and 7 tenths of percent.

"Spades of Aesculapius" - modern medicine and healthcare Leading Evgeny Muslin New ideas and new drugs in the treatment of migraine, genetic therapy of deadly liver disease - Criegler -Naair syndrome, as well as the latest medical news - these are the topics of our transmission. Evgeny Muslin: It is unlikely that there will be at least one person who would not know what migraine is.

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Yuri Zhigalkin, New York: When the most explosive mass explosive for the Yugoslav authorities believes, the army reservists began to build barricades in South Serbia and demand the payment of a long time for the service for the service in Kosovo, the local commander - General Pavkovich promised to give them money for two or three weeks. But this was not the main argument that pacified the striking. In the end, they heard promises before.

In the London Hospital of St. George, tests of a simple and cheap method of overcoming nicotine dependence proposed by Professor Robert West began . A thousand volunteers-smilers with great experience daily get glucose in tablets to use it instead of cigarettes. West does not consider his technique a panacea, but believes that it will help those who confuse the feeling of hunger with the desire to smoke. The results of clinical trials will have to wait about two years.

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