The powerlessness of the Russian authorities before chauvinism and the indifference of public opinion calls into question the residence of national minorities in Russia - the Russian Jewish Congress warns. The statement on the occasion of recent incidents in Moscow synagogues emphasize that this kind of incidents are inevitable in conditions when members of the parliament come up with chauvinistic statements with impunity. Congress requires the condemnation of racists - regardless of the ranks.

Lev Roitman: On the eve of his current trip to America, Sergei Stepashin met in Moscow with a group of prominent economists, while all of them are conditionally economists of the liberal, that is, a market, monetarist direction. But here are a few names for example: Yakov Urinson, Sergey Aleksashenko, Evgeny Yasin, Mstislav Afanasyev and so on.

Aya Kuga, Belgrade: The funeral of fourteen Serbian peasants killed on Friday in Kosovo, during the harvest, have not yet taken place. The reason is that the examination of their bodies is not over. International representatives agreed with the requirements of the Serbs that one pathologist from Belgrade participated in the court examination of the remains. However, they denied rumors that the bodies of the dead were mutilated.

The funeral of 14 Serbian peasants killed in Kosovo are postponed to give experts the opportunity to complete the examination of the bodies of the dead. The command of the forces of the CFF was ordered to send to the village of Grachko, where burial should take place, four hundred military personnel and armored vehicles to ensure safety.

Russian Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin calls on American businessmen - to make investments in the Russian economy, assuring that "there are all the prerequisites for this." “No political and military disagreements will discard Russia and the USA back to the Cold War,” he said yesterday, speaking at a meeting of the American -Russian business council.

By the end of this year, Russia intends to pay 4 billion $ 150 million on external debts from the budget from budget revenues . Another $ 5 billion for these payments is planned to be borrowed from international financial organizations. This was announced today at a press conference in Moscow, Minister of Finance of Russia Mikhail Kasyanov.

Presenter Alexey Tsvetkov The current society, in which the Internet and other means of mass communication play an increasingly prominent role, is usually called information society - as opposed to yesterday's industrial society. The main product in it is not steel and coal, and not cars, but information. However, some people question this new picture of the world. Today, St.

Nikolai Shmelev about the Russian economy Leading Lev Roitman Lev Roitman: On the eve of his current trip to America, Sergei Stepashin met in Moscow with a group of prominent economists, while all of them are conditionally economists of the liberal, that is, a market, monetarist direction. But here are a few names for example: Yakov Urinson, Sergey Aleksashenko, Evgeny Yasin, Mstislav Afanasyev and so on.

In Moscow, the film operator Georgy Rerberg suddenly died . He was 61 years old. The son of a famous artist, Rerberg graduated from VGIK in the workshop of Boris Volchek in 1960 and made his debut in the film "First Teacher". Among the most famous works of the movie operator are Father Sergius, Hello, I'm your aunt, mirror. Georgy Ivanovich Rerberg will be buried on July 30 at the Vvedensky cemetery.

A gasoline crisis erupted in Sochi . Of the 96 gas stations of the city, only one regularly works. There, the price of gasoline of the AI-76 brand exceeded 7 rubles per liter. In order to refuel, car owners have to expose in line at 18 hours. At 145 km. From Sochi, low -octane gasoline costs 10 rubles per liter. The work of municipal transport was partially discontinued. Only the ambulance, police and firefighters are supplied uninterrupted fuel. In Primorye, the gasoline crisis aggravated .

Employees of the Hadassa Jerusalem Hospital and the InSight biotechnological company, led by Israel Vlodavsky, isolated and cloned the gene leading to the emergence of metastases of malignant tumors . This gene controls the synthesis of the goparaana enzyme, which helps cancer cells to penetrate through the walls of blood vessels and introduce into healthy organs.

The current society, in which the Internet and other means of mass communication play an increasingly noticeable role, is called information - in contrast to yesterday's industrial. The main product in it is not steel and coal, and not cars, but information. However, some question this new picture of the world. Today, the Petersburg sociologist Dmitry Ivanov will criticize the idea of the information society - and Alexander Kostinsky, in turn, will question this criticism.