One person died from the burns received during a fire in the Omskneftenstroy enterprise in the suburbs of Omsk , the Omsk Region Disarm Center reported. The fireman received almost a 100 percent burn of the body surface. In total, 80 people applied for medical help as a result of the fire, including 32 children. 19 people were hospitalized, including firefighters, police and ambulance officers. Six people are in extremely serious condition.

Aya Kuga , Belgrade: "Slobodan Miloshevich changes the constitution in order to remain in power"; "The Belgrade regime makes a constitutional coup"; "The final act on the destruction of the Union Republic of Yugoslavia"; - These are the reactions of the Yugoslav public, the Serbian opposition and the leadership of Montenegro to the unexpected initiative of amendments to the Constitution.

Hasin Raduev , North Caucasus: There were no fighting clashes between Russian units and Chechen detachments on Thursday. Aviation inflicted a series of rocket and bomb strikes on the Argun gorge. Mi-24 helicopters carried out air intelligence in the mountainous areas of Chechnya. There, among the wooded arrays of the Black Mountains, there are the main, most combat -ready units of the Chechen armed forces.

Mikhail Sokolov: The Kremlin’s struggle for the reform of the current Council of the Federation led to an unexpected result - to cleaning the unity faction. One of the leaders of the NDR Vladimir Ryzhkov was expelled from the ranks of this pro -presidential structure. Today, the State Duma deputy Vladimir Ryzhkov is a guest of the Elections 2000. - Did you expect a similar outcome when critically evaluated the plans of administrative reform?

Lev Roitman: On May 30, the Rossiyskaya Gazeta was published, respectively, two decisions of the State Duma entered into force: on amnesty, it was retroactively confined to Victory Day and a decree on the procedure for applying this amnesty. Exactly a month later, on June 30, a resolution published in the “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” of the same State Duma, the volume of amnesty was significantly narrowed. Someone was amnestied this month, that was lucky.

In the Czech resort city of Karlovov Vara, the 35th International Film Festival was opened, which will last 11 days. In the competition program, Russia is presented by the film by Alexei Teacher "Diary of his wife" about Ivan Bunina. This film, whose script was written by Dunya Smirnova from the diaries of the writer's wife, has already been awarded the Grand Prix at the Kinotavra in Sochi.

In Naples, at the age of 81, the Polish writer Gustav Gustav Gerling-Grudzinsky, known, primarily as the author of the Book of the Stalin, Stalinist camps of the 40s, died. Giovanni Bensi, Prague: The Western world, first of all, its intelligentsia, realized the whole tragedy of the Soviet punitive system only in the early 1970s, when the first volume of the book "Archipelago Gulag" Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn was published outside the Soviet Union.

Hasin Raduev , North Caucasus: In Makhachkala on the street Ordzhonikidze, a Niva car exploded at one in the morning. 2 people died. The police sergeant Abdullaev, an employee of the patrol service, was taken to the hospital. There are assumptions that there were three in the car. At the scene of the explosion, two pistols of Makarov and fragments of the third pistol were found. The car belonged to a private person. Investigators exclude the political background of what happened.

Anna Kachkayeva, Moscow: Victory "TVC" in the competition for the right to broadcast on the third frequency channel. The TVC TV company won the competition for the right to broadcast on the third frequency channel. “The action of reconciliation began at the Ministry of Press,” one of the officials of the ministry remarked smiling, leaving the room with covered tables.

EU and Austria - searching for a way out of the crisis The program is conducted by Elena Kolomiychenko. It participates in it: Vienna journalist Elena Kharitonova, Radio Liberty correspondent in Paris Semyon Mirsky and Radio Liberty correspondent in Berlin Ashot Amirjanyan. Elena Kolomiychenko: France President Jacques Shirak spoke on Tuesday in Strasbourg with software speech. Shirak presented the program of actions of his country for the period of her six -month chairmanship in the EU.

Aya Kuga, Belgrade: The Prime Minister of the Bosnian Republic of the Serbian Infant Ivanich on Thursday visited the Hague Tribunal. There, he assured the chief prosecutor Karl del Ponte that in the Republic of Serbian, in three weeks, the law on cooperation with an international court will be adopted, but if the parliament votes against - then, like in Serbia, other methods of issuing the accused will be found.

The first part The program involves: Levan Kizinidze - the former associate of the head of Adjara Aslan Abashidze, a former deputy of the parliaments of Georgia and Adjara, and now the political exile in Germany; Gamlet Chipashvili - a deputy of the Georgian parliament, the head of the representative office of the Adjar autonomy in Tbilisi.

Hasin Raduev , North Caucasus: In the Argun until the end of the commandant’s office continued special operations to verify the passport regime. The so -called "stripping", in which significant police and internal troops are involved, have been held in this city for the fourth day.

Presenting to Andrei Babitsky OSCE Prize for Democratic Journalism The program is conducted by Vladimir Baburin and Peter Vail. It participates in it: special correspondent of Radio Liberty in Bucharest Igor Pomerantsev, deputy of the State Duma of Russia Elena Mizulina, Andrei Babitsky and his wife - Lyudmila Babitskaya. Vladimir Baburin: In Bucharest, the OSCE session opened.

Yuri Zhigalkin, New York: At the end of last week, the American Helsinsky committee, which includes 18 senators and congressmen, sent a letter to President Putin to allow Andrei Babitsky to go to Bucharest to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and receive a premium in journalism and democracy, which, by the way, was presented by the American congressmen. The letter was withstanding exclusively restrained tones.