Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed today by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Ehuda Barack the problems of Middle Eastern peaceful settlement. Both leaders have a consensus on the need to find a compromise solution. Russia is ready to recognize the independent Palestinian state, but believes that with its proclamation one should not rush, given all possible consequences.

In Komsomolsk-on-Amur and neighboring areas of the Khabarovsk Territory, the broadcasts of public Russian television and broadcasting of the Mayak radio station were stopped. The regional radio television transmitting center should Khabarovsk power engineers of more than 600 thousand rubles, and the ORT television company - over 10 million.

Deputies - supporters of reforms introduced a bill to the Iranian parliament that protects the liberal press from repression by conservative judicial authorities. In recent months, 25 publications supporting reforms have been closed in Iran by decision of the courts. More than 20 journalists have been arrested. Parliamentarians intend to discuss the legitimacy of the applies by the courts of a tough "security law" for the closure of the liberal press bodies.

In the last Tuesday, an explosive device based on ammonium nitrate worked in the underground crossing on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow; In TNT equivalent, its power was from seven hundred grams to almost one and a half kilograms. This was announced today by the newspaper "Trud" by the head of the Scientific and Expert Council for the Security under the Government of Moscow Adolf Mishuev. According to him, the explosive device was most likely equipped with an hourly mechanism.

In Russia, new, reduced rates of import duties on imported television and video equipment, as well as poultry meat, began to operate. According to the State Customs Committee, imported duties on colored TVs, video recorders, video cameras, as well as for chickens, ducks and geese are reduced.

Oxygen project; Computer publishing house "Peter" As you know, the Internet is a network, and every network consists of knots and threads connecting these nodules. The explosive increase in the popularity of the Internet, lasting more than one year, leads to the fact that the throughput of threads connecting network nodes is constantly lagging behind users.

In Komsomolsk-on-Amur, about 120 children are in the city infectious diseases hospital with a diagnosis of serous-viral meningitis . Even 30 people have found symptoms of this disease. Over the past two months - from the moment of the outbreak of the disease - about 300 people have been treated in the hospitals of Komsomolsk -on -Amur. The city continues to operate in the city. A ban on swimming in reservoirs has been introduced.

Doctors from Yale University published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine the results of a clinical experiment set to assess the effectiveness of acupuncture in the fight against cocainism. Psychiatrist Arthur Margolin and his colleagues took away eighty people with a long history of drug addiction. All experimental participants, without exception, were treated with psychotherapy methods, and some of them five times a week also inserted needles into the active points of the auricle.

Rescuers continuously worked all night, however, by morning the situation was complicated by a sharply worsening meteorological situation at sea, as well as intensified underwater trends. Nevertheless, with the help of the submarine apparatus of the emergency rescue service of the fleet, the exact position of the boat was established and it was found that Kursk is on the ground exactly in the keel. At the same time, he tilted on his left side and gradually buries into the silt.

The Russian trade union of road workers today holds a national protest with a demand to pay off the wage arrears to transporters. According to the head of the trade union Viktor Mokhnachev, the total amount of this debt is about two billion rubles. According to the trade union leader, protests are planned in almost all regions. In Moscow, 600 people organize the picket of the Government and the Ministry of Transport.

Hasin Raduev, North Caucasus: The village of Alkhan-Kala is located about four kilometers west of Grozny. Here, for the fourth day, Russian internal troops and riot police are conducting a special operation - the so -called "stripping". The village is completely blocked. Army units that conduct artillery and mortar shelling of its environs are on the outer ring. For all these days, Alkhan-Kalu was able to leave only a few women who needed urgent medical care.

In the world market, oil prices rose sharply today. For the first time in ten years, the price of a barrel of oil in London exceeded $ 32. Immediately jumped prices for high -octane gasoline and diesel fuel. Experts in the organization of exporting countries associate the jump in prices with the upcoming summit of the leaders of the OPEC states, which will be held at the end of September in Venezuela.

Hasin Raduev, North Caucasus: The village of Alkhan-Kala is located about four kilometers west of Grozny. Here, for the fourth day, Russian internal troops and riot police are conducting a special operation - the so -called "stripping". The village is completely blocked. Army units that conduct artillery and mortar shelling of its environs are on the outer ring. For all these days, Alkhan-Kalu was able to leave only a few women who needed urgent medical care.

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office states that she did not receive official requests from Switzerland in the case of financial fraud with a loan worth about $ 5 billion, which was allocated to Russia by the International Monetary Fund in 98. Last week, in the framework of this case, documents were carried out in two banks of the Swiss canton of Tichino.

The operation to save the Kursk nuclear submarine, which had suffered an accident on Sunday in the Barents Sea, is difficult due to a strong tidal current. It prevents the operation of the remote-controlled deep-sea apparatus, with the help of which the boat body is examined. A submarine on board whose presumably 130 people are located on the ground at a depth of approximately 100 meters. The nuclear energy installation of the vessel is disabled.