The ministers of the environment of China, Japan and South Korea called on the United States - to adhere to the conditions of the protocol on the fight against global warming, which was signed in 1997 in Kyoto. The two -day meeting of ministers ended on Sunday in Tokyo. US President George Bush said in March that Washington would not observe the protocol, which was signed by former President Bill Clinton, but was not ratified by Congress.

In Grozny on Sunday, an anti -war rally was held, the participants of which demanded that the Russian authorities remove checkpoints on the roads of Chechnya and begin negotiations with the leaders of the Chechen armed groups. According to the NTV television company, the Russian command said that the action was organized by Chechen separatists who are trying to destabilize the situation in the republic.

The deputy leader of the Yabloko faction Sergei Ivanenko said that the conflict around the NTV would demonstrate the degree of trust in the President of Russia. On Saturday, in an interview with NTV, Ivanenko emphasized that, as the pressure increased on the television company, the disappointment of society in the current head of state will grow, with which most voters associated hope for a better future.

In Vietnam, 16 people died as a result of the Mi-17 helicopter disaster. The helicopter, on board of which there were 9 Vietnamese and seven US citizens, crashed on Saturday in the mountainous area in the central province of Kvanbin. Representatives of the Pentagon said that the dead Americans are military personnel who were part of the Mission to search for American soldiers who were missing during the Vietnam War. According to preliminary data, the helicopter crashed uphill due to thick fog.

Former Kremlin quartermaster Pavel Borodin spends the first day in a Swiss prison today - after he was extracted from the United States. Soon after arriving in Switzerland, Borodin was officially accused of laundering money and belonging to a criminal organization. The Swiss authorities claim that Borodin received bribes worth at least $ 25 million - in exchange for profitable contracts in Russia. Borodin denies all accusations.

About 4 and a half millions of Russians were visited last year abroad as tourists, on Sunday, Interfax, the President of the Russian Association of Travel Agencies, Sergei Shpilko, told the Interfax agency. This is almost 60 percent more than in 1999. At the same time, only 2 million 600 thousand foreign tourists visited Russia in 2000.

Our guest is Grigory Yavlinsky, the leader of the Yabloko party. Grigory Alekseevich, two manifestations of mass in Moscow in one week, what does this mean? Grigory Yavlinsky: This means that the pressure on the NTV, the pressure on the freedom of statements, the freedom of information hit people truly, hit the living.

Thousands of people gathered today in the center of Sofia to register as supporters of the Conservative Union movement, created by the former Bulgarian monarch Simeon, second on the eve of the parliamentary elections on June. The movement in the center of Sofia was blocked. Simeon the Second, returning to Bulgaria in the mid-90s, promises his supporters in case of victory to start the fight against corruption and contribute to the rapprochement of Bulgaria with the European Union.

In Moscow, a rally under the motto "For an army with a human face" was held on Pushkinskaya Square today. About 400 people participated in it, mainly students of Moscow universities. They demanded the creation of a professional army in Russia, a change in the system of calling and ensuring the constitutional law of citizens to alternative civil service. The rally was organized by the Moscow Organization of the Union of Right Forces and a number of other public organizations.

The next round of negotiations between American diplomats with the Chinese authorities about the future fate of 24 members of the US Navy Aircraft, which made a forced landing on the Chinese island of Hainan after a collision with the PRC fighter, was unsuccessful. Yesterday, American representatives met for the third time with pilots who are holding the Chinese authorities.

The Polish authorities banned the discovery of a disco near the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. Thus, the previous decision of the Krakow municipality was canceled, which caused a decisive protest of international Jewish organizations. During the Second World War, almost one and a half million men, women and children were destroyed in Auschwitz - more than a million of them were Jews, from countries occupied by Nazi Germany.

A powerful dusty storm that came from China fell on Sunday to the Khabarovsk Territory. In Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur, the authorities recommended residents not to leave their homes, close the windows and doors tightly, and if necessary, put on gauze dressings. By noon, the storm ended, but meteorologists expect rain from mud.

The Moscow authorities intend to turn off the supply of electricity and heat to the debtor enterprises from Monday. According to the NTV television company, the first deputy prime minister of the capital's government Boris Nikolsky said that the enterprises owed 4 billion rubles to the city budget.

On Saturday, the American launch vehicle with an automatic station-zond on board, which should explore the surface of Mars, launched from Cape Canaveral on Saturday. The Mars Odyssey probe will study the structure of Martian soil and take the sample of the ice bark of the planet. Two American space probes, launched to Mars two years ago, disappeared. The current flight is the first of the ten scheduled for the next 20 years.

The president’s early elections are held in Peru today - after Alberto Fuhimory resigned in November in connection with the corruption scandal. About 15 million voters take part in the elections. It is believed that none of the eight applicants will gain 50 percent of the vote necessary for the election in the first round.