The State Duma of Russia today has adopted in third reading a bill prohibiting most governors to re -elect for a third term. 247 deputies voted for “for”, “against” - 38. Earlier this year, deputies adopted an amendment allowing the re -election of almost all governors for the third term. Its cancellation was achieved by the ATP faction.

In Chechnya, in the Sharo-Argun Gorge, a special operation of Russian troops against Chechen detachments continues. According to Alexander Zadonov, the commander of the internal troops group in the North Caucasus, at least 30 Chechen fighters were destroyed, several people were captured. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, a detachment of the field commander Magomed Tsagaraev was surrounded by a number of 50-60 people surrounded.

Sergey Sleptsov, Rostov-on-Don: In Rostov-on-Don, a re-psychiatric examination of Colonel Yuri Budanov, accused of the murder of Chechen girl, Elsa Kungaeva, is undergoing to work with the defendant Yuri Budanov today, the forensic expert Leonid Pustovalov began. In general, in the Budanov case around forensic psychiatric examinations, hot debates of the process participants unfolded.

Under Irkutsk on Tuesday, a passenger aircraft Tu-154, on board of which were 144 people, suffered a disaster. All of them died. Among the passengers were 12 citizens of China. The airliner crashed 22 kilometers from Irkutsk, in a deserted forest mass near the village of Burdakovka. None of the local residents were injured. According to the Russian media, a strong fire arose in the disaster area. Rescuers work at the scene of the accident. Two side recorders have already been discovered.

The fierce clashes of the demonstrators with the police occurred in the Greek part of the Cyprus - near the British military base in acrotiri. The demonstrators protested against the enormous telecommunication antennas established on the basis of enormous telecommunication antennas, which, in their opinion, pose a health hazard. Hundreds of young people threw the police and British military stones and bottles with incendiary mixture, 26 demonstrators were arrested.

In the North Irish city, the local resident was killed today - Catholic. According to the police, he was shot dead on the way to work. Unknown, passing by on a motorcycle opened fire. So far, no one has undertaken responsibility for the murder, but the party of Shin Feyn, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, has liable responsibility for the Protestant extremists. The police consider the murder a planned action, but the motive remains unknown.

The host of the final information hour Andrei Sharogradsky talks with the participant in the press committee of the Russian Olympic Committee Garik Karapetyan. Andrey Sharogradsky: On July 13, at a meeting of the IOC Executive Committee in Moscow, the city will be determined - the capital of the 2008 Olympic Games, and after another three days the new President of the IOC will be elected.

Germany should take 50 thousand immigrants annually - otherwise it will encounter a brutal shortage of labor. This is the opinion of the special state commission on immigration matters, headed by the former speaker of the Parliament of Germany Rita Zyuzmut.

The company Gazprom-Media became the owner of the NTV telecompany’s control package, receiving 19 percent of the shares by a court decision that deflected the complaint of lawyers of the Media-Most Holding, the Gazprom-Media still held 19 percent of the NTV shares issued by the loan issued by the Media Most. The loan repayment period expires in mid -July.

In Minsk, during the athletics race on the occasion of the Republic Day, a tomato flew from the crowd to Alexander Lukashenko.

Leading Marina Katys Marina Katys: Says Radio Liberty. On the air, the Ecological Program "Forbidden Zone". The microphone has the author and presenter Marina Katys. On November 2, 2000, two large puddles appeared on the territory of an experimental plant located five kilometers from the outskirts of St. Petersburg. Puddles were a mixture of salt and sulfuric acids.

Leading final information hour Andrei Sharogradsky: The man of the Day of Radio Liberty July 4 is the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania Algirdas Brazauskas. On Wednesday, Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus appointed him to the post of prime minister. Algirdas Brazauskas is 69 years old. He graduated from the Polytechnic Institute in Kaunas. In 1966, he was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Commission of the Lithuanian SSR.

In Chechnya, the "mine war" does not subside. A powerful explosive device worked in the suburbs of Grozny this morning when an army motorcade drove past. According to the military, one of the drivers is shell -shocked. Another landmine, embedded on the path of military columns, was discovered in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny. The sappers blew up an explosive device on the spot. Last day, two Russian police officers died in the Grozny district of Chechnya.

Experts of the “Krasnoyarsk Society for the Protection of Consumer Rights” conducted an audit of a Chinese trading house, which opened in Krasnoyarsk a month ago. As a result, all kinds of clothing items were withdrawn from sales for more than 60 thousand rubles. Fulyan Num - one of the founders of the Chinese trading house, who was at that moment in Krasnoyarsk, made a tough decision: all the rejected goods were seized from unscrupulous sellers and sent to a landfill.

DD --- to the US Air Force base on the Hawaiian Islands from China, an American reconnaissance aircraft was delivered in a dismantled state. On April 1 of this year, he made a forced landing on Hainan Island after a collision with a Chinese fighter. Last month, the PRC authorities allowed the plane from the island to take out the plane. Thus, one of the most acute crises in American-Chinese relations was overcome.