In Vitebsk, there is a meeting of the presidents of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine - Alexander Lukashenko, Vladimir Putin and Leonid Kuchma. The focus of the negotiations is the issues of economic cooperation. Presidents arrived in Vitebsk to participate in the Slavic Bazaar festival.

The conflict at the Gorelektrotrans enterprise, to which all the trolleybuses of Saransk belonged, was brewing for a long time - this is due to large delays in paying wages. And although the company's management tried to repay the conflict - on the eve of the employees, a salary for May was issued - this did not affect the decision of the drivers of trolleybuses to start a strike.

About the book of General Gennady Troshev “My War. (Notes of the Treple General)“ Peter Vile is talking with Andrei Babitsky. Peter Vile: A book is being prepared for the exit, which will undoubtedly be of interest to a very general public, since its author is General Gennady Troshev. The book is called "My War". This war is Chechen, or rather - both Chechen wars - the first and second.

Leading Marina Katys Marina Katys: Says Radio Liberty. On the air, the Ecological Program "Forbidden Zone". The microphone has the author and presenter of the program Marina Katys. In the Bryansk region, in the area of the Slavic military airfield, at a depth of 15 meters underground, military ecologists discovered a kerosene lens with an area of 25 square kilometers. According to exploration, approximately one and a half thousand tons of oil products have accumulated underground.

Leading Ivan Tolstoy Speaker: "At noon on Friday July 20, 1714, the most beautiful bridge in Peru collapsed and threw five travelers into the abyss." Marina Efimova: My generation was able to first read these lines of Thornton Wilder, opening his novel by 1927 "The bridge of King Louis of the Holy", only in the mid-70s. Perhaps the main charm of the novel was a combination of a slight, charming poetic style, with a truly Russian or even German seriousness of spiritual research.

Three people died and 10 - were injured in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine as a result of a railway accident. According to the Interfax agency, a passenger train and a shunting diesel locomotive collided at the Plisky station on the Nezhin-Konotop. 7 out of 10 passengers who were injured are hospitalized.

In Moscow and the Moscow Region, during yesterday, thunderstorms died, according to the latest data, six people. More than 14 thousand trees are covered with the wind. In a number of areas of Moscow, electricity turned off for a short time. Meteorologists warn that during the next three days, the same strong thunders may be repeated.

In Chechnya, as a result of a shootout near the village of Old Atagi, a soldier was wounded. The armored personnel carrier in which he was at first was blown up by a landmine, and then he was fired. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent, several more servicemen were injured in the shelling of checkpoints in the plain part of Chechnya.

Hasin Raduev, North Caucasus: The Russian military column, which was along the Shatoskoye highway, was attacked by Chechens in the area of the village of Starylya Atagi on Tuesday evening. Under one of the armored personnel carriers, a radio -controlled landmine worked. Then, on the column, a squall fire was opened from machine guns and machine guns. There are victims among military personnel.

Yuri Zhigalkin, New York: Today, the adviser to President Bush on the national security of Kondololya Rice arrives in Moscow. It is expected that during meetings in Moscow, she will try to determine the scope of future negotiations on the problems of missile defense and reduction of nuclear weapons - problems that looked insoluble a few weeks ago.

Vorkuta will receive this year from the World Bank more than 16 thousand dollars per program of resettlement of six and a half thousand inhabitants from Vorkuta and nearby villages. All resettlee will receive housing certificates in their hands, with which they will be able to purchase housing in other regions of the country. After the departure of residents, all social and production facilities of the villages will be closed, and the settlements themselves will be demolished.

One of the activists of the Islamic extremist group "Hamas" was killed today in the area of the city of Nabluz on the west coast of the Jordan. His car was fired at the Israeli tank. The representative of Hamas stated that the murdered - Salah Darvazech - was a member of the committee, which coordinated the actions of 13 Palestinian groups. Yesterday, Jerusalem was negotiated by the Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon with one of the heads of the European Union Havier Solana.

President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma fired judge Nikolai Zamkovenko - for violation of the oath. The decision was made on the basis of the submission of the Supreme Council of Justice, who accused the judge of violations in the conduct of more than 20 cases. In May, the Kyiv prosecutor's office opened a criminal case against Zamkovenko. In his apartment and in the courthouse where he worked, a search was made and documents were seized.

Lyubov Chizhova, Moscow: The Moscow branch of the International Religious Charity Organization "Army of Salvation" is under threat of closing. She was refused re -registration, since the Presnensky court of Moscow decided that the “Army of Salvation” is a religious charitable organization - this is not such, since its charter plants barracks discipline and unquestioning submission of members of the organization of its leadership.

General Vladimir Pronin was appointed head of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of Moscow. As Boris Gryzlov, Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia, said in Nizhny Novgorod, Pronin's candidacy was previously approved by the capital's mayor Yuri Luzhkov. Last week, the Federation Council - despite the objections of Luzhkov and a number of other senators - adopted a bill that reduces the role of governors in the appointment of the heads of regional Internal Affairs Directorate.