At the World Athletics Championships, which takes place in the Canadian city of Edmonton, a Ukrainian athlete Zhanna Pintusevich-Blok won, running in 100 meters among women, who has overcome the distance in the 10th and 82nd hundredths of a second. In second place is the two -time world champion American Marion Jones - 10 and 85 hundredths, the third came to Catherine Tanu from Greece with a result of 10 and 91 -a hundredth.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan condemned Israel and Palestinians for the escalation of violence in the Middle East. In the application published yesterday, Annan called on Israel to stop the destruction of activists of Palestinian groups, calling this a violation of international law. Yesterday, US President George Bush also called on Israel and Palestinians to immediately terminate the acts of violence and resume peace negotiations.

In the Brazilian city of Salvador, on Monday, at the 89th year of his life, the world famous writer Georges Amadu died. He suffered from diabetes for many years. Georges Amadu is the author of 32 novels translated into 50 languages and published by a total circulation of 20 million copies. The most famous of them are “Gabriela, Carnation and Cinnamon” and “Don Flor and her two husbands”. According to his books, feature films and TV shows were shot.

In Istanbul, 18 participants in the unauthorized protest against the upcoming visit to Turkey Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon were detained yesterday. There were clashes of demonstrators with the police. Three of the detainees - journalists of Islamic publications - were soon released. 15 manifestants remain in custody. The police do not comment on what has happened. Türkiye has traditionally supported the desire of the Palestinians to create a sovereign state.

The prosecutor's office of the Krasnoyarsk Territory opened a criminal case against the head of the Main Directorate of Food Resources of the regional administration Alexander Boychenko and the mayor of the city of Kansk Sergey Gurov. They are accused of excess of official powers. According to the prosecutor's office, Boychenko and Gurov own shares of several enterprises, which is a violation of the law on public service.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. It is attended by: Radio Liberty correspondents in the USA - Vladimir Abarinov and Yuri Zhigalkin, he talked with the employee of the Heritage Foundation Baker Spring, and in St. Petersburg - Viktor Rezunkov, as well as Russian political scientist Andrei Piontkovsky. Andrey Sharry: In the US capital, the first round of American-Russian consultations on strategic stability begins today.

The organization on security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE) warned the Belarusian authorities that their actions can question the democratic nature of the presidential election scheduled for September 9. In the OSCE Department, released on Tuesday, the OSCE department to support democratic institutions and human rights notes that Minsk has not yet sent this organization of the invitation necessary in order to send OSCE observers to the elections.

Representatives of the UN today held negotiations with Afghan Taliban on the fate of 24 employees of the International Humanitarian Organization arrested in Afghanistan on charges of missionary activity. Among the detainees are four Germany citizens, two Americans and two Australians. All these countries have expressed serious concern about the arrests. The leadership of the Taliban movement again said that the arrested admitted that they tried to spread Christianity among Afghans.

Belarus will hold large -scale military exercises at the end of August. According to the Minister of Defense of the Republic Leonid Maltsev, their goal will be "intimidating the potential aggressor and preparing the army for the modern war." The exercises will be attended by units of the army, internal troops, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, as well as the border guard, - only about 10 thousand people.

The “blossom” puts forward its version of the death of Kursk, based on the secret documents of the British government related to the accident in the English submarine “Siden” in 1955. Having studied these documents and all the information about the death of Kursk accessible to them, British experts come to the conclusion that the causes of the Kursk and Siden accident are identical and associated with an explosion of experimental liquid fuel torpedoes.

The host of the final information hour Andrei Sharry: About 90 percent of the Chechnya oil market, according to experts, control the military. According to some information, Chechnya enters the budget of the production and sale of oil products hundreds of times less than the Russian military leaders. Oleg Kusov says: Oleg Kusov: The hundred thousandth military group in Chechnya, judging by the statements of military leaders, still opposes the partisan detachments of several thousand people.

A group of American experts flew to Russia in order to identify and transfer to their homeland the remains of seven pilots of the US Navy, who have been missing from the time of World War II. According to the US Department of Defense, experts will take part in search work in Kamchatka, where in 1999 the fragments of the American Ventura bomber, which was considered missing from March 1944, were discovered. In the same place a year ago, American experts found the remains of several dead people.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on the fight against the legalization of income received illegally. According to the law, all transactions in the amount of more than 600 thousand rubles, causing suspicion of the authorities, will be thoroughly verified. Cash transactions will be controlled first of all. Real estate transactions do not fall under the law. The law comes into force on February 1 of next year.

NATO troops can be introduced into Macedonia even before the country's parliament ratifies a peace agreement. This was announced today in an interview with Radio Liberty, the official representative of NATO in Macedonia Major Barry Johnson. Johnson, however, emphasized that the main conditions for the entry of troops are not only the signing of a peace agreement, but also guarantees from the Albanian rebels, that they are ready to voluntarily surrender weapons.

Natalya Golitsyna, London: According to British observers, in Northern Ireland there was the possibility of resolving a political crisis and a breakthrough in the resumption of a peaceful process there. The hope of resolving the political crisis in Olster is related to the statement of the head of the International Commission for the disarmament of Canadian General John de Shastelen in Northern Ireland.