Israel today withdrew troops from the Palestinian village of Beit Jala in the vicinity of Jerusalem. Israeli units entered Beit Jala two days ago, as the Palestinians regularly fired from this village of Jewish quarter of Jerusalem - Gilo. Yesterday, the Israeli and Palestinian sides agreed on the ceasefire in Beit Dzhal. The representative of the Israeli Government Gideon Sar warned the Palestinians that the troops would return to the village if the shelling of Israeli territory would resolve.

Oleg Kusov, Moscow: This hot summer, infectious diseases have passed Chechnya, unlike other Russian regions. The Chechens are gloomily joking on this occasion - "their republic with the efforts of the Russian military has been thoroughly subjected to chemical and fire treatment for two years." As a result, scorched fields appeared in Chechnya, forest massifs were destroyed, the trees lost crowns. Rivers are infected with oil refining waste. The air is affected by oil combustion products.

On the western coast of Jordan, an Israeli is killed today. According to the police, he was shot dead by the Palestinians when he was sitting in a cafe on the outskirts of the city of Ramalllah. Today, near the city of Tulkarm on the western bank in a shootout with Israeli military personnel, one Palestinian died and four were injured. On Thursday, Israel withdrew troops from the Palestinian village of Beit Jala in the vicinity of Jerusalem.

Lev Roitman: Two East European scandals of recent times, however, these countries are now called Central European. In Romania, the book "Nationalist", orthodox, anti -Semitic, anti -saber, anti -Magistian haircuts of a certain Vlad Hogia, a young member of the Parliament from the Great Romania party, appeared on sale. The Prosecutor General of Romania is investigating the circumstances of the release of this book, and the government is silent.

The human rights organization "International Amnesty" called on the authorities of European countries to make maximum efforts to clarify the fate of thousands of people considered missing. According to human rights activists, the number of military conflicts disappeared into the zones of military conflicts without a trace. So, in Bosnia, the fate of 20 and a half thousand people is still unknown. Almost 3 thousand Albanians, Serbs and Gypsies disappeared into Kosovo.

In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, all 46 secondary schools are de-energized-for debts. Kamchatskenergo has liability for disruption of the beginning of the new school year on the city education department, which owes more than four million rubles for electricity. Electricity is also disabled in two clinics in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The debt of healthcare management is about 800 thousand rubles.

From Nizhny Novgorod, a group of orphans is aimed at studying and permanent residence at the International Boarding School of the Red Cross in the Ivanovo region . Children from 65 countries live and study in such boarding schools. Almost four thousand first-graders from Vladimir, Suzdal and Yuryev-Posadsky will receive gifts from the Vladimir Bakery by the first of September.

Former President of Yugoslavia Slobodan Miloshevich, who appeared before the International Tribunal in The Hague, rejected the charges against him. Today - at the second meeting of the court - Miloshevich again refused the services of a lawyer, saying that he was ready to prove the "illegality" of his involvement in the court. Judge Richard May indicated, however, that the judicial procedure provides for the mandatory presence of a lawyer - to monitor compliance with the rights of the accused.

The Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov was charged with violation of the American copyright law. At yesterday's court hearings in the city of San Jose, California, was attended by Alexander Katalov, the president of the Russian company Elkomsoft, whose employee is Sklyarov. Sklyarov and the company's management is charged with creating computer programs by reading, copying and manipulating electronic texts without the permission of publishers. Neither Sklyarov nor catals pleaded guilty.

The European Central Bank today officially represents the public banknotes and coins of the Unified European currency - Euro. The bank unfolds the information campaign in order to prepare residents of the EU countries for entering cash euros. In January, in 12 states with a population of 300 million people, euros will replace national currencies.

The host of the Liberty Live program Andrey Sharogradsky: Some economists praised the draft Russian state budget for 2002, calling it realistic and reasonable. However, according to the famous American economist Mikhail Bernshtam, the relative well -being of the country can hang in the balance. The correspondent of Radio Liberty in New York Yuri Zhigalkin talked with Mikhail Burnstam: Yuri Zhigalkin: How do you evaluate these proposals welcomed by some analysts?

The daughter of the former president of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevich - Maria - became a member of the ultra -rationalist radical party of Serbia. This was reported today by the party leadership. During the war in the Balkans, the Radical Party sent its armed detachments to Bosnia and Croatia. The radicals were allies of the Socialist Party when it was headed by Slobodan Miloshevich.

In the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug near the city of Lyantor, the Mi-8 helicopter had an accident. According to preliminary data from the Russian Emergencies Ministry, four people on board were killed. The causes of the accident are being clarified.

The University of Jones Hopkins has created a synthetic drug for the treatment of malaria , which successfully passed the first cycle of preclinical testing on laboratory animals. This potent agent is well dissolved in water, which allows it to be used both in the form of intravenous injections and in the form of mixtures. Scientists are going to complete the development of a new medicine in animal experiments and start its clinical trials.

Three employees of the American company Berkeley Nucleonics Corporation are charged with the illegal sale of equipment India, which can be used in the production of nuclear weapons. The investigation established that the accused sold nuclear generators and other military use installations to Indian firms. The transactions were concluded without the necessary permission of the US Department of Trade.