In the capital of Macedonia, hundreds of people continue to block the building of the parliament, which because of this cannot begin to discuss constitutional amendments, expanding the rights of the Albanian population, the Slavs who lost their shoches as a result of a conflict with the Albanians. Participants in the action say that the Government of Macedonia under the pressure of NATO and the United States has made too big concessions to the Albanians, and require its resignation.

- The market of cars in Russia and new customs duties. - The Government of Ukraine sells more than 80% of the shares of the Zaporizhzhya automobile plant. - Economic growth in the United States is withstanded by high consumer demand. What reflects the consumer confidence index in the United States? - A review of the publications of the next issue of the British weekly "Economist". Sergey Seninsky: The Russian market of cars ...

In Geneva, under the auspices of the European Football Union, the third forum of the coaching elite was held , in which 13 most authoritative experts in Europe - Andy Roxburgh, Gerard Ule, Arsen Wenger and others took part. Everyone unanimously spoke out for the abolition of the rule of the "golden goal", which was called the unfair, harmful and distorting the essence of the game.

Andrey Plakhov, Venice: The 58th International Film Festival was opened in Venice. For the first time in many years, there were no signs of the presence of large stars here. At the opening, they presented the Macedonian director Milcho Manchevski with his film "Ashes".

In Geneva on Saturday, negotiations of representatives of Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand and Norway will continue about the fate of several hundred refugees saved by the Norwegian tanker in the Indian Ocean. The tanker with refugees on board has been in the territorial waters of Australia for almost a week, which refused to accept people. The UN Office for Refugees offers to land people on the Australian Island of Christmas, where the case of each of them will be considered separately.

The Board of Directors of Mosenergo proposed to the head of the company Alexander Remezov - to go on vacation. At Remezov’s removal, the RAO UES of Russia concern insists, which owns the Mosenergo controlling stake. According to the head of the concern Anatoly Chubais, Remezov runs the company inefficiently. Remezov himself said today that he did not intend to obey the decision of the board of directors, which was adopted by survey. Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov expressed support to Remezov.

The Deputy Minister of Culture of Italy Vittorio Suggie called the Venetian film festival "Papadomny" . Neither he nor other members of the conservative government of Italy were present at the opening of the festival. It is possible that the Prime Minister of Berlusconi will nevertheless be present at the closure of September 8. Vittorio Suggie, by him, subjected a particularly acute criticism, "he said," racist and arrogant culture of the left, which defeats the right culture.

The UN began delivery of food to hundreds of Afghan refugees, who have been living in the most difficult conditions on the islands of the Panzh River for almost a year, on the border between Afghanistan and Tajikistan. The authorities of Tajikistan refused to accept refugees. The camps in which people are huddled are often shelling from the territory of Afghanistan.

Opposition parties in Germany require the resignation of the Minister of Defense Rudolf Sharping. The scandal broke out when it became known that the minister used a military aircraft for personal purposes, during a summer vacation on Mallorca. Sharping said in parliament that he did not intend to resign. According to the minister, he took advantage of the military aircraft, as he was forced to interrupt his vacation and return to Berlin on the case, after which he flew to Mallorca again.

Taliban - without any explanation - two more humanitarian organizations closed today in Kabul; Foreign employees were ordered to leave the limits of Afghanistan at 24 hours. The offices of organizations have searches. A month ago in Kabul a representative office of the Humanitarian organization "Shelter - Today" was closed. 24 of its employees - 8 foreigners and 16 citizens of Afghanistan - were arrested on charges of missionary activities and have been in prison since.

The American state of California interrogates the Ukrainian immigrant Nikolai Soltys, arrested yesterday on charges of killing six relatives. The 27 -year -old Soltys was hiding from the police for 10 days - after he killed his pregnant wife, a three -year -old son and four more people. The killer was arrested in the mother’s house in the city of Sacramento. According to police representatives, his brother said about the appearance of Soltys by phone. The family did not help the criminal hide.

East Timor is ready to accept several hundred refugees on board the Norwegian Tampa vessel in Australian territorial waters. This was announced today by the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of East Timor Jose Ramos-Ort. However, according to him, the expenses associated with the stay of refugees on the island must take on the UN. The Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark said today that her country could also provide a temporary asylum of part of people on board the Tampa.

Lilya Palveveva, Moscow: The German memory, responsibility and future began to pay compensation to citizens of Russia - victims of the Nazi forced labor system. Today, 10 former prisoners of concentration camps received such compensations. About 400 thousand Russian citizens - former prisoners of concentration camps and the ghetto, as well as those who were stolen for forced labor in Germany, should receive compensation. The total amount of payments will be 835 million German brands.

In connection with the new outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the UK, the authorities again turned to the army with a request to help in transportation and eliminating the scored cattle. Since the beginning of this week, Northumberland in the north-east of the country has already registered 14 cases of foot and mouth disease in the north-east of the country.

In Stavropol, a break was announced for a week in court against the accused of involvement in the explosions of residential buildings in Moscow in 1999. The court satisfied the petition of lawyers who insist on checking the testimony of the accused. They claim to be guilty - under pressure. In the bench of the defendants - five residents of Karachay -Cherkessia, arrested a year ago.