An exhibition dedicated to the forty -year anniversary of electronic games has opened in London. The author of the first such game was a student of the Massachusetts Technological Institute Steve Russell. In 1962, he wrote an entertainment program “Space War”, implemented on the Pi-Di-Pi-1 computer “Dijital Ecuipment Corporation”. Almost all the machines of this model have long been dismantled, but the organizers of the exhibition still managed to find and exhibited.

Semen Mirsky, France: the prosecutor's office of Strasbourg turned to the Switzerland government with an official request for the issuance of a French citizen, a native of Elsas Stefan Brightvizer, suspected of theft from the European museums of art, the total cost of which is approaching a billion dollars. 30-year-old Stefan Brightvizer is well versed in art.

In Vladivostok, the police dispersed a picket organized by employees of one of the largest fishing companies in the country of Dalmoreproduct. For several hours, 200 employees of the enterprise blocked the central streets of the city, demanding to pay off salary debts, which they have not received for about a year. Law enforcement agencies intend to bring the organizers of the action to administrative responsibility.

Representatives of a number of opposition parties in Armenia stated numerous cases of the illegal detention of participants in the procession held on May 14 in Yerevan with supporters of 13 political forces advocating the resignation of President Robert Kocharyan. The leader of the Democratic Party of Armenia Aram Sargsyan said that many participants in the procession were deprived of freedom for a term of 3 to 5 days, and also fined.

In Ireland, parliamentary elections are held. According to public opinion polls, the law-centric party of Fianna, headed by the current Prime Minister Berty Acheern, has every chance to stay in power. It is expected that the number of votes set for the Opposition Party of the Fine Gal will not exceed 20 percent. Fianna file achieves the absolute majority in the lower house of parliament.

Italy is paralyzed by the strike of transporters. Throughout the country, including the largest cities, drivers of buses and metro trains did not go to work. Tomorrow to the strike - for one day - railway workers will join. It is expected that every second train will not leave the depot. Transportants require improving the terms of annually updated contracts.

- The bill on the circulation of agricultural land in Russia is approved in the first reading. - a joint project of the American company Boeing and Russian KB "Ilyushin" and "Sukhoi": a new passenger liner for Russia. - French Michelin will build a car tire production plant in the suburbs. - Crisis at Fiat Auto. To cover part of the debts, Fiat sells Ferrari shares. - "Economics of the region": The theme of this section today is regional forestry complexes.

The Government of Yugoslavia proposed to free five people who voluntarily surrendered to the international tribunal accusing them of war crimes during armed conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990s. The Deputy Yugoslav Minister of Justice, Neboish Sharkich, said that Belgrade expressed his readiness to make the necessary security and is now waiting for the Hague Tribunal’s response.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. The Radio Liberty correspondent in The Hague Svetlana Reuters and preparing a review of publications of European and American press, Ivan Vorontsov, participate. Andrei Shary: In the parliamentary elections in the Netherlands in the Netherlands, right -wing parties achieved serious success. After counting almost all votes, the conservative Christian Democratic Party leads.

Queen of the Netherlands Beatrix began on Thursday to consults with political leaders on the formation of a new government. On the parliamentary election held on Sunday, the Left-Gentric coalition of Prime Minister Vim Kok, lost 22 of her 45 deputy mandates. The largest number of votes were received by Christian democrats - 43 out of 150 deputy places. In second place - the extreme right party "List of Pim Fordein" - 26 seats.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that in connection with the recent terrorist attack in Kaspiysk, the country's power structures must constantly be in a state of increased readiness. Speaking in Sochi at a meeting of the leaders of the regions of the South of Russia, Putin called on the Russians to assist the authorities in the fight against crime and terrorism.

Several Taliban and militants of al-Qaeda were killed during an operation carried out by the anti-terrorist coalition for Pactia Province-in the southeast of Afghanistan. This was announced by the commander of the British Marines, Roger Lane, at a press conference based on a Bagram under Kabul. According to Lane, the operation under the code name Condor was carried out after the Australian military patrol was attacked last Thursday. There are no losses among Australian and British troops.

In Pakistan, investigators are trying to establish whether the body, found yesterday in the grave in the vicinity of the city of Karachi, American journalist Daniel Perl, abducted and killed by Islamic extremists in January. The body has not yet been extracted from the grave, but experts are already conducting biological tests. According to the Western media, three recently arrested on suspicion of complicity in the crime reported about the whereabouts of the grave. Their names are not reported.

In secondary school No. 110 of the city of Trigorny, the Chelyabinsk Region occurred mass food poisoning. The chief sanitary doctor of the city, Henry Ilchenko, said that the first three schoolchildren with signs of food poisoning sought medical help on the evening of May 14. To date, 97 victims have been registered, most of which are hospitalized in a hospital. Fortunately, none of the children was seriously injured. There are no severe cases of poisoning.

In Geneva, at a meeting of representatives of 35 and countries that provide financial assistance to Afghanistan, it was decided today to increase the volume of assigns of Kabul by 300 million dollars a year. Funds will go to create national armed forces and police in Afghanistan. Donor countries agreed that the United States will lead the formation of the Afghan army, and Germany - the creation of the Afghan police.