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In the Barents Sea, an operation began on lifting fragments of the first compartment of the Kursk submarine. According to the official representatives of the fleet, devices were launched under the water for inspection. As expected, the examination of the raised fragments will finally establish the causes of the Kursk disaster, which killed 118 people.

In Moscow, an entrepreneur Astakhov was killed-the director of Chron---AST registered in the United States. The bodies of Astakhov and his wife with firearms were found yesterday. The circumstances and motives of the crime are still unknown.

The Asian Development Bank has announced today about the allocation of a package of assistance to Afghanistan worth $ 15 million. Funds will go to the development of agriculture, education, healthcare, transport and energy. The bank also allocated money to help the Afghan authorities in overcoming the consequences of recent natural disasters - droughts and earthquakes.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. The correspondent of Radio Liberty in St. Petersburg Tatyana Voltskaya, the chief adviser to the plenipotentiary of the President of Russia in the North-Western Federal District Andrei Kurylev, the State Duma deputy Yuli Rybakov, the curator of the Dialogue of the Young Elena Milokhova, participate.

In Georgia, the census of Chechen refugees living in the Pankisian gorge ended. According to official figures, now there are 3680 refugees - half as much as the Georgian and Russian authorities suggest. Georgia announced the readiness to assist the Russian Emergencies Ministry in the operation to voluntarily return Chechens to their homeland. Refugees, however, refuse to leave the Pankisian gorge, while fighting continues in Chechnya.

On June 1, the validity of the Belarusian visa of the acting head of the advisory and observation group of the OSCE in Minsk is the Englishman Andrew Karpenter. Judging by the repeated statements of representatives of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry, it is obvious that Carpenter will be forced to leave Belarus after his colleagues. A month and a half ago, the Belarusian authorities did not extend the visa to the acting chairman of the OSCE mission to Michel Rivalier.

India again abandoned negotiations with Pakistan. The official statement of Delhi says that India Prime Minister Atal Bikhari Vajpai does not intend to meet with Pakistan President Perevz Musharraf on the sidelines of the Asian regional summit in Kazakhstan. The Summit, which will be held next week, the leaders of India and Pakistan were invited by Russian President Vladimir Putin - in the hope that he will be able to bring the positions of the parties closer. Musharraf accepted the invitation.

Letter from Ukraine: “ In January, I heard the news that Russia and Belarus will connect to one state somewhere until the end of the year. Before this happens, I offer the new state the best name: the United Republics of Eurasia. Or simply: Eurasia. If there is democracy in the new state, then other CIS countries will join it, and then the largest state of the world will begin to develop at great pace ” Mr. Zinchenko.

In the Jewish settlement near the city of Nabluz on the western coast of Jordan, a terrorist attack has been prevented today. The Palestinian armed with automatic and grenades tried to penetrate the territory of the settlement, but was shot. Israeli troops carry out an operation against Palestinian militants. The city introduced a commandant hour. Several Palestinians were arrested, including one of the leaders of the Hamas terrorist organization.

The launch of the American spacecraft "Indsovor" is postponed indefinitely. Indevor was supposed to start to the international space station today, but in the area of the cosmodrome in Florida hectic thunderstorms began. The crew of the ship - the American Peggy Witson and the Russian astronauts - Valery Korzun and Sergey Treshchev - should work at the space station at least 4 months.

Elena Smagina, Ivanovo: On May 20, the Ivanovo newspaper "Cauces" published an article under the heading "Deputy Valkov works for the Caucasus Center." In the article, among other things, the following phrases were: "This person loves a philanthropist by the name of Soros"; "During the war, writing on the enemy is betrayal"; "As a result of a terrorist attack in Kaspiysk, 177 people were injured on May 9." All this was expressed to the famous Ivanovo human rights activist, chairman of the

The countries of the European Union today ratified the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 on the fight against global climate warming. Thus, the protocol has already been ratified by 70 countries. In 10 years, participants in the agreement are obliged to reduce the release of gases into the atmosphere that cause the so -called "greenhouse effect" - to the level of 1990. However, 70 countries ratified the protocol account for only 27 percent of the global volume of gas emissions.

From the post of stalin 1931 In a letter from the political worker Zasorin used reductions: the CPSU (b) - the All -Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), the Red Army - the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, the GPU of the TSSR - the main political department of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic. The Basmatic Movement, about which the author talks about, consisted in 1931 of the rebellious, ruined by the taxes of Turkmen dehan. "Gor. Ashgabat June 22, 1931 Dear Joseph Vissarionovich!

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