The Switzerland ambassador in Luxembourg was arrested on suspicion of laundering money. According to the Swiss authorities, a diplomat with 30 years of experience Peter Friedrich was arrested on Monday in Bern. The authorities of Luxembourg were transferred to the information about suspicious banking operations of the ambassador in February, after which the Switzerland prosecutor began an investigation.

The UN received assurances from influential field commanders in the north of Afghanistan that they would take measures to protect refugees returning to their native places. The other day, the representative of the UN department for refugee cases, Filipo Grandi discussed this issue at a meeting in Mazari-Sharif with General Rashid Dustum, commander of Uzbek formations, and his rival, Nata Mohammad, who commands the Tajiks detachments.

Musa Khasanov , the North Caucasus: on the radio-controlled landmine established by Chechen miners along the route of Russian employees of law enforcement agencies, which followed to conduct targeted special operations to the village of Engel-Yurt Gudermes district, a melician bus with employees of the Gudermes district internal affairs department was blown up.

Due to bad weather, the Mi-6 helicopter was temporarily stopped off the coast of Taimyr, on board of which there were 13 geologists and 8 crew members. The helicopter disappeared yesterday after an intermediate landing on the island of Dixon. Today, two Ministry of Emergencies with rescuers should fly to the area of the incident from Krasnoyarsk and Norilsk.

The President of South Korea made large -scale permutations in the government. For the first time in the history of the country, a woman-former rector of the university, the theologian in the specialty 53-year-old Chang San, was appointed prime minister. Most of the members of the cabinet, including ministers of defense, justice, healthcare, information and culture, were dismissed.

More than two thousand police officers were brought to the streets of the Bosnian city of Srebrenitsa, where today the Muslim memory ceremony, killed by the Serbs in 1995. 7 years ago, a silver area was considered a safe zone under the protection of the UN, captured the troops of the Bosnian Serbs. Entering the city, the Serbs arranged a mass mass of Muslims, executing seven and a half thousand men and boys.

The United States softened their position in relation to the International Criminal Court. The new US compromise no longer contains the requirements of constant immunity for American citizens involved in international peacekeeping operations. It is proposed to introduce this immunity for one year. The proposal was submitted at the UN headquarters. It involves the extension of judicial immunity every subsequent year.

Since the beginning of the anti -terrorist operation in Chechnya, more than 30 Russian troops have been convicted of crimes against local residents. These data were cited by the chief military prosecutor of Russia Alexander Savenkov at a meeting of the working group PACE and the Russian State Duma in Chechnya. The co -chair of the group Lord Jadd expressed concern in that only a small part of cases of offenses in Chechnya is brought to court.

In Pyatigorsk, a verdict in the case of an attempt to overthrow power in the two republics of the North Caucasus should be announced today in the summer of 2001. On the bench of the defendants - 16 people. They were detained last year shortly after a series of terrorist attacks in the cities of the Stavropol Territory and Karachay-Cherkessia. Seven of the accused were issued by the Georgian authorities, where they tried to hide.

The publishing house of the University of Yale was published by the translation of the book of the German author Joachim Köhler: "The secret of Zarathustra: the inner life of Friedrich Nietzsche." The article by Edward Rottstayna about this book appeared in New York Times on July 6. Rotstin, the cultural observer of the newspaper, is a serious author, but the name of his article contains a shade of the invasive sensation, necessary, however, in any newspaper business.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. Boris Nemtsov and the head of the International Engineering University, Yuri Ryzhov, was talked to with the leader of the ATP faction in the State Duma of Russia, Vladimir Baburin talked. Andrei Shary: Participants in the Russian Democratic Meeting on Wednesday turned to the chairman of the Supreme Court Vyacheslav Lebedev.

The Parliament of Ukraine approved yesterday a resolution requiring law enforcement agencies to provide protection to a number of opposition figures, which, according to some reports, are threatened by physical reprisals.

The Main Directorate of the Internal Affairs of the city of Alma-Ata has spread a statement in which the circumstances of the attacks on the editorial office of two opposition newspapers are declared revealed. In the spring of this year, in the premises of the editorial office of the newspaper "Soldier", the body of the Republican People's Party, equipment and documents were stolen.

In Geneva today there is a meeting of the UN group to provide economic assistance to Afghanistan and representatives of the Afghan leadership. The United Nations appealed to the international community with an appeal to provide about two billion dollars as emergency assistance to Afghanistan, but still about half of this amount has been collected. The group 15 of donor countries at today's meeting in Geneva is headed by Norway.

The host of the program "Themes" Andrei Sharry: the man of the Day of Radio Liberty July 11 is the famous German football player Karl Hinz Rummenigga, who became the chairman of the new European football organization "Forum". This organization included representatives of 100 leading European clubs. The task of the "forum" is to strengthen the UEF ties with the clubs of Europe. Karl Hinz Rummenigga was born in 1955. He has been fond of football since childhood.