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.

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.

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.

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.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Tel Aviv Victoria Munblit and the leader of the Israeli Party Democratic Choice, Roman Bronfman, participate. Andrei Shary: In Israel, they continue to actively discuss the legislative initiative to prohibit non -Jews to live in Israeli settlements on the western bank of the Jordan River.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. The correspondent of Radio Liberty in New York Yuri Zhigalkin and an American economist, professor at Stanford University Mikhail Bernsstam participate. Andrei Shary: President Bush for the first time since the attacks of the attacks on September 11 made a program speech that did not concern terrorism.

The organization on security and cooperation in Europe stated that the protection of human rights is a priority task during any operations within the framework of the International Anti -Terrorism Campaign. The declaration of participants in the OSCE parliamentary Assembly, adopted on Wednesday in Berlin, says the inadmissibility of using the struggle against terrorists for political purposes.

On Thursday, the Olympic boxing champion Yermakhan Ibraimov was beaten and robbed on Thursday. According to law enforcement agencies, four unknown people attacked Ibraimov when he left the cafe. He was taken away from his clock "Rolex" and a mobile phone. Ibraimov sent to the hospital. In 2000, Ermakhan Ibraimov won a gold medal at the Olympic Games in Sydney. Recently he was appointed head coach of the Kazakhstan team in boxing.

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.