The world famous conductor Seiji Ozava leaves the post of head of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Tonight in honor of Ozava a gala concert will be given, which will be held as part of the Tanglwood music festival in Massachusetts. The concert will be performed by the stars of the musical world - cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, singer Jesse Norman, jazz pianist Marcus Roberts and many others.

In Northern Ireland on Friday there were clashes between Protestants and the British police. Near Belfast, more than two hundred people were thrown with stones and bottles of police officers during one of the traditional marches organized by the Protestant Order of Orange. Every year in July, Protestants in Northern Ireland conduct similar processions, noting the anniversary of the victory over Catholics in one of the battles in the seventeenth century.

The program is being conducted by Andrei Shari. Radio correspondent Freedom Viktor Rezunkov is talking with the chairman of the St. Petersburg branch of the Democratic Russia party by Ruslan Linkov and the chairman of the Civil Control Human Rights Control, Yuri Vdovin. Andrey Shary: On St. Petersburg television, there is a redistribution of property and personnel spheres of influence.

Today you will find the musical release of the "Read newspapers" program. We are talking about how the press treats amateur performers and high professionals. Let's start with the first. The Grushinsky festival, which ended this week, aroused a keen interest in both Moscow and regional publications.

In this issue: - explosion-plate on Tomsk Street; - Oil jackets of the Komi Republic are looking for work; - "Gazprom" dismisses Astrakhan workers; - Samara medicine is dangerous to health; - Zemstvo doctors will reappear in the Urals; - who will save the Saransky drowning; - Nizhny Novgorod: arson to order; - Sayanogorsk: August is coming soon, and the teachers did not pay vacation pay; - Barnaul: associate professors that extort bribes from students are already planted; - Vologda: there is no

The European Union, Russia, France and Bosnia welcomed the compromise achieved between the United States and the UN Security Council on the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. On Friday, the Security Council voted to ensure that the American peacekeepers were not subject to persecution from this court during the year. The decision also applies to peacekeepers from other countries that have not yet ratified the agreement on the establishment of the court.

The Israeli military intercepted today on the western bank of the Jordan, in the Kalkilia area, another car loaded with explosives. According to the Minister of Defense of Israel Benjamin Ben-Elizer, in the last three weeks, 15 Palestinians who were preparing terrorist attacks in Israel were detained on the western shore, and three cars with an explosive cargo.

In the Amsterdam prison, a hunger strike was announced by a prisoner accused of killing a popular Dutch politician Pim Fordein. According to the representative of the Prosecutor’s prosecutor's office, Folkert Van Der Count refuses to eat food from yesterday in protest against the conditions of maintenance in prison. It requires stopping round -the -clock video surveillance of his camera and turn off the light in it at night.

Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed the head of the Duma Committee on International Affairs Dmitry Rogozin as a special representative on the problems of the Kaliningrad region. Rogozin will work with the leadership of the European Union and the EU countries in order to resolve the problems that arose in connection with the upcoming expansion of the European Union. The Kaliningrad region will become the Russian enclave inside the EU after the entry of Lithuania and Poland entered it.

In the Indian state, Gudzharat again broke out excitement on religious grounds. Mass clashes between Hindus and Muslims occurred yesterday in a small town of Heda with a population of 22 thousand people. The police introduced a curfew in the city. 85 people were detained.

In Alma-Ata, 5 people were injured as a result of an explosion of household gas in an apartment building. Residents of the house are evacuated. As a result of the explosion, the attic overlap over two apartments, the internal partitions of neighboring apartments were destroyed, the ceiling between the 4th and 5th floors was deformed, the entrance doors in the entrance were knocked out, and the glass was knocked out in all apartments.

In the Vedensky district of Chechnya near the village of Oktyabrskoye, a car with local residents was fired last night. According to the Department of the Interior of Chechnya, one person died, four were injured, including a teenager. Who opened fire on the car is unknown. In the Zavodskoy district of Grozny, a military truck with OMON employees from the Tomsk region was blown up on a landmine yesterday on a landmine.

US Secretary of State Paulin Powell does not plan to contact the head of the Palestinian autonomy Yasir Arafat, said the representative of the American State Department Richard Bucher. According to Baucher, Arafat sent a letter to Powell, in which he asks Washington to demand from Israel to withdraw troops from Palestinian cities on the western coast of Jordan. According to Arafat, the withdrawal of troops will make it possible to carry out reforms in the Palestinian autonomy.

The number of flood victims in the south of Russia increased to 117-and. 59 people died in the Stavropol Territory, 36 in Krasnodar, 8 - in Karachay -Cherkessia, 6 in North Ossetia, 4 in Chechnya, 3 in Dagestan, one in Kabardino -Balkaria. According to the Ministry of Emergencies, among the dead six children, one rescuer and one police officer. According to preliminary estimates, the damage caused by the elements is about 15 billion rubles.

In the capital of Bashkiria Ufa, a farewell ceremony with victims of the plane crash, which occurred in the sky over Germany on July 2, will take place today. That night, the remains of 29 dead were delivered from Germany to Ufa. As a result of the collision of the Russian Tu-154 airliner, 71 people died with a cargo Boeing, including 45 schoolchildren from Bashkiria.