US President George Bush said that the United States is determined to continue the process of Middle Eastern settlement - despite the resumed attacks of Palestinian self -assembly terrorists on the Israelis. Bush announced this yesterday after a meeting in the White House with Egyptian Foreign Ministers, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.

In Moscow last night, an attempt was made on the chief specialist of the Muscovite Alexei Busalov. Two criminals shot an official from pistols in the area of Bolotnikovskaya Street. Busalov, who received four wounds in the back, is in serious condition. A special plan for the search for criminals "Siren-1" did not give results.

- Parity of the dollar and euros - for the economy of the United States, Europe and Russia. - Are agricultural land sold in Russia? - in the section "Economics of the region" - about the Saratov, Samara and Voronezh regions. - The new issue of the heading "Changing the world: countries and markets." - Review of some publications of the next issue of the British weekly "Economist".

Leading Marina Katys Artem Shadrin: On the night of June 20 to 21, the flood of huge destructive strength fell on the Stavropol Territory. In the natural disaster zone there were 39 settlements in which more than 8,000 houses were flooded. More than 80,000 people were injured, more than 13,000 were evacuated from the flooding zone. More than 8 kilometers of gas pipelines, kilometers of water supply networks, 40 kilometers of roads and dozens of railway and road bridges were damaged.

Gosatomnadzor of Russia and the administration of the Volgodonsk nuclear power plant refuted the message of the British newspaper Gardian about the theft from the power plant of radioactive substances. "Gardian" with reference to the data of the American special services today reported that over the past year, a large amount of cesium, strontium, uranium, and, possibly, plutonia, metals that can be used to create nuclear weapons, have been stolen from the Volgodon NPP in the Rostov region.

In Iran, according to the call of religious conservatives, a mass anti -American campaign began. Participants in today's rally at the University of Tehran’s building sharply condemned the United States for regular intervention, as they claimed, to the internal affairs of Iran. As part of the current campaign in Tehran and other cities, rallies and demonstrations under anti -American slogans should take place.

In Yalta, a summit of the heads of states that are part of the regional international organization of GUUAM, Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova, is opening in Yalta today. Uzbekistan - the fifth member of Guuam - ignored the meeting. Tashkent has repeatedly declared his readiness to leave the organization, considering her work ineffective.

The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. The Radio Freedom Observer Andrei Babitsky and the RS correspondent in Moscow participate in Lyubov Chizhov-she visited the press conference of the special representative of the Russian President to ensure human rights in Chechnya Abdul-Khakim Sultygov.

Jan Runov , New York: President George Bush and Secretary of State Paulin Powell held negotiations these days with Foreign Ministers of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. It was about specific steps by solving the Palestinian problem. As the White House spokeswoman Ari Flyusher said, the president, despite terrorist acts, is determined to continue the political process that will expand the prospects for establishing peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

Morocco will no longer send the troops to the island of Perekil in the Gibraltar Strait, if Spain, in turn, will withdraw its military personnel from the island. This was announced today by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Morocco Mohammed Benaiss, heading to Paris in order to explain to European partners the position of his country on this issue. On July 11, a small group of Moroccan military landed on a uninhabited island.

A group of musicians from Seattle, who offered musicians around the world to perform Mozart on September 11, received thousands of positive responses from colleagues from different countries. Thirty choirs have already agreed to take part in this action dedicated to the memory of the victims of the attack in the United States. Among them are musicals from Boston, Riga, Wells, Taiwan. The 19th International Film Festival is held in Jerusalem.

The Greece authorities announced today that they managed to detain the leader of the underground terrorist organization "November 17", which they could not disclose for 27 years. The Greece Police representative said that 58 -year -old professor Alexander Gyotopoulos, detained on Wednesday, was officially arrested. The hyotopulos is considered the ideological leader of the organization, which has operated in Greece since 1975. At the same time, two more members of the group were announced.

Aya Kuga , Belgrade: the chief prosecutor of the International Hague Tribunal for Military Crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia, Karl del Ponte arrived in Belgrade today. Earlier, Karl del Ponte reported that she would bring with him to Serbia the exact address of the former military leader of the Bosnian Serbs Ratko Mladich. According to her, the general is hiding in Serbia.

The struggle against terrorism is used by the governments of some countries as a preposition to infringe on the rights of citizens, ”said Mary Robinson, head of the UN Human Rights Department. Robinson did not name these countries by name, noting only that we are talking about states that do not have strong democratic traditions. Under the guise of fighting terrorism, she said - the authorities of such states are dealing with a political opposition.

In Rome, in the cemetery of Verano, dozens of Jewish graves are desecrated. The tombstones, statues, some burials are even opened. The incident caused a storm of indignation in Italy. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi promised to make every effort to find criminals and betray them to justice. The Ministry of the Interior announced that it would inform the parliament on the progress of the investigation.