The organization on security and cooperation in Europe has unveiled standards designed to protect the freedom of press in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics. The representative of the OSCE Freimut Douve said that these standards are required to follow the owners of the media in developing democratic countries.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon arrived in Norway. As before in the UK, Sharon will try to convince Norway's leadership - to break off relations with the leader of the Palestinian autonomy Yasir Arafat. Israel accuses Arafat of still supporting terrorism and trying to disrupt the peaceful process and reform, carried out by the prime minister of autonomy Mahmoud Abbas. Negotiations are held in the Primorsky town of Modl in the west of Norway.

The European Union put up a number of conditions in which it is ready to help the United States finance the restoration of Iraq. The newspaper Internevl Herald Tribun cites the words of Chris Patten, a member of the EU leadership, that an international organization should dispose of the EU funds such as the World Bank or the UN. Patten emphasized that he still has to convince the EU states - to neglect with disagreements with the United States and allocate this money.

Extremely hot weather was established in Europe. In the Swiss Alps - due to the melting of glaciers - tourists are evacuated from a number of areas. In the UK, the temperature reached a record for 14 years of the indicator - 33 and a half degrees. The Elba River in the area of the Czech-German border was so shallow that shipping was stopped there. In most European countries, drought threatens the crop. According to scientists, even the northern deer in the Finnish Arctic suffer from the heat.

In Iraq from the storage in the nuclear center near Baghdad, ten kilograms of unwathered uranium disappeared, according to the IAEA. Director of Magate Mohammed El Baradey, a report sent to the UN Security Council, emphasizes, however that this amount is clearly not only for the manufacture of nuclear weapons, but even the so-called “dirty bomb”. Apparently, it happened when Saddam Hussein and the crowds of looters filled the capital and its environs fell.

In Iraq, American troops continue to die. Today, on a motorway near Baghdad, when shelling from a grenade launcher, a soldier was killed, two were injured. Since the beginning of the military operation in Iraq, the American army lost 147 troops killed - the number of victims was equal to the losses of the United States during the Gulf of Persian 12 years ago.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. Radio Liberty correspondents Andrei Sharogradsky and Maxim Yaroshevsky, lawyer Leonid Chelyapov and Deputy General Director of the Insurance Company RETO-GARARANTIA Igor Ivanov participate. Andrei Sharry: Two weeks ago, a campaign for compulsory insurance of vehicles owners began in Russia. Time has passed enough to summarize some first preliminary results.

The Russian military in Ingushetia systematically violate human rights, ”said the International Human Rights Human Rights Human Rights Rice Uchch. According to the Moscow representative of the organization Anna Neistat, the Russian army conducts special operations in Ingushetia, similar to the so -called "laid" in Chechnya. Human rights activists have photographs and documents indicating the lawlessness that the Russian military in Ingushetia create.

Vladimir Abarinov , Washington: The recent statements of the US ambassador to Russia by Alexander Vershbow led to noticeable friction in bilateral relations. However, the American administration is not inclined to attach excessive importance to the Demarchs of Moscow. The ambassador Aleksander Vershbow is not the first to incur the anger of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The court in Kosovo sentenced to 17 years the conclusion of the known in the past of the Albanian field commander - for crimes committed during the 1998-99 war. The commander of the Liberation Army Kosovo Rustem Mustafa, better known as Remi, was found guilty of torturing and killing local Albanians suspected of relations with the Serbian authorities. Three of his associates are sentenced to 13, 10 and five years in prison. The trial of the Albanians took place in Kosovo for the first time.

In the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny, a checkpoint was fired last night. The employee of the Nizhny Novgorod riot police died, another was wounded. According to the Chechnya Ministry of Internal Affairs, one of the suspects in the attack was detained. Another - undermined himself with a grenade. In the Urus-Martan district of Chechnya, two Chechen policemen were killed. Their bodies were discovered last night on the outskirts of the village of Martan-Chu.

In the Vedensky district of Chechnya, unknown people fired at the car - a seven -year -old boy died, two adults were injured. In the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny, a checkpoint was fired last night. The employee of the Nizhny Novgorod riot police died, another was wounded. One of the suspects in the attack was detained. Another - undermined himself with a grenade. In the Urus-Martan district of Chechnya, two Chechen policemen were killed.

The authorities of the Palestinian autonomy today received from the United States the promised package of financial assistance in the amount of $ 20 million. Money was first transferred to the Palestinians themselves - and not through international organizations, as before. Funds will go to restore the economic infrastructure of the Palestinian autonomy.

In Washington, negotiations of US Secretary of State Colin Powell and German Foreign Minister Yoshka Fisher will be held today. The focus is the situation in Iraq, Afghanistan and the problems of bilateral relations, somewhat aggravated due to disagreements between Washington and Berlin on the Iraqi problem. The other day, the German government reported that he would send a peacekeeping contingent to Iraq only if there is an anesthetic UN mandate.

The Turkish parliament today again voted for the abolition of the law on "propaganda of separatism", which was the basis for the judicial persecution of activists of the Kurdish movement for independence. This decision is part of a package of reforms that should bring Turkish legislation in line with the norms of the European Union. It was adopted by parliament back in June, but President Ahmed Seser put a veto on him.