Inna Earth , Bratislava: Today at the Stefanik airport in Bratislava is lively. The loading of military equipment and sending the Slovak Sapers to Iraq, which is carried out by the Russian company Volga-Dnepr, began. Transportation will be implemented in several stages. Today, two aircraft will fly out of Bratislava.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon arrived in Washington, where he will discuss with US President George Bush an international plan of peaceful settlement in the Middle East - known as the "roadmap". On Sunday, the Israeli government decided to release 540 Palestinian prisoners, including over a hundred members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad extremist organizations.

The program is the Radio Liberty correspondent in Tbilisi Yuri Vachnadze and the director of the National Library of the Georgian Parliament Levan Berdzenishvili. Tengiz Gudava: Georgia - Europe or Asia? This question penetrated the foundations of Georgian national thinking, but there is no answer to it and probably cannot be.

Marina Efimova: The peculiarity of the "Homsted Act", which entered into force in 1863, is that the agricultural lands of the inexhausted territories of America were distributed for free. 110 million hectares! 10 percent of the entire territory of the country. Any person who reached the age of 21 and was the head of the family or lonely could get the land. It could be a woman, it could be a former slave, and it could be a foreigner who expressed a desire to become a US citizen.

US Deputy Secretary of State John Bolton begins a visit to South Korea and Japan today, during which he will discuss the situation around the DPRK nuclear program. In October, the United States accused Pyongyang of the development of a nuclear program and violation of the 1994 agreement on the nuclear status of the Korean Peninsula. Yesterday, President of South Korea but Mu Hyun said that he considers the data exaggerated, according to which the DPRK is close to the creation of nuclear weapons.

In the village of Bira, the Obluchensky district of the Jewish Autonomous Region on Monday night, unknown people threw three grenades into the high school building, one of which hit the window and exploded inside the room. No one was injured. Windows are knocked out, the walls are damaged. The police suggest that this is the work of local teenagers. The search is conducted. Earlier, the inhabitants of the village were already seized ammunition.

In Baghdad, a new attack on American troops was committed - the patrol was thrown with grenades. Two soldiers are seriously injured, and according to some reports, they were killed. General Richard Mayers, chairman of the United Committee of the Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, believes that the attacks are unlikely to coordinate Saddam Hussein.

The fire in the location of the Kantemirov Panzer Division in the suburbs, flared up about noon, is extinguished. For several hours, firefighters were forced to inactive, because they were in the fire area - according to various sources - from 3 to 6 tanks with full ammunition. According to preliminary information, a soldier died, the commander of one of the units received burns and injuries. A special commission finds out the cause of the fire and the quantity

Experiments of English biologists clarify the features of the functioning of one of the proteins that prevent the malignant degeneration of cells. This protein was opened in the mid-90s and was called ARF. A few years ago it was proved that it protects from the destruction of the P53 protein molecule, which makes cells with serious DNA breakdowns begin genetically programmed self -destruction.

In the suburbs, in the location of the Kantemirovsky tank division, a soldier died as a result of a fire, another was wounded. The fire occurred in boxing, where there were several tanks with full ammunition. Some of the shells exploded. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, three T-80 tanks and six units of other military equipment burned out. According to the preliminary version, the fire occurred due to a short circuit, or due to careless handling of fire.

The leaders of Western Africa countries should today make a final decision to send peacekeepers to Liberia. The meeting takes place in the capital of Ghana - Accra. Two Nigerian battalions - about a thousand people should arrive in Liberia. The sending order can be given today or tomorrow. The total number of peacekeeping contigant will be more than three thousand. The United States sent warships to the coast of Liberia. The situation in the capital of Liberia - Monrovia is critical.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia sees in statements by Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov about the situation around the Yukos oil company, an attempt to put pressure on the court, ”said Natalia Vishnyakova, representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office. Last week, Kasyanov confirmed that his position on Plato Lebedev (one of the co -owners of the Yukos) has not changed - suspicion of an economic crime could not become the basis for arrest.

The host of the program “Themes of the day” Vladimir Baburin: Today, July 28, the person of the day of Radio Liberty is the famous American cyclist from the team of the American postal service “US Postal”, Lance Armstrong, who for the 5th time became the winner of the most prestigious Tour de France in the world. Lance Armstronuga 31 years old. Born in Texas. At 10, he took up swimming and running. He began his sports career with a triathlon, becoming a professional at 16 years old.

In Bosnia today, the exhumation of bodies from mass burial under the city of Zvornik, near Srebrenitsa, begins. In the grave-as it is assumed-there are the remains of several hundred Muslims killed by the Bosniysky Serbs during the war of the 1992-1995. In Bosnia, 280 mass burials were found. Exhumed - over 16 thousand bodies.

An employee of the Arab television company Al-Jazir and his driver, detained on Saturday in Mosul in the north of Iraq, are released. This was announced today by the head of the company, adding that the American military personnel who detained the journalist confiscated all the materials he had shot.