The Pentagon confirmed the intention to withdraw a third of American troops from South Korea by the end of next year. According to a representative of the US Department of Defense, 12 and a half thousand troops will leave South Korea. Of these, almost a third will be transferred to Iraq this year. In South Korea, 37 thousand American troops are deployed.

Palestinian extremists swear to avenge Marvan Barguti, sentenced in Israel to a lifelong opinion for organizing terrorist attacks. Threats come from the group of "Brigade of the Martyrs of Al-Axsa." Barguti was considered one of the possible successors of Yasir Arafat as the leader of the Palestinian autonomy. The Israeli government approved yesterday the plan of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on the withdrawal of the troops and evacuation of Jewish settlements from the Gaza sector.

Member of the leadership of the European Union Javier Solan, who arrived on a one -day visit to Kosovo, called on the inhabitants of the region to put an end to violence. He called an unhealthy and non-European society, in which teenagers were killed, referring to the murder of a 16-year-old Serb on Saturday in the Kosovo city of Grachanitsa. Solan also called on Kosovo authorities to accelerate the restoration of Serbian houses destroyed during ethnic clashes in mid -March.

In Turkey, organized crime controls a quarter of the whole economy. The Turkish Chamber of Commerce estimates the turnover of an underground economy at about 60 billion dollars, which is about half of the state budget for this year. The Chamber of Commerce warns that the mafia in Turkey poses a serious threat to the country's security.

Ramzan Kadyrov, the son of the deceased president of Chechnya, presented the ultimatum to the Chechen Mujahideen. In a statement transmitted on local television, Kadyrov called for militants to lay down their weapons and surrender for three days, warning that otherwise they would be destroyed.

Russian President Vladimir Putin today begins a two -day visit to Mexico. The negotiation center is an expansion of trade, which amounted to $ 158 million last year. The parties will also discuss the issues of cooperation in the field of oil and gas production, nuclear and hydropower.

Sergey Khazov , Samara: last weekend, the new victims of the explosion in the clothing market turned to Medical Institutions of Samara. The prosecutor's office continues the investigation of the causes of the tragedy. The list of victims of the terrorist attack in the Kirov clothing market was replenished with new victims. On Saturday, June 5, 22-year-old Alena Lukyan, died in the intensive care unit of the hospital. The pregnant woman was seriously injured during the explosion.

The funeral of the 40th US President Ronald Reagan, who died on Saturday evening at the 94th year of life, will take place on Friday in Washington. On Wednesday and Thursday, Reagan’s body will be exhibited for farewell to the Capitol - the building of the US Congress. The leaders of many countries of the world, politicians and public figures paid tribute to Reagan, who played a large role in the end of the Cold War. Ronald Reagan was in power from 1981 to 1989.

Svetlana Tolmacheva , Yekaterinburg: in the Urals Federal District, prosecutorial inspections of enterprises were held, where there were wage arrears. About 400 managers are brought to administrative responsibility, but this does not remove the problem. Debts to workers at the enterprises of the Ural Federal District are not reduced.

The journalist of the British television company "BBC" Frank Gardner, who was seriously wounded yesterday in Riyadh, is in critical condition,-the British Embassy in Saudi Arabia reported. According to the France-Press agency, the Gardner has been undergoing an operation, now it has been transferred to the intensive care unit. As a result of the attack, presumably, Islamic extremists, the BBC operator Simon Cumbers died.

Tatyana Voltskaya , St. Petersburg: at the end of May, the Seventh International Symposium "New Technologies in Neurosurgery" dedicated to high technologies in neuronauki was held at the St. Petersburg Military Academy named after Kirov. Recently, there are more and more indignant voices about the fact that the actions of neurochigious people in the field of drug addiction are illegal, that the brain surgery is made without an appropriate license.

The program is conducted by Kirill Kobrin. Radio Liberty Correspondents Natalya Golitsyna and Jan Runov participate. Kirill Kobrin: Frank Gardner, journalist of the British television company, who was seriously wounded yesterday in Riyad, is in critical condition, the British Embassy in Saudi Arabia said. As a result of the attack, presumably, Islamic extremists, the operator of the Air Force died Simon Cumbers.

In Afghanistan, an American soldier died, two were injured. The military machine was blown up today on a mine in the province of Uruzgan. In another province - Logar - the Taliban attacked the police station, killing two Afghan police officers.

The ambassadors of the European Union and the head of the OSCE mission in Minsk expressed support for Belarusian parliamentarians who conduct a hunger strike demanding changes to the electoral code. Deputies of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus Valery Frolov, Vladimir Parfenovich and Sergey Skrebets began a hunger strike on June 3.

Elena Fanailova , Moscow: "Helmut Newton and others. German photographers for the Vogue Russia" - this is the name of the photo exhibition, opened by the magazine "Vogue" in the gallery on the hodgepodge. The exhibition takes place after the death of one of the main photographers of the fashion of the last century in January of this year-it turned into an icon, Newton, which was 83 years old, died, leaving the garage of the Shato Mormon Hotel on Sanset Bulvar in Los Angeles.