The Moscow city election room refused to register an initiative group for a citywide referendum. According to officials, the proposed formulations of issues do not comply with the constitution and laws.

Two large terrorist attacks have been committed in Iraq today. In the city of Mosul, 10 people were killed as a result of the explosion, about a hundred were injured. According to the American command, the explosion occurred at the city administration building. It is possible that the attack was aimed at killing the mayor of Mosul Salem al-Haja. He was not injured. In the city of Baacuba, 5 people were killed as a result of the explosion of a mined car, including a US soldier.

In the Kemerovo region, in the village of Kiselevsk, eleven miners were injured in a fire at a mine. All of them were poisoned by carbon monoxide, three are in serious condition. A detachment of mining rescuers is fighting with fire, there are no miners in the face. The reasons for the fire, which began about 6 am Moscow time, have not yet been established.

"All people are born free and equal in their dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and should act in relation to each other in the spirit of the brotherhood." Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Karen Agamirov: A new attack of the authorities on human rights movement.

Israeli planes struck missile attacks on the bases of Palestinian terrorists near the capital of Lebanon - Beirut. There were no reports of victims. According to the military, the blow was inflicted in response to the shelling from the Lebanese territory of the Israeli warship, which patrolled near the Mediterranean coast of Israel.

In the east of Bosnia, work began on the extraction of the bodies of 30 local Muslims from the mass burial, killed in 1995 during the civil war. According to experts, Muslims were killed when they tried to escape from the city of Srebrenitsa, captured by Bosnian Serbs in July 1995. Then several thousand Muslims were killed.

The US authorities confirmed that in the capital of Saudi Arabia, Er-Riyada was shot dead on Tuesday. The representative of the US Department of State Adam Elley said that it was not yet clear whether it was a terrorist attack or murder. The name of the deceased is not reported. On Sunday, the operator was killed in Riyadh and a journalist for the British television company "BBC" was seriously wounded.

The host of the Petersburg hour of the Freedom Time program Tatyana Valovich: Can trade unions of Russia really influence government policy? How independent are the modern trade unions? We will discuss these and other issues with the guests of the program: the chairman of the organization of trade union organizations of higher educational institutions of St. Petersburg Alexander Grebenkin and the chairman of the association of free trade unions "Justice" Vladimir Gomelsky.

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, experiments were conducted that revealed the connection between sleep and training. Before going to bed, a group of subjects trained a simple computer game, and during sleep the activity of their brain was recorded. It was found that after training in a dream, a small area of the brain was activated, about a centimeter in size. The subjects who simply played the game, but did not study it, did not observe such activation.

Lev Roitman: About Russian patience, who just did not write!. For the Marquis de Custine, his book "Russia in 1839", this is long -suffering - the line is slave. For Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the book "Russia in the collapse", Russian patience is a derivative of others and not at all the worst qualities of a national character. Well, for us this is the subject of today's conversation. First, the question is: this is patience itself is a fact or is it a myth, will I even say tougher - fiction?

Russian President Vladimir Putin does not exclude that the UN Security Council will soon accept a new resolution on Iraq. He stated this at a press conference in Mexico City at the end of negotiations with the Mexican President Vicenta Fox. A number of documents have been signed, in particular - an agreement to avoid double taxation and an agreement on the transfer of convicts. From Mexico, Putin goes to the USA - to the island of Si Alend to participate in the Big Eight summit.

At least 20 Taliban were killed in the Afghan province of Zabul in battle, local authorities report. According to the governor of the neighboring province of Uruzgan Mohammed Khan, more than 100 Taliban tried to attack the military column of Afghan and American troops.

The program is conducted by Kirill Kobrin. Elena Vorontsova and Sasha Decler worked on the topic. Kirill Kobrin: Today we will talk about one of the European languages - Irish, his fate in the past and present, about the language that is represented by a culture that has recently become very fashionable in Russia.

In the Rostov region, 35 more people from Novoshakhtinsk joined the hunger strike from the city of mine yesterday. According to Radio Liberty correspondent, these are former drivers and dispatchers of the Rostovugol enterprise. They, like their colleagues from the city of mine, demand to pay a huge wage arrears.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. The ex-president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, Radio Liberty correspondent Vladimir Abarinov and professor of medicine Daniil Golubev participate. Andrey Shary: There are mourning events in the United States on the occasion of the death of the 40th US President Ronald Reagan. Says Vladimir Abarinov: Vladimir Abarinov: The acting, former and elected, but did not have time to take office, enjoy the right to state funerals in the United States.