In the Belarusian city of Gomel, two participants in the strike of entrepreneurs were detained in support of the political requirements of the murmur of parliamentary deputies conducting the hunger strike. Arrested - the head of the Gomel branch of the free trade union of entrepreneurs Tatyana Marchenko and trade union activist Vladimir Nepomnysh. According to the Interfax agency, about 6 thousand people took part in the strike in Gomel.

The UN tribunal for war crimes sentenced to 30 years in prison Rwandian Sylvester Gakumbitsi on charges of the genocide of the people of Tutsi. The tribunal found that the former mayor of the city of Rusumo in 1994 gave orders for the murders of 20 thousand tutsi. During the existence of the extremist regime of Ruandian Hutu in the late 1980s and early 1990s, at least half a million Tutsi were destroyed.

The Pakistani authorities held a series of arrests in the southern port city of Karachi. 10 people suspected of relations with Al-Qaeda were detained. Among them, Musad Aruchi, the nephew of Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, the organizer of the attack in New York and Washington September 11, 2001. A million dollars were given for the issuance of this person. The special services said that he became one of the most active members of Al -Qaeda after his uncle was arrested - also in Pakistan, a year ago.

The program is conducted by Kirill Kobrin. The leader of the European liberal democrats faction in the European Parliament Graham Watson is involved. Kirill Kobrin: The EU summit ends in Brussels today. Yesterday, the participants failed to resolve the disagreements on the project of the EU constitution, the successor of Romano Prodi, the current head of the EU executive body, the European Commission, was not elected.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. Mikhail Salenkov worked on the topic. Andrey Shary: The Russian company Gazprom intends to increase the revenue in 2004 to $ 17.5 billion. This is a billion more than the company earned a year earlier. Yuri Komarov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Board, said that annually the average annual increase in the revenue of the gas giant is more than 12 percent. The company has high hopes on the European gas market.

Two independent groups of American and Austrian physicists simultaneously reported that for the first time in the world they carried out a quantum teleportation of the back for the whole atom. Articles about this are published in the fresh issue of Nature magazine. It was still possible to carry out teleportation of only individual quanta of light - photons.

The program is conducted by Kirill Kobrin. Svetlana Tolmacheva worked on the topic. Kirill Kobrin: A photo exhibition called "Power in Pravda" opened in the Yekaterinburg Cinema House. It is dedicated to the 5th anniversary of the famous city fund "City without drugs" in Yekaterinburg. On the same days, in Yekaterinburg there is a trial of the police major accused of receiving a bribe from a drug dealer. The atmosphere in which these events develop on the verge of inciting interethnic growth.

The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. Sports observer Radio Freedom Oleg Vinokurov takes part. Andrei Sharogradsky: Having lost on the eve of the owners of the competition, the Russian team lost the chances of leaving the qualifying group and the continuation of the struggle for the medal. The next game with the Greeks will not have a tournament significance for her, although its outcome can affect the general balance of power in the group. Why did the Russians lose?

In Iraq, the police detained two suspects in the murder of the head of the Security Service of the State Oil Company in Kirkuk. One of the detainees is the former guard of Saddam Hussein. Hazem al-Shalan, heading the defense department in Iraq's temporary office, vowed that the organizers and performers of yesterday's terrorist attacks would be found and severely punished. As a result of explosions on Thursday, 41 people died and about 140-A were injured.

President Vladimir Putin today confirmed that Russian intelligence agencies transmitted information about the planning regime of Saddam Hussein in American territory. He emphasized, however, that Russia does not have data on the involvement of the former Iraqi dictator in perfect terrorist acts. Putin noted that in general, Moscow is still negative about the US military operation in Iraq.

Victor Rezunkov: In St. Petersburg, a new reform of housing and communal services is in full swing. Deputies of the Legislative Assembly by the vast majority of votes adopt one after another laws initiated by Smolny. What will the next experiment in St. Petersburg lead, to an increase in the level of rent, to improve the content of the housing stock, and maybe to mass protests? What awaits Russians if the St.

The leadership of the oil company Yukos said that it was not conducting any negotiations on the sale of shares of the company. Earlier, information about such negotiations came from the first vice president of Yukos Sergey Kukura. On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the authorities are not interested in Yukos’s bankruptcy.

Prepared by Leonid Gergeo: On June 18, 1698, Preobrazhensky and Semenovsky regiments under the command of Alexei Shein and Patrick Gordon suppressed the second Streletsky rebellion at the Voskresensky Monastery in New Jerusalem. Peter the Great was at that time with the Great Embassy in Europe, but, having learned about the riot, he urgently returned to Moscow.

The imam of the main mosque in Mecca, one of the main shrines of Islam, urged today to stop attacking foreigners in Saudi Arabia. Sheikh Saleh Bin Abdulla Bin Humide called on extremists from al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups to repent of his deed. In recent months, numerous attacks on foreigners have been committed in Saudi Arabia. The terrorists keep the American engineer Paul Johnson, threatening to kill him - if the Saudi authorities do not free hundreds of prisoners of extremists.

The German parliament today approved a bill allowing the military to shoot down airliners stolen by terrorists if they pose a threat to people on Earth. The emergence of the bill is associated with the events of September 11, 2001 in the United States. His consideration was accelerated after a mentally unbalanced person abducted a light-engine aircraft in January of this year and threatened to direct him to skyscrapers in the center of Frankfurt-on-Main.