Jan Runov , New York: In Baghdad, the lawyers of the three soldiers accused of bullying the Iraqi prisoners achieved the right to interrogate two senior generals as witnesses: Ricardo Sanchez and John Abizaid. At the same time, military judge Colonel James Paul ordered not to demolish the Abu-Graib prison, because it is a place where the crime was committed.

In Iraq, up to ten foreigners are held hostage. One of them - a South Korean entrepreneur - militants of the Jamaat al -Tauhid and jihad group threaten to kill if Seoul does not abandon the military presence in Iraq. At the head of the group is a member of the leadership of Al-Qaeda Abu Musab Az-Zarkaui. South Korea said that she would send 3 thousand military personnel to Iraq, despite the threats of extremists to execute the hostage. They are trying to negotiate with the abductors.

The Moscow City Court today considers the complaint of lawyer Mikhail Khodorkovsky to illegally, in the opinion of the defense, his maintenance. Lawyer Karina Moskalenko told Interfax that when transferring the Khodorkovsky case to the court, the detention of the ex-head of the company Yukos was automatically extended.

The NATO Union must urgently send additional troops to Afghanistan - otherwise the elections appointed for September may not take place. The special envoy of the UN Jean Arno made this warning today in Kabul. According to him, the events of the last weeks - the murder of foreigners and employees of humanitarian organizations, attacks on officials and polling stations - showed that the situation in the country has not improved at all.

The Iraqi authorities invited the leader of the radical Shiites Moktada al -Sadra to participate in July in a conference that will choose the country's national council - an advisory body under the government. The head of the Conference Commission, Fuad Maasum, said that al-Sadr began to reorganize his former rebel detachments into a political organization.

In Iraq, the head of the military tribunal Salem Chalabi said that the former dictator Saddam Hussein was threatened with the death penalty if his guilt is proved in the commission of war crimes. So far, the country has a ban on the death penalty, introduced by the head of the coalition administration of Iraq Paul Brerer. However, in an interview with the BBC television company, Chalabi said that after the transfer of power to the Iraqi government on June 30, it can cancel this ban.

Georgy Kobaladze , Tbilisi: according to preliminary data, in the elections of the Supreme Council of the Adjar Autonomous Republic, the pro -presidential party is still the leader, but the opposition accuses its leaders of falsifying the voting results. According to the Central Election Commission of Adjara, the majority of the population took part in the elections of the Supreme Council of Autonomy. 8 parties and one electoral block claimed 30 mandates.

The Ministry of Taxes and Duties and the Yukos concern are negotiating tax debts, ”Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin said at a press conference today. In his opinion, Yukos has enough funds to fulfill his tax obligations. He also said that the government is not interested in bankruptcy of the largest companies. Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a similar statement.

Polish archaeologists discovered priceless Jewish relics in the south of Poland - near the place where the Auschwitz death camp was located. A variety of religious utensils was hidden in September 1939 in the synagogue, which the Nazis burned during the occupation of Poland. In Auschwitz during the Second World War, more than a million Jews died.

Igor Korney , Minsk, Belarusian parliamentarians decided to stop the hunger strike - this was reported at an emergency press conference by the National Assembly, General Valery Frolov, the Olympic champion Vladimir Parfenovich and businessman Sergei Screbets: they motivated their decision by the fact that they did not want their action to put pressure on the deputies of the parliament, which would be considered by them, which they initiated the bill on contribution changes to the electoral code.

Yesterday, at the European Football Championship, matches of the first stage in group “A” ended. The Russian team won the Greece team 2: 1 thanks to the balls of Dmitry Bulykin and Dmitry Kirichenko. Having scored 3 points, the Russians remained in the last place. The best in this group was the Portuguese team, who won the Spanish team 1-0 and scored 6 points.

In Baghdad, the US military tribunal today holds preliminary hearings in the case of three military personnel accused of bullying the Iraqi prisoners in the Abu-Graib prison. The lawyer of one of the accused stated that he intends to ask judges to terminate the case, since his client was just aiming for commanders' orders. In May, Jeremy Sivitz, the first American soldier, who was in the case of bullying of captives in Iraq, was sentenced to year in the year of jeremi.

Prepared by Leonid Gergeo: On June 21, 1791, the French king Louis XVI and Queen Maria-Antoinette, dressed in the clothes of servants, fled from Paris. Louis made a decision on the escape, mindful of the tragic fate of the English king Charles the First, executed during the English revolution of the 17th century. The French king realized that his departure would lead to the collapse of the monarchy, but the resentment inflicted on his dignity was overpowered.

Sergey Khazov , Samara: In Samara, after the terrorist attack on June 4, the police were closed without explan by the police without explanation. Sellers of the largest market in the city in protest, who remained without work, declared an unlimited hunger strike. Initially, the police did not let only those entrepreneurs whose outlets were in the so -called Vietnamese part of the market, where a terrorist attack occurred on the jobs of only those entrepreneurs.

Israeli planes yesterday struck bombing in the areas of South Lebanon, where, supposedly, there are anti -aircraft guns of militants of the Hezbollah group. The Israeli side reported that the goals were destroyed. There was no information about the victims. The Israeli military said that the bombing was carried out in response to the artillery shelling of the territory of the military base in the north of Israel.