The United States is concerned about the verdict Mikhail Khodorkovsky. This was stated at a press conference in the White House, US President George Bush, adding that he had already talked about Khodorkovsky’s case by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The US administration, he said, is closely monitoring the situation. The congressman who arrived in Moscow as part of the American Government delegation Tom Lantos sharply criticized the decision of the court in the Yukos case.

The new mufti was elected in Chechnya - the clergy of the republic was headed by Sultan Mirzaev. Most of the participants in the collection of imams of mosques voted for his candidacy. Former Mufti Ahmad-Haji Shamaev announced his departure from the post of spiritual leader of the Muslims of Chechnya last week.

In Iraq, according to international agencies, the Iraqi Air Force helicopter crashed, while 4 American and one Iraqi soldier were killed. The US military command confirmed the fact of the disaster, but does not report the fate of the crew. It is also unknown whether a technical malfunction caused the fall or there was a shelling.

The program is conducted by Alexei Kuznetsov. The Radio Liberty correspondent Elena Solntseva takes part. Alexey Kuznetsov: As a result of an accident in a tourist bus with Russian tourists in Turkey hospitals, 15 Russians affected in a car accident, two of them are in serious condition. Elena Solntseva: As a result of the car accident, a resident of Nizhny Novgorod died and 32 Russian tourists were injured. The Russian consulate expressed condolences to the relatives of the deceased.

[Radio Liberty: Programs: Culture: American Hour] [31-05-05] How the earth again became flat. "Colony": Hippie social experiment. "Book Review" is the star life of Mayakovsky's last love. "Disneyization" of the Lincoln Museum. Film of the Week: Israeli comedy "Tragedy of Nina." Khasid rap Holder Alekkander Genis Alexander Genis: In 1492, Christopher Columbus went on swimming, to India.

The program is conducted by Victor Nechez. The Radio Liberty correspondent Mikhail Salenkov takes part. Victor Nechez: Today, millions of Russian citizens were waiting with interest in a court decision. The Constitutional Court issued a verdict on the legality of compulsory insurance of auto -citizenship liability. Only one exception has been made - it does not correspond to the constitution, according to the court, the 5th article of the Law on OSAGO.

In the Iraqi city of Baakuba, a truck near the army checkpoint was blown up in the morning. Two Iraqis were killed, seven were injured. Under the city of En-Nasiria, an Italian helicopter crashed. Four soldiers died. Details are still unknown. A new audio recording appeared on the Internet - presumably, the leader of extremists in Iraq Abu Musab Az -Zarkaui. He claims to be easily wounded in recent battle.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili welcomed an agreement signed yesterday in Moscow on the withdrawal of Russian military bases from Georgian territory during 2008. According to Saakashvili, this historical decision meets the interests of both states. The agreement was reached at a meeting of the heads of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia and Georgia - Sergey Lavrov and Salome Zurabishvili. It is assumed that the withdrawal of heavy equipment will begin in August this year.

On May 31, 1846, at an emergency meeting of professors of St. Petersburg University, the order of the Minister of Education of Count Sergei Uvarov was announced about “how to understand our nationality and what the Slavs are in relation to Russia”. The order read: “Our nationality consists in unlimited devotion and obedience to autocracy, and the Slavs of the Western should arouse any sympathy in us. It is in itself, and we ourselves. We are the most solemnly renounce him.

The United States demand that Latvia take harsh measures to combat money laundering in its banks. Deputy Minister of Finance of the United States Stuart Levy stated in Riga that Washington was considering the issue of taking sanctions against two Latvian banks suspected of laundering money. The Latvian authorities believe that half of the money stored in banks - from Russia and the former Soviet republics.

NATO Secretary General JAAP de Hop Scheffer said he would seek an independent international investigation of recent bloody events in Uzbekistan. According to him, in view of the refusal of President Islam Karimov from such an investigation, the NATO parliamentary Assembly recommends that the issue of relations with Uzbekistan recommends. Scheffer made this statement at a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly in the capital of Slovenia.

In the Supreme Court of North Ossetia, the process in the case of Nurpashi Kulaev, the only surviving action movie who participated in the seizure of the school in Beslan, resumed. At today's meeting, Kulaev confirmed that 32 people were included in the attackers group. According to him, the first explosion at the school, followed by the assault, occurred after the sniper killed one of the militants. As a result of the attack in Beslan in September last year, 330 people were killed.

In Sudan, an employee of the international organization "Doctors without borders" Paul Forman - he is charged with "the spread of false information about the acts of violence in the Western province of Darfur." According to the prosecutor, Forman is released on bail, but he is forbidden to leave Sudan. The UN expressed extreme concern in connection with the arrest of Forman and urged the Sudanese authorities to immediately remove all the charges from him.

The main topic of release Scientists of Hungary and the United States estimated the average life expectancy of a news message published on this site on the Internet. As the study showed, most news are interested in site visitors within 36 hours, according to the Company. We listen to the point of view of the expert Vladimir Gubailovsky: “Researchers used the statistics of the largest Hungarian news resource Origo. The number of downloads from the site is six and a half million pages per day.

Andrei Sharogradsky: In the head of the day on May 30, we represent the brothers Lima and Noel Gallacherov, members of the Oasis group, whose composition “Uanderful” was recognized, according to polls, the best song of all times of the UK. The second place in these polls was taken by the Bohemian Rapsody of the Kuin group, the third - the "Staircase to the sky" "Ice Zeppelin".