US Secretary of State Kondoliza Rice arrived on a visit to the Middle East, where she will hold negotiations with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Rice said that she wants to coordinate the efforts of the parties in the process of withdrawal of Israeli troops and settlements from the Gaza sector. Today, Kondoliza Rice is negotiating with the head of the Palestinian Autonomy Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

The number of hepatitis A in the Tver region again grew about 642-A, including 177 children. Over the past day, 9 more people were hospitalized in the Rzhevsky and Zubtsovsky districts. Rzhev remains the center of the flash of the disease. According to experts, the pace of spread of the disease is reduced.

In the Aksakai district of the Rostov region, a body of the State Duma deputy from the United Russia party, Vladimir Litvinov, was discovered in the Don River. The cause of death is not reported. According to preliminary data, there was a cottage either the deputy himself or his relatives on the farm. An investigation has begun.

The program is conducted by Kirill Kobrin. The correspondent of Radio Freedom Lily Palveliev takes part. Kirill Kobrin: In the Far East, for the first time in 10 years, the rare animals living in Russia were calculated - Amur tigers. The results are encouraging: the number of this rare species in the country is stable - about 500 individuals. Report Lily Palvelieva.

In Iraq, about 50 rebels were destroyed during the military operation in the province of Anbar - near the border with Syria. About 100 foreign militants were captured. About a thousand naval infantrymen of the United States take part in the operation with the support of the Iraqi army, tanks and aviation. This is the third large -scale operation in the west of Iraq over the past one and a half months. Its goal is to break the resistance of the rebels.

The program is conducted by Kirill Kobrin. The Radio Liberty correspondent Maxim Yaroshevsky takes part. Kirill Kobrin: human rights activists and politicians again spoke about human rights violations in Chechnya, who, in their opinion, are committed by security officers Ramzan Kadyrov.

On the border of Tajikistan and Afghanistan, the first stone was laid in the construction of a bridge over the Punzh River. The ceremony was attended by the leaders of both countries - Emomali Rakhmonov and Hamid Karzai. The construction of the bridge is almost 700 meters in the United States. It is expected that traffic on it will open in two years.

In Moscow, an explosive device found under a machine that stood in an underground garage of a residential building was neutralized on a Koshtoyan Street. The residents of the house were evacuated. The bomb found the guard at home. It was laid under the car of the manager of the company Elix Auto. According to the deputy prosecutor of Moscow, Sergei Lapin, if the bomb exploded, the house could collapse.

The program is conducted by Kirill Kobrin. The Radio Liberty correspondent Natalya Golitsyna takes part. Kirill Kobrin: In England, the results of a study on the clarification of the number of existing varieties of love are published in England. It gives definitions of nine real types of this mysterious feeling. The microphone has a Radio Liberty in London Natalya Golitsyna. Natalya Golitsyna: For centuries, if not millennia, humanity tried to solve the secret of love.

The summit of the leaders of the European Union ended with a crushing failure - the budget for the next seven years could not be accepted due to implacable disagreements. Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Junker admitted that the European Union is in a deep crisis. President of Poland Marek Belka accused of failing the summit of the richest EU countries, which, according to him, showed "selfishness". The most acute conflict at the summit arose between Great Britain and France.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Iran reported that the former president of the country of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani retained the first place in the presidential race. The speaker of the Iranian parliament Mehdi Carubi came to the second place. The conservative mayor of Tehran Mahmud Akhmadijad is in third place. All three candidates are approaching a mark of 20 percent of the vote. About 70 percent of voters took part in the presidential election.

In Iran, the presidential election ended. Seven people are running for the post of head of state. The leading candidates are Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who was already held by the presidential post, and the ex -minister of education, supporter of the reforms Mustafa Moin. According to Iran, both candidates will receive an approximately equal number of votes. However, since none of them will gain the necessary 50 percent, apparently, the second round of voting will have to be held.

[Radio Liberty: Programs: History and Modernity: Time difference] [18-06-05] Vox populi: enemies of Russia Author and leadingwood Toltz Vladimir Tolts: The Levada sociological center at the end of May conducted a survey in which 1,600 Russians over 18 years old participated. The purpose of the survey was to clarify how the Russian population of Russia is the outside world beyond the borders of the state .

[Radio Liberty: Programs: History and Modernity: Documents of the past] [18-06-05] Moscow and Baltic. To the 65th anniversary of the June events of 1940 Editor and leadingwardy Toltz Authors Elena Zubkova and Olga Edelman Elena Zubkova: In June 1940, 65 years ago, a new stage began in the history of the Baltic countries - Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia.

In the Tver region, work continues to clean the soil and ponds in the area of the accident of the commodity near the village of Zuevo. According to Interfax with reference to the head of the regional center of the Ministry of Emergencies Paul Paul, the leak of fuel oil in the guest river continues. According to experts, the threat of infection of the Volga remains.