To restore order in East Timor, additional peacekeeping troops are needed, ”the UN mission believes. Stormy riots have been going on for several days in Dili, the capital of East Timor, although about two thousand peacekeepers are stationed in the city. According to the Red Cross, 50 thousand inhabitants of Dili were forced to escape. Australia sends another group of police officers there. The unrest in Dili began with the protest of the military, which grew into mass pogroms.

On May 29, 1945, artist van Mezheegeren was arrested in Amsterdam by American intelligence officers and the Netherlands military police - on charges of aiding German invaders, as well as in the fact that he sold the artist Yana Vermaramer “Christ and the sinner” in the Goering collection. Reichsmarshal Goering paid for the picture a million 650 thousand guilders.

In the north of Israel, a military was subjected to missile shelling from the territory of Lebanon base. According to the Israeli command, one of the servicemen was slightly wounded. There is destruction. Israel assigned responsibility for the incident on Lebanon. The Hezbollah group, which enjoys great influence in the south of Lebanon, previously repeatedly fired at Israeli territory.

Russia is still categorically against the use of force against Iran. The secretary of the Russian Security Council Igor Ivanov at a meeting with the Iranian colleague Ali Laridzhani made this statement in Tehran. Iranian television gives Ivanov’s words that Russia - unlike the United States - believes that the conflict around the Iranian nuclear program can only be resolved by dialogue. Any use of force, he said - only complicates the problem and lead to an increase in tension in the region.

In Georgia, all the residents of South and North Ossetia detained the day before, the South Ossetian media reported the day before. According to them, 42 people were taken to the post of peacekeeping forces in the vicinity of Tskhinvali. According to Interfax, Ossetians were detained by Georgian special forces on Saturday morning. There is evidence that some of them were beaten during the detention.

The presenter Ivan Tolstoy raises sharp, often painful, issues of the Russian cultural process: are the established stereotypes are true, are the assessments, are these entertaining and unfairly forgotten by certain cultural figures?

The first finalist of the Stanley Cup was Edmonton, who won the final series in the Western Conference at Anaheim with a score of 4: 1. In the fifth match, Edmonton achieved a guest victory - 2: 1. For the first time, with the current drawing system, the victory in the conference was won by a team that took eighth place according to the results of the regular championship.

On the Pacific Islands Tongga and Papua New Guinea, a strong earthquake occurred. The force of underground shocks reached 6 and 7 tenths of the point on the Richter scale. There were no reports of victims and destruction. The islands are in the same active seismic zone as Indonesia, where thousands of people died yesterday as a result of the earthquake.

In Italy, elections are held to local authorities, on which the right, defeated in the recent parliamentary elections, hoped to take revenge. The greatest attention is directed to the elections of mayors in four large cities - Rome, Milan, Turin and Naples. Italians will vote within two days - today and tomorrow.

Oleg Vinokurov: In the end of the Russian Water Polo championship, the Victory of the School subsurbed won the victory for the second year in a row. With his head coach Alexander Kabanov, the conversation, as you will hear now, was not only about the champion team. Dmitry Morozov: First of all, Alexander Sergeyevich, let me congratulate you on gold medals. If generally characterize the championship, what is its difference from previous tournaments? Alexander Kabanov: Firstly, thanks.

George Haindrava has introduced at least some clarity The mysterious event occurred the day before in South Ossetia. According to the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic, Mikhail Minzaev, more than forty Ossetians were detained by units of the Ministry of State Security of Georgia. It is interesting, however, that such a ministry does not exist in Georgia.

"Culture two" - this is the name of the book about the vanguard and Stalinist architecture, published twenty years ago in the United States. Today it is published a second time in Russia. Its author, designer and cultural historian Vladimir Paperny, together with the publisher Irina Prokhorova, journalist Masha Hessen, sociologist Anatoly Golubovsky, architectural critic Nikolai Malinin and cultural scientist Julia Leaderman talk about the features of culture-2 in modern Russia

The guest of the program is the head of the development department of the Studio "Formula Sound" Viktor Shatov. The topic of release is a test of auto -sound. What are auto -sound competitions in Russia and abroad?

Visiting Viktor Shenderovich in the St. Petersburg Studio "Radio Liberty" - literary critic Konstantin Azadovsky