In Afghanistan, dozens of high -ranking police officials were fired. The chief of the Kabul police and another 85 generals of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were dismissed. Resignations are most likely associated with recent riots in Kabul, when anti -American manifestations grew into pogroms. Up to 20 people died.

Vladimir Toltz: Only people absolutely ignorant in Russian history can be believed that the “popular elections” of the “first person” are the democratic gain of the recent post -Soviet past. But even those who know Russian antiquity are unlikely to celebrate the recent four hundred anniversary, involuntarily drawing our attention to the nearby future - in 2008, when the next elections of the President of Russia should take place.

Afghan troops again put control of the Chori district in Uruzgan, which was captured by Taliban militants on Tuesday. According to the representative of the authorities, 15 Taliban were killed at the same time, and the rest fled to the mountains. It is also reported that in a clash in another southern province - Kandahar on Friday evening killed 12 Taliban. In the neighboring province of Helmand, 18 extremists were captured on the same day.

On May 4 at 13:00 visiting the program “Time behind the wheel” - our regular expert Yuri Geyko, the host of the Avtolikbez on Autoradio program, and his wife, actress Marina Dyuzheva, - they have just returned from a road trip to six European countries.

The victory in the Parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic, apparently, was won by a conservative opposition. The counting of the votes has already ended. According to preliminary data, the Civil Democratic Party scored a little more than 35 percent of the vote. The leader of the party, Mirek Toporek, has already announced the victory. Social Democrats who ruled the country of 8 years received about 32 and a half percent.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mancher Mottaki said that Tehran will officially respond to new international proposals to resolve the conflict around his nuclear program. He also said that in the next 48 hours, one of the leaders of the European Union Javier Solan would arrive in Iran to officially transfer a new package of proposals. Earlier, five regular members of the UN Security Council and Germany agreed on these proposals.

An explosion occurred in the Basra in the south of Iraq - at least 15 people were killed, 30 were injured. According to the police, the mined car exploded near the market. In Baakub, an attack on a police checkpoint was attacked. 6 police officers were killed, at least two were injured. In the vicinity of the same city, the police found 8 disfigured human heads. Five killed are identified - they were guards in one of the Baghdad hospitals.

Russia has completed the rotation of the peacekeeping contingent in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict. This morning, the motorcade with peacekeepers left South Ossetia and has already entered the territory of Russia. On the eve of Georgia accused Russia of pulling rotation and conducting it by the power method. The command of Russian peacekeepers said that everything went strictly on schedule and in accordance with the rules provided for by the mandate.

Working with metal is heavy and dangerous. The leadership of the Ufa Institute is also In Ufa, the prosecutor's office opened a criminal case against the acting director of the Institute of Superplasticity of Metals Nikolai Barykin. The Soviet District Court removed him from office.

In the Iraqi city of Baakub, an attack on a police checkpoint was attacked. According to the authorities, 6 police officers were killed, at least two were injured. In the vicinity of the same city, the police found 8 disfigured human heads today. Five killed are identified - they were guards in one of the Baghdad hospitals.

On Saturdays, for two hours, political, social, cultural, secular results of the week in Russia and in the world, presenter Dmitry Volchek sums up. Discussion with experts about the reasons for the resignation of Prosecutor General Ustinov in the auction house "Sotbiz" took place the spring auction of works of Russian art of the week of the week - Paulo Coelho

The command of Russian peacekeepers in the area of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict reports the completion of the contingent rotation. According to the commander of Marat Kulammetov, today 500 military personnel of one battalion, whose service life has expired, are withdrawn from the conflict zone. Another battalion, already located in South Ossetia, enters their place. Earlier, Georgia demanded an immediate withdrawal of Russian troops both from South Ossetia and from Abkhazia.

In Strelna, near St. Petersburg, a meeting of the Ministers of Science of the Big Eight countries - the Carnegie Commission on Science and Technology, the Ufa prosecutor's office opened a criminal case against the acting director of the Institute of Superplasticity of Metal Metals of Nikolai Barykin Zone of the Georgian -Ossetian conflict, all 500 changed Russian peacekeepers left

How the rights of young mothers are violated by the authorities in the field, why new state programs for assistance are ineffective and whether it is possible to defeat the demographic crisis by birth rate, as the Russian president thinks.