The co -chair of the German Football Federation, Theo Tsvvziger, opposed President Iran Mahmud Akhmadzhada to prohibit the World Cup, which will begin this week in Germany. The other day, a group of deputies of the European Parliament asked such a request to the International Football Federation - FIFA. Akhmadinjad is invited to visit the championship - like the leaders of other countries whose teams participate in the tournament.

Iraq authorities are acting to release the employees of the Russian Embassy taken hostage. This was stated by the head of the Iraqi Foreign Ministry Hoshiyar Zebari in a telephone conversation with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Alexander Saltanov. Earlier, Iraqi television reported with A link to sources in the Ministry of Internal Affairs that four Russian citizens stolen on Saturday are released. This information did not receive confirmation.

Today is the 17th anniversary of the bloody suppression of a student demonstration in Beijing, on Tiananmen Square. In the Chinese capital, increased security measures have been taken. On June 4, 1989, the authorities suppressed the democratic performances of students, applying the army and tanks. Hundreds were killed, and maybe thousands of people. There is still no exact information about victims.

The second finalist of the NBA championship was determined. In the sixth match of the final series in the West, Dallas inflicted the guest defeat “FINICS” - 102: 93, won the series - 4: 2 and now in the struggle for the title will meet with the strongest team of the East - “Miami”. The first match will be held on Thursday, June 8 in Dallas.

Mikhail Berg: The Nobel Laureate in the literature of Sol Bellow was born in the United States in a family of Jewish emigrants, immigrants from Russia. And in his work, the Russian theme was often present, which most likely prevented his access to the Soviet reader. Before perestroika, only one story of the American writer was published back in 1961. And now the book of stories of Sollow Silver Silver Silver, translated into Russian, published in the Moscow publishing house AST.

In Feodosia, the manifestations of opponents of Ukraine’s entry into NATO continue. The protesters have been blocking the seaport for more than a week, where the equipment for international military maneuvers "SI Breeze - 2006" has been delivered. The authorities of Feodosia, Alushta and Sudak declared their cities "a territory free of NATO." The prosecutor’s office protested these decisions, ”the Radio Liberty correspondent reports.

In the south of Afghanistan, in the city of Kandahar, the suicide bomber blew up a mined car. At least three people were killed, 12 - injured. The explosion occurred between the two military vehicles in which the Canadian military patrol was located. None of the Canadians were injured. .

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?

-In Iraq on Saturday, at least 42 people became victims of explosions and attacks. Dozens - were injured. The largest terrorist attack was committed in the Basra, where a state of emergency was announced on Wednesday. During the explosion of a mined machine near the city market, 28 people died, 62 were injured. In Baghdad, the Russian diplomat Vitaly Titov was killed. Four employees of the Russian embassy were stolen - Fedor Zaitsev, Rinat Agliulin, Anatoly Smirnov and Oleg Fedoseev.

In the Lensky district of Yakutia in the village of Vitim, about 40 residential buildings are flooded as a result of the rise in water in the Lena River. The evacuation of local residents is underway. According to Interfax with reference to the regional center of the Ministry of Emergencies, the runway of the local airport is also flooded. Water in Lena, exceeding the critical mark, continues to rise.

The country's Prime Minister Irji Povobek refused to admit the voting results In the Czech Republic on Saturday evening, the votes of voters were completed, who within two days chose the deputies of the Czech parliament. So on Sunday morning the situation was evaluated as Patovaya. Apparently, we can talk about a political crisis that arose as a result of election results. Between the left and right at the moment, the absolute equality in the number of places in parliament.

On Saturday, Roland Garros courts in Paris took place matches of the third circle in single discharges (participants in the 1/8 finals were determined).

A special program of young people.

Iran threatens to provoke an oil crisis - in the event of forceful actions against it from the United States. The spiritual leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stated on Sunday that if the United States decides to strike through his country, then in response, Iran would prevent oil delivery from the region, blocking the passage of tankers through the Strait of Ormuz, connecting the Persian Gulf with the Indian Ocean.