Yuri Zhigalkin: From now on, even the forty -fiber -year -old healthy Americans of both sexes can sign up for service in the army, reserve or the National Guard. The second time in a year, the Pentagon increases the age value of volunteers. At the beginning of the year, he was thirty -five years old. Jan Runov: It is assumed that the main reason for increasing the age of recruits is the war in Iraq. In peacetime, there are enough volunteers. But now in the army a shortage of 4%.

In many cases, “problematic” consumer loans are simple: the easier and faster to get a loan, the more it will have to be returned to it later The growth of expired and irrevocable consumer loans in Russia in terms of pace is ahead of the boom of the retail lending segment itself, the volume of which has already exceeded $ 40 billion. The central bank recently stated that he determined 40 banks who have especially many problem loans.

CIA rely on the leaders of the clans of the Somali against the Islamist militia - and lost The nominal government of Somalia and the Islamic group, which recently seized the capital of the country of Mogadisho, agreed on mutual recognition and the cessation of hostilities. They signed a non -aggression pact in Sudan. Thus, the Islamic militia, the war against which the United States has recently financed, approached international recognition.

The program is conducted by Tatyana Valovich. Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Civil Defense and Emergency Situations of St. Petersburg Valery Ardashev and Radio Liberty correspondent in St. Petersburg Tatyana Voltskoye take part. Tatyana Valovich: In St. Petersburg, the International Forum "Natural, Technogenic and Fire Security of Russia" is being held.

The Supreme Court of Japan rejected the claim against the Prime Minister Dzyunitiro Koizumi - on compensation for moral damage caused by his visits to the Tokyo Temple of Yasukuni. In this shrine, the dead Japanese soldiers and officers are honored, including war criminals from the Second World War, executed by the sentence of the International Tribunal. The annual visits of Koizumi to the temple caused violent protests in South Korea and China, which suffered from the Japanese occupation.

Graduation balls will be held in Russia today. This year, the school walls leave more than a million young people. In Moscow, the main celebrations will be held in the State Kremlin Palace, Olympic complex "Luzhniki", the concert hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, in the Youth Palace and at other large city venues.

At the women's tournament in Hertogenbosha, Russian woman Elena Dementyeva could not go to the final. In the semifinals she was beaten by Dutch Michaela Korechek 1: 6, 7: 6, 6: 4.

The non-governmental organization “Carnegie for the International World”, based in the United States, placed on its website a video of some events preceding the military reprisals with demonstrators in Andijan (Uzbekistan) last May. The video captured the armed people who were among the manifestants. The Uzbek authorities claim that the authors of the filming are supporters of the Islamists who provoked riots in Andijan.

The Ministry of Defense of Georgia expressed indignation in connection with the actions of participants in the protest in the capital of South Ossetia Tskhinvali. As stated in the Ministry of Friday, during the promotion, during the action on Thursday evening in the evening before the headquarters of military observers of the OSCE mission, the manifestants pierced the tires of 11 mission cars. On Thursday, the current OSCE chairman, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel de Gyukht, arrived in Georgia.

In the Kemerovo region at the Kiselevskaya mine, the breed collapsed, one person died. In total, there were three miners in the face. Two got to the surface on their own. According to preliminary data, the cause of the accident was a poor -quality mount.

In the southeast of Moscow, an explosion occurred near the Bratislavskaya metro station. 3 people who received abrasions suffered. A plastic cabin of a dry -mounted slot machine was exploded on Myachkovsky Boulevard. The pavilion caused serious damage. According to Interfax, a representative of the city prosecutor’s office, a 400 grams of TNT equivalent worked. A criminal case has been opened.

The V12_Design design studio has developed a prototype of a laptop, which is equipped with a second touch display instead of a traditional keyboard. The user can display on the touch screen, both a traditional keyboard and a piano keyboard, to use a computer to process music. If you expand the computer vertically, it becomes an open e -book, reports CNews.

Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed former Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov to the post of Minister of Justice. The new Prosecutor General became Yuri Chaika, who headed the Ministry of Justice in recent years. Today the Federation Council approved his appointment. In addition, the upper house of parliament approved the decision on early termination the powers of the senator from Kalmykia Levon Chakhmyan, suspected of corruption.