Mikhail Sokolov: The scandal of last week in Arkhangelsk only deepened. In response to the publication of compromising evidence on the governor of Nikolai Kiselev, accused of bribery, the prosecutor's office decided to arrest the exposure of the mayor of Arkhangelsk Alexander Donskoy. Reporting Igor Klyuchnikov. Igor Klyuchnikov: In such an atmosphere of the mayor of Arkhangelsk, Alexander Donskoy, in underwear, was carried out of the entrance, holding the two special forces under his arms.

Tony Blair, a new special messenger of the so -called “Middle Eastern Quartet”, which includes the UN, the EU, the USA and Russia, arrived in Israel from Jordan. In Aman, the former Prime Minister of Great Britain discussed measures with the Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs to resume the peace process in the Middle East. After negotiations in Israel, Tony Blair will go to a meeting with Palestinian leaders on the western coast of Jordan.

Tony Blair, a new special messenger of the so -called “Middle Eastern Quartet”, which includes the UN, the EU, the USA and Russia, arrived in Jordania. In Amman, Blair discusses measures with the Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs to resume the peace process in the Middle East. Then the plans of a special messenger - meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

The Afghan authorities are trying to convince the Taliban to free 23 citizens of South Korea held in hostage. Government troops surrounded the district in the central province of gap, where hostages are located. A group of South Korean representatives arrived in Kabul, which discusses the problem of the release of hostages with the Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The abducted came to Afghanistan assistance to local residents and preach Christianity. At least 15 of them are women.

In Poland, a 3-day mourning for pilgrims who died in a car accident in the south of France was declared. Relatives of 26 dead arrived at the place of disaster. It was also visited by President of Poland Lech Kachinsky. The disaster occurred in the Alps near Grenoble. The bus, on which a group of Polish Catholics, returned from pilgrimage to the shrine, notre Dam de la Valett, struck the fence on the mountain road and fell into the gorge.

In Canada, the world championship for players no older than 20 years has ended. In the final match, the Argentina team won the Czech team - 2: 1 and for the sixth time became the strongest in the world. The Chileans won bronze medals, in the meeting for 3rd place, they prevailed over peers from Austria-1: 0.

In Angarsk, an attack on the Youth Ecological Camp in Brussels was a meeting of the Council of the European Union, Russians prefer foreign cars

The program is conducted by Kirill Kobrin. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Belgrade Aiya Kuga takes part. Kirill Kobrin: In Belgrade, they are preparing for the new round of negotiations on the status of Kosovo. International consultations of recent days changed the Kosovo settlement format: Western countries removed the draft resolution from discussion, against which Russia, which was informally representing the fundamental interests of Serbia, objected to the UN Security Council.

Last night, unknown people fired eighteen shots from Kalashnikov’s assault rifles on the windows of the newspaper Establishment. In the late hour, only a shift was in the building. She miraculously did not suffer: bullets flew over her head. The editor -in -chief of the weekly Artem Timchenko is sure that the reason for the attack was the materials of the last number.

In Baghdad today, as a result of several explosions, at least 17 people were killed, dozens were injured. The mined cars exploded almost simultaneously at the police station and on a busy trading street in the central district of the city, inhabited mainly by Shiites. In the city of Baakuba, according to the Iraqi authorities, 18 militants were killed and more than 60 were injured during the joint operation of Iraqi and American troops.

In two areas of the Amur Region, an emergency was announced due to floods. After pouring rains, the water level in the Zeisky reservoir rose sharply. Dozens of houses are flooded, more than 400 people are evacuated from the danger zone. The rise of water continues. Additional rescuers were sent to the area.

In the Irkutsk region, 11 suspects were detained in an attack on the environmental camp in Angarsk. One of them was arrested by court decision, said the assistant to the regional prosecutor Alexander Semenov. The attackers, he said, can be attributed to extremely right extremists. A group of young people armed with bats and sticks attacked the tent camp of ecologists who protested against the processing of nuclear waste at the Angarsk Electrolyzed Plant.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown again called on the Russian authorities to give Andrei Lugovoi, suspected by the British prosecutor’s office of involvement in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in London. Brown made this statement today at a press conference in London. On the same day, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia stated that the actions of Great Britain related to the refusal of Moscow to issue a meadow are politically motivated.

Sergey Mitrokhin about the new composition of the Moscow government.