Since the beginning of the year, the consumer price index in Russia has grown by 8.1% The financial and monetary authorities of Russia are reoriented from the policy of the currency course to the inflation targeting course. The new program of the Ministry of Finance and the mayor to stop inflation growth in the range of 10% using monetary policy tools will be prepared, according to the order of the government, by June 25.

Alexander Gavrilov is waiting for an explanation from the organizers of the festival by the CDH On June 16, the Kommersant newspaper was published in the title about the change of the program director of the Moscow International Book Festival, the editor -in -chief of the weekly Book Review, Alexander Gavrilov [ “TsDH turned the page of Alexander Gavrilov” ].

Iranian President Mahmud Akhmadidjad said that the political and economic interests of the leading world powers are worth an increase in oil prices. Speaking at a meeting of the Fund of International Development of the OPEC countries, Akhmadinjad said that price increases is artificial.

California became the second state of the USA after Massachusetts, where they began to register same -sex marriages. On Monday, the first certificates were issued to pairs that concluded a similar union. This became possible after the decision of the California Supreme Court, which recognized as unconstitutional, the ban on same -sex marriages. In November, California will host a referendum on the restoration of the ban, initiated by opponents of non -traditional marriages.

In Chechnya, armored vehicles belonging to the Russian Ministry of Defense were fired from grenade launchers. A local resident was injured. There are no victims among military personnel. The car was completely burned. According to law enforcement agencies, shelling was committed by three unknown people in camouflage in the village of Bamut Achkhoy-Martan district.

The Russian tungsten workers do not understand how their strategic enterprise could be in private hands 19 employees of the Russian Tolfram mining enterprise in Primorye announced a hunger strike, demanding payment of salary arrears. Workers did not receive money since February. Meanwhile, the management of the enterprise promises to pay them at best in August.

In the province of Kandahar in the south of Afghanistan, the units of international forces and the Afghan army are preparing for operations against the Taliban who have seized several settlements. From NATO helicopters, leaflets are scattered with a call to local residents to leave the territory of possible battles. It is reported that about 4 thousand people have already left their homes. The situation in the province worsened after hundreds of Taliban fled from prison in Kandahar last week.

The American singer, Soprano, Deborah Voit, after a four -year break, returns to the stage of the London Royal Opera House Covent Garden. In 2004, she had to leave the theater, since his leadership considered that the black stage costume in the play of Richard Strauss “Ariadne on the Naksos” was not combined with the magnificent forms of the singer. According to Deborah Voit herself, in 2004 she was simply fired for overweight.

Irina Lagunina: Last weekend, the envoy of the European Union again returned from Tehran with nothing. Javier Solan brought the Iranian leadership a new package of very attractive awards, if Iran refuses to enrich Uranus and closes his nuclear program. The package was developed by five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany.

The Museum of Natural History in London will open an installation in honor of the author of the evolutionary theory of Charles Darwin. The work of the British artist Tanya Kovach is a seventeen -meter cut of a two hundred -year -old tree from roots to the crown. The installation will be opened on February 12 next year on the day of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Darwin.

The condition of two of the five wounded border guards in Chechnya remains extremely difficult. According to Interfax, three border guards died as a result of the fighters' attack - two officers and a sergeant -contract. According to preliminary information, about thirty militants attacked a column of border guards from four cars. The search for attackers will continue on Tuesday morning.

In the south of the Gaza sector, in the area of the town of Khan Yunis, at least 5 militants of the Islamic Jihad radical group were killed as a result of the Israeli air raid, Radio Liberty correspondent in the Middle East region Rovshan Huseynov. Three more people were injured, one of them is hard. As a result of the next two attacks from the air in the area of the Dir al-Balah refugee camp, two militants of the Islam Army group were also wounded. The Israeli army confirmed all three airlines.

Exotic hockey competitions began in Abu Dhabi - the first tournament in the Cup of Arab countries in which 4 teams take part in history. The national team of the United Arab Emirates won Morocco - 9: 0, and Kuwait prevailed over Algeria - 7: 0.

At the end of 2007, almost 11 and a half million people in the world were refugees. These data were reported by the UN Supreme Commissioner for Refugees. Over the year, the number of people who have forced to leave their homes increased by one and a half million people. The main reason for this, according to the UN, is conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many citizens of these countries found refuge in neighboring states - Pakistan, Syria, Iran and Jordan.