In June, there were 7.9% less cars in the European Union in June than in June 2007, and in general, for the first half of these sales, the volumes of these sales were reduced by 2.2%. Such data were presented by the European Association of automotive industry enterprises. The main reasons, according to the experts of the association, were high inflation and rising prices for automobile fuel. So, sales of new cars in Spain decreased in June by 31%, in Italy - by 20%, in the UK - by 6%.

In the Sverdlovsk region on Wednesday, Sergey Karfidov was sentenced to four years in prison - the former head of the tax inspection of the city of Lesnaya. It is reported that according to the investigation, from 1994 to 2005, Carfidov contributed to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Plato Lebedev, Irina Golub and other participants in the organized group in tax evasion on an especially large scale. We are talking about the subsidiaries of Yukos, registered in the city of Lesnaya, explained in court.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. The Radio Liberty correspondent Igor Karney takes part. Andrei Shary : President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko made personnel permits in the top leadership of the country. The successors of the State Secretary of the Security Council of Viktor Sheiman and the head of the presidential administration Gennady Nevglus were determined.

The Russian government reduced imported customs duties on digital chambers to zero for an indefinite period. This regime of their import into the country was established in the fall of 2007, but then it was assumed that it would be valid only for nine months.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko made personnel castling in the top leadership of the country. The successors of the Security Council of the Security Council Viktor Sheiman and the head of the presidential administration Gennady Nevslas were determined. It was these officials that the Belarusian leader accused of inactivity, which led to an emergency on the night of July 4.

The program is conducted by Alexander GOSTOV. A radio correspondent of Radio Freedom Veronika Bode takes part. Alexander GOSTEV : 90 years ago, on the night of July 16 to 17, the last Russian emperor Nicholas II and his family members were shot in Yekaterinburg. Today, on the eve of this date, the Investigative Committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office stated that genetic examinations confirm: the remains found a year ago near Yekaterinburg belong to members of the royal family.

The program is conducted by Alexander GOSTOV. Loren Nelson takes part. Alexander GOSTEV : In the United States, the investigation was resumed according to one of the most high -profile racial crimes of the last century. In 1946, the white inhabitants of one of the rural areas of the southern state of Georgia dealt with four African Americanists. This was the last case of mass lynching in the country.

The German Foreign Minister plans to act as an intermediary in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict. According to the German Foreign Ministry today, Frank-Walter Steinmeier starts a trip on Thursday, during which Tbilisi, Sukhumi and Moscow will visit. The situation in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone was again aggravated after recent explosions in Abkhazia, in the organization of which the authorities of the unrecognized republic accused Georgia.

According to the Italian football club "Milan", in the near future in his ranks will be a Brazilian Ronaldinho. According to the club’s representatives, all the papers to make the transition of Ronaldino from Barcelona are completely ready. Milan "Gazetta Dello Sport" on its website on the Internet reported that the acquisition of the Brazilian will cost Milan 18.5 million euros.

A criminal case was opened against the jury in the process in the case of the murder of the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank of Russia Andrei Kozlov. The jury, whose name is not called, is charged with an attempt to prevent justice. According to the representative of the Investigative Committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office, the suspect offered the money to another jury to change the composition of the college and achieve an acquittal to one of the accused.

Israeli experts identified the bodies of the two soldiers transferred to Israel by the Hezbollah group - as part of the exchange of prisoners. Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldvasser were captured by militants in 2006. Their capture was the reason for the war between Israel and Hezbollah. It is installed when exactly the soldiers died. Israel, in turn, handed over the Five Lebanese Hezbollah - including Samira Kuntar, who had served a sentence for the murder of an Israeli family since 1979.

Guest of the program: Elena Petrova-Vodkin, daughter of the artist. Film critics summarize the results of the Karlovar festival. "Jazz on the FF": Louis Armstrong.

The first recruit of the Milan football club "Inter" with his new coach - Portuguese Jose Mourinho - was the Brazilian midfielder Mansini. The 27-year-old player was acquired from Roma for 12.5 million euros.

Russian astronauts Sergey Volkov and Oleg Kononeno completed the second exit to outer space. The astronauts installed a device for joining with a research apparatus on the service module of the International Space Station, the launch of which was scheduled for the next year. Russian astronauts have been located at the space station since April. They return to Earth in October.