(Tatyana Bakhmina, Valery Demyankov)

In Petrozavodsk, the mayor’s elections will be held today. According to Interfax, 7 candidates claim the post of head of the administration of the capital of Karelia. Among them are three entrepreneurs, two unemployed, as well as candidates from the parties "United Russia" and the LDPR.

The program is conducted by Marina Dubovik. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Vilnius Irina Peters takes part. Marina Dubovik: The culmination of the celebrations for the whole year about the millennium of Lithuania will be July 6 by the International Trilate in Vilnius and concerts of Lithuanian singing fees from around the world. Says a RS correspondent in Lithuania Irina Peters.

Andrey Piontkovsky US President Barack Obama on the eve of his first official visit to Russia-the trip is scheduled for July 6-8-made a series of public statements about the relations of Moscow and Washington, gave an interview to the American information agency AR, ITAR-TASS and Russia.

(Harry Kasparov, Sergey Aleksashenko, Stanislav Belkovsky)

The program is conducted by Marina Dubovik. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Moscow Mumin Shakirov takes part. Marina Dubovik: Today the conference "Russia after Putin" is held in Moscow, at which my colleague Mumin Shakirov worked.

In South and Central China, more than 320 thousand people were forced to leave their homes as a result of a flood caused by heavy wanges. At least 16 dead are reported. The most injured by Henan and Shanxi in the central part of the country and Fujian in the southeast were injured. It is reported that only about 300 houses are flooded in Shanxi province.

In Budapest at the age of 97, Bela Kirai, a Hungarian general, one of the leaders of the 1956 national liberation revolution, died on Saturday. During the events of the fall of 1956, Kirai was one of the employees of Hungarian Prime Minister Imre Nadia, commanded the National Guard. After the defeat of the revolution, as a result of the Soviet invasion, he fled to Austria, from there to the USA. In the late 80s, Bela Kirai returned to Hungary, was a deputy of the parliament.

Visiting Viktor Shenderovich is a military observer of the "Daily Journal" Alexander Golts.

In the Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia, a Chechen police officer was blown up on Sunday on Sunday. He was hospitalized with injuries, Interfax reports with reference to the headquarters of the temporary group of troops. In the Sunzhensky district, the joint operation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia and Chechnya on the search for militants, who attacked the police motorcade on Saturday. Then 9 police officers died, 10 were injured.

The organization of American states (OAG) suspended Honduras’s membership in a recent military coup in the country. The vote on this issue took place on Saturday night, on the eve of the return of the deposed president of Manuel Seleya to Honduras. He confirmed that he would arrive on Sunday to the capital of Honduras Tegusigalp, accompanied by the presidents of Argentina, Ecuador and Paraguay. At the end of June, Selya was removed from power by the military and expelled from the country.

In France on Saturday, three activists of the Basque-Saratratist group were arrested. According to the French police, two armed men and the woman were detained in the city in the south-west of France. They will be delivered to Paris, where they will appear before the court. Earlier this week in the same area, this cache belonging with explosives and detonators was discovered. Police of France and Spain often conducts coordinated operations against Basque extremists operating in both countries.

Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia and Chechnya conduct a special operation against militants who attacked Chechen policemen. About 20 people were blocked on the night of Saturday to Sunday in the forest near the Chechen village of Bamut. A mortar fire was carried out by the militants. Now police are trying to capture them.

In the parliamentary elections in Bulgaria, the right -centric party of the coat of arms (“Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria”) led by Mayor Sofia Boyko Borisov won a confident victory. According to preliminary data, the coat of arms will receive in the new parliament up to 117 deputy places out of 240, while the socialists of the current Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev are only about 40 seats.