Irina Lagunina: According to experts, annually in Russia in fires, up to 14-15 million hectares of forests perish. In connection with the heat that was established in most Russian regions, damage from forest fires this year may increase. Says Lyubov Chizhova. Lyubov Chizhova: In many Russian regions, abnormal heat was set, the temperature record was broken in the Voronezh, Belgorod and Lipetsk regions - there the temperature rose above 37 degrees of heat.

About 40 people were killed, according to updated data, on Thursday as a result of terrorist attacks in the Pakistani city of Lahor. According to local authorities, three suicide bombers carried out explosions from the Muslim shrine Data-Barbar, where hundreds of pilgrims gather. So far, no one has taken responsibility for the explosions. In May, in Lahore, more than 90 people died as a result of attacks on the mosque of the religious sect Ahmadiy.

Bronislav Komorovsky at the finish of the election campaign July 2 - the last day of the election campaign in Poland . Presidential candidates are completing electoral agitation, which is prohibited a day before the election. More than 1000 kilometers flew, drove and sailed around Poland on July 1, Bronislav Komorovsky - candidate for the presidency, speaker of the Sejm and acting head of the state. - The alarm clock is started, gentlemen, on July 4.

The Swedish police managed to free three people taken hostage by an attacker who tried to rob the Handelsbanken Branch on Esthermalm in the center of Stockholm. Earlier it was reported that one of the women who were inside the bank at the time of the attack managed to break out of the building. “For a long time we tried to negotiate, but in the end it was decided to storm the premises where the hostages and the robber were,” said the representative of the Swedish police, Kiell Lindgren.

In Kyrgyzstan, a new Constitution of the country came into force today. According to the final official results of the referendum on June 27, the new edition of the main document supported more than 90 and a half percent of voters. The turnout exceeded 72 percent. The Constitution provides for a transition from the presidential to the parliamentary republic. For the transition period until the end of 2011, the head of the Provisional Government Rosa Otunbaev will be the president of the country.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Kyiv: What are the prospects for cooperation of the United States and Ukraine? In the program "Time of Guests" on Friday July 2 at 19:07, the analyst of the Institute of Euro -Atlantic Cooperation Vladimir Gorbach participates. The host of the program is Vitaly Portnikov. A direct broadcast phone 8-800-200-2212 Free for all regions of Russia Pager 8-495-660-1055 Subscriber "Radio Liberty" SMS +7-903-743-2801

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Two out of 10 recently detainees in the United States on suspicion of espionage in favor of Russia admitted on Friday that they are Russian citizens and lived in the United States according to fake documents. According to the prosecutor's office, Michael Zottoli and Patricia Mills said that their real names are Mikhail Kutsik and Natalya Pereverzeva. On Friday, the court in the state of Virginia should consider the issue of their release on bail.

The House of Representatives of the US Congress approved the funding of additional US troops in Afghanistan. US President Barack Obama requested $ 33 billion for the placement of an additional 30 thousand military this year. It is reported that the money for an additional contingent will not be received as soon as the American administration wanted this.

Promotion of the Group "War" - "Ment in the Popovskaya Row" Many have heard about the group "War" and the promotions that it holds in St. Petersburg. It is enough to recall the very latter - the image of a huge phallus on the foundry of the FSB building, a large house. (Full text - in the program of Dmitry Volchek "over the barriers" ). The ideologist of the Group "War" is considered philologist and culturologist Alexei Plutzer-Sarno.

Vicki Pelaes, one of the detainees in the United States on suspicion of espionage in favor of Russia , was released on bail of 250 thousand dollars by decision of the court. She will be under house arrest. Earlier, the husband of Pelaes, Juan Lasaro, admitted to cooperation with Russian intelligence. Two more suspects, Richard and Cynthia Murphy, were left under arrest. Decisions at the petitions of the rest of the detainees who are asked to free them on bail will be made later.