The Americans stirred up a scandal around the DPRK just in time Yesterday, former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung (pictured) postponed a meeting in Pyongyang with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il scheduled for the end of June “due to growing international security concerns.” The trip, important for the development of inter-Korean dialogue, was disrupted amid clamor about the impending launch of a North Korean long-range ballistic missile.

Moscow is trying to reduce dependence on food imports The city authorities decided to take care of healthy food for Muscovites, while not forgetting to support agricultural producers from the budget. At yesterday's meeting of the Moscow City Duma, deputies adopted in the first reading the bill “On food security of the city of Moscow,” aimed, according to its authors, primarily at reducing the dependence of the Russian capital on food imports.

George Bush demanded that the EU pay for Iraq Yesterday, US President George W. Bush took part in the EU-US summit in Vienna and in the evening left for Budapest to celebrate the half-century anniversary of the Hungarian uprising against the Soviet-communist system. The residents of Vienna did not have the opportunity to look at the owner of the White House.

CLUBS Brazzaville (Spain - USA). During their two visits to Moscow, such warm relations have developed between the Moscow public and David Brown's group that Brazzaville will present its new album in Moscow. The group's music is an endless combination of motifs, melodies and traditions from different cultures. David Brown constantly travels and skillfully combines his discoveries with the main musical canvas - melancholic bossa nova. Ikra , 22.00. Dungen (Sweden).

Terrorists claim Russians have been killed Yesterday at about 17:00 Moscow time, alarming news appeared on the English-language website of CNN. The al-Qaeda-linked Iraqi organization Majlis Shura al-Mujahidin (Mujahideen Advisory Council), which previously claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of four Russian embassy employees in Iraq, reported the killing of captured Russians.

This is not the first time that Iraqi terrorists have used attacks on diplomats as a means of putting pressure on the governments of other countries. The peak of anti-diplomatic terror occurred last summer. Then the targets were embassy workers of Islamic states. On July 2, 2005, the Jihad Base in Iraq group, led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, recently eliminated by the Americans, kidnapped the Egyptian Ambassador to Baghdad, Ihab al-Sherif. The news of his murder came five days after the abduction.

Tzipi Livni goes to Russia Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has determined the timing of her official visit to Russia. As Vremya Novostei learned, the trip will take place from July 2 to July 4. The head of the diplomatic department will discuss in Moscow issues of the Palestinian-Israeli settlement, as well as the Iranian nuclear program. It is possible that Ms. Livni's trip precedes the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to Russia.

Forensic psychiatrists will deal with gambling addicts The creative passion of the Russian government, creating and launching national projects and federal targeted programs to the masses, seems to have reached the conscious strata of society. The director of the Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry named after Serbsky announced yesterday the creation of her program to combat gambling addiction.

Municipalities will have the right to distribute public land From July 1, the rules on the land turnover market will change. New rules for delineating public lands between levels of government should simplify land problems for business, but may be fraught with litigation. The question of who manages state undelimited lands is far from idle.

Russians are threatened with an increase in income tax The flat income tax scale no longer looks as unshakable as it seemed recently. In conditions of a surplus budget, in the absence of problems with the collection of this tax and with the successes declared by the authorities in legalizing wages, the idea of ​​​​redistributing the income of the rich in favor of the poor is captivating more and more high-ranking officials.

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia will visit Tskhinvali for the sake of friendship with America Today in Tskhinvali, as part of an emergency meeting of the co-chairs of the Joint Control Commission, convened in connection with the aggravated situation in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone, negotiations between the ministers of internal affairs of Georgia and the unrecognized republic of South Ossetia are to take place with the participation of representatives of the

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan revealed the content of negotiations with Gazprom Turkmen Foreign Minister Kurban Atayev yesterday explained the reasons for the unsuccessful outcome of Monday's negotiations between the country's President Saparmurat Niyazov and Gazprom head Alexei Miller. The minister publicly announced that Turkmenistan's appetites had grown to the point of setting the selling price for gas at $100.

Liberalization of the foreign exchange market provoked an increase in the demand of non-residents for OFZs The turnover of non-residents on the OFZ market increased tenfold in May - such statistics were published yesterday in the Bulletin of the Bank of Russia. This led to the fact that the total volume of transactions approximately doubled compared to April data and amounted to about 70 billion rubles.

Alexey Mordashov met halfway to Arcelor shareholders The passions surrounding the Luxembourg steel company Arcelor are heating up. After the head of Arcelor, Guy Dollet, said that in the current conditions and with constant pressure from shareholders on the company's management, he expects improved offers from both contenders - Severstal and the Indian Mittal Steel - the Russian company really agreed to meet Arcelor shareholders halfway .

The MIFF jury was headed by Andrzej Zulawski The XXVIII Moscow International Film Festival will open tomorrow, June 23. It will last until July 2. Having announced two months in advance that Michael Haneke, not just a relevant, but also very fashionable Austrian director in Europe, author of “Funny Games”, “The Pianist” and “The Hidden”, would become the chairman, the organizers calmly rested on their laurels.