Today, on George Bush's birthday, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's working visit to Washington ends. Moscow time, the meeting between the two presidents took place late at night, so the results will appear only today. It is only clear that the topic of Russia did not occupy the last place at these negotiations. Tbilisi analysts view the negotiations in Washington in conjunction with the meeting of Russian and Georgian Presidents Vladimir Putin and Mikheil Saakashvili in St.

In Odessa, on the set of Sergei Ursulyak’s new film “Liquidation,” popular artist Andrei Krasko died suddenly of a heart attack. By a fateful coincidence, just the day before, an episode was filmed in which the hero Krasko dies. He was 48 years old. Andrei Krasko grew up in a theatrical family (his father is the famous St.

Italy made it to the World Cup final Football Italy is experiencing collapse and triumph at the same time. In days when the best clubs in Serie A, Juventus, Milan, Fiorentina and Lazio, are expected to be relegated to the lower divisions as punishment for fixing matches, the Italian national team, having beaten the tournament hosts Germany 2:0, for the first time in has reached the World Cup final for the last 12 years.

Yesterday, the eagerly awaited meeting in Brussels between the High Representative of the European Union for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana, and the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, Ali Larijani, broke down at the last moment. The meeting was canceled at the initiative of the Iranian side.

Chronicle of sporting events Tomorrow the fourth international volleyball tournament among women's teams starts in the Sverdlovsk region - the Cup of the first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin. At the preliminary stage, the national and youth teams of Russia, Azerbaijan and Holland will play in Nizhny Tagil from Friday to Sunday. In another group in Yekaterinburg, China, Kazakhstan, Cuba and Türkiye will compete.

Religious leaders of 49 countries drafted a message to the G8 The result of the World Summit of Religious Leaders was an appeal to the leaders of world powers to certainly cooperate with representatives of leading faiths when making certain government decisions.

North Korea entered Russian territorial waters For the day before yesterday, US Independence Day and today's 60th anniversary of President George W. Bush, North Korea prepared a scandalous “gift.” An assortment of short, medium and long range missiles flew towards the Sea of ​​Japan. The first rocket launched a few minutes after the space shuttle Discovery took off from the spaceport in Florida.

The State Duma has finally adopted the draft law “On Gas Exports,” which officially establishes Gazprom’s monopoly on the sale of this type of fuel outside Russia. The document, which passed yesterday in the second and third readings, expands the rights of the semi-state gas concern to export gas from future projects for the export of liquefied natural gas and even liquefied petroleum gases (LPG), which oil workers receive after processing condensate.

The State Duma has launched a tax amnesty State Duma deputies yesterday adopted in the first reading a bill on a simplified procedure for declaring income by individuals, or, more simply put, on a tax amnesty. There are still more questions to the document initiated personally by the President of Russia than answers.

Yesterday the results of the presidential elections in Mexico became known. The candidate from the ruling conservative National Action Party (MNA), 43-year-old Felipe Calderon, remains in the lead with 36.38%. He is 0.64% ahead of his rival, the leader of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), 52-year-old Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who has been compared to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. But it’s too early to celebrate Calderon’s victory.

Russia has pledged to switch to European standards of higher education by 2010 It was decided to “abolish” borders for students of the Old World on June 19, 1999, when the ministers of education of 29 countries signed a declaration in Bologna, France, on the creation of a single European higher education space.

Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, head of the Center for Economics and Politics of China and Japan at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vasily MIKHEEV comments on the situation around North Korea. —What explains the North Korean demarche? -- The North Koreans understand that with normal development of relations, in exchange for external assistance, they are forced to carry out market reforms and open up.

Europeans have begun arresting the heads of their intelligence services There is no doubt that today the Parliament of the United Europe will extend for six months the investigation into the scandalous case of secret captures in Europe by CIA agents of people suspected of terrorism. After all, Marco Mancini, director of the counterintelligence department at SISMI, Italy's military intelligence service, and his employee Gustavo Pignero were arrested yesterday in Rome.

“Project Factory” presented an exhibition dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the great Dutchman It is impossible to prepare for the miraculous. How to predict where and when something will appear that can surprise you and reveal long-frozen feelings in you? You can, of course, choose a specific route. Go, for example, to a popular museum and there, surrounded by recognized masterpieces, look for this encounter with beauty.

Spies, saboteurs and traitors to the Motherland will have their property confiscated The State Duma yesterday gave the head of state the right to use armed forces and special forces to combat terrorism both within the country and abroad. Corresponding amendments to the current legislation were prepared in connection with the ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism and the adoption of the Law “On Counter-Terrorism”.