The President appeared before the Indonesian parliament today to deliver his response to a censure motion implicating him in 2 multimillion dollar financial scandals. Our position is the same. The Foot and Mouth crisis has forced the government of Russia to close its frontiers to imports from the European Union, according to reports in the Portuguese Press. It is reported that Russia is to close its frontiers to all EU imports of animal origin. A Zhiguli car exploded in the Southern Administrative District of Moscow today at about 9am.
Police say it was a car bomb.
It went off in front of an apartment block on Borisovskiye Prudy Street. Later today, the presidium of the Moscow Region s court is to consider a surprise protest by Russia s Supreme Court which has found Tamara Rokhlina s indictment unlawful and groundless, and her guilt unproved. The programme was banned by the Moscow Region s vice-governor Mikhail Men, son of the late Father Aleksandr Men who had suffered a lot from censorship in his time. The British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, has praised Skopje for its handling of the incursion by Albanian extremists, in an address to the British Parliament this afternoon. The Portuguese ex-Chief of Joint Staff, General Gabriel Espirito Santo and Italian General Marco Albino were overlooked in favour of Finnish General Gustav Haglund.