Andrey Piontkovsky. Photo from the site www.pankisi.info I always said that the poem of Alexander Blok "Scythians" is not only brilliant poetry, but also the most outstanding, most modern and relevant text of Russian political thought. All the duality, all the tragic torn of the Russian consciousness in his attitude to Europe, to the West, is excellently expressed in it.

Abu Musab Az-Zarkavi. Photo from the archive Newsru.com The American military in the Iraqi city of Mosul blocked the house with eight militants al-Qaida, among which the leader of the Iraqi terrorists Abu Musab Az-Zarkavi could be. This was announced by the representative of the American command. According to the source, during the shootout, all the militants who were in the house were killed. Three of them blew themselves up so as not to be captured.

Knesset meeting. Photo from the site Lenta.ru On Monday, the Israeli parliament approved in the first reading of the four bill on self -dissolution, thereby taking the first step to holding early universal elections. According to Reuters, 84 deputies voted in favor of this decision, 10 abstained, the voted “against” were not.

The novel is immortal. Photo from the site kmu.gov.ua The Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Ukraine on Regional Policy Roman Minramustees resigned. He stated this at a press conference on Monday, reports "Ukrainian News." "Today I submitted a letter of resignation from the post of Deputy Prime Minister in connection with the fact that the party’s council decided to concentrate in the elections," said the immortal.

Robert Mugabe. Photo from the site www.africana.ru President Zimbabwe Robert Mugaba said that Uranus reserves were discovered in his country. According to him, the Air Force reports, Zimbabwe will use Uranus to produce energy, and does not intend to develop nuclear weapons. "The discovery of uranium will greatly help the government in the further implementation of the rural locality electrifying program," Mugaba said.

Accident. Photo from the site www.nwcars.ru In the capital, a special service can be created for registration of traffic accidents, withdrawn from the service "02". As Interfax reports, the deputy chief of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate Vladimir Popov announced this. "We spoke this issue with the head of the Moscow traffic police department Sergei Kazantsev," Popov said at the visiting meeting of the Mosgorduma Security Commission dedicated to the work of the 02 service.

Putin performs in Tokyo. Frame NTV The President of Russia arrived at the residence of the Japanese Prime Minister "Sori Kantay", where the official negotiations of Vladimir Putin and Junitiro Koizumi begin. It is reported by RIA "Novosti". According to the results of the summit, the signing of a large package of documents is expected.

Sergey Abramov is the head of the Chechnya government. Photos of faces On the fact of a car accident in which the Prime Minister of Chechnya Sergey Abramov suffered, a criminal case was opened.

Victor Yushchenko. Photo from the site Inter.su About a hundred people intend to throw the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko with eggs, tomatoes and other objects during his speech on the Square Maidan in Kyiv on November 22. On this day, the first anniversary of the Orange Revolution will be solemnly celebrated. According to Polit.ru, a source close to the organizers of the festivities reported a possible threat to Yushchenko.

Block post in Chechnya. Frame 1 channel In several settlements of Chechnya, on Sunday, meetings were held with a demand to find and punish all the guilty in the execution of three inhabitants of the village of Staraya Sunzha. According to Echo of Moscow, the meetings were held by residents of the old Sunzhi and two villages of the Kurchaloevsky district.

Image from the site moda.ru Women who have undergone sexual violence are partially to blame for what happened, every third resident of Great Britain believes. The human rights organization "International Amnesty" conducted this survey within the framework of the campaign to "stop violence against women," the Air Force reports.

Vladimir Putin and Dzyunitiro Koizumi. Frame '' Vesti '' Russia and Japan expressed their readiness to continue the dialogue on the problem of concluding a peace treaty. About this, as RIA Novosti reports, said Vladimir Putin on Monday at a press conference with Japani Prime Minister Dzyunitiro Koizumi. According to the Russian president, both Moscow and Tokyo are one in the fact that the problem must be solved.

Fight. Photo from the site http://kavkaz.memo.ru In the village of Koshkeldy, the Gudermes district of Chechnya, two officers of the district police department were killed on Sunday, another policeman was wounded. This was reported to Interfax a source in the district administration. According to the source, fire from machine guns was opened for police officers. The police lieutenant colonel Ruslan Katsaev and senior lieutenant Sultan Bersanov died.

A rally in Grozny. Photo from the site kavkaz.memo.ru In Grozny on Monday, a rally of protest against shelling of settlements is held. According to Echo of Moscow, representatives of two dozen human rights organizations, students of Grozny universities and members of youth organizations take part in the action. The protest is associated with the events in the village of Staraya Sunzha on the outskirts of Grozny, where last Wednesday the military shot three civilians.

Eduard Rossel. Photo from the site www.ural-chel.ru Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk Region at an extraordinary joint meeting of the chambers on Monday approved the candidacy of the current head of the region Eduard Rossel for the position of governor. This is reported by Interfax. All 24 deputies of the regional Duma and all 19 deputies of the House of Representatives attending the meeting voted for the allocation of Rossel by the authority of the governor.