Former senior officials from the Roagan and Clinton administrations are sure that the United States must help Ukraine in resolving the crisis. In the joint article of the former Minister of Defense in the government of Clinton, William J. Perry and the ex-head of Reagan George P. Schulz in The Wall Street Journal , the United States should study and arm the Ukrainian army, as well as tighten sanctions against Russia. The translation of the material is published by Inopressa .

Participants in the armed conflict in Syria - both militants and government forces - commit war crimes and crimes against humanity. This is stated in the 45-page report by the special commission of the UN, investigating a message about violations of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic.

The press and experts, commenting on the meeting of the Presidents of the Russian Federation and Ukraine on the eve of the Presidents of the Russian Federation on the eve of the Customs Union - Ukraine - EU, noted: firstly, that it ended, as expected, without breakthroughs, and secondly, that Vladimir Putin emphasized the discussion of the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis, hinting that the issues of peace and war were not in the competence of Peter. Poroshenko.

In the 102nd year of life in Paris, the artist Ekaterina Serebryakova died, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to her loved ones. Ekaterina Serebryakova - daughter of the artist, participants in the Association "World of Art" Zinaida Serebryakova. Born on June 28, 1913 in Tsarskoye Selo. In 1928, Ekaterina Serebryakova moved to Paris. She worked with her brother Alexander.

Instead of Andrei Tyulin, the new general director of the Russian Space Systems (RKS), instead of Gennady Raikunov, will be appointed Deputy General Director of the RIA Electronic Technology concern, a source in the space industry told RIA Novosti . "On Wednesday, Gennady Raikunov will officially leave the post of general director of Russian Space Systems OJSC (RKS).

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said that the government will cancel the grocery embargo as soon as the country's threat of national security has passed, RIA Novosti reports. He recalled that economic measures to counteract the countries that supported sanctions against Russia were introduced by decree of the President in order to protect national security.

Sheremetyevo International Airport removed its head physician during an official investigation on the death of August 18 a passenger of Air Europe flight, flying from Barcelona to Chelyabinsk. "In order to ensure the objectivity and impartiality of the investigation by the airport management, it was decided to remove the chief physician of the sanitary unit of the Sheremetyevo Airport Arthur Viktorovich Bunin from the performance of official duties," the airport quoted by RIA Novosti .

"Today the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation has revised its forecast for capital outflow from the Russian Federation in 2014. It will amount to a record (there has never been such an outflow in the entire modern history of Russia!) 100 billion, but not rubles. But dollars. Previously, the forecast figure was at 90 billion. Let me remind you that earlier A. Kudrin argued that the outflow of capital from the country could reach an unprecedented level of 150-200 billion!

On Sunday, August 24, nine outbreaks of class with and higher were recorded in the sun. The most powerful of them - M5.9 - began at 16:00 Moscow time and lasted 24 minutes near the East Lim. The observation report was published on the website of the draft of the Tesis Laboratory of X -ray astronomy of the Sun of the Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. A photograph of solar flashes, taken using the appliances of the observatory of solar dynamics, appeared on the NASA website .

"Behind this lie lies a cold calculation: Firstly, the participation of the Russian military in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine without the sanction of the Federation Council is contrary to the Russian Constitution. As you certainly remember, on June 25, 2014, the Federation Council revoked Putin’s right to send troops into Ukraine.

The head of the Ministry of Education and Science, Dmitry Livanov, announced that there will be no single history textbook in Russian schools. “We will have a single historical and cultural standard on the basis of which history textbooks will be developed. This does not mean that there will be a single textbook,” the minister said at a press conference in Moscow on the eve of the beginning of the new school year.

The presidential candidate of Afghanistan, the former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah does not recognize the results of recounting votes in the election of the head of state, conducted by the independent election commission under the supervision of the UN. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the representative of the candidate Muslim Saadat.

On Tuesday, Columbia authorities were released from prison the most famous hired killer John Hiro Velazquez, nicknamed Plach, writes El Pais.com.co. He worked for a cruel drug lord Pablo Escobar and personally killed hundreds of people. Fuck was sentenced to 30 years in prison, from which he served behind bars for 22 years. According to Velazquez himself, he personally killed 300 people. And together with the accomplices, Prai committed about three thousand murders in the 1980s and 1990s.

The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Lavrov, said that Russia appealed to Ukraine with a statement, notifying the intention to send the second convoy of humanitarian aid to the Donbass. The Ukrainian side notes that so far it has not received any documents. In Kyiv, they promise to comment on the situation with the second convoy as soon as there is an official request from the Russian authorities.

The French government recommended the Air France national air carrier to abandon the flights of Sierra Leone due to the spread of Ebola's deadly fever in this country. This was reported on the website of the Cabinet of Ministers of France. "Given the development of the epidemic and the situation with healthcare systems, the state authorities recommend Air France to temporarily stop servicing the city of Fritaun," the commander said in a meeting of the Council of Ministers on August 27.