On September 14, ministers of the internal affairs and justice of the EU countries will gather in Brussels for an emergency meeting. The main question: what to do with migrants that a record number arrived in Europe this year: according to various estimates, from 340 thousand (Frontex agency data) to half a million. In May, the European commission announced a plan for the resettlement of 40 thousand people.

"Russian Spring", which was forgotten by the media, is alive in the novelties of the protective literature presented at the Moscow Book Fair

There will be no massive influx of migrants from the countries of the Middle East to Russia, the representative of the UN Supreme Commissariat (UNHCR) in Russia Baisa Vak-Vakiy is sure Is the situation with refugees in Europe a really serious crisis? This year, about half a million people arrived in Europe - from Libya, Syria, Iraq ... Think: half a million. Is it a figure for Europe? No. Now already a million refugees lives in camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey. Or take Africa.

Smoke on the water

The power of oil for $ 40 per barrel prefers the power to ignore the reality - this was also shown in the first week of September the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok Heads of Rosneft and Gazprom Igor Sechin and Alexei Miller at the opening of the economic forum, Vladivostok, September 4, 2015 The August collapse of oil prices forced the Kremlin and the White House to act. True, the first response for $ 40 for a barrel was estimated by analysts as not too convincing.

September 13 is the single voting day. In which regions elections can bring surprises - The New Times found out The gubernatorial elections are the most obvious. They tried to pick up competitors for the current heads so that there would be no thoughts about possible intrigues. The participation of parliamentary parties in the elections was declared in the Kremlin as mandatory - United Russia helped its neighbors in the State Duma with the passage of the municipal filter.

It seems impossible to imagine a more absurd phrase. What are these - mistakes of nature or the price of civilization - The New Times found out According to data from January 2015, the incidence of cancer in Russian children under the age of 15 is 120 cases per 1 million people per year.

The legendary radio host, whose voice, despite the "jammers", erupted from the late 1970s, announced to Soviet listeners, announced his departure from the BBC. Why did he decide on this step and what does he think about today's Russian authorities - Novgorodsev told The New Times Who he was not in his life: a saxophone who has learned to play on a saxophone, then a successful professional musician in Leningrad, and after moving to England - a radio journalist.

The attitude towards refugees in Russia and in Europe is a multidirectional process. The main flow of refugees to Europe is people who just want to live a normal life. But I also understand those who openly say that multiculturalism is good when it does not go beyond certain limits. In Europe there are several tens of millions of Muslims.

About what is happening with people who decide to escape to the west through Russia - The New Times was told by the Syrian journalist Muja Abu Alejail Muja Abu Alejael supports the action of the committee against torture with the advent of the Islamic State * (IG) Syrians realized that war and instability in the country were for a long time, although there was a hope before: a little more-and the conflict would end. Many went to Turkey, just to leave a difficult time.

In early autumn 2015, Europe resembles a huge refugee camp. Key transit points - Greece, Italy and Hungary.

At the 72nd Venice Film Festival, the premiere of a documentary film about the August putsch of 1991 was held - Ukrainian director Serhiy Loznitsa called it "The Event"

The amendments adopted in the first reading to the Ukrainian Constitution on decentralization of power have become a serious problem for Petro Poroshenko: there are now fewer deputies, who are less than the citizens who are dissatisfied with the presidential course, are more The Verkhovna Rada discusses amendments to the Constitution on the decentralization of power, Kiev, on August 31, 2015, deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine - in principle, competent people.

British writer Arthur Koestler, author of Blinding Darkness and Age of Lust, was born 110 years ago.