General Sudam, who was responsible for the actions of the soldiers of the Israeli army during the Lebanese campaign, resigned from the post of commander of the Northern District. This was stated in the army press service, RIA Novosti reports. According to the representative of the press service, the head of the Israeli General Staff Dan Halutz accepted the resignation of the general.

"The Pragmatics of Culture" begins a conversation about what we are accustomed to consider truly children's entertainment - comics and cartoons. As practice shows, in fact, the audience for cartoons, and especially comics, is growing. More and more people stay away from Cartoon Networks and choose comics as their only reading. talks about how stories with pictures and conversations became a source of morality and knowledge for millions of people .

The investigation believes that the cause of today's mass fight in Samara is an attempt to establish the influence of the market of one of the criminal groups. According to RIA Novosti , this is stated in the message of the Prosecutor General’s Office published today. A mass fight occurred in Samara, during which a man was killed.

East Siberian Pravda writes about the chances of candidates for the post of head of the Irkutsk regional branch of the United Russia party. On September 15, Irkutsk will host the Unification Conference of the United Russia Party of the Irkutsk Region and the Ust-Ordynsky Buryat Autonomous Okrug (Wabao), where the leader of the new party education will be elected.

Dmitry Bykov , who recently released Boris Pasternak’s biography in the “ZhZL” series, and just - his fourth novel “HD”, tells Leonid Klein about the “role of the intelligentsia”, based on a large historical and anti -utopian material and, of course, expressively and inadvertently. There are situations when a person is preoccupied only with the preservation of the face. This is the option of Novodvorskaya.

Polit.ru publishes an interview with the poet, writer, publicist Dmitry Bykov about the forever exciting topic - the position of the intellectual in history, the Russian intelligentsia to power and the country. Dmitry Bykov , who recently released Boris Pasternak’s biography in the “ZhZL” series and just - his fourth novel “HD”, speaks of “The role of the intelligentsia”, based on a large historical and anti -utopian material and, of course, expressively and incorrectly. Talked by Leonid Klein .

The prices of the global market for oil according to the results of trading on September 12, 2006. The leading oil exchanges decreased, reports RBC . The official prices of oil futures for the next month of delivery were: - in London on the Intercontinental Exchange Futures - Ipe E -Brent Crude Futures Electronic - $ 62,99 (-1.56)/barrel.; - In New York on New York Mercantile Exchange - Light, Sweet Crude Oil - $ 63.76 (-1,85)/barrel.

The unmanned Marsian intelligence officer NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter completed the aerodynamic braking maneuver about the Martian atmosphere, begun in April 2006, and entered the stationary orbit around Mars, the NASA official website reports . Now the probe is ready for full research work. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter started from the Earth on August 12, 2005, and reached the Red Planet's orbit on March 10, 2006, leaving about 500 million kilometers out of the stern.

Deputies of the Supreme Council of Khakassia today elected a new member of the Federation Council (SF) from the republic. According to representatives of the republican parliament, Evgeny Serebrennikov was elected senator from the region, RIA Novosti reports. At his candidacy Serebrennikov at the next session of the Supreme Council of the republic in Abakan, 42 deputies voted, against 22, two deputies abstained.

The ministers of the Palestinian government resigned. As RIA Novosti reports, then Prime Minister Ismail Khania should ask for a resignation. After that, the head of the Palestinian National Administration, Mahmoud Abbas, must appoint a new prime minister. As Abbas stated on Wednesday, Ismail Hania will again become. After that, the formation of the government of national unity of representatives of Hamas and Fath should begin.

The next round of negotiations between the EU Supreme Commissioner on Foreign Policy and Security Policy of Havier Solan and the secretary of the National Security Council of Iran Ali Laridzhani was appointed on September 14. This was stated by the press secretary of Havier Solana Kristina Gallah, reports REGNUM with reference to ITAR-TASS. The meeting place remains unknown, but Gallah said that negotiations will be held in one of the European capitals, but not Brussels.

The Estonian parliament rejected the bill "On the Armed Struggle against the Military Occupation of the Soviet Union" in the first reading.

Yesterday late in the evening, the Madonna concert in Moscow still took place. Perhaps someone doubted that this would happen, believing that Madonna would not come to Russia, frightened by a certain soothsayer and terrible boreoners in black suits. And it was not sacred-the concert was transferred, like a space plate, in space and in time, pretty scared of everyone who decided to pay for the “revelations” of the Madonna. The stands of the "Luzhnikov" were never filled to the end.

In Moscow, a suspect in the murder of an Armenian student at the Pushkinskaya metro station was detained, RIA Novosti reports. "On suspicion of committing the murder of Vigen Abramyan in April this year, Nikita Senyukov, born in 1988, a fourth -rate of the college No. 1 of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Moscow," the capital prosecutor’s office said in Moscow, was detained at the Pushkinskaya metro station.

The deputy chairman of the Board of the Central Bank Andrei Kozlov during the shootout was injured and is in serious condition. According to RIA Novosti , as a result of the incident that occurred on the territory of the Spartak football club on the Olenic Val Street, one person was also killed. On the fact of a shootout in Moscow and the region, the Volcano-5 plan has been announced. Law enforcement agencies are searching for criminals. According to preliminary data, two suspects.