At the opening of the Asian stock markets on Friday, a sharp decrease in the main quotations occurred, thus, the standard index of Asia's business activity approached to complete the sessions for a fourth in a row with a fall. According to Bloomberg reports, at the opening of the Asian Index, the Japanese Nikkei fell by 185.02 points (-2.07%), amounting to 8758.74 points. In turn, the South Korean Kospi collapsed at 84.05 points (–4.52%), reaching 1776.53 points.

The Oxford English Dictionary included the vocabulary of the so -called “generation of Igrek” in his new edition, the official blog of this most voluminous and popular dictionary in the world reports. From now on, the expression “retweet” (retweet), the exclamation of “Woot”, expressing happiness, triumph or satisfaction, as well as the nickname “NOOB” (Noob) that are given to a newcomer in a particular field of activity became vocabulary.

The Georgian director Robert Sturua in an interview with Novaya Gazeta told some details of his dismissal from the post of artistic director of the Rustaveli Academic Drama Theater. "I do not think that this decision was made by the Minister of Culture of Georgia, Nikoloz Rurois. As far as I know, the president’s pressure was very harsh - he broke two ashtrays against the wall, persuading the minister to remove me. Well, for the third time, he," Sturua said.

The State Duma has introduced a bill that expands the number of potential candidates for places in the Federation Council. According to the bill chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Construction of Vladimir Pligin, deputies of the State Duma, who were part of the regional group of the federal list of candidates for the relevant region, will be able to become members of the upper house of parliament. It is reported by RIA Novosti .

The ongoing fluctuations in the stock markets, whether we want this or not, force us to believe that the current decline in the world economy is actually very similar to the great depression of 1929-1933. Although, of course, according to a number of basic indicators, such as the industrial production index and the unemployment rate, the current crisis does not reach the “great”, but in terms of duration it will very soon be equal to its analogue.

On the morning of August 19, the suicide bosses from the Taliban movement made two explosions in Kabul. According to Reuters , a representative office of the British Council, located in the center of the capital of Afghanistan, was attacked. The representative of NATO in Afghanistan confirmed that two bombs exploded near the building. Eyewitnesses, in turn, claim that they heard the third explosion that thundered next to the high school building. Subsequently, the police confirmed this data.

The Tbilisi court in absentia sentenced the wife of the ex-spiker of the Georgian Parliament Nino Burjadze Badri Bitsadze by 5.5 years in prison, the RIA Novosti website reports. The ex-chef of the border police of Georgia Bitsadze was found guilty under the article “Confrontation, threat or violence against public order defenders or other government officials, which was carried out by a group”.

The vice speaker of the Smolensk Regional Duma Nikolai Martynov recently became a participant in a loud political scandal. The official website of Fair Russia yesterday reported the " mass outcome of the Smolensk United Russia" and their entry into the Socialist Revolutionary Party. The first deputy chairman of the Smolensk Regional Duma Nikolai Martynov was mentioned on this list. The newspaper " Work Path " found that Nikolai Martynov did not know anything about this.

One of the largest open-air music festivals in Europe Pukkelpop-2011 in Belgium was closed after five people died as a result of a suddenly flying hurricane and 50 were injured, CNN reports. The tragedy occurred last Thursday after a few hours of opening the festival in Hasselt, east of Brussels, which more than 65 thousand people gathered. At the festival, performances of Foo Fighters, 30 Seconds to Mars, Eminem were planned.

Emissars of international terrorist groups are sent to the capital region. The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Rashid Nurgaliev announced this at a meeting of the counteraction commission on counteracting extremism, RBC reports. Nurgaliev explained that the Central Federal District is leader in terms of socio-economic development, and therefore attracts a large number of citizens, including migrants. It is among them that the main ideologists of extremism are trying to operate.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that a new, 11th administrative district will be organized on the land attached to the city, RIA Novosti reports. It will be the largest in area, but the smallest in the population. The mayor also said that the village of Rogachevskoye will enter Moscow in the south-west of the Podolsky district and Moscow, thus, will border on the Kaluga region. Sobyanin will accept Moscow’s exit to the borders of the Kaluga region “very positive”.

Expert groups for the correction of the Strategy-2020 program , called the “Vladimir Putin course”, in August, were transferred to the government an intermediate report on the results of its work, the Kommersant newspaper reports. A 400-page report with an application of 100 pages is the result of a brainstorming storm, organized six months ago by the leadership of the Higher School of Economics and the Academy of the National Economy on behalf of the White House.

Flying out the new leader of the “right -handed” with the nationalist electorate will not lead to anything good. According to political scientists, trying to combine nationalists and liberals, Mikhail Prokhorov repels both of them from himself. The rebranding party "right business" leads an active, sometimes even aggressive policy.

US President Barack Obama instructed to suspend deportations of illegal immigrants who do not pose a threat to the country's security, reports The Seattle Thimes . We are talking about thousands of illegal immigrants who arrived in the United States with children, graduated from school and now intend to continue their studies in this country or serve in the army.

Every fourth resident of Russia is aware of the preliminary folk vote of United Russia and the ONF, said to Er.ru, the executive of the Secretary of the Presidium of the General Council of the United Russia party, Sergei Neverov. “It would be interesting to get objective data about how many people really know about the intra -party vote and how they relate to it.