Dmitry Volchek: The Church, the state and society in modern Russia - the chairman of the external relations of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Moscow Patriarchate Metropolitan of Smolensky and Kaliningrad Cyril shared thoughts on this subject with journalists, shortly before the beginning of the new church year. Lilya Palvelieva says: Lilya Palvelieva: President of Russia Vladimir Putin spent his short -term vacation, visiting the Orthodox monasteries of the north of the country.

Tatyana Volovich, St. Petersburg: Yesterday, August 22, Russia celebrated Flag Day. 10 years ago, on August 22, 1991, after the failure of the coup d'etat, the striped white-blue-red flag was raised over the White House in Moscow. In 1994, the day of the Russian flag was approved by Boris Yeltsin and has since been celebrated annually. In recent history, the white-blue-red flag appeared long before the official recognition by the state symbol. At rallies in Moscow and St.

More than two thousand Kosovo Albanians participated on Thursday in the city of Istok in a demonstration of protest against the decision of NATO about the return of the small group of Kosovo Serbs to their native places. Albanians accuse the Serbs of ethnic purges during the conflict in Kosovo in the late 90s. Last week, 54 Serbs returned to the Kosovo village of Ovoyan - not far from the source.

The Minister of Economics of Argentina Domingo Cavalo said that Argentina uses the eight millionth loan allocated by the International Monetary Fund for the reform of the finish system. The intention to provide Argentina with an additional loan by the Executive Director of the IMF Horst Keller announced on Tuesday. Argentina’s public debt is $ 128 billion.

Yuri Zhigalkin, New York: How extremely is the "deadline" to reach an agreement with Russia regarding the modification of the missile defense agreement? On Wednesday, Deputy Secretary of State John Bolton first made it clear that the United States consider November the deadline to reach an agreement on this issue. What can this unexpectedly straightforward statement of a senior representative of Washington mean?

Natalya Golitsyna, London: The tension in Northern Ireland intensifies, where cases of violation of a truce between the warring parties to the conflict have become more frequent. The crisis of the peace process in Olster led to a new round of tension and violence in the province. After the underground Irish Republican Army refused to start disarmament, and London suspended the work of the local government, underground terrorist Protestant groups intensified their activities in Northern Ireland.

The OSCE advisory and observation group sent a note of protest at the Foreign Ministry of Belarus in connection with the confiscation of equipment at the Belarusian Club of Voters. According to the first secretary of the mission, Alina Josan, the computers seized on Tuesday by the tax police were temporarily provided by the club by the organization for security and cooperation in Europe.

Andrey Korolev, Murmansk: The leadership of the only Murmansk repair and technological enterprise atomflot, specializing in the disposal of radioactive waste, acts as a proposal to take part in the operation to unload nuclear fuel from the reactors of the Kursk atomic submarine after its rise from the Barents of the Sea.

Hasin Raduev, North Caucasus: The Mi-8 helicopter was heading from the Khankala military base to Gudermes. A few minutes after taking off, he was shelling. They shot from the ground from machine guns and grenade launchers. The pilot was injured. In addition to the crew in the helicopter there was no one. Mi-8 was damaged, but, despite this, the pilot managed to bring the car to the destination. This morning, the Russian military closed Grozny for entry and departure of vehicles.

The number of victims of the explosion at the Zasyadko mine in Ukraine reached 49. Last night, another miner died, who received severe burns. The dead include ten miners remaining after the explosion under the rubble. There are more than 30 miners in the hospital, 10 of them are in very serious condition. In the mine, where methane explosion occurred on Sunday, a fire continues.

With the director of the Belarusian Independent Institute of Socio-Economic and Political Research by Oleg Manaev, by telephone on the alignment of forces on the eve of the elections in Belarus, the leading final information hour Dmitry Volchek.

Vladimir Morozov, New York: The attention of many Americans is attracted by a completely non -commissioned date, from which one of the countless modern revolutions is counted. 13 years ago, the drug "Prose" was patented. The antidepressant Proseak made millions of people happy, hundreds of people - unhappy. He called a series of television debate, fell into jokes and covers of serious magazines. Hundreds of articles and dozens of books are written about him.

Mikhail Sokolov, Moscow: On the Russian Internet, on the days of the visit of Vladimir Putin to Kyiv, a new information resource appeared: the Effective Policy Fund opened the Ukrainian.ru website. This is the next work of the famous Kremlin political strategist Gleb Pavlovsky and his Kyiv partners. The emergence of the site is a gift from Moscow for the decade of Ukrainian independence. The site must inform the Russian audience about the life of Ukraine.

The famous pop singer George Michael presented the Bitles Museum of the Bitles, on which John Lennon accompanied himself during the recording of the famous song "Imadzhin". The former owner of the piano, who allowed the museum to keep the tool at home, took it last year and sold George Michael for $ 2 million. Michael promised to return the instrument to the museum and kept his word. The piano, on which Lennon played, can be seen in the documentary "Imajin", shot in the musician’s house.

Leading final information hour Dmitry Volchek: Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Ukraine, celebrating the decade of independence. Before meeting with his Ukrainian colleague, Putin, who was resting in the north of Russia, visited the cemetery in the Novgorod region, where Leonid Kuchma’s father, junior sergeant Danila Kuchma, was buried. After arriving in Kyiv, the Russian president made several important statements.