The conflict around the Soros Foundation building in Moscow tore off a number of projects of a charitable organization worth about two and a half million dollars. This was announced by the head of the Russian branch of the Foundation Ekaterina Genieva. Two weeks ago, the Soros Foundation was forced to suspend its activities in Russia, after the owner of the building - Nobel Teknolojis - blocked the entrance to it.

The court of human rights in Jakarta justified Timbul Silaen, a former police chief in East Timor, accused of connivance with mass actions of violence in this region. A special court considers the cases of 18 officials who controlled East Timor in 1999, when the population spoke out in a referendum for independence from Indonesia. More than a thousand people were killed by extremists - with the support of Indonesian military.

Chemists from Australia and the United States created a synthetic drug that helps to develop persistent immunity to malaria. Experiments on small laboratory animals have already confirmed the effectiveness of this vaccine, and now researchers are preparing to check its effect on primates. The successful completion of this stage of working out a new medicine will mean that in two years doctors will be able to begin its clinical trials.

In the southeast of Germany, it is unprecedentedly strong flood. In the city of Dresden, water lifting in the Elba River continues. The central areas of the city are flooded. Water penetrated the basements of the Dresden picture gallery. Five vessels fell on Elbe with anchors. Rescuers were forced to flood them - to avoid a collision with the supports of the bridges. In the near future, settlements located in the vicinity of Dresden may be under water.

The prosecutor’s office of Chechnya opened a criminal case on charges of negligence against the gunner-gunner, who mistakenly fired at the district center of Shali from the mortar. According to the investigation, fire was conducted from the eastern outskirts of the city, where 70 Russian regiment was deployed. One of the shells fell into a residential building, three people died and seven were injured.

Presenter of the program "Topics" Peter Vail: Man of the Day of Radio Liberty on August 15 - German film director Leni Rifenshtal. A week before her centennial in Berlin, the premiere of the film “Underwater Impressions” took place, it took almost 30 years to shoot this documentary tape. Leni Rifenstal was born in 1902 in Berlin. I played in the theater, starred in the cinema.

The transition government of Afghanistan restores the religious police of morals, which operated in the country under the Taliban regime. As the deputy head of the Supreme Court of Afghanistan, Fazil Ahmad Manavi, said today, the new department will monitor compliance with the laws of Sharia, which prohibit the use of alcohol, marital treason and homosexuality. According to Manavi, fines await the guilty, various terms of imprisonment and, in some cases, public flogging.

The king of Jordan Abdullah said that Iraq's leadership is fully responsible for resolving the country's foreign policy problems - primarily relations with the United States. In an appeal to the nation on Thursday, Abdalla noted that his country respects Iraq's right to live in peace and security. At the same time, the king emphasized that only Iraqi leaders can decide how to resolve the existing disagreements with other countries.

Today in the program: - The situation with freedom of speech in Kazakhstan causes concerns. - Why do Kazakhstani journalists do not resist? Oleg Panfilov: A few years ago, at least until the end of the 96th year, Kazakhstan was among those republics of the former Soviet Union, where the formation of an independent press was formed. Is it bad, good, but journalists worked.

The situation in Central Europe, which suffered from unprecedentedly strong floods, remains complicated. In the east of Germany, in the city of Dresden, the rise in water in the Elba River continues. The city center is flooded. 3 thousand patients were taken out of city hospitals. 10 thousand citizens are cut off from telephone communication. The lower premises of the Dresden Picture Gallery are flooded.

In the Magadan region, local authorities paid for a vacation in a sanatorium 23 pensioners. The cost of one ticket by a thousand rubles exceeds the average pension. The funds were allocated from the extrabudgetary fund of the special economic zone. In August, another 100 Magadan pensioners will receive free tickets in the sanatorium. In total, 46 thousand pensioners live in the region, half of which do not work.

The Supreme Court of Venezuela removed from four senior officers an accusation of trying to overthrow the president of the country Hugo Chavez. The court decided that the prosecution did not present sufficient evidence of their intentions to commit a coup. After the verdict announces, Chavez's supporters arranged riots in the capital of the country of Karakas.

The head of the Palestinian autonomy Yasir Arafat approved the creation of a new investment fund under the direct control of the Minister of Finance. As the head of the Palestinian financial department Salam Fayyad said today, the fund will combine all the means and assets of autonomy in order to prevent corruption. The eradication of corruption is one of the conditions for supporting the United States of the creation of an independent Palestinian state.

The Grodno Regional Court today reduced by one year the term for the conclusion of the closed opposition newspaper Pagon Nikolai Markevich and Pavel Mozheiko, applying the amnesty law. In June of this year, journalists were accused of slander at the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia demanded explanations from Tbilisi in connection with reports of the ongoing contacts of the Georgian leadership with the Chechen leader Aslan Maskhadov. Earlier in a number of Georgian media, statements by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Maskhadov Akhmed Zakaev appeared that the connections of the Chechen leader with the Georgian authorities were never interrupted.