In Uzbekistan, the investigation was completed in the case of a series of terrorist attacks and armed attacks, as a result of which 47 people were killed in the spring of this year. According to the Prosecutor General of Uzbekistan, the trial will begin on Monday. 15 people will appear before the court. According to the representative of the prosecutor's office, this is the first of several future processes over Islamic extremists.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan rejected the call to dismiss the Minister of Transport Binali Yildirim-after a railway disaster, in which at least 36 people were killed on Thursday. The minister said that the train was driving with excess speed, but refused to call this the main reason for the tragedy. During the investigation, three train drivers were detained.

The US representative in NATO Nicholas Berns welcomed the decision of the Union’s leadership - to send additional troops to Afghanistan on the eve of the presidential election. Yesterday it was decided that 2 thousand troops from Spain and Italy would go to Afghanistan. An additional contingent will arrive in the country in September. The presidential elections in Afghanistan were scheduled for October 9.

In Chechnya near Grozny on Saturday, the Russian military discovered the Mujahidean base. Six armed Chechens guarded her armed armed armed armed. Two military personnel were killed, three were injured. In the city of Argun, a home -made explosive device worked next to the passing military column. Five military servicemen of internal troops received severe wounds, eight - controversial. Another Russian military died in the Achkhoy-Martan district as a result of the explosion of mines.

Moscow considers the decision of the authorities of Belarus - to close the BDTRK television company in Minsk, ”said the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Yakovenko. Yesterday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus announced the closure of the Corcourt - supposedly for the deliberate distortion of information one of the journalists.

Maryana Torocheshnikova: For the first time this week, lawyers Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev and Andrei Krainov made a petition. The defense asked the court to terminate the judicial investigation in the case of the theft of a 20 percent package of shares of the Apatit joint-stock company, owned by the state. At the same time, lawyers referred to the expiration of the 10-year period of the statute of limitations of criminal prosecution for this crime.

Egypt authorities are conducting intensive negotiations with the abductors of their diplomat in Iraq. A senior employee of the Egyptian embassy was abducted in Baghdad on Friday. Immediately after the incident, Egypt announced that under any conditions he would not send his troops or military specialists to Iraq. Iraq authorities asked Egypt to assist in the preparation of new security forces.

In the Pakistani city of Karachi, one of the most famous Islamic spiritual seminaries was attacked. A mined machine exploded near the building. One seminary employee died during the explosion, seven were injured.

In Nazran this morning there was an explosion in the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia. Wounded is the acting first deputy internal affairs of the republic and an employee of the criminal investigation department. According to information agencies, the explosion occurred during the interrogation of one of the suspects in the attack on Ingushetia on June 22. He blew up a grenade and died. The victims were delivered to the Vladikavkaz hospital.

Presenter Vitaly Portnikov Vitaly Portnikov: My interlocutors: in Moscow, the editor-in-chief of the Internet publication "Middle East.Ru" Alexander Shumilin, in Tel Aviv, Radio Liberty correspondent Victoria Moonblit. The hero of our today's program is Syrian President Hafez Assad. Assad was born in 1928 into a poor family. He underwent military training in the USSR. He served in the Syrian air force, and in 1963 he was among the conspirators who overthrew the then leadership of the country.

In Grozny near the central mosque on Friday evening, two explosions occurred. According to the Interfax agency, the chief of staff of the special forces of the West Battalion Vakhid Salgereev, another soldier was wounded. Nearby, the sappers managed to neutralize another explosive device. Not far from the village of Roshni-Chu in the Urus-Martan district, Fugas was blown up in the way of moving the military column.

Egypt confirmed that he would not send either army or military specialists to Iraq. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt Ahmed Abul Gate - after the Egyptian diplomat was stolen in Baghdad. The abductors demanded that Cairo abandon plans to help prepare new Iraq security services.

Russia does not plan to send its peacekeepers to Iraq, ”Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today after negotiations in Moscow with the Iraq Head of Foreign Affairs Hoshiyar Zebary. According to Lavrov, Russia is ready to support Iraq with other methods - primarily economic. The desire of Russian peacekeepers in Iraq announced the desire of Baghdad upon arrival in Moscow Zebari. He also emphasized that the Iraqi authorities hope for the return of Russian power engineers to the country.

In her book "My Life", in Russian it is expected about six months later, Bill Clinton writes: "Although subsequently I was criticized for other presidential pardons, I am more concerned about some cases when I refused a pardon." Well, perhaps, from the memoirs of Vladimir Putin, we will learn how he relates to the fact that with him individual pardon became almost rare in Russia. But our conversation today about Russian amnesties.

The United States will put 50 thousand tons of food in North Korea as humanitarian assistance. According to the representative of the US State Department Richard Baucher, deliveries will be made as part of the UN World Food Program. The Bucker noted that this is a purely humanitarian action that is not related to the conflict around the North Korean nuclear program, the coagulation of which is achieved by the United States.