In South Ossetia, 6 people from the Ossetian side were killed last night and two Georgian police officers were injured, ”said the Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia Irakli Okashvili. Representatives of Georgia and South Ossetia accuse each other of provocations. The commander of the mixed forces to maintain the world, Svyatoslav Nabzdorov, believes that the shootings will continue until the Georgian police, which is not related to peacekeeping forces, is removed from the conflict zone.

From August 1, the size of a minimum retirement pension has increased in Russia and Belarus. Belarusian pensioners will now receive at least $ 39 a month, and Russian - 1003 rubles, that is, about $ 34. As the head of the Russian Pension Fund, Gennady Batanov, told the RIA-News Agency, labor pensions in Russia will grow by an average of 130 rubles. However, as Batanov noted, the increase in pensions is not so noticeable due to the growth of utility tariffs.

The Islamic peacekeeping contingent can only be placed in Iraq with the consent of the Iraqi authorities and should replace the coalition troops, ”said Prince Saud al -Faisal, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia. Al Faisal discussed the proposal of Saudi Arabia to Iraq by military personnel from the Arab and Islamic countries on Sunday in Riyadh with the head of the League of the Arab states of the Arab states of the AMR Musa.

Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have reached a framework agreement on the liberalization of world trade. It provides for a gradual abolition of export subsidies and a decrease in subsidies to the agrarian sector in developed countries. This will allow developing countries to expand the markets for their goods. In exchange, developing states also pledged to abandon protectionist measures in their markets.

According to official figures, 90 percent of voters have already been registered in Afghanistan. According to the UN, about 8 million 700 thousand people are included in the lists. The total number of voters is more than 9 and a half million in Afghanistan. The presidential election was scheduled for October 9. 23 candidates apply to the post of head of state, including the current Afghan leader Hamid Karzai.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia Prince Saud al-Faisal and the head of the League of the Arab states of the AMR Moussa are discussing the problems of ensuring security in Iraq. It is expected that the main issue of the meeting in Riyadh will be the proposal of Saudi Arabia to send military personnel from the Arab and Islamic countries to Iraq.

In Iraq on Sunday evening, several explosions occurred at Christian churches. In Baghdad, at least four explosions were at least two people and more than 20 were injured with victims. Presumably, the mined car exploded in the Karrada area near the Armenian Church. Almost simultaneously, another explosive device at the Syrian Catholic Cathedral worked. Another explosion occurred in the Christian church in the city of Mosul in the north of Iraq.

In the center of Prague, at least 18 people were injured as a result of the explosion. Several victims are hospitalized. According to eyewitnesses, a grenade exploded, thrown under a car, a young man from a car passing by. The explosion occurred in a crowded trade and tourist zone near the casino. Most of the victims are foreign tourists sitting at the tables of a cafe on the terrace.

In the Iraqi city of El Falluja, battles continue between American troops and rebel detachments. At least 10 people were killed, about twenty - injured. The American command has not yet commented on what is happening. In the city of Mosul in the north of Iraq, a mined car exploded near the police station. 5 people were killed, more than 50 were injured. In Baghdad on Saturday, as a result of the explosion of mines laid down at the roadside, 4 random passers -by were injured.

The southern regions of the capital of South Ossetia Tskhinvali were subjected to mortar shelling on Saturday evening, ”Interfax reports with reference to the head of the South Ossetian Press Committee Irina Gagloeva. According to her, the fire was conducted from the Georgian village of Argvis. There is no data on the victims. Comments from the Georgian side have not yet been received.

Marina Timasheva: But where is the city of Minusinsk? And what do you personally know about him? If you show curiosity, look through the directory, it turns out that this is the south of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and that in Minusinsk 70 thousand inhabitants. And to the question - what theater in the city of Minusinsk? - Any theater critic will answer you that dramatic and that since Alexei Portegov there is the main director, Minusinsk has been drawing on all theatrical maps of Russia.

Viktor Shenderovich: My guest today is the deputy chief editor of the weekly Moscow News Mikhail Shevelev. For those who still remember my face, and not just a voice, I want to remind you that in the "Total" program, which was published on the NTV channel (if someone remembers this channel), several years ago, in its first programs, there was such a section: "Letters of readers." So: Mikhail Shevelev read and wrote these letters of readers.

Presenter: Viktor Shenderovich Victor Shenderovich: Today my guest is Yuliy Kim. It would even be somewhat stupid, I think, to explain to radio listeners of Svoboda who it is. Good afternoon, Yuliy Chersanovich. Yuliy Kim: Hello. Viktor Shenderovich: This stupid fashionable word is “self-identification” - what is it? Yuliy Kim - poet, bard? Yuliy Kim: I think that the word “poet” is the most accurate application to my self-identification.

The President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov called on the country's population to fight Islamic extremism. Karimov laid guilty for terrorist attacks in Tashkent on July 30 at the Hizb-Ut-Tahrir Islamist group. As a result of the explosions made by suicide bombers among the Embassies of Israel and the USA in Tashkent, as well as in the building of the Prosecutor General of Uzbekistan, three people were killed, somewhat were injured.

Iraq Prime Minister Iraad Allaaui is on a visit to Kuwait. On Saturday, he discussed the head of the Kuwait government by Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabach the way of developing good neighborly relations between the two countries. On August 2, Kuwait celebrates the 14th anniversary of the invasion of the troops of Saddam Hussein.