The Board of Directors of the International Monetary Fund approved an increase in quota of China, Mexico, Turkey and South Korea, which determine the number of votes of these countries in the IMF. The quota of a particular country corresponds to the volume of its contributions to the capital of the fund and reflects the share of the national economy in the world.

The British newspaper "Independent" published a list of 50 "good people" of the United Kingdom. This list is composed in contrast to the “richest people” whose names are regularly published in Sunday Times. Among the "good people" is film director Ken Louch, a poet of Jamaican descent Benjamin Zefania, a rock musician and public figure Bob Geldof, TV presenter John Snow.

"We are still not safe from such events, similar terrorist acts ..." On Thursday, in Moscow, a picket was held in Moscow in the Novopushkinsky square, dedicated to the anniversary of the tragedy in Beslan. The picket was organized by the Anti -Wiral Action Committee and the anti -war club. The pouring rain did not interfere with the participants of the “Promotion of Sorrow”, as the organizers called it, to express their attitude to the situation in Chechnya and modern terrorism.

Russian women recall how during the war they were hijacked in Germany and how later they married the Dutch and remained forever in Holland. Enough musicians from St. Petersburg - about sounds, smells, love. In the section "My Favorite Records", historian Julia Kantor talks about the Nabokov house-estate near St. Petersburg and music, which sounded there until October 1917.

The legislators of the American state of California approved the first law in the history of the United States, introducing tough restrictions on the emission of "greenhouse" gases into the atmosphere. In particular, the reduction of the total volume of these emissions in the state to the level of 1990 or almost 25% compared to the current one is provided for by 2020.

On September 1, Moscow schoolchildren will pay in buffets with credit cards, eat exceptionally useful products, wear light portfolios and engage in lightweight textbooks. In the new academic year, there will be few changes in the capital's schools, but they will be interesting and significant, the press secretary of the Moscow Department of Education Alexander Gavrilov said. It is difficult to imagine primary school students with credit cards in line in the buffet.

The program is conducted by Oleg Vakhrushev. The program is attended by a Radio Liberty correspondent Denis Kamenchikov. Oleg Vakhrushev: The Government of the Sverdlovsk Region ordered in the new academic year to feed all schoolchildren without exception with hot dinners and allocated money for it. Only in some schools, and especially in remote territories, they do not know how to be - very often in such educational institutions there are no kitchens and canteens at all.

The first units of peacekeepers from Italy arrived in Lebanon. 5 warships are moored in the port of Tyr on Saturday. On board - two and a half thousand Italian troops. A thousand of them will join the UN forces in the south of Lebanon, and one and a half thousand will remain on board the ships off the coast of the country.

The California Legislative Assembly approved a bill on restriction of the release of industrial gas waste into the atmosphere that cause a "greenhouse effect". Thus, in the United States, California goes to the advanced position in the struggle against global warming. The law was proposed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and was supported by the Democrats, while his comrade-in-laws did not support this initiative.

In Rostov-on-Don, on Friday, a genetic examination of the remains of the Russian Tu-154 aircraft near Donetsk, who died in the disaster, began. According to the representative of the Ministry of Transport of Russia, the work will take several months. On August 22, 170 people died in a plane crash. The main version of the incident is adverse weather conditions and crew error.

Viktor Rezunkov: On September 1, Russia has been in Russia not only for the day of knowledge. This is the day of memory of the victims of children and adults of the terrible tragedy of Beslan, which shocked the whole world with its cruelty. Over these two years, the Russian authorities have done, perhaps, everything to hide the true picture of what was happening in those days at school number 1 of Beslan from the public.

Activists of youth organizations installed improvised gallows on the Square of Yakub Kolas in the center of Minsk. According to Minsk, Igor Karney, one of the participants in the action, changing the executioner, hung a “textbook” on it, on one side of which the “Belarusian language” was written, and on the second - “History of Belarus”. Thus, Belarusian youth responded to the order of the Ministry of Education that teaching the history of Belarus in schools should be conducted in Russian.

In North Ossetia, three -day mourning events begin, dedicated to the second anniversary of the tragedy in Beslan. As the local authorities told Interfax, this morning at the place of the tragedy - in the courtyard of school number one Beslan there will be laying wreaths and flowers, memorial candles will be lit. At 13-05, a minute of silence will be declared throughout the republic. The Moscow authorities forbade human rights activists to hold an action in memory of the victims of Beslan.