In Iraq, several explosions and attacks occurred per day. In the west of Baghdad, a senior general from the Ministry of the Interior was killed. His car was fired from an ambush. As a result of two explosions in two more areas of Baghdad, 6 people were killed, 29 - injured. In the north of the country in the city of Kirkuk, a suicide bomber, on an explosive, drove into a police post. 3 people were killed, including the local police chief, another 23 people were injured.

The authorities of Georgia announced the shelling of the Georgian village of Khurcha by Abkhazia. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a policeman was killed, two more were injured. It is alleged that the Georgian side of the response did not open. Earlier, Georgian media reported that the village was fired at grenade launchers and mortars. The Abkhaz authorities deny that the Georgian village was fired from the territory of the republic.

The main topic of release is the results of the Beijing Paralympics

As a result of the terrorist attack in Islamabad, the Czech Ambassador to Pakistan Ivo Zadreek was killed last Saturday. The death of one US citizen is also confirmed. According to the latest data from the Pakistani authorities, 53 people became victims of the explosion at the Marriott hotel, more than 250 were injured. Among the victims are 21 foreigners. There are no Russians in the list of wounded.

Karen Agamirov: We have a member of the Presidium of the Council of the National Assembly of the Russian Federation, Major General of the KGB Alexei Kondaurov. The questions are asked by independent journalists - Haysam Baderkhan and Lyudmila Averina. In the beginning, according to tradition, a brief biography of the guests of our program (link - Wikipedia). Kondaurov Alexei Petrovich was born on March 26, 1949 in the Kaliningrad near Moscow in a family of workers.

In the Chinese city of Schinzhen on the border with Hong Kong, at least 43 people were killed in a night club. This was reported by the Chinese State Agency "Sinhua". More than fifty people were injured. The reasons for the fire are not called.

Four people were killed and two received serious burns as a result of the disaster of a small passenger aircraft Learjet-60, which occurred at the airport of the American city of Colombia, South Carolina. The plane was heading to the city of Wen -Nais, California, and belonged to the charter company Global Exec Aviation, which began to transport passengers only last year, the Radio Liberty correspondent Vladimir Morozov reports.

Elena Fanailova: Freedom in the club "Artefaq". Lviv International Book Fair and Literary Festival.

Ivan Tolstoy: Maybe it should even be said that “modern notes” is the very history of Russian exile or one of the most interesting pages of this story. However, we will not impose our opinion. But the interest of professionals in the magazine was recently shown in the most impressive way: in early September, specialists in the literature and history of the 20-30s dedicated to the magazine Modern Notes gathered in the German University city of Bochum.

The Belarusian opposition goes to parliamentary elections. According to Radio Liberty correspondent Igor Karney, on September 21, a meeting of the political council of the United Democratic Forces of Belarus was held in Minsk. It was originally planned that the political officer would discuss the possibility of withdrawing from the elections to the House of Representatives of the National Assembly, appointed on September 28, all candidates for deputies from the opposition.

In Slovenia, parliamentary elections are held today. Democrats-supporters of the Prime Minister Jesan Yanshi, who occupy the legal positions, and representatives of the Left Center, led by Borut Pachor (Social Democrats), are fighting for deputy chairs. The central problem of the election campaign was the preservation of the dynamic development of the economy simultaneously with the curbing of high inflation.

US President George Bush condemned the terrorist attack in the capital of Pakistan Islamabad, as a result of which at least 60 people were killed and about 200 were injured. The United States will provide Pakistan with full support in the fight against terrorism, Bush said. Conviction of the attack was also made by US presidential candidates - John McCain and Barack Obama. Confidential to relatives of the victims was expressed by the UN Secretary General Pan Hi Moon.