Russia has rejected the US lack of cooperation in the field of missile defense, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to an unnamed source in the Kremlin. The source said that negotiations will be held with the new American administration. The United States is trying to soften the position of Russia, which is sharply against Washington’s plans to place objects of the American missile defense system in Eastern Europe. Moscow threatens to place Iskander missile systems in the Kaliningrad region.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk Vitaly Portnikov: The Ukrainian parliament today is again going to return to the resignation of the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Meanwhile, the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, who is in Warsaw, claims that this year there will be no extraordinary parliamentary elections. So when will they be, and will they be at all?

The court in Nazran recognized the detention of the owner of the site "Ingushetia.ru" Magomed Evloev, during which he was shot dead. This was announced to Interfax by the family of the family Yevloev Musa Pliev. The owner of the opposition site "Ingushetia.ru" died on August 31 as a result of a mortal wound received during the detention. The police tried to deliver him for interrogation as a witness in one of the criminal cases.

North Korea said that it would not allow international inspectors to take samples for research at the main nuclear facility of the country. Pyongyang said that he had never given such consent - it diverges from the information of American representatives. The study of samples would confirm what developments North Korea led, recently obliged in exchange for economic assistance to stop the program for creating nuclear weapons.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. The Radio Liberty correspondent Danila Halperovich takes part. Andrei Shary: The former President of Russia, now the head of the government of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, supported the proposal to increase the term of presidential powers from 4 to 6 years. Putin also spoke out to extend the period of the parliament - up to 5 years. Both of these initiatives were previously proposed by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

In Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada resigned the speaker of the parliament Arseniy Yatsenyuk. As our correspondent in Kyiv Vladimir Ivakhnenko reports, not only three opposition parliamentary factions supported the resignation of the 34 -year -old speaker, but also ten deputies from “our Ukraine - People’s Self -Defense”. It was the votes of representatives of the pro -presidential bloc that played a key role for resolving the issue of shifting from the position of Yatsenyuk.

In Somalia, the key port city of Mark was captured by Islamic militants. The Ash Shabab group, which the United States has been included in the list of terrorist organizations, now controls both ports with airfields located south of the capital of the country of Mogadisho. The Somali government does not control the territory of the country, many areas of which are in the hands of various groups.

It would be naive to expect that historians, even such serious ones as a professor of St. Petersburg State University Tatyana Tairova-Yakovleva, can change something in the relations of Russia and Ukraine, although in Kyiv they write that she “really creates a revolution” in these relations. But still ... In both countries, the book of T. Tairova-Yakovleva “Mazepa” published in the ZhZL series is read. The Baturinsky archive * found by her (event in science) is processed.

The speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament Arseniy Yatsenyuk was removed from the session for two days. This decision was made today by the Verkhovna Rada. The initiators of the removal were deputies from the Party of Regions, the Litvin bloc and the Communists. In their opinion, Yatsenyuk, a member of the pro -presidential bloc “Our Ukraine - People’s Self -Defense” - biases to meetings and violates ethical norms.

The fall of the RTS stock exchange index by the middle of the day on Wednesday exceeded 12 percent, which led to the suspension of trading for an hour, after which the exchange announced that the auction would be resolved later. In the evening, the RTS spread a message that this will happen only on Thursday morning. Trading shares on the MICEX, stopped due to the collapse the night before, did not open today at all.

There will be no parliamentary elections in Ukraine in December 2008. This was stated by President of the country Viktor Yushchenko. In his opinion, "it makes no sense to hold elections during the holidays." The new date may be 2009, if the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada, whose dissident President Yushchenko suspended the economic crisis, will vote for a new budget, including the financing of early parliamentary elections.

In the Afghan city of Kandahar, in the south of the country, 6 civilians were killed and more than 40-A were wounded on Wednesday as a result of the explosion of a mined benzo-exhibition. According to the BBC, the explosion occurred next to the building in which the brother of the country's president Ahmed Vali Karzai, who participated in a meeting of the Council of the province, was located. He was not injured.