Natalia Orlova, chief economist of Alfa Bank The Russian ruble is strengthened to the dollar and a bivalyat basket (consisting of $ 0.55 and 0.45 euros) the seventh trading session in a row. Experts explain this, first of all, by external reasons. In particular, the conjuncture of the global financial market. This morning, at the MICEX, the American currency course updated the new minimum, for the first time from July 28, dropping to the mark of 30.66 rubles.

The Supreme Court of Russia recognized the order of the Ministry of Communications on the access of law enforcement agencies to mail messages of citizens. Earlier, the Prosecutor General’s Office stated that a number of the provisions of the document violate the right to the secret of correspondence. On the legal examination of the order, the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia Vladimir Lukin insisted.

Oleg Kusov I did not expect that the family scandal of the former Baysarov couple - Orbakaite would affect the feelings of such a large number of people. I judge by the comments on my last post on the Blog "Family Code against Ethnic Adats" . The range of opinions turned out to be extensive. Some defend the interests of Christina Orbakaite, others support Ruslan Baysarova.

In the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, Valery Khafizov, deputy head of the Oktyabrsky district, was arrested. He is suspected of illegal consumption of 70 million rubles from the regional reserve fund. According to the investigation, Hafizov paid this money to a construction company, which did not comply with the terms of the contract concluded with it. Valery Khafizov was detained on September 2.

Viktor Shenderovich (right) at a concert in support of political prisoners with Alexander Filipenko (left) and Julius Kim The campaign in defense of Mikhail Khodorkovsky periodically takes the form of epistolary dialogue, in which famous Russian writers and other public figures take part. Does it make sense in such a campaign? And what's the point in such a correspondence if she does not change anything in the fate of the disgraced oligarch?

Irina Lagunina: At the end of the story about excavations on Solovki, we will talk about the special role of the Solovetsky monastery in the history of Russia. “From the Novgorod letters it follows that in 1468 the Solovetsky Monastery was founded as a new -type monastery,” as a member of expeditions on Solovki, senior researcher at the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Burov believes. Olga Orlova and Alexander Markov talk to him.

In Yemen, a Russian who worked as a doctor in one of the local hospitals is stolen. According to the authorities, the physician has been captured from Thursday. He was captured by representatives of one of the tribes in the province of Marib, when he was heading to the capital of the country. In exchange for a Russian, kidnappers demand to free one of their relatives from prison. The abduction of people in Yemen, which is among the poorest states of the world, occurs quite often.

In Makhachkala, a woman who planned the attack was detained, the authorities of Dagestan said. According to the FSB, a woman seized grenades and a pistol, as well as a letter to the leader of local militants, in which she reports on the intention to become a suicide bomber and make an explosion in a public place.

Ruins of the World Trade Center in New York Eight years ago, the United States underwent an unprecedented terrorist attack: two aircraft captured by terrorists rammed the towers of the World Commercial Center, the third aircraft fell to the Pentagon, the fourth collapsed in Pennsylvania. On the eve of the Washington Radio, Radio Liberty, Allan Davydov, discussed this anniversary with the inhabitants of the American capital.

"Chamber Choir" Khreshchatik ": the revival of chamber choral music in Ukraine." Russian romance in Georgia "Transfer of the contribution of Georgian musicians to Russian music." Red dry ": what and how they drink in Kazakhstan.

Michael Jackson’s memory concert with the participation of numerous “stars” of the world stage was postponed from September 26 to June next year. The place of the concert has also been changed - instead of the Vienna Castle Schenbrunn, it will be held in London. The reason for the transfer of the concert, in the words of the organizers, was that many leading performers could not take part in a concert in September due to previously concluded contractual obligations.

In the Flemish region of Belgium - Flanders, the authorities banned in state educational institutions to wear Muslim shawls of hijabs. This order applies to seven hundred schools, including several in Brussels. The possibility of princes of a similar solution is now also being discussed in the Franco -speaking region of Belgium - Wallonia.

Moldova President Vladimir Voronin officially resigned the powers of the head of state. The corresponding application is registered in the parliament secretariat. In a television appeal to the citizens of the Republic, Voronin said that after the defeat of the Communists in the July parliamentary elections, he will work as a deputy of the parliament. Voronin noted that he does not believe in the ability of the new government to rule the country.

"New Gazeta" and the Radio Liberty website published excerpts from the absentee dialogue of the writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya with Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The full text will appear in the October issue of the Banner magazine and at the same time on the Radio Liberty website. The interlocutors were interested in each other, judging by the fact that this communication stretched for several months.