Nina Zvereva Anna Kachkaeva : Today we will begin the program with the discussion of the interview of Dmitry Medvedev CNN television and all that is now happening in the blogosphere, on the Internet and in the newspaper Vedomosti, which wrote what is happening, as it seems to journalists, in the hypebies, and what the public activity of two Russian leaders mean. In direct connection with us, one of the leaders of the Institute of Modern Development Igor Jurgens.

The commander of the US troops in Afghanistan said that additional troops are needed for the successful opposition to militants in this country. The American newspaper Washington Post reports today that on August 30, General Stanley McCrystal sent a voluminous report to the US Minister of Defense Robert Gates. The document, in particular, states that in the next 12 months it is necessary to achieve a fracture in hostilities against the rebels.

Lev Levinson In several Russian cities, the so -called voluntary testing of schoolchildren and students begins for drug use. Earlier in favor of testing, President Dmitry Medvedev spoke out. Human rights activist Lev Levinson proves why testing is the measure useless and costly.

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The total number of unemployed in Russia, calculated according to the methodology of the International Labor Organization, decreased in August by 1.6% to the level of July - to 6.2 million people, the Federal Statistics Service said. Thus, the unemployment rate in the country decreased over a month from 8.3% to 8.1% of the economically active population. At the same time, the number of unemployed in Russia, officially registered in the employment service, is almost three times less today.

Two Palestinian militants were killed in a gas sector as a result of Israeli shelling. According to the Israeli military, the tank fire was opened by Palestinians who tried to lay a bomb near the protective fortifications on the border of Israel. Prior to this, according to the military, at least one rocket was released from the gas sector in Israeli territory. There are no victims.

Barack Obama (right) and vice president Joe Biden Alexander Genis: A year ago, America was bad and scary. The bankruptcy of the financial giant “Lehman Brothers” began the financial crisis, which frightened the country no less than September 11th. Once in the shadow of the Great Depression, everyone was waiting for the worst, every hour brought the disaster, shares were cheaper than ice cream, and my wife and I, not trusting the banks, put a little money into the envelope for a rainy day.

Is the President Medvedev (left) and Putin Putin for the good of the country is it time for the country to enter into an open battle? The head of the board of the Institute of Modern Development (Incor) , who is considered the “brain headquarters” of President Medvedev, Igor Jurgens in an interview with Radio Liberty explained whose point of view expressed , speaking in an interview with Reuters about the real risk of turning Putin into “New Brezhnev” .

In Italy, national mourning for six Italian soldiers who died in an explosion in Afghanistan has been announced today. In Rome, state funeral will be held. On Thursday, a suicide bomber in a mined car crashed into the Italian military carbon on Kabul. The Taliban took responsibility for the attack. In Afghanistan there are over 3 thousand Italian military personnel.

A direct ban on the participation of Vasily Aleksanyan in the trial in the conclusion of doctors is not contained Today, the Simonovsky court of Moscow will consider whether the former vice president of Yukos Vasily Aleksanyan will be able to participate in the process in his case. The legal proceedings in the criminal case against Aleksanyan were suspended in February 2008 in connection with the disease of the defendant: it was reported that Vasily Aleksanyan Rak and AIDS had.

In the world, the number of people with brain disorders is growing. According to a study conducted by Alzheimer's Disease International, about 35 million people suffer from dementia around the world. It is reported that after twenty years the number of people suffering from a disorder of brain activity will double. Mostly, people over 65 years old are subject to such diseases. The authors of the study believe that in this regard the world has faced an emergency.

In Poland, a two -day national mourning for dead miners has been announced from Monday. On Friday, at a mine located near the village of Ruda-Slensk, an explosion of methane occurred. 13 miners were killed, over 40 were injured. The accident has become the largest in Poland over the past three years.

In the center of Moscow, students of the Russian State Social University (RSSU) conducted an unauthorized protest of the Rosimunstarie building with a demand to protect the university from the arbitrariness of officials. According to Radio Liberty, a representative of the Union of Students of the Russian State Security Council, Alexander Balmashev, the police detained dozens of people. The event was attended by 700 young people. They blocked the street, scattered leaflets and chanted slogans.

In the center of Nazran, unknown people fired a car with police officers. According to preliminary data, 4 people were injured. According to law enforcement agencies of Ingushetia, they are hospitalized. Investigators work at the scene. The search for attackers is being conducted.

On the Moon, the Russian device Lend found previously unknown local areas with a high hydrogen content. According to Igor Mitrofanov, a representative of the Radio Radio Radio Freedom in an interview with Radio, this discovery indicates the need to revise the previously existing ideas about the surface of the moon.