Barack Obama The consequences of the Olympic mission of President Obama, which were amazing many, may have political consequences for the president. Although Chicago’s loss in the struggle for the right to conduct the Olympiad is hardly of some practical importance for the United States, the symbolism of the fact did not go unnoticed: a blow to the prestige of the president was struck, the president’s popularity in the world has been questioned.

The Ministers of Finance and the heads of the central banks of seven leading world economies (G7) at a meeting in Istanbul advocated the preservation of state anti -crisis measures to support the economy. The statement adopted following the results of the meeting noted that growth prospects remain "fragile", and the situation in the labor market continues to deteriorate.

Ireland ratified the Lisbon Agreement on the reform of the EU leading structures. More than 67 percent of voters spoke in a second referendum for its approval. These are preliminary official data. The leaders of the European Union welcomed the results of the vote.

Yuri Felshtinsky Who nevertheless organized explosions of houses in Russia in 1999? The FSB’s non -involvement in terrible terrorist attacks, the historian Felsteinsky categorically disagree with the journalist Latynina, who insists on the lack of involvement of the FSB . In an interesting time, we live. On September 19, on the air of "Echo of Moscow", Julia Latynina announced her version of the explosion of houses in Russia in 1999. In response, I wrote her a letter.

Brazil gets an Olympic chance The election of the capital of the Olympiad is a political event. After all, it was Tony Blair’s performance in Singapore that made London the venue for the 2012 Olympics, and the speech of Russian President Vladimir Putin two years ago at a session of the International Olympic Committee in Guatemala, where they chose the capital of the 2014 Winter Olympiad, largely predetermined the victory of Sochi.

In the Moscow Region Mytishchi, a rally organized with the support of the Communists is held against the construction of a garbage engineering plant in the city. As the Radio Liberty correspondent reports, the participants in the action continue to collect signatures of those who support their position - there are already about a thousand.

The Parliament of Tajikistan adopted a new law "On the state language". It excludes the concept of "the language of interethnic communication", which is enshrined in the current law behind the Russian language. According to changes, office work, official correspondence and training should now be carried out only in the Tajik language.

Russia - Strelyany, Anatoly, Portrait Logo for Russian Service, Graphic, Undated Let the letter from Moscow, let those who believe that I am inventing letters to “freedom”, but not by myself, but with their secretaries, as one insightful person who, of course, will never believe that I had no one secretary did not have any one, who had not happened. I read: “Previously, the Caucasians protruded in Moscow, and that was good.

At least four thousand people can be located under the rubble of buildings on the Sumatra, which suffered from the destructive earthquake of the Indonesian island. Such data was released on Saturday of the UN. According to local authorities, more than five hundred people became victims of the elements. From all over the world, the help necessary to eliminate the consequences of the earthquake continues to enter into Indonesia.

Israeli military aircraft inflicted blows on Saturday in the morning on several targets in the gas sector. According to the command of the command, shelling was subjected to a building where weapons were produced, as well as two tunnels used by smugglers. The military note that the blow was inflicted in response to the missile shelling of the Israeli territory by Palestinian militants last Friday. The victims are not reported.

The number of Nobel Prize applicants can be increased A group of scientists of the United States and Britain filed an open letter to the Nobel Fund , calling for expanding the number of awards for new scientific fields that appeared in the XX-XXI centuries. Ten prominent scientists, including the Nobel Prize Laureate Timothy Hunt, former British government adviser David King, Pulitzer's laureate for works on evolutionary biology, Dr.

In Chechnya, the supply of electricity in the Gudermes and Kurchalsky districts was restored, the regional department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry said. On Friday, two supports of the power line were damaged. Without light, 145 thousand people were left for a while.

In the American state of California, the second earthquake occurred this week. On Friday, a series of underground shocks, including magnitude more than 5, was noted in the east of the state, in the area of the city of Loon Pine. The victims and destruction are not reported. A day earlier, shocks were recorded in the same area.

In Ingushetia, a policeman was wounded in the explosion. According to ITAR-TASS with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic, the explosion occurred in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, Sunzhensky district. The explosive device was attached to the bottom of the car, controlled by an employee of the patrol service. In serious condition, he is hospitalized. An investigation is underway.

"Ours" continue the traditions of the Soviet court over dissidents Writer Viktor Erofeev and journalist Alexander Podrabink - in addition to the non -systemic past - unites a little. However, last week, their names in the blogosphere walked nearby: both of them turned out to be objects of persecution. Both on the network and in life outside it. It turned out to be relatively simple with Viktor Erofeev - and, for the writer, is familiar.