Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmud Kureshi called on the United States to long-term participation in ensuring stability in Pakistan, Afghanistan and the South Asian region as a whole. Kureshi performed in Washington after negotiations with the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In Islamabad, it is expected that US President Barack Obama will sign a bill to allocate Pakistan in the near future for the next five years of seven and a half billion dollars.

The program "Time of Guests" on Wednesday October 7 at 19:07 discusses the course of the election campaign in the Moscow City Duma. Elena Lukyanova (Communist Party) and Sergey Mitrokhin ("Yabloko") participate. Mikhail Sokolov is broadcast. Ask your question to the program participants.

Two Russian citizens suspected of killing the mayor of Vladikavkaz were expelled from Ukraine and arrested in Russia, Interfax reports with reference to the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior. The inhabitants of North Ossetia Taimuraz Gagloev and Robert Tabuev hid in one of the Crimean hotels, where, according to Ukrainian special services, they prepared a new crime against one of the local politicians.

The court in London charged three British citizens - in a conspiracy to undermine several transatlantic airliners. The properors said that Adam Hatib, Mohammed Shamin Uddin and Nabil Khussain are involved in the conspiracy to kill thousands of air passengers. Three suspects rejected the charges. It is also reported that the defendants were accomplices of several other conspirators arrested back in 2006 and prepared attacks like 2001 attacks in the United States.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi called politicized the decision of the Constitutional Court, who actually removed the immunity from him from criminal prosecution. The court recognized the law on immunity adopted last year for the highest representatives of the state - including the prime minister - not corresponding to the Constitution. A number of accusations of corruption have been put forward against Berlusconi.

Dmitry Volchek: We have repeatedly spoke in the releases of the radio journal “on top of the barriers” about the books of Maxim Kantor, and now there is an occasion to return to the conversation - the OGA publishing house has released a new novel of Cantor, it is called “In that direction”, and, like the first book, “Textbook of drawing”, they argue about it - there are enthusiastic reviews, there are defeatous ones.

Ella Pamfilova, the head of the Russian Presidential Council for Human Rights, does not believe that she insulted veterans, and does not intend to apologize for assessing the actions of the Prochrevsky movement "Our". The other day, in a statement by the Council, an organized by the movement of the campaign against the journalist and human rights activist Alexander Podrabink was called "immoral" and "illegal".

Journalist and human rights activist Alexander Podrabinek called for defending freedom of speech in Russia, Speaking at a rally in Moscow in memory of Anna Politkovskaya. Earlier, the head of the Council for Human Rights under the President of Russia Ella Pamfilova said that she did not intend to apologize for her critical assessment of the Primnemlevsky campaign of "ours" against the suburban.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogg Rasmussen announced the need for a fair distribution of responsibility for the situation in Afghanistan between the United States and its allies. The expansion of military operations and the growth of losses in Afghanistan causes the skeptical attitude of the US European partners to the Union’s military strategy. In addition, Rasmussen noted that Russia in the future can play a large role in the operations of coalition forces in Afghanistan.

Anna Politkovskaya’s memory was held in Moscow On October 7, 2006, in Moscow, at the entrance of the house on Lesnaya Street , an observer of Novaya Gazeta Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead . In June, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation canceled an acquittal against the alleged accomplices of the murder of a journalist and returned the case to the prosecutor's office for an additional investigation.

At a rally in the memory of Anna Politkovskaya. Memory of memory of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, dedicated to the third anniversary of her death, took place on October 7 in Russia and abroad. Famous journalists, cultural figures, human rights activists, and opposition politicians participated in Moscow in Moscow. Similar events were held in St. Petersburg, Kostroma, Omsk, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk and other cities.

Boris Paramonov: In the September issue of “New World”, an article appeared about Michel Foucault, which caused me something like a shame for a magazine, among whose employees are the philosophically educated Irina Rodnyanskaya and Renata Galtseva. The author of the article presents Foucault with some left-handed moron, which is not even worth refuting-exposes itself. This is the same as without thinking long, to declare Nietzsche the predecessor of fascism.