Andrey Zvezhedynkov and Svetlana Starkova Many benefits of civilization "thanks to" the iron curtain came to our country much later than all over the world. Take, for example, mobile phones and plastic cards. And since in our country the total paranoia is almost a national line, then, as you remember, for the use of the first mobile phones, private individuals should have received permission. I had this, and when changing the device itself, it was necessary to change permission.

The authorities of South Ossetia handed over to the Georgian side of the three Georgians contained in the Tskhinval prison on charges of illegal crossing of the border, Radio Liberty correspondent George Kobaladze reports. The efforts of the Commissioner of the Council of Europe on Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg, which mediates between the parties to the Georgian-Ossetian conflict in the issue of the exchange of prisoners, gradually bear fruit. A few weeks ago, being in Georgia, Mr.

The Moscow City Court sentenced the four years in prison Gennady Sipachev, accused of state treason. According to the investigation, Sipachev, on the instructions of the US Department of Defense, collected and transferred abroad maps of the General Staff of Russia, which contained classified information. Sipachev is not reported about the place of work. For the first time in the practice of investigating such cases, the accused concluded the so -called “deal with justice”.

In the capital of Thailand Bangkok on Thursday, during clashes with security forces, a general was seriously wounded, who had previously passed to the side of the opposition. Hattia Savasdipol, who was considered a "military adviser" of the so -called red -hubs, was taken to the hospital with a wound to the head. Other wounded during the operation of government troops, which blocked the opposition camp in the center of Bangkok.

In Russia these days, the second case of polio disease can be recorded. The last time the outbreak of this disease was recorded in 2002. As the chief sanitary doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko said on Thursday, a 9-month-old girl from Tajikistan was hospitalized in Moscow with suspected illness. According to him, most likely the child was ill because he was not vaccinated.

Alexey Sokolov in Sudesud in Yekaterinburg sentenced human rights activist Alexei Sokolov to five years in prison in a maximum security colony. According to the agency of Yekaterinburg-News, the court found Sokolov guilty of robbery and theft for two of the three episodes that he had been guilty. Protection intends to obscure the verdict that considers politically motivated. Alexei Sokolov gained fame after the shooting of beatings of prisoners published.

WTA tournament. Madrid. The third circle Nadezhda Petrova (Russia) - Serena Williams (USA) - 4: 6, 6: 2, 6: 3 The second circle Alexandra Dulger (Romania) - Elena Dementieva (Russia) - 6: 1, 3: 6, 7: 5 ATR. Madrid. The second circle Ernest Gulbis (Latvia) - Mikhail Yuzhny (Russia) - 7: 6, 6: 4

The attacks in Dagestan, which ceased after the appointment of a new head of the republic, began again In Dagestan today, as a result of the shelling of the motorcade in the Sergokalinsky district of the republic, five people were killed, and four more were injured. According to updated data, these are civilians-specialists. Earlier in the vicinity of the village of Sergokala, a TV executive was blown up. Perhaps we are observing changes in terrorist tactics.

In the north and southeast of Afghanistan last night, as a result of combat operations of government troops and forces under the command of NATO, “dozens of militants” were reported. In the province of Kunduz, 31 militants were killed, among which, as the local authorities report, the field commander of the Taliban Mullah Usman. In the province of Gazel, also according to the Afghan authorities, during a joint military operation, 14 militants were killed.

Alexander Kamensky , a professor at the Russian Humanitarian University and the Higher School of Economics: “Firstly, I would say that it is the most difficult to teach modern history. In general, the phrase“ Modern History ”itself is a paradox in a sense. Modernity cannot be history. History is a past. By the way, among historians there are fairly hot disputes regarding where, in fact, the story ends and the present begins. Is the 20th century already history or not yet?