Having decided to write about a heap of waste paper, which is scattered along the mailboxes of Samara, I realized that there is no best commentator for this topic than the deputy of the Samara Provincial Duma Mikhail Matveev . The fact is that Mikhail Nikolaevich is one of the few Samara politicians who professionally engaged in journalism. Matveev worked in the Samara Gazeta, in the weekly Samara Review, produced the Samara Courier newspaper, which, modifying, is coming out to this day.

Oleg Pavlov : In more than million Kazan, Tatars and Russians live mainly, but also in significant quantities - Chuvash, Udmurts, Mordovians, Bashkirs and representatives of all peoples inhabited the former Soviet Union. The initiative of the Moscow City Hall to create a Moskvich Code, caused surprise. Mikhail Sokolov, a famous Kazan photographer, at first even considered that this was such a joke. Mikhail Sokolov : Under Soviet power, there was a code of the young builder of communism.

On Saturday in Baku, the police dispersed the protest of the Opposition Bloc "Freedom" near the City Hall building, the Radio Liberty correspondent Farid Arifoglu reports. The action was carried out with a demand for freedom of assembly and ensuring the democracy of the parliamentary elections, which should be held on November 7. However, the police did not allow the opposition to approach the city hall building.

Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake called on the Kyrgyz authorities to create all the conditions for the return of hundreds of thousands of refugees to the republic. On Saturday, he held negotiations in Bishkek with the head of the country's Provisional Government Rosa Otunbaeva. During the meeting, Blake confirmed that the United States allocates $ 32 million for humanitarian aid programs to victims during interethnic clashes in southern Kyrgyzstan.

In the South African Republic, as a result of an armed attack, the former chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Rwanda Kayumba Nyamvas was wounded. According to the wife of the military, their car was fired by the unknown when they returned from the shopping center. The woman believes that this was an attempt, since the attacker did not demand any other valuable things from them.

UN Secretary General Pan Hi Moon turned to the world community with an appeal to provide Kyrgyzstan $ 71 million to help cope with the humanitarian crisis. According to Pan Hi Muna, about 300 thousand people were forced to leave their homes in southern Kyrgyzstan in connection with interethnic clashes, at least one hundred thousand of them fled to neighboring Uzbekistan.

The international human rights organization Amnesty International demanded that the Iranian authorities give trial a murderer of Neda Aga-Soltan. The 27-year-old girl was killed in Tehran on June 20 last year during the dispersal of the demonstration of opposition supporters who protested against violations during the presidential election.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will head the Board of Trustees of the Skolkovo Innovation Center. The head of state said this today in St. Petersburg at a meeting of the Commission on the modernization and technological development of the Russian economy. It is assumed that about five billion rubles will be allocated to create a center for research and developments in Skolkovo near Moscow.

In Moscow, two new metro stations - Dostoevskaya and Marina Roshcha - are opening in Moscow - on the Lublin -Dmitrov line. Their construction has continued from interruptions since the 90s of the last century. The opening of stations was planned in 2009, but was postponed due to the crisis.

In several southern provinces of China, floods and landslides in recent days led to the death of 69 people. More than forty - went missing. This was reported today by Reuters with reference to the Chinese State Agency "Sinhua". From the areas that have undergone natural disaster, about half a million inhabitants were evacuated. Economic damage is estimated at one billion dollars.

The total number of immigrants in Italy exceeded 5 million. This is stated in a special report of the Catholic Church of Caritas. As our correspondent Vsevolod Gnetius reports from Rome, despite the strict measures taken by the government to combat illegal immigration, the number of illegal immigrants in Italy over the past year increased by 126 thousand, which has been over half a million - that is, more than 10 percent of the total number of immigrants.

In the Pakistani district, North Vaziristan today, according to the specified data, killed 13 militants. The operation was carried out 25 kilometers east of the city of Miranhah. A missile blow was delivered from an American unmanned aircraft.

In Moscow, two new metro stations - Dostoevskaya and Maryina Roshcha - on the Lublin -Dmitrov line are solemnly open. Their construction has continued from interruptions since the 90s of the last century. The opening of stations was planned in 2009, but was postponed due to the crisis.

Forward of the French national team Nicolas Anelka expelled from the team for insulting the head coach of Raymon Domenec. During the break of the match with the Mexico team, which France lost 0: 2, the striker said offensive words to his mentor who criticized him for the unsatisfactory game.

On Saturday, on Saturday, June 19, the 32nd time, Christopher Street Day, was already held, “Christopher-Street Day”-a massive parade of homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals, transvestites and transsexuals of Germany in defense of their rights and freedoms.