The authorities of Afghanistan would like more independence in ensuring security in the country and more control over the means of international financial assistance. Such a statement was made by Afghan President Hamid Karzai at a conference in Afghanistan, which is taking place today, in which about 40 heads of foreign policy departments and approximately 70 international representatives take part. This is the first meeting of this level in the country in a long time.

In Moscow, due to long heat, the air temperature at some metro stations exceeds 30 degrees - at a sanitary norm of 28. Doctors in clinics recommend postponing planned but not urgent operations until the fall. In the suburbs, new foci of peat and forest fires arise daily. The Moscow City Duma, due to the heat from Monday, reduced its working day for an hour and a half. According to forecasts, weakening of heat in the European part of Russia in the coming days is not expected.

The prosecutor's office of Samara announced the final termination of the criminal prosecution of the former head of the city of George Limansky, reports Radio Liberty correspondent Sergei Khazov. As the head of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office in the Samara Region, Vitaly Gorstkin, said, the investigation was terminated by the investigation of the criminal case of the former head of Samara Georgy Limansky.

British Prime Minister David Cameron will be negotiating in Washington with US President Barack Obama today. According to the White House, the main topic of negotiations will be the situation around Afghanistan. Observers, however, suggest that the consequences of an accident on an oil well in the Gulf of Mexico may come to the fore.

In Pakistan, 5 militants died while trying to blow up a large military training center in the province of Haiber-Pakhtunhih (the former North-Western Border Province). The military representative said that the three suicide bombers trying to penetrate the center had worked explosive devices fixed on the body ahead of time. Two more militants who covered the suicide bombers were killed by guard soldiers.

Participants of the tour of the tour organized by the Blue Buckets on July 19, who did not like. The Blue Leaders Society, opposing the use of special signals on officials of officials , made another attempt to walk around the memorable places of Moscow on July 19. 13 walking were detained by the police. The reason for the detention was explained to them as follows: the organization of the procession using visual agitation in the form of blue Vederes on the heads.

The head of the UN Human Rights Department, Navi Pilla, said that she has information about the torture and groundless arrests of the inhabitants of the southern regions of Kyrgyzstan. According to Pilla, violations committed by law enforcement officers of Kyrgyzstan indicate not only a flagrant bias to representatives of a different nationality, but also contradict the basic norms of both the Kyrgyz and international law.

Is it possible to reform "free" medicine now? The new bill “On Compulsory Medical Insurance” adopted in the first reading of the State Duma in the State Duma in the program “Time of Guests” on Tuesday July 20 at 19:07 We discuss with the professor, a member of the board of the Institute of Modern Development, Evgeny Gontmacher and the President of the National Medical Chamber, the director of the Moscow Research Institute of Emergency Pediatric Surgery and Traumatology Leonid Roshal.

In Chuvashia, with the consent of the highest qualification collegium of judges, a criminal case has been instituted against the judge of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Yuri Sidorov under the article “Violation of the Rules of the Road, which entailed the death of two or more persons,” the Radio Liberty correspondent Konstantin Mironov reports.

In the Kyrgyz city of Osh and several areas in the south of the country, the duration of the commandant’s hour was reduced, introduced in June, when bloody interethnic clashes occurred in the region. From today, the commandant hour will operate from 10 pm to 5 in the morning. The Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan announced new data on the number of unrest victims, - the death of 335 people confirmed. It is reported that the bodies of the dead and burials continue to find in Osh.

The court in Bosnia and Herzegovina on Monday sentenced the former soldier of the Bosnian Serbs to the former soldier. Marco Boskin received 10 years in prison for participating in the mass killings of Muslims in Srebrenitsa in 1995. When assigning the deadline, the guilty guilty to the defendants and his promise to cooperate with the investigation in establishing all the circumstances of the crime in Srebrenitsa were taken into account.

The main theme of the negotiations between US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron, which are held in Washington, is the situation in Afghanistan.

The State Constitutional Commission, created a year ago by the Decree of President Mikhail Saakashvili, approved on Monday the draft of the new Constitution of Georgia, according to which the role and powers of the country's prime minister are significantly intensified. Oppositionists suspect that Saakashvili is preparing to take the post of head of the Cabinet of Ministers after the expiration of their presidential powers.