Historian Andrey Zubov On July 28, Russia celebrates the Baptism of Russia . However, disputes still do not cease not only about the day, but also about the year and place of baptism. However, the fact that the Christianization of Rus' turned out to be the most important factor that largely determined its further development is not doubted.

The Deputy Supreme Commissar of the UN Human Rights Kan Gyun Va arrived in the Kyrgyz city of Osh. It is reported that she intends to study the situation with the protection of the rights of national minorities in the south of the republic. According to Interfax, the UN representative arrived in the Osh unexpectedly for local authorities, so on the trip it is accompanied only by employees of the Service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan.

In Khimki on Wednesday evening, an attack was made on the building of the city administration. According to the site "Gazeta.ru", about three hundred anti -fascists and anarchists who support the movement against the cutting of the Khimki forest, they threw the building with bottles of incendiary mixture. In the administration of Khimki Radio Liberty reported that the building was thrown with stones of 15-20 people who immediately disappeared.

Irina Lagunina: “Military reports are described in detail,” I quote the Gardian newspaper, “how the secret units of the American special forces are pursued by the leaders of the Taliban for“ capture or murder ”without trial; as the US hid the Taliban, the Militarian Missions of the Earth -Avation have more and more used to track the Riper’s throns to track And to kill the Taliban and their goals with the help of remote control from the base in Nevada; as the Taliban, they carry out a bloody

"Help!" "Urgently needs help!" "Save life!" "The child needs an urgent operation!" ... I don’t know how you, but for the last 3 years it just floods me with such messages. A specific circle of communication, you know - parents of sick children, volunteers, philanthropists. I am no different from others. I miss some messages, scroll, but I "hang" on some.

Russian bloggers again had a reason to talk about censorship on the Internet: the court of the Central District of Komsomolsk-on-Amur ordered a local provider to block the access of users to several resources due to the presence of extremist materials on them. The list included several famous online libraries where you can download "Mine Campf", the largest Internet archive Web.archive.org, as well as YouTube video service-for the video for the song "Russia for Russians".

According to information coming from Pakistan, a large plane crash occurred in the vicinity of Islamabad. The aircraft of the private Pakistani Airblue airline followed from Karachi to Islamabad. On board were, according to various sources, from 146 to 152 people. The American CNN television channel broadcasts the report of Pakistani television from the scene of the disaster. Search and rescue work is carried out on the slopes of the hills, where the plane crashed.

In the center of Moscow, two people were injured in an office building as a result of a fire. According to the Ministry of Emergencies, 55 people were evacuated in total. Some of them were cut off from the exit by fire, but people managed to get to the roof. The evacuation is currently completed. The victims are hospitalized. The reasons for the fire are clarified.

In Primorye, one of the members of the group of the so -called "Primorsky partisans", who accused the operatives of violence during interrogations, abandoned his words. As Interfax reports with reference to the representative of the UPC on Primorye Auror Roman, the accused Alexander Kovtun admitted that he made a statement to avoid criminal prosecution . During the verification of the investigation, the fact of applying violence to it was also not revealed, ”Roman said.

The police will stop all unauthorized protests, including the rally planned on July 31 in the center of Moscow in defense of freedom of assembly, ”said Mikhail Sukhodolsky, First Deputy Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

By July 26, 28.4 million tons of grain were collected in Russia, the Ministry of Agriculture reported. This is 1.3% more than on the same day a year earlier. Due to the drought of grain crops in the country, there were 10 million hectares from sown this year as a whole 48 million hectares, and the average yield in the injured regions is twice as lower than last year. According to the forecasts of the ministry, the grain crop in Russia in 2010 may be less than 85 million tons.

British Prime Minister David Cameron, who is on a visit to India, said today in Bangalore that Pakistan should not conduct Afghan policy in two directions: to publicly work in order to stabilize the situation in Afghanistan and at the same time carry out secret financing of militants. According to Cameron, there were evidence of such a double approach in the past, and a complete confidence is necessary that this does not happen now.