Former US President Jimmy Carter achieved the liberation of an American convicted in North Korea. The agreement was reached on Thursday as a result of the crankcase visit to the DPRK. In April, Gomez was sentenced to 8 years in prison on charges of illegally crossing the border between China and North Korea.

Washington is sure that the possible extraction of Russian entrepreneur Viktor Buta from Thailand in the United States will not jeopardize Russian-American relations. This was stated by the representative of the US State Department Philip Crowley. He confirmed that the Russian side was associated with American representatives in connection with the "Buta Bus", but did not give details.

In Khimki, the authorities campaigned by residents to put signatures in support of the project of the Moscow-Petersburg highway, according to which it should go through the territory of the forest park. As one of the Khimki entrepreneurs reported in an interview with Radio Liberty, she was called from the city property management committee with a proposal to support the existing project, assuring that an alternative plan for laying the highway is even more harmful to the city’s ecology.

In the awkward scene “And the king is naked” the Party of Real Affairs should have sprinkled the head of ash (the good of him now half the country), but she made her eternal “fool itself”. Therefore, the word had to take the intellectual protection: "The guardians were of various types, from Radzikhovsky or Maxim Sokolov to Sergey Kara-Murza or me (writes Yegor Kholmogorov). Today it is somehow obvious that we have failed." “Until January 9, the regime is still firm, and the opposition is weak.

In Dagestan, an attempt was made on the head of the Khasavyurt district, Dzhambulat Salavov. According to Interfax with reference to the law enforcement agencies of the republic, on Friday night in the village of Batayurt on the side of the road along which the car of the district traveled, a passenger car was blown up. As a result, three guards were injured, Salaov himself was not injured. In the place of the explosion, the investigation group works.

In Moscow, the Moscow. There is an accession again in Moscow, which was organized by the magazine "Big City". The purpose of the action is to check what has changed in the capital for a year for people who are forced to move in wheelchairs. A group of healthy people in wheelchairs took a walk in the city center, trying to go to shops, cafes and museums on the way. The procession was attended by the speaker of the Federation Council Sergey Mironov and the Russian Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin.

Russian sailors in Sevastopol Kyiv and Moscow are going to change the situation with the movement of military personnel and vessels of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. In addition, by the end of the year, the parties intend to put an end to the issue of the status of Crimean lighthouses. According to Ukrainian and Russian diplomats, an agreement will soon be signed on the movement of military personnel and courts of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

Evgenia Chirikova in the Radio Liberty studio The President’s decision on the suspension of the construction of the Moscow -Petersburg highway does not necessarily mean the salvation of the Khimkinsky forest. The statements of Vladimir Putin made in the Khabarovsk Territory that considerations of an effective economy in the implementation of this project will remain in the first place, many observers are given a reason for skepticism.

Activists of the "Young Guard of United Russia" will have to work with new leaders. The outgoing week brought Russian bloggers a major offline victory: under their pressure, personnel cleaning took place in one of the pro -Kromele movements. This has not happened yet.

In the Laptev sea, the search for six sailors from the sunken Russian tugboat "Alexei Kulakovsky" continues. Five crew members were found by the dead, three - captain and two sailors - were saved. The tugboat with 14 sailors on board sank off the coast of Yakutia on Friday night. A criminal case has been opened under an article on violation of security rules.

The police will be renamed the police The State Duma in the course of the autumn session plans to adopt the law "On the Police" so that he enters into force on January 1, 2011, said the speaker of the lower house of parliament Boris Gryzlov. Independent experts and human rights activists criticize the bill, noting that many of its provisions significantly reduce the level of legal guarantees of citizens.

Danish police are forced to constantly monitor the "angels of hell" According to the results of the research of the International Organization of Vision of Humanity, which has compiled a global peace rating, Denmark is one of the safest countries for living. But this country also has its own criminal life, an integral sign of which has become biker associations. The Danes joined the biker movement in the post -war years relatively late.