The national strike of the public sector of the economy, which takes place today in France, seriously violated the work of public transport. About half of trains and flights were canceled. Less than half of the Paris metro trains walk on the schedule. Schools are closed. Trade unions that organized a strike also intend to hold more than 200 demonstrations throughout the country. Participants in the strike protest against raising the retirement age in France from 60 to 62 years.

From Belarus, there are reports of the disaster of a military aircraft, as a result of which two pilots were killed. According to the Belarusian radio station "Euroradio", the MiG fighter fell near the city of Gantsevichi (Brest region). It is reported that an investigation of the circumstances of the disaster is being conducted, about the reasons for which there is no information yet.

The ministers of the internal affairs of the Iraqi neighboring countries called on Baghdad as soon as possible to form the government.

The Warsaw Prosecutor's Office intends to re -demand the arrest of Ahmed Zakayev, whose extradition Russia is achieved. According to Radio Liberty correspondent Alexander Lemeshevsky, the representative of the Warsaw District Prosecutor's Office, Monica Lewandovsk, said that after a detailed familiarization with the censor of the court’s decision on the release of Ahmed Zakaev, the prosecutor's office decided to appeal it.

The first Caucasian Canal Irina Lagunina: At the end of May, the first Caucasian Canal, which began on January 4 of this year and made a lot of noise in Russia, suspended the work. The reason is that he was disconnected from the satellite of the French company "Yutelsat", in which many saw the hand of Moscow. However, the suspension of broadcasting is associated not only with the loss of the opportunity to broadcast through the satellite, but also with a serious reorganization of the canal.

In Italy, another hunting season was opened, which immediately caused the traditional wave of polemics and marked by human victims. Even before the official opening of the hunting season, the priest Francesco Cashcol, who annually went to nature together with parishioners, fell. The poacher took the outlines of the priest's sleeping bag behind the sleeping boar and shot the clergyman at point -blank buckshot.

The chief military prosecutor of Poland, General Krzyshtof, Parulsky, said that he was “firmly convinced” that the remains of the victims of the tragedy, their personal belongings and fragments of the aircraft may still be at the site of the disaster of the Polish presidential aircraft near Smolensk.

In a series of monotonous news coming from Moscow, one is not about Luzhkov. That's why it must be good, positive, very encouraging news. And immediately in three directions. I mean the decree of President Medvedev, which prohibits the transfer of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems and other types of weapons to Iran. Firstly, this decision of the Kremlin indicates that Russia seriously refers to the Anti-Iranian sanctions of the UN Security Council adopted in June.

Iranian President Mahmud Akhmadinejad said that he does not exclude the possibility of liberation of two American tourists who have been in Iranian prison for more than a year. In an interview with CNN on Wednesday, Ahmadinejad noted, however, that "the judge must study their case." Three US citizens were detained last summer on the border of Iran and Iraq. They claimed to be in Iran by mistake, moving by hitchhiking. The Iranian authorities accused them of espionage.

In Ryazan, the city Duma voted for the resignation of the head of the city administration Oleg Shishov. As the correspondent of Radio Liberty reports, this issue was introduced to the agenda by deputy Alexander Chaika. According to him, the reason for this was the situation with the disconnection in the city of hot water due to the debts of the administration to the local thermal power plant. Shishov does not agree with the decision of the City Duma.

On September 22, an international day was held without cars. In the West, this initiative has been over thirty years, the last decade this day has been neatly celebrated all over the world. In St. Petersburg, for this day, they also thoroughly prepared: on September 21, the Prime Minister of Russia arrived in his hometown, where he first held a test drive of the novelty, which will be assembled at the St.

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Before our eyes, a new genre of journalism was born, which has no name yet - the search for official information in real time. To the one who wants to get acquainted with the samples of this genre, I recommend the morning program of Matvey Ganapolsky on Echo of Moscow. You can treat the journalist Ganapolsky differently. You can love or not love how it leads. You can grimly frowning from his verbity ...

At a plenary session on Thursday in Strasbourg, the European Parliament ordered the European Commission to raise the issue of importing goods produced in the Laogai labor camps on the upcoming Summit. The details of the discussion in the European Parliament are reported by the Radio Liberty correspondent Viktor Onuchko. During the hot discussion, the Eurodepapers compared Laogai with Gulag.