The events of the past weekend in Syria, where, as a result of the actions of government forces, 140 civilians were killed, caused deep indignation in the European Union. On Monday, the EU tightened sanctions against the regime of Bashar al -Assad. As the Brussels journalist Viktor Onuchko reports, the EU Foreign Council made this decision without a meeting.

This morning, fire on the Israeli military patrol was opened on the Liva-Israeli border from the territory of Lebanon. The Lebanese soldier, who apparently shot at the Israeli, was wounded with return fire. The shootout quickly stopped. This was reported by the Radio Liberty correspondent in Israel Ela Kotler. In place of the incident, to the border section in the Maian-Barukh region, reinforcements from both sides arrived.

Alexander Genis: The host of our 'Films'', Andrei Zagdansky, will present a film telling the dramatic story of an American world. I ask you Andrey! Andrei Zagdansky: In my professional life, a documentary I had to see many films, where misfortune becomes the subject, content and the main message of the film. I saw films about the blind, about deaf, about all types of injuries, about drug addicts, about AIDS sick. I even saw a film about the partisan to whom the Nazis cut off his tongue.

In the city of Zheleznodorozhnaya near Moscow, the hunger strikers of housing continue the hunger strike for more than a week. The state of the starving seriously worsened, said the coordinator of the Motor Motioners Igor Gulev. The action is continued by 9 people, its tenth participant - an elderly woman - was hospitalized last week. The house, in which 210 families invested, are 90 percent ready - there is not enough connected communications.

In 27 countries of the European Union, as in the eurozone, the unemployment rate did not change during June and amounted to 9.4%, in 17 countries - 9.9%, the Eurostat agency said. The maximum unemployment rate was noted in June in Spain (21%), and the minimum in Austria (4%) and the Netherlands (4.1%).

The French government on Monday announced the provision of 259 million dollars from frozen assets that belonged to senior officials of the Muamar Gaddafi regime. According to the representative of the rebel National Council in France, Mansur Seif al-Nasr, after meeting with the French Foreign Minister Alena Juppe, food and medication will be purchased for these funds.

The Tver court of Moscow authorized the arrest of Alexander Slavyansky, suspected of embezzlement of more than a billion rubles from the accounts of the Russian Pension Fund in 2009. The money was then returned. According to the investigation, Slavyansky acted as part of an organized group. Earlier, six of his alleged accomplices were detained. They are accused of fraud, the legalization of illegal income and forged documents. Everyone pleaded guilty.

In the Krasnodar Territory, investigators find out the circumstances of the death of a suspect in the case of a mass murder in the village of Kushchevskaya. 25-year-old Sergei Karpenko died this morning in a hospital in Vladikavkaz after an attempt by suicide, said the representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia Vladimir Markin. In November last year, 12 people were brutally killed in the village of Kushchevskaya, including four children.

The bodies of all those killed as a result of the crash of the boat on the Moscow River are identified. According to Interfax in the transport department of the Investigative Committee of Russia, according to updated data, eight people were killed, including the captain, another passenger is listed as missing. Its search is conducted. The seven managed to escape. On Sunday night, the boat crashed into a barge and sank in the area of Luzhnetskaya embankment.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow accepted for consideration the lawsuit of the Party of People’s Freedom (Parnas) with a request to recognize the Ministry of Justice of the Ministry of Justice to recognize the defense of the Ministry of Justice to register, - Interfax reports. Oppositionists believe that the Russian authorities have violated the norms of the Constitution and the requirements of the European Convention on Human Rights.

In Kaliningrad, employees of the regional center for combating extremism, together with the traffic police, seized the entire circulation of the Izvestia Kaliningrad newspaper, where an open letter from the Kaliningraders to the President of the Russian Federation was published with a demand for the resignation of the regional government. The removal took place on the eve of the expected visit by Dmitry Medvedev to the Kaliningrad region.

Haji Gadzhiev On July 28, the head of Sergei Stepashin sent a letter to Vladimir Putin with a proposal to develop a law that would provide for criminal liability for contractual matches. Sergey Stepashin is not only the head of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, but also a member of the Executive Committee of the RFU and the chairman of the supervisory board of the Dynamo football club.

Theater on Malaya Bronnaya The theater on Malaya Bronnaya opened the season. His plans include the “Colomba” by Jean Anuya, Tartuf Moliera, Shakespearean “storm”, “puppet house” of Ibsen and Schiller's “Robbers”. Welcoming the theater team at the traditional collection of the troupe, Sergey Golomazov said: - Last season and summer turned our theater into a kind of nursery. We already have four babies.

In Moscow today, a suspect in the embezzlement of more than a billion rubles from the Pension Fund of Russia in 2009 was detained. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in relation to Alexander Slavyansky, who was on the federal wanted list, the issue of choosing a preventive measure is being decided. Earlier, six alleged accomplices of Slavic, accused of fraud, were detained. Their case is already being considered by the court. All of them gave confession.