This year it turned 70 since the birth of the St. Petersburg sociologist Valery Borisovich Golofast (1941-2004). I asked to tell about him Professor Boris Doctorov, who published several articles about the life and work of this scientist. For more than 17 years, doctors live in the United States, but before leaving, he worked with a holophast for two decades, and living in America, actively corresponded with him by e -mail. - The event side of the life of the holofast is very simple.

The problems of amateur fishermen should not leave indifferent Russian leaders. In the picture (left to right): Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev fishing on the Volga) Russian President Dmitry Medvedev extended the term of public discussion of the bill "On amateur and sport fishing" for one month. The discussed bill enshrines the provisions according to which rivers and lakes can be given for use to entrepreneurs and commercial structures for up to 25 years.

August 1991. What did you fight for? On August 19 , those who built the barricades twenty years ago came to the White House in Moscow. They believe that they did everything then correctly. The Russian press these days is discussing the results of the latest sociological surveys. Those who still consider the events of August 1991 a victory of democracy are less and less. And more and more those who call this defeat. “It was only a struggle for power between different groups,” the third say.

Twenty years ago, I worked in the weekly "Russia", whose editors were located in the White House. No matter how funny it sounds now, we made leaflets with information that we managed to collect, and propagated them in a carbon car. Then they distributed to the demonstrators and stuck around the city. August events left two main sensations: a complete chaos of great politics and a complete accident of political destinies and quarries.

The Russian Express-AM4 satellite and the Breeze-M Handle Block, previously considered missing, were discovered by the American system for tracking space objects (Norad) in different orbites. This was reported by RIA "Novosti" with reference to sources in the Russian space department. The satellite was launched on the morning of August 18 from the Baikonur cosmodrome.

Israeli passenger bus, which struck during one of the attacks on August 18 Israel strikes the gas sector in response to terrorist attacks committed on August 18 in the south of the country. Palestinian groups based in the gas sector, in turn, began to shell the territory of Israel. After a series of terrorist attacks that occurred in the south of Israel, the Israeli Air Force struck the gas sector.

North Korea will resume negotiations with the United States on the search and return of the remains of American military personnel who died during the war in Korea in the early 1950s. The DPRK Foreign Ministry statement says that Pyongyang has positively reacted to the relevant request of the United States. More than 8 thousand American troops are still considered missing during the war in Korea.

Israeli border guards 60 kilometers from Eilat All last night and this morning, the missile shelling of the southern cities of Israel continued: Ashdoda, Ashkelon and Beer-Shva, Radio Liberty correspondent Ela Kotler reports. The Iron Dome missile defense system installed near Ashkelon was thrust 4 Palestinian missiles. At 8 in the morning, two Grad missiles were released along Ashdod.

The court in Tbilisi sentenced the former head of the Georgian border police by five and a half years. Badri Bitsadze was found guilty of organizing the police resistance groups during the protest of the opposition "national assembly" in May. The verdict was carried out in absentia, - Bitsadze is on the wanted list.

Ksenia Sokolova: What we saw at the White House - I had the feeling that people became adults, that they themselves were making a decision. And now this feeling has completely passed. Again everything turned into a kindergarten of morons. Here is a dull GKChP, it now metaphysically won, took revenge. And then there was a feeling that we are adults, normal people who dispose of their lives as they want.

Libyan rebels on Friday announced the beginning of the attack on the city of Zliten 150 kilometers east of Tripoli. After the battles, the rebels lasted for several hours reached the city center. The offensive began at half past eight in the morning, and already at the time of the afternoon armed detachments fighting with government troops reached the central regions of the city. This was announced by the information center of the Military Council of rebels in the city of Misurat.

At the barricades near the White House, Moscow, August 1991 August putsch through the eyes of users of a living magazine. Notes in the style of "twenty years later" are the most popular genre of network diaries of the outgoing week. "The three most high days in life. But if I knew how it all ended, I would never have gone." Approximately such an answer was received by the Rommor LJ user from those who were at the White House in August 1991.

Turkish military aviation last night again fired at the bases of Kurdish separatists in Iraq. The statement of the Turkish command says that 28 objects were subjected to bombardment. Artillery fired at 96 targets. A two -day army operation is a response to the frequent attacks of activists of the Kurdish Workers' Party. Since the beginning of July, about forty Turkish soldiers have become their victims.

Demonstration in Deraa At least 10 demonstrators have been killed in Syria today, there are wounded. According to human rights activists, soldiers opened fire on participants in anti-government actions in Damascus, in three cities of Deraa's province, in the cities of Deir Ez-Zor and Hauraran-Plain.