Last year's protests for the preservation of the nature of Lake Baikal Because of the summer, many Russian bloggers leave the virtual space, and begin to be interested in the real world. Western commentators are interested in the whereabouts of the Libyan Colonel Mummar Gaddafi. The first thing the bloggers see when leaving the city is in what condition the environment is.

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In the Dagestan city of Derbent last night, an attack on a police officer was attacked. According to Interfax in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic, the police tried to check the documents at the two passers -by stopped by them on the street. In response, unknown people opened fire, after which they disappeared. There are no victims during the shootout. Damage was received by a police car. The search for attackers is being conducted.

There are reports from Libya that the rebels discovered the place where Muamar Gaddafi is hiding and fighting with units that are correct regime. It is also reported that shooting and explosions are heard in the area of Tripoli Airport. Observers note that, perhaps, rebels fired at the airport in connection with the assumptions about Kaddafi's attempts to leave Libya. There are no reliable evidence of this information yet.

The American concern Mars, the world's largest chocolate manufacturer, in May 2012 plans to put into operation a confectionery factory in the Ulyanovsk region, the volume of investments in the project will amount to 3.3 billion rubles or more than 114 million dollars in terms. It will become the second enterprise of the concern in this region - in January 2010, the Mars opened there a plant for the production of feed for pets, of which it is also a large manufacturer.

About 12 million people in the world do not have citizenship and, as a result, are deprived of the basic human rights, ”the UN warns. The head of the UN Human Rights Department, Antoniu Gutherresh, called on world leaders to actively join two international conventions from the 1954th and 1961s regarding the support of stateless persons. “Many people are in despair and do not see a way out of the nightmare state of uncertainty,” Gutherresh emphasized.

Konstantin Nikolaevich Romanov Marina Timasheva: '' Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich and the Grand Dukes Konstantinovichi '' - this is the name of the book of Kirill Orlov and Lyubov Zavyalova, published in the St. Petersburg publishing house '' Vita Nova ''. Says Tatyana Voltskaya. Tatyana Voltskaya: poet and playwright Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovichi (K.

The Foreign Minister Iraq handed the Turkish in Baghdad a note of protest in connection with the ongoing air raids to the Iraqi border areas. Last week, Türkiye held a series of air raids in the position of Kurdish rebels based in the north of Iraq. The Turkish command said that in six days about a hundred seizures were killed. The generals note that air strikes were a response to regular attacks, which are carried out by Kurdish militants in Turkey.

Launch of the spacecraft "Progress M-12M", Baikonur, August 24, 2011 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin instructed Roscosmos to tighten control over the production of spacecraft - after the fall of the progress cargo ship. According to preliminary data, the accident occurred due to a violation of the motor installation. The wreckage of the apparatus, which did not burn in the dense layers of the atmosphere, fell in the Choy district of the Altai Republic. The victims are not reported.

Vladimir Kara-Murza: A lightning rustle received an interview with the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin with the Chechen media, where he recommended the authorities of Chechnya and other republics of the North Caucasus to pay increased attention to the fight against corruption and drew attention to the problem of unemployment, which, according to Putin, reaches 38%in Chechnya.

Yulia Tymoshenko The Pechersk court of Kyiv again refused to let the ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko let go of custody. The petition of lawyers filed on Thursday to change the preventive measure was already the eleventh after the arrest of Tymoshenko on August 5. The ex-Prime Minister is accused of exceeding the powers when signing agreements with Russia on gas supplies in 2009.

Private Andrei Popov, arrested on suspicion of desertion after returning from Dagestan, where he, according to him, was in slavery, was released from Dagestan in the Saratov region. As Interfax reports with reference to Popov’s lawyer - Yuri Mileshin, the soldier decided to transfer to one of the military units of Saratov, where he will serve - until the end of the preliminary investigation. Popov was abducted in Dagestan, where, as he said, he was illegally held since 2000 - in actual slavery.

From November 1, Volkswagen will begin assembly of some of its models at the plant of the Russian GAZ Group in Nizhny Novgorod. In Moscow, the next annual automobile exhibition was opened - "Interewno -2011". The largest car manufacturer in Russia - AvtoVAZ - introduced two new models belonging to the category of "budget". However, the overall demand for cars in Russia, experts note, gradually shifts towards more expensive models.

In Moscow and St. Petersburg, the police stopped unauthorized shares of nationalists. There are detainees. Several dozen people tried to follow Moscow Avenue in St. Petersburg with the calls "Russians, go ahead!". In Moscow, nationalists gathered at the building of the Zamoskvoretsky court and also tried to organize a procession.