Viewing the candidates of the new president of the Russian Football Union. Which card will be pulled out of the bureaucratic deck? Vladimir Putin continues a trip to the Middle East. Will he be able to activate the intermediary role of Russia in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? In Kazakhstan, a discussion was revived about a change in graphics of the Kazakh language. What is the Arabic graphics - in relation to the language of the Turkic group - better than the Cyrillic alphabet?

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samara The ruling coalition of Greece appointed a famous economist and former banker Janis Stournaras by the new Minister of Finance of the country. The head of the Ministry of Finance, appointed last week, Vassilis Rapanos the day before left his post due to health problems. The 55-year-old Stournaras was a member of the delegation who negotiated Greece in the eurozone.

On Tuesday evening, information appeared on the Internet that a day earlier in the suburbs was beaten by an activist of the Solidarity movement Amir Khairullin. At the time of the attack, he returned by train home in the suburbs. At one of the stops, three young people entered the car, attacked Khairullin, struck him with fists on the head and managed to hide, going back to the platform.

Student Anna Pozdnyakova, who accuses Udaltsova of beating In the world court of the Leninsky district of Ulyanovsk, on Wednesday, the next meeting will be held in the case of the leader of the Left Front Sergey Udaltsov, whom the local student Anna Pozdnyakova accuses of beating. As the lawyer Udaltsova Violett Volkov told Interfax, she and her client are going to attend a court meeting.

The NATO Union will hold a special meeting today at the request of Turkey - in connection with the aggravation of the situation on the border of this country with Syria. The Turkish authorities say that the air defense forces of Syria shot down a Turkish fighter on Friday, and on Monday fired at another plane that managed to return to the base.

Sergey Fursenko left the post of head of the RFU On June 26, the Minister of Sports of Russia Vitaly Mutko denied the information that he could change Sergei Fursenko as the head of the Russian Football Union. The surname Mutko appeared along with several others in the lists of potential candidates for this position. Sergei Fursenko resigned the day before. As experts suggest, due to the unsuccessful performance of the Russian national football team at the European Championship.

Until July 12, the Supreme Specialized Court of Ukraine has postponed the consideration of the cassation of ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko for a sentence in the "gas case". The prosecution asked to postpone the meeting before the conclusion of the forensic medical examination, which should assess the state of health of Tymoshenko and the possibility of its presence in court.

The lower house of the Japanese parliament has adopted a bill on increasing sales tax - despite the split in the ranks of the ruling Democratic Party. The government of Yosihiko Noda proposed to increase sales tax by half over the next three years - as one of the measures to reduce the budget deficit. However, supporters of the influential party leader Ichiro Ozava made the objections. 57 deputies from the Democratic Party voted against the bill.

On June 26, Mikhail Khodorkovsky turned 49 years old. He will receive most of the congratulations later. On this day at 18:00, everyone who wanted to congratulate Mikhail Khodorkovsky gathered in Moscow on Pushkinskaya Square, where they held a picket. Then they headed for the central telegraph to send the birthday to the birthday telegrams.

The court in Egypt on Tuesday suspended the act of law adopted by the Government of the country, which gave the right to military police and special services to detain civilians. This cultivation was published by the temporary government supported by the country's military leadership on the eve of the second round of the presidential election on June 16-17.

In the Investigative Committee of Russia, one of the leaders of the opposition Alexei Navalny was questioned on Tuesday. He is suspected of extremist statements at rallies under the slogan “For honest elections”, which were held in December 2011. This was reported by Interfax with reference to lawyer Vadim Kobzev. Navalny explained to the investigators that the records of his speeches at rallies on December 5 and 24 are freely available on the Internet.

Will the change in the leadership of the RFU improve the situation in Russian football? The head of the Russian Football Union , Sergei Fursenko, leaves his post. He reported this during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The meeting took place on Monday - June 25 - in the morning, announced it only in the evening. The conversation on this topic will continue on the morning air of Radio Liberty on Wednesday, June 27, from 8 to 10 hours (Moscow time).

Historian and priest, leading Radio Freedom Radio "Between Vera and Belief" ykrotov@yahoo.com

In Kazakhstan, the military court issued the arrest of three military personnel, including the chief of the Tersyryk border post, on suspicion of beating soldiers of military service, the country's main military prosecutor's office reports. On June 18, 11 soldiers arbitrarily left the outpost. After a day they were found. The military reported that they were constantly subjected to beatings from the commanders. A criminal case has been opened.