Leonid Volkov The opposition will show the authorities an example of honest elections. She will arrange the All -Russian elections to the coordination council of the opposition, which will consist of 45 people. Moreover, 30 deputies will be held according to the general civil list, and 15 from political movements: left -wing, nationalists and liberals. Registration of candidates has already begun on the website of the Central Electoral Committee .

Sergey Lavrov In Moscow, negotiations of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with the Syrian government delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Kadri Jamil were held. After the meeting, Lavrov said that there was a chance of national reconciliation in Syria , and “external players”, as it put it, should only create conditions for the start of the dialogue of the authorities and the opposition.

On Monday, the coastal guard of Malta saved about 80 illegal immigrants from Africa countries with a crowded boat in the Mediterranean Sea. The boat was discovered by an Italian helicopter about 130 kilometers southwest of Malta. It threatened that it would turn over, so a rescue operation was carried out. Last week, under similar circumstances, the Maltese coastal guard saved about 160 immigrants from Somali and Eritrea.

Laker "ZWACK" In Hungary, they say goodbye to those who have died at the age of 85 in Italy by the head of the famous dynasty of entrepreneurs Peter TsVAK. Family Business TsVakov - the production of a strong bitter grass liqueur - has existed for more than two centuries. The unique liquor, along with wine and fruit brandy, is considered one of the national drinks of Hungary.

Product prices depress many Russians The slowdown in retail trade in Russia, as evidenced by the data of the Federal State Statistics Service on the eve, experts explain, first of all, by acceleration of food inflation in the country. This increase in prices cannot be restrained with a simple increase in interest rates in the economy. Whereas the increase, in turn, would affect consumer demand, which now ensures the growth of the entire Russian economy.

Pancing Pussy Riot Punch Group on the day of the sentence On the morning of August 21, the website of the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow was hacked by unknown people. The judge of this particular court, Marina Syrova, condemned the participants in the Pussy Riot punk group for two years in a general regime for hooliganism based on religious hatred and enmity.

Promotion in support of the Swedish pilots who arranged a "plush landing", Prague on August 4, 2012 The Lithuanian Security and Defense Seima Committee on August 21 will consider the story with a “plush landing”, when thousands of toy cubs with a human rights nature were dropped over the territory of neighboring Belarus. Recently, the Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s Office and the state border protection service began the investigation in connection with this incident.

“Echo of Moscow” sent to the Investigative Committee of Russia records of programs with the participation of opposition politicians and civil activists. As the editor -in -chief of the radio station Alexei Venediktov said on Twitter, the department was sent to decrypt 23 broadcasts with Ksenia Sobchak, Boris Nemtsov, Ilya Yashin, Sergey Udaltsov, Alexei Navalny. The corresponding requirement of the Investigative Committee was received by Echo of Moscow the day before.

The Investigative Committee of Russia allocated criminal cases against two alleged participants in the riots on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on May 6 on a separate proceeding. As the official representative of the department Vladimir Markin said today, this was done "for the speedy completion of the preliminary investigation." Maxim Luzyanin and Mikhail Kosenko was charged with participating in the riots and the use of violence against a representative of the authorities.

John Kay New Zealand Prime Minister John Kay on Tuesday confirmed that New Zealand military personnel will leave Afghanistan ahead of schedule - in April 2013. Earlier, the country's authorities stated that the troops would be withdrawn only at the end of next year. The exact day when the last New Zealand military leaves Afghanistan will be announced over the next weeks.

In Kyrgyzstan, a private border guard was killed during the detention, who shot five people and fled with weapons the day before. According to RIA Novosti, citing a border service of Kyrgyzstan, it was discovered by a search detachment in one of the gorges in the Issyk-Kul region, resisted and was shot dead. On Monday, at the outpost on the border of Kyrgyzstan with Kazakhstan, the private opened fire from a machine gun by his colleagues.

The Moscow authorities, most likely, will again not allow the opposition to hold on August 31 a traditional rally in defense of freedom of meetings on the Triumphal Square.