The Lithuanian authorities today will posthumously award the first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin for special merits to the Lithuanian state. Its widow Naina Yeltsina President of Lithuania Dalya Grybauskaite at a ceremony in Vilnius will present a large cross of the Order of the Cross of Vitis. The Lithuanian authorities said that the first president of Russia is awarded for his contribution to strengthening Lithuanian statehood.

Pussy Riot, August 25 in a conspiracy place Pussy Riot lawyers on August 27 appealed the decision of the Khamovniki court a. But prison clothes for their clients have already purchased. Meanwhile, the Radio Liberty correspondent managed to meet with the remaining Pussy Riot participants, as well as talk with her husband Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and the father of Ekaterina Samutsevich.

The freshest, which entered into force on August 10, the Law "On Development", adopted by the "party of power" to combat an independent press and bloggers, will be first tested on a high -ranking united Russia. It is under the article on slander to the chairman of the Executive Committee of the Chelyabinsk "United Russia" Alexander Motovilov threatens criminal prosecution and punishment.

In the Altai Territory, the number of residents of the village of Druzhba of the Tselinnaya district, hospitalized with suspicion of a Siberian ulcer, increased to 10. This was reported in the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies. The three diagnosed Siberian ulcer yesterday confirmed laboratory. One of them died. It was claimed that he turned to doctors too late. In the village of Friendship, an emergency regime operates, quarantine has been announced.

The deputies of the Romania Parliament agreed with the decision of the Constitutional Court of the country, which recognized the referendum on impeachment to President Trajan Basescu. Initially, legislators from the ruling Levocentric Social-Liberal Union announced that they intend to boycott the meeting of the parliament, which will discuss the issue of returning Basesk to the performance of duties as president.

The Moscow City Court today recognized the decision of the Basmanny Court on the behavior of searches in the apartment and office of the opposition policy Boris Nemtsov as part of the investigation of the case of riots on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on May 6. Thus, the judicial board rejected the complaint of Nemtsov’s lawyers. Earlier, the court made a similar decision regarding one of the leaders of the opposition movement "Solidarity" by Ilya Yashin.

In the city of Mombas, mass riots flashed in Kenya - after the murder of Islamic cleric, whom the United States accused of helping radical Islamists of neighboring Somalia. Abode Rogo Mohammed was shot dead by unknown in Mombas, where the number of Muslims lives significantly on Monday. After the reports of the death of Clerik, hundreds of people took to the streets. Protesters began to throw cars with stones, and then defeated several Christian temples. The police used tear gas.

The working group of the Presidential Council for Human Rights rejected 107 out of 190 profiles of candidates for the new composition of the organization. This was announced today after the meeting, the head of the council Mikhail Fedotov. Of the candidates, in particular, they excluded the lawyer Vladimir Zherebenkov, banker Garegin Tosunyan, the leader of the Federation of A car owners of Russia Sergey Kanayev, human rights activist Alexander Brod.

At least 9 thousand refugees gathered at checkpoints on the border of Syria with Turkey. They seek to leave the northern regions of Syria, where the battles between government troops and rebels continue. The Turkish authorities claim that the border is not closed - however, it is necessary to establish the identity of all arriving in the country, which is why huge lines appeared on the checkpoint. About 80 thousand Syrian refugees have already been accommodated in temporary camps in Turkey.

The emergency pre -election summit. The program “Political Time” on Monday August 27 at 22 hours is a special report from the “Far East series: on the edge of the Radio correspondent Vitaly Kamyshev, who in August visited the Khabarovsk and Primorsky Territory before the APEC summit of countries opening in Vladivostok. Mikhail Sokolov is broadcast. Repetition on August 28 at 1 hour in the morning and at 15 o’clock.

Protection of the participants in the punk group Pussy Riot appealed to the Moscow City Court of the Khamovniki Court of Moscow. This was announced by lawyer Nikolai Polozov. On August 17, the court sentenced Maria Alekhin, Nadezhda Tolokonnikov and Ekaterina Samutsevichk for two years in prison on charges of hooliganism based on religious hatred for participating in the punk-ground “The Virgin, Putin of the run” in the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

A group of unknown persons tried on Monday evening to disrupt the performance of the Moscow Theater.doc "" with their own eyes ", which is dedicated to the trial of the Pussy Riot punk group . This was stated on his Facebook page by the art director of the theater Mikhail Ugarov.

President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambayev today instructed the country's social democratic party to form a new coalition of the majority in parliament. The former parliamentary coalition fell apart last week due to the withdrawal of two parties from it-Ata-Meken and Ar-Namy. This automatically entailed the resignation of the government. It is necessary to create a coalition and appoint a new prime minister until September 17.

President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari The Supreme Court of Pakistan gave the Prime Minister Raj Perevez Ashraf for three weeks to resume the investigation of corruption, which was put forward at one time against the President of Asif Ali Zardari. The Judicial Collegium consisting of five people, led by Judge Asif Said Hosa, made a decision according to which Ashraf is obliged to appeal to the Swiss authorities until September 18 with a request to resume the case of corruption against Zardari.