Burning a hundred sacred Islamic books is not a punk-summer punk in the Christian temple. For many faithful Muslims, this is an incomparably more serious sacrilege, an occasion for rebellion, uprising, jihad even. The incident in the Afghan prison of Bagram and the incident in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior seems to be infinitely far from each other, vary both meaning and context. But there is a common one.

The aircraft of the Vueling airline, which performed the Malag-Amsterdam flight, was not captured by hijackers, there was no danger for 183 passengers. This was confirmed by the Dutch police - after the inspection of the aircraft landing at the Amsterdam airport, the Schiphol airport. Suspicions of the possible theft of an airplane flying from Spain appeared due to the fact that radio communications between the pilots and the dispatcher disappeared.

Bashar Assad gives an interview to the channel "Ad-Dunya" Syrian President Bashar Assad said that the country's authorities need an “extra time” to stop the armed conflict in the country. Assad gave an interview to the Syrian television channel Ad-Dune, which was aired today. According to the president, government forces managed to achieve noticeable success in the fight against the rebels, but still far from victory.

Irina Lagunina: The 25th anniversary of the first mass anti -Soviet performance was celebrated in Lithuania - it was a rally held in Vilnius on August 23, 1987 and gathered 3 thousand people.

Catalonia turned to the Spanish government with a request to provide it with urgent financial support with a volume of more than six billion dollars. Catalonia is one of the largest regions of Spain. This region, located in the east of the country, accounts for about twenty percent of the entire Spanish internal gross product. Observers believe that the appeal for help is another confirmation of fears regarding the need for urgent support that all of Spain experiences.

In Barnaul today, single pickets of civilian activists were held with the demand to allow the Republican Party of Russia - the Party of People’s Freedom (RPR -Parnas) to the City Duma elections scheduled for October 14, the Radio Liberty correspondent reports. On Tuesday, representatives of the party appealed the decision of the election commission to refuse registration, which became known on Monday, in a higher authority.

Vladimir Alekno The head coach of the Russian volleyball team, who won the gold of the Olympic Games in London , was upset that the coaches were not marked at yesterday's award in the Kremlin.

Participants of the feminist punk group Pussy Riot during an illegal performance in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Photo by ITAR-TASS/ Mitya Aleshkovsky Dmitry Volchek: Punk-summer in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior can receive the Kandinsky Prize in the nomination “Project of the Year”.

Viktor Shenderovich, "European Complex" In the two largest bookstores in Moscow, a bibli-globe and a book house on New Arbat, a presentation of the new collection of stories by Viktor Schenderovich "European Republic of Earthmate" was held. The satirist defines the genre of the book as "Chronicles of the Amateous Fatherland." Viktor Shenderovich Viktor Schenderovich published in Corpus.

On August 26, in one of the programs of the Mir channel, I watched the plot about the voluntary assistants of the imams of mosques in Russia, which prevent acts of vandalism in mosques, help to observe order at the time of prayer (reading Muslim prayer). In general, it is a voluntary folk squad. So far without bandages on the sleeve and not in a single uniform. I will not be mistaken if I say that this is a matter of time.

In St. Petersburg, church values and relics of 13 saints, including Alexander Nevsky and Nicholas the Wonderworker, were stolen from the Church of the Holy Great Martyr Catherine. The thief squeezed the frame of the double -glazed window and entered the office of the rector of the temple, the Radio Liberty correspondent Tatyana Voltskaya reports.

In the village of Beliji Derbent District, Dagestan, according to updated data, as a result of yesterday’s shootout in the military unit seven people died, five were injured. This was reported today by ITAR-TASS in the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Altai Territory. In the part where the tragedy occurred, the Altai Special Forces group was deployed.

Alexander Sokurov The Russian blogosphere discuss the demolition of historical buildings in St. Petersburg. Last weekend, the house of the merchant Rogov on Zagorodnoy Prospekt was demolished. A few months before, the mansion built in the first half of the 19th century was excluded from the list of historical monuments. The city defenders tried to interfere with demolition, but the police pushed them.