The Border Service of Kyrgyzstan said that today the Kyrgyz citizen was killed on the Uzbek border. The border guards shot him when, crossing the border in the Aravan area (Osh region), he walked 150 meters through the territory of Uzbekistan, without responding to the order to stop. An investigation has begun. Similar cases in the region are not uncommon, since after the collapse of the USSR, a border between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan was never carried out, and many areas remain controversial.

Detention of Sergei Mitrokhin June 6 The magistrate court in Moscow fined 2 thousand rubles of the leader of the Yabloko party, Sergei Mitrokhin, finding him guilty of violating the procedure for organizing a public campaign.

Putin flew with cranes, and then stroked the octopus. For what? The Russian Blogosphere continues to guess why President Putin portrayed the leader of the flock. The blogger of the portal Snob.ru Leonid Burshid made with an unusual version: Scientists and environmental defenders know that for several hours of Putin's attention to their projects is a happy ticket. Officials will be afraid to refuse them at least something for a long time. What is needed to make a happy ticket longer?

Barack Obama became a candidate for US president In the United States, at the President of the country Barack Obama , who is finishing on Friday, September 7, the pre -election congress of the Democratic Party. He began his speech by officially accepting the proposal of his one -party members to run for the post of head of state for a second term.

In the capital of Syria Damascus, two explosions occurred today, - reported state television. According to him, five security services became victims of the first explosion near the mosque. The second attack occurred after about two hours. The mined car was blown up in a place next to which two ministries are located - information and justice. There are no data on the victims in the second explosion.

The number of victims of a series of earthquakes in the south-west of China increased to 20, dozens of people were injured. According to some reports, about 20 thousand houses were destroyed or damaged. According to the information of the Chinese agency "Sinhua", four underground shocks - one of them with a magnitude of 5.7 - were felt on Friday morning in the mountainous regions of the provinces of Junan, Guzhujou and Sichuan.

What is the St. Petersburg opposition in the new political season? Do I need to take part in the elections of the Coordination Council? We discuss with the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Maxim Reznik and co-chair of the St. Petersburg organization of the RPR-Parnas Andrei Pivovarov.

Yaroslavl hockey club "Lokomotiv" Today, on the anniversary of the death in the plane crash of the Lokomotiv hockey team, commemorative events will be held in Yaroslavl. In the Assumption Cathedral of Yaroslavl, a liturgy and a memorial service will be arranged. Panicida and a mourning rally will also take place at the crash site of the aircraft kilometer from the Yaroslavl Airport "Tunosha". At 16:05 in the Yaroslavl region, the "beep of memory" will sound.

Prince Harry based on Camp David The British Ministry of Defense announced today about sending the British Prince Harry to Afghanistan. This will be the second similar business trip of the 27-year-old member of the royal family into the country where the operation of international forces against Islamic extremists continues. Prince Harry will act as a second pilot and aviation gunner of the Apache combat helicopter.

Relatives of the pilots who broke under Yaroslavl a year ago Yak-42 aircraft filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights, the website of the lawyer Igor Trunov reports. The applicants are asked to admit that the articles of the European Convention on the right to fair and public proceedings of the case and the right to defense were violated in relation to them. The disaster occurred on September 7 last year.

What is expected in the United States from the APEC summit in Vladivostok , where Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives to participate in it. The meaning of the APEC summit commented for Radio Liberty Bruce Klowner , an employee of the Washington Analytical Fund "Heritage": - The results of such summits are difficult to assess. Now, for example, one of the most important problems of the region is the problem of border disputes and conflicts, the threat represented by North Korea.

Steve Jobs In St. Petersburg, the contest was summed up for the best project of the monument to one of the founders of the American company Apple Steve Jobs, who died in October 2011 from pancreatic cancer. As the correspondent of Radio Freedom Tatyana Voltskaya reports, 185 applications from around the world were sent to the competition announced in July, of which the jury selected 18, and for the rest of the work the vote took place on the Internet. Thus, the short list grew to 25 models.

Germany - Passengers Wait in Front of Air Carrier Lufthansa At the Fraport Airport in Frankfurt, 07Sep2012 The flight attendants of the leading German airline Lufthansa are holding the largest strike in recent years. About 1200 thousand internal and international flights were canceled, that is, almost two -thirds of the planned ones.

There is an increase in quotations in world stock markets. This is a reaction to yesterday’s announcement of the European Central Bank about the intention to buy the government bonds of the eurozone countries, whose banks suffered from a debt crisis. It is, first of all, about Italy and Spain. At the morning tenders of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the Nickkei index grew by 2%, indexes on the exchanges of Hong Kong and South Korea grew up even more.