Vladimir Abarinov In the US presidential campaign, a moment of truth comes: this week a series of television battles between candidates will begin. A little more than a month remains until the voting day. Anyone who turns out to be the best polemicist will be more confident in front of the cameras and more witty responding to the luna of the opponent, will become the president for the next four years.

The Iranian national currency - Rial - at the auction on Monday lost more than 17 percent of its value. The exchange rate of Rial in relation to the US dollar reached a record low indicators - overcoming a mark of 32 thousand rials per dollar. Just a week ago, 1 dollar could be purchased for 24 thousand rials. In Tehran, foreign exchange trading in official exchange offices were interrupted - money could only be exchanged in the "black" market.

Dmitry Medvedev and Mark Zuckerberg Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev today met in the suburbs with the founder of the Facebook social network Mark Zuckerberg. They discussed the Skolkovo innovation center, the information technology market, the prospects for the development of social networks and their influence, in particular, on politics.

On 19.05, in the analytical program “The City of the Time” of Vladimir Kara-Murza: what scenarios of the development of events promise a new round of the case about the “punk-weight” of the Pussy Riot group in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior? This was told by the lawyer of Nadezhda Toloconnikova Mark Feigin and Archpriest Mikhail Ardov.

In Madrid on Monday, a strike was organized by city transport. The life of the city was paralyzed. Giant traffic jams were formed on the streets, as people moved to personal transport, ”Radio Liberty correspondent Viktor Cheretsky reports. Partial strikes began in transport in September. However, on this Monday, buses, metro, and trams stopped. Trade unions are unhappy with a decrease in salary, the excellent of the so -called "Christmas" award, and an increase in tariffs.

Is the result of parliamentary elections in Georgia important for the Russian authorities? In Georgia on Monday, October 1, a vote began in the parliamentary elections, the results of which, according to analysts, will have a key influence on the country's political course in the coming years. For the victory, the ruling "Unified National Movement" of President Mikhail Saakashvili and the opposition coalition "Georgian Dream" of the entrepreneur Bidzina Ivanishvili are fighting.

Place of one of the murders in the north of Mexico In the north, Mexico in the city of Nuevo-Ledo near the border from the United States in two cars found the divided remains of seven people, the local police said. On September 14, the same remains of 16 killed were found in the same city.

Tarik Ramadan is a historian and philosopher. "New York Times": the Muslim world needs a radical intellectual revolution. The program article in the New York Times is devoted to Arab spring, although it is not about politics or economics, but about the need for an intellectual revolution in the Arab world.

Burning Old Market (Suk) in Aleppo In the largest city of Syria - Aleppo, fierce battles in the area of the old market, listed in the UNESCO World Heritage List, broke out today. It is reported that supporters of the opposition, who are firing at government forces who occupy most of the old city, are fixed at the market. There are no exact data on the losses of the parties.

Vladimir Putin promises pensioners to "carefully familiarize himself with the main provisions of the pension reform strategy." By October 1, the Russian government presented the president with a draft strategy for the reform of the pension system in the country for the period until 2030.

The investigating authorities opened a criminal case on the fact of an attack in the Moscow metro on the journalist of the Fontanka.ru publication Kirill Panchenko. Three suspects - residents of Chechnya - were detained. The case was opened under the article "Hooliganism", the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow said. The conflict occurred on the night of Monday at the Park of Culture metro station.

In Yekaterinburg, the accountant of the Internet publication URA.ru Natalya Popova, suspected of the embezzlement of 10 million rubles from the accounts of this information portal, was exempted from custody. As reported today in the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the police obtained a number of evidence confirming its involvement in financial fraud, and therefore it cannot interfere with the investigation, and there is no longer any need to maintain it in custody.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe today is expected to accept a resolution on Russia's fulfillment of its obligations. The Russian delegation has already called the draft resolution "unacceptable", since it contains a sharp criticism of the situation in compliance with human rights and political freedoms in Russia. The report, on the basis of which the draft resolution has been prepared, contains many critical comments in relation to the judicial system of Russia.