On Wednesday evening, the Government of Belarus decided to remove the customs duty on the transit of Russian oil in Belarus. This was stated by Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky. The Council of Ministers of Belarus considered this issue on the abolition of duties on behalf of Alexander Lukashenko, who conducted on Wednesday the appropriate telephone conversation with Putin, after which the administration of the Belarusian president reported that a compromise decision was found in the energy crisis.

In the "faces of time" - the leader of the movement "For human rights" Leo Ponomarev and the deputy. editor -in -chief "Top Secret" Leonid Velekhov Vladimir Kara-Murza: On the night of Saturday, a battle or drama was played out in the very center of Moscow-the office of the “For Human Rights” movement was assaulted. Human rights activists practically entered into hand -to -hand combat, they became victims of those who organized this assault.

During the riots in Istanbul June 22 In Turkey, employees of the police officer to combat terrorism during raids in Ankara detained about 20 people. According to local media reports, arrests have been associated with anti -government speeches that have been going on in Turkey since the end of May . Raids were carried out at 30 addresses. The detainees are suspected of connections with an unnamed extremist group.

Holder of the Stanley Cup team "Chicago Blackhouks" The Chicago Blackhouks team became the owner of the Stanley Cup, winning Boston Bruins in the final series of fights. Hockey observers highly appreciate the last season, despite the fact that it was overshadowed by a long locaUut. The victory of the "Chicago" is not only deserved, but also natural. This year, Blackhouks were the best team from the very beginning of the season. Their win -win series at the beginning of the season became record.

The United States called on Russia to immediately give them an American citizen, ex-employee of the CIA, Edward Snowen, who is accused of espionage and is now in the transit zone of the Moscow Airport Sheremetyevo. The representative of the White House on National Security issues Kaitlin Hayden said that there are all legal grounds for this: the cancellation of his passport and the charges made to him by the American authorities.

A column of smoke rose above the gates of the presidential palace In Kabul, at least three militants who attacked the Presidential Palace on Tuesday morning were killed in a shootout with security forces. Prior to this, it was reported that all extremists who participated in an armed attack were liquidated. It happened when journalists gathered in the palace, invited to the press conference of Afghanistan President Hamida Karzai. The shootout with the militants lasted about an hour and a half.

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The Shanghai Stock Exchange index fell to the level of December 2008 The reduction in tributary from abroad and toughening the rules of lending in the country brought down its financial markets. China's main stock indices have decreased this week to minimum levels over the past four and a half years, having lost more than 6%on Monday-Tuesday, and in general, from the beginning of June-about 15%.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev on a sentence in the second case of Yukos Today, another expert in the “second case of Yukos”, deputy director of the Center for Legal and Economic Research of the Higher School of Economics, Mikhail Subbotin, has been called for a conversation in the Investigative Committee of Russia. He said that he was talking with investigators on Wednesday.

In the south of France, nine Islamists were detained in two days who are suspected of belonging to a group guiding militants to Syria. As the French Ministry of the Interior reported on Tuesday, among the detainees there are persons who have already performed on the Internet with threats of the Republican institutions of France and the values of its society. The citizenship of the arrested is not reported.

In the north of India, a rescue helicopter crashed. Eight people died, including five crew members. Who exactly was on board is not reported. It is known that the helicopter transported the cargo of wood for the cremation of the victims of floods, and on the way back was to be taken from the distress zone of saved, mainly indoured pilgrims and tourists. Last week, 680 people died in Uttarakhand in the state of Uttarakhand. The authorities fear that the number of victims may exceed a thousand.

The judge of retired Constitutional Court, a member of the Presidential Council of Human Rights, the initiator of the public examination in the “second case of Yukos” Tamara Morshchakova was called for interrogation to the Investigative Committee of Russia. As Morshchakova herself told reporters today, she was invited by telephone exactly the investigator who is engaged in experts in the “second case of Yukos”.

Friedrich Gorenstein Ivan Tolstoy: Our 80s. Panorama of Svobodovsky programs of 30 years ago. For the first time without jamming. The program "Culture. Fate. Time ", January 23 of the 82nd year. Galina Zotova: “Culture. Fate. Time". Surprisingly carefree people Soviet leaders. It all seems to them that the country's resources are endless, both natural and human.

The State Duma of Russia includes a draft resolution on economic amnesty. As the speaker of the lower house Sergey Naryshkin said today, the deputies will consider it next week, before leaving the holidays. The President of Russia Vladimir Putin, speaking in St. Petersburg at the International Economic Forum, asked for the amnesty to support the amnesty.