On Monday, the US Senate approved James Komi as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. For Komi, 93 senators voted, against - one. As the director of the FBI, Komi will replace Robert Muller, who headed the bureau for 12 years. The director of the FBI is assigned for a ten -year term, but Müller’s stay at this post was extended at the suggestion of President Obama, reports from Washington the RS Vladimir Dubinsky.

At the London Royal Opera Covent Garden Theater , three-week tour of the ballet troupe of the Bolshoi Theater, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of its first visit to the British capital at the invitation of the famous impressario Viktor Khochauser. The tour will last on August 17. The performances are held in a difficult situation for the ballet troupe: the director of the theater and the artistic director of the troupe are replaced, they speak of a crisis in a ballet team.

Smoke of a fire in the Ostankino television center in Moscow, July 30, 2013 At the Ostankino television center at 23 o’clock on Tuesday, firefighters extinguished the fire that broke out in technical rooms. It is reported that there are no victims. 1,200 people were evacuated from the building. The television center spokesman Denis Nazarov said that not one of the television channels broadcasting from Ostankino interrupted the ether.

Representatives of Israel and Palestinian autonomy at a meeting in the State Department On Monday evening, a two-day preliminary stage of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations aimed at achieving a peace agreement began with a business dinner. What exactly will be discussed is not reported. A new attempt to resume the Israeli-Palestinian peace process is accompanied by the defiantly restrained statements of its participants and intermediaries.

Small Theater The initial project for the reconstruction of the Maly Theater assumed a radical intervention in one of the oldest theatrical buildings in Russia. For example, part of the basements and part of the first floor was supposed to take a restaurant. Not an example of the Bolshoi Theater, the leadership of the small opposed most architectural changes.

Eliya II - Catholicos -Patriarch of All Georgia Commenting on the visit of the Patriarch of Georgia Elijah II to Moscow and Kyiv, Georgian journalists note that the head of the Georgian Orthodox Church for a long time was the only high -ranking representative of the country, whom Russian officials met after the August war, including Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, who announced Mikhail Saakashvili as a “non -missive” politician.

The ultra -right terrorist Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people with a double terrorist attack in 2011, submitted documents for admission to the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Oslo. This was reported by the Radio Liberty correspondent in the countries of Scandinavia Sergey Dzhanyan. The prison administration for especially dangerous criminals "silt", where Breivik is serving a 21-year term, said that she would contribute to his receipt.

Evgeny Urlashov A criminal case was opened on the fact of falsification of the resolution of the arrested mayor of Yaroslavl Evgeny Urlashov, according to which his deputy Oleg Vinogradov was appointed temporarily acting mayor. The report of the Investigative Committee states that the resolution dated to July 12, which was made on behalf of Urlashov, did not have the necessary registration procedures.

In the Moscow Telezino television center, part of the building of the television technical center is burning, the fire spread on an area of 150 square meters. The evacuation of staff is carried out. Some Russian media report that due to the fire, the broadcast of public television of Russia (OTR) has been suspended, and a backup broadcast is included instead.

The Pakistan parliament by a majority vote elected president of the country - entrepreneur Mamnun Hussein. In September, when the mandate of the current head of state Asif Ali Zardari expires, the new president will take office. Hussein’s candidacy was proposed by the head of the government of Navaz Sharif. Both politicians are members of the Pakistani Muslim League (PML-N), whose representatives have a majority in parliament.

Isaiah Berlin The publishing house of Princeton University reprinted Tom’s essaystics Isaiah Berlin, dedicated to political, ideological and cultural history.

Picket at the Moscow City Court in support of the accused in the "swamp case" On July 30, the Moscow City Court continued the consideration of the main “swamp business” - in relation to 12 people who are accused of participating in the riots and the use of force against police officers during the events of May 6, 2012 in Bolotnaya Square. Participants in the process, as in previous meetings, continued to study the evidence of the prosecution - watch the videos of those events.

On August 30, the President of the United States Barack Obama will accept three leaders of the Baltic countries in Washington at once: the President of Lithuania Dalya Grybauskaite, Estonia - Toomas Hendrik Ilves and Latvia - Andrisa Berzins. This was announced on Monday the White House.

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In Syria on Tuesday morning, the leader of the Syrian Kurds of Isa Khuso was killed. He was in a car that was blown up near his house in the city of Kamyshly in the northeast of the country. The sixty -year -old Khuso entered the High Council of the Kurds, uniting all representatives of the Kurdish community living in Syria. The Turkish Prourdish Party of World and Democracy condemned the murder.