Portrait of Bashar al -Assad on the hotel building, where there are experts on disarmament The organizational weapon, based in the Hague, intends to send a second group of specialists to Syria to destroy the chemical arsenal of this country. The General Director of this organization Akhmet Uzyumju said this on Tuesday in the Hague.

In Berlin, on October 7, a concert was held in the evening with the participation of outstanding artists dedicated to the seventh anniversary of the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. The musicians expressed solidarity with everyone who fights for human rights and the rule of law in Russia and is subjected to pressure and repression by the Russian authorities. Radio Liberty led a live concert broadcast.

The International Monetary Fund reduced the forecast of economic growth in the world. The IMF reported on Tuesday reports that the growth of the world economy in 2013 will be 2.9 percent, and 3.6 percent in 2014. Compared to July forecasts, this is lower by 0.3 and 0.2 percent, respectively. The document notes a slowdown in economic growth in China, Russia and other countries with a developing economy.

The presidential elections in Azerbaijan are scheduled for October 9. The election campaigns of the current head of state Ilham Aliyev and the only opposition candidate Jamil Hasanley are very different. Aliyev, who expects to win the elections, is almost invisible for the third time. His campaign is mainly photo shoots for friendly media. Hassanli, unlike his opponent, went out into the streets: he appears at colorful rallies in the capital's tank and regions. Show more To curtail

Alexey Gaskarov The Human Rights Association “Agora” filed a complaint about the conclusion and maintenance of the person involved in the “Swamp case” by Alexei Gaskarov to the European Court of Human Rights. It is reported by Gazeta.ru. According to Gaskarov and his representative, the lawyer of Agora, Alexei Glukhov, the Russian judicial authorities violated the article of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in relation to the arrested.

Holland authorities promise to investigate the incident with the Russian diplomat in the Hague It is unlikely that the Gaagi police could beat and detain a second person in the Russian post without sanction from the very top. It looks like the answer to the Greenpeace case.

British physicist Peter Higgs (right) and Belgian physicist Francois Englert Briton Peter Higgs and Belgian Francois Engler became the Nobel laureates of 2013 in physics. This was announced by the Nobel Committee. Higgs was the first scientist in 1964 to predict the existence of a particle, the so -called “Higgs boson” or “particles of God”, which is considered the most important to explain the structure of the universe.

Chief Economist of the IMF Olivier Blanchar The forecast of its pace of the fund reduces the sixth time in a row The total volume of the global economy will increase by 2.9%in 2013 - this is the minimum growth over the past three years (in 2011 - 3.9%; in 2012 - 3.2%) and less than expected in July (3.2%). Such a forecast gives the International Monetary Fund in the next review of the world economy (World Economic Outlook ) .

Dmitry Shagin during a street performance in St. Petersburg Mitki will offer the Tretyakov Gallery the replacement of the canvas of Ilya Repin, who caused the displeasure of Orthodox activists "Mitki give Ivan the Terrible to the new son" - this will be called a new creation of St. Petersburg artists, who once again decided to do their favorite business - to rewrite and correct the story.

The Netherlands are ready to apologize to Russia for the incident with the Russian diplomat, who led to his detention by the police, but only if the investigation confirms the fact of violation of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations, the Netherlands Foreign Ministry said. This is stated in the statement of the Foreign Ministry of the Netherlands, widespread on Tuesday. It is reported that the police are investigating this incident.

In St. Petersburg near the Gostiny Dvor and on the embankment of the Griboedov channel, single pickets are held dedicated to what is happening in Moscow by the announcement of the sentence to the opposition Mikhail Kosenko. As activist Vadim Sukhodolsky told Rosbalt agency, he holds in his hands the poster of Freedom Mikhail Kosenko. The action is timed to the day of the sentence, similar pickets are held in Moscow.

The young activist from Pakistan Malala Yusufzai, who is fighting for the rights of girls to education in Pakistan, is the 2014 Nobel Prize laureate. A year before receiving a bonus in an interview with Radio correspondent, Mashaal Abdule Kakaro Yusufai, spoke about the criticism of her campaign in her homeland, as well as that she was fighting for the right to educate all young Pakistanis without exception.

Arrested activists "Greenpeace" The Murmansk Regional Court is considering the arrest of the arrest of three Greenpeace activists who were on the Arctic Sanraise icebreaker. The defense of the accused asks to change the measure of restraint from the detention for household arrest for the press secretary of the Greenpeace of Russia Andrei Allahverdov, the judicial doctor Ekaterina Zapp and the photographer Denis Sinyakov. Greenpeace is ready to rent apartments for them in Murmansk.

Mikhail Kosenko The decision of the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow, who sent the "prisoner of the Bolotnaya" by Mikhail Kosenko for forced treatment, was regarded by civil activists as the return of punitive psychiatry. In Soviet times, it was one of the methods of combating objectionable. In 1977, a working commission was created at the Moscow Helsinki group to investigate the use of psychiatry for political purposes.

We are talking about this with political scientists Vladimir Zharikhin and Mehman Gafarla, as well as with journalists Rafael Huseynov, Yuri Snegirev, Khatijoy Ismailova and Grigory Shvedov. Presenter - Vladimir Kara -Murza. The program can be seen in full on our YouTube channel: http://youtu.be/poyshq49bsm