Barack Obama US President Barack Obama will meet on Wednesday with the leaders of the US Congress to discuss the situation in Iraq. This was announced by Senator Mitch Maconnel, a leader of the republican minority. In addition to the president and Maconnel himself, the leader of the Senate majority, Democrat Harry Reed, the speaker of the House of Republican John Beiner and the leader of the democratic minority in the Nancy Pelosi Chamber will take part in the meeting.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko appointed People's Deputy from the Party of the Blood Irina Gerashchenko Commissioner for a peaceful settlement of the conflict in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. According to the document published on the website of the President of Ukraine, the main task of Gerashchenko is to present the position of the head of the Ukrainian state on the issues of de-escalating tension and ensuring the security of the population in the southeast of the country.

We discuss with Eva Mercachev, Denis Balashov, Ilya Kramnik and Vladimir Pozlovsky Vladimir Kara-Murza: the second day the conflict does not stop around the death of General Boris Kolesnikov, the head of the Department of Economic Security and Corruption of the Corruption of the Ministry of the Interior. Today, new versions of what happened have appeared.

The statements of the separatist leaders about the "Russian betrayal" and that without the help of Moscow they will last no more than months - the first serious victory of Ukraine not only on the battlefield, but also in the propaganda space. Now the time comes for serious reflection on the decentralization of the country. We’ll talk about this in the program.

The conversation about the publication of the largest emigrant archive (editorial correspondence "Modern Notes") is conducted by researchers Oleg Korostelev, Oleg Budnitsky, Alexander Danilevsky and Vladimir Khazan.

The last accused in the case of riots on Manezhnaya Square in December 2010 partially pleaded guilty. Today in the Tver court of Moscow, the next hearings in the case of Pavel Vazhenin were held. The defendant partially pleaded guilty, reports RAPSI. Vazhenin recognized the use of violence in relation to a representative of the authorities, but refused to admit his involvement in "hooliganism".

Igor Strelkov The head of the armed separatists in Slavyansk, Igor Strelkov said that without military support of Russia they could hold out for no more than a month. In a video message posted on the Internet, Strelkov calls on Russia to take urgent and decisive measures to help the Donetsk separatists, otherwise, according to him, the Ukrainian military will achieve success.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko asked the EU and the United States to assist in strengthening control over the state border with Russia. As the press service of the President of Ukraine said on Tuesday evening, Poroshenko said this during a telephone conversation with the Federal Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel.

On the territory of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine, battles between Ukrainian military and separatists continue. Ukrainian servicemen are trying to take control of the state border with Russia. The resumption of control is one of the conditions for a temporary ceasefire, which was announced on the eve of the Preizate Petro Poroshenko.

Arsen Avakov The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Arsen Avakov, said that one of the main versions of the causes of the explosion on the Urengoy -Pomary -Uzhgorod gas pipeline was the assumption of a "terrorist act".

Fragment of the manuscript of Marseille Proust Having reached the computer, the school first abolished the calligraphy. From first-graders, it is now required to somehow wave the scribbles, only vaguely resembling the outlines of letters. All the same, they have to write all their lives, but to print. Therefore, fluency in handling the keyboard is incomparably more important than the ability to use a pencil. It’s easy for me to agree with this, and twice.

Four cities of the Donetsk region were left without water supply after yesterday's battles in Kramatorsk. According to Interfax, we are talking about Druzhkovka, Konstantinovka and Dzerzhinsk, as well as the Kramatorsk itself, during the shelling of which, according to Donetskoblenergo, the electrical substations were damaged and the pumping stations of the Vodokanal were left without power supply.

In Belarus, the former deputy prosecutor general Alexander Arkhipov was sentenced to six years in prison for abuse of official position and bribery. On June 17, the highest military court also decided to confiscate the car of Arkhipov and a 20-kilogram gold bullion, which, according to the conclusions of the investigation, he received a bribe.

The Verkhovna Rada, Sergey Sobolev and Boris Tarasyuk, with the deputy of the State Duma of Russia Ilya Ponomarev , are debated, Ilya Ponomarev and Verkhovna Rada. He visited Ukraine, the leader of the Batkivshchyna faction in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Sergei Sobolev and Verkhovna Rada deputy, the former head of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine Boris Tarasyuk , are we discussing the Kremlin to stop supporting the Donbass separatists? Is there a common between Eastern Ukraine and Chechnya?