The country's geopolitical position is not only its territory, population, economic and military potential. First of all, it is the perception of the country of the world and its own role in it. "The largest geopolitical catastrophe of the century" that occurred with Russia is not the loss of the Baltic states, Ukraine, Transcaucasia, Central Asia. Some of these losses are beneficial. The rest are not fatal.

We are discussing the Renaissance of the DNA with Irina Khakamada, Nikita Petrov, Dmitry Gorovtsov, Ivan Begtin The law "On the participation of citizens in the protection of public order": the development of civil society or its substitution? Does he replace law enforcement efforts? How are the "voluntary folk squads", known since Soviet times? What do Muscovites think about this? Irina Hakamad in the role of Vox Populi.

In several countries of West Africa, an epidemic of Ebola fever capers the population, which believes in the mystical nature of the disease The outbreak of control of the hemorrhagic Ebola hemorrhagic fever in West Africa requires immediate intervention of the world community, international non-governmental organizations say. Mortality from this disease, which at any moment can still reach Russia, Europe, Asia and America, reaches 90 percent, and there is no vaccine against Ebola's fever yet.

What are the Cossacks from Russia looking for behind the Ukrainian border - death, well done glory, the revival of the Russian world or medicine for idleness? The answer to this question is looking for two interlocutors with different opinions - from Russia and Ukraine.

Journalist "Gromadsky TV" Anastasia Stanko The head of the self -proclaimed “Lugansk People’s Republic” (“LPR”) Valery Bolotov stated that the journalists of the Ukrainian television company “Gromadska TV” Anastasia Stanko and Ilya Besaravayy were released earlier. According to the Vostochny Option agency , speaking at a press conference, Bolotov noted that journalists were released at the request of three leading Russian television channels.

The performance of Vladimir Putin at a meeting with the Russian diplomatic corps Vladimir Putin uses the Russian Foreign Ministry in an unprecedented propaganda campaign of the Kremlin Leading American newspapers drew attention to President Putin’s speech to the Russian diplomatic corps , noting the attempts of the Russian leader to put the Ukrainian crisis on a par with conflicts in Syria, Libya, Iraq, as well as his warnings about the willingness to protect the Russian -speaking population

The Danish naval ship with the last batch of poisonous substances on board moored on Wednesday in the Italian port of Joya Tauro. Hundreds of tons of chemicals delivered from Syria, including mustard gas and raw materials for the production of the nerve -paralytic gas of Zarin - will be overloaded to an American warship special for their destruction. Last year, Syria agreed to destroy its arsenal of chemical weapons.

Foreign Minister of Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia - Frank Walter Steinmeier, Laurent Fabius, Pavel Klimkin and Sergey Lavrov (from left to right) at a meeting in Berlin (July 2, 2014) In Berlin, foreign ministers of Germany, Ukraine, Russia and France agreed on a package of arrest agreements in the southeast of Ukraine.

Poster of the 49th Karlovar film festival On July 4, the 49th International Film Festival begins in Karlovy Vary. Eva Oboralova, a long -term artistic director of the festival, now the adviser to the director of the festival Karel Oha, talks about his program. - Eva, it seems to me that this year there were significant changes in the main program of the festival. Firstly, in the main competition there will be only 12 films, less than the previous one, and two of them are Czech.

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The hand of a child who has an ebola fever The representative office of the Red Cross in Guinea on Wednesday was forced to suspend their activities to counteract Ebola’s fever in the southeast of the country after the mission was threatened by a group of people armed with knives. The incident occurred on Tuesday in Heched, a settlement located 650 kilometers southeast of the capital of Guinea - Konakri.

Drug delegations in Spain are 15.7 million euros per day. Did the country lose the war with drugs? According to the newly published data from the European Monitoring Center for drugs and drug addiction , Spain ranks first in the European Union for Cocaine consumption by persons aged 15 to 34 years. It is followed by the UK, Ireland and Denmark. In addition, Spain has become the main "gate" through which Latin American cocaine enters Europe.

In Jerusalem today they found the body of the missing day earlier in the city of Palestinian teenager. Some eyewitnesses said that they saw how the boy was put in the car by force. Messages about his death led to clashes in East Jerusalem. The mayor of Nir Barkat said a thorough investigation will be conducted. He urged residents to remain calm.