The conversation with Leshek Balcevic is dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the fall of the communist regime in Poland. Balcevich is an economist and politician, professor, author of the School therapy policy-a series of radical reforms implemented in Poland in the transition to a market economy in the early 1990s.

Russia regarding the new US sanctions as a primitive attempt to avenge the fact that events in Ukraine are not developing according to Washington’s script, and reserves the right to response, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. In Moscow, they say that Russia is not a party to the intra -Ukrainian conflict, and warn that it is inappropriate and counterproductive to speak the language of sanctions with it, and it is impossible to isolate it.

Prime Minister Malaysia Najib Razak Prime Minister of Malaysia Nadzhib Razak said that he was shocked by reports of the death of almost 300 people in the catastrophe of the Boeing 777 passenger aircraft over the territory of Eastern Ukraine. The Malaysian leader announced the immediately beginning of the investigation of the circumstances of the tragedy.

Moscow and Kyiv: Who wins the war of charges? On the air - military journalist Vladimir Voronov, military analyst Alexander Sharavin, diplomat Bogdan Yaremenko

The European Union decided to expand sanctions against Russia. This is stated in the final statement of the European Union summit on Wednesday in Brussels.

Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko The Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, who was in a pre -trial detention center in Voronezh, at a meeting with the consul of Ukraine confirmed that she was taken to Russia by force - with a bag on her head and handcuffs. About this President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko was informed by the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Pavel Klimkin.

The American company Microsoft will reduce about 18 thousand jobs during the year. The company's statement says that such a decision was made as part of the restructuring plan, which was adopted in connection with the acquisition of mobile devices from the Finnish company Nokia. (Transaction volume of more than seven billion dollars.) In total, more than 127 thousand employees work in Microsoft.

School class in Lugansk Quotes of Freedom July 17, 2014 Liveblog about discussions on the network Fresh from above 19:25 17.7.2014 Dragged The militants boasted that they shot down the APU plane. It turned out to be a passenger. - єvromaidan (@euromadan) July 17, 2014 Who reads Strelkova reports. Is it real? Now you need to be carefully with the info, everywhere dez pic.twitter.com/jeevf6h7bp - Alexey Navalny (@navalny) July 17, 2014 Only it was not SU at all.

US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed this morning new US sanctions against Russia announced on Wednesday. This was announced in an interview with reporters accompanying Obama on a trip around the country, a White House spokesman Josh Ernest. The telephone conversation took place at the request of the Russian side. Ernest also said that the US president was informed of the disaster of a Malaysian aircraft over the territory of Ukraine.

Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko The Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, Ella Pamfilova, visited the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko in the Voronezh pre -trial detention center, where she was under arrest on charges of involvement in the murder of two Russian journalists near Lugansk.

The Gagarinsky court of Moscow today arrested until September 16, 20-year-old Anton Gurvits, suspected of killing the leading television channel "360 degrees of the Moscow Region" Andrei Rybakin. The Gurvitsa was charged under the article "Intentional Murder." It is reported that he partially pleaded guilty.

Andrey Stopar Slovenian journalist Andrei Stopar has been engaged in Russian research for many years, speaks perfectly in Russian and, according to, loves Russia and Russians with all his heart. The result of the eight -year work of Andrei in Moscow as a correspondent for television of Slovenia was a collection of essays and comments by Pax Putina, who had just published in Ljubljana.

Lithuania is grateful to Valeria Novodvo. The Soviet Afghan war through the eyes of an employee of the CIA. Kurds in Iraq, Kurds in Turkey and Iraqi oil. Polish economist Leshk Balcerovich about shock therapy lessons 25 years later about modern Russia.