Stadion for beach volleyball in the sports complex "Faliro" is gradually overgrown with grass The stadiums of the 2004 Olympic Games came into desolation. What fate awaits the Olympic objects of Sochi? In connection with the ten-year anniversary of the Summer Olympic Games in Greece (August 13-29, 2004), journalists and the public drew attention to the unenviable state in which the sports facilities of Athens are located.

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Tahir Ul-Kadri Pakistan Prime Minister Navaz Sharif canceled the scheduled performance in parliament for today after the deputies unanimously approved the resolution according to which the attempts of the demonstrators to make him resign or achieve the dissolution of the parliament are unconstitutional. This was reported by the Pakistani division of our radio station. Meanwhile, a multi -thousandth demonstration continues in front of the parliament building with a requirement to resign the ball.

The American clinic on Wednesday evening, journalist and blogger Anton Buslov, died, the New Times reported with whom he collaborated. Anton Buslov was 30 years old. In recent years, he has been seriously ill, but did not stop writing. According to the editor -in -chief of the publication Evgenia Albats, Anton Buslov was a man of amazing internal power. Since November 2012, he published his diary. In the last issue "New Times" his brother wrote for him.

L.N. Tolstoy with her daughter Tatyana A literary novelty appeared in the USA, which caused a keen interest. This book is called " Variations for" Crecery Sonata . "The publishing house of Yale University has published a book, and Michael Katz compiled and transferred from Russian to English to English. It is clear that the very name "Kreitserov Sonata" refers to Leo Tolstoy, to his sensational, one might say, scandalized story of 1891.

Freedom quotes on August 21, 2014 Liveblog about discussions on the network Fresh from above 19:05 21.8.2014 On August 21, 1968, Boris Dubin: "Russia replaces problems." Parachutists in court. Punishers of the junta from OJSC MOESK Rustem Adagamov made a lecture today: at two in the morning on August 21, 1968, the Soviet passenger aircraft An-24 requested an emergency landing at the Prague Airport of Ruzin.

Katherine Ashton The European Union criticized the sentences to six defendants in the "swamp business" issued by Moscow courts in July and August this year. Five of them were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment: from two years and six months to four and a half years. Only one accused, Elena Kokhtareva, received 3 years and 3 months conditionally.

Trucks with humanitarian aid from Russia after crossing the border with Ukraine will move to the destination without stopping. The day before, the employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) were instructed by security drivers. Only one driver should be in the cabin of each car, stops are prohibited along the route, the representative of the Russian Emergencies Ministry said. Cars with flags of the Red Cross will have to accompany the Russian column along the entire route.

Against the background of stress in relations with the West in Russia, McDonald's restaurants are checked, the work of three of them has already been suspended. And almost 25 years ago, it was this network that became a symbol of the end of the Cold War, and Muscovites and guests of the capital stood in line for hamburgers

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Rockets launched by Palestinian militants in Israeli territory, August 20, 2014 In the gas sector in air strikes inflicted by Israeli aviation this morning, eight Palestinians were killed. This is reported by Western information agencies with reference to the representative of the Palestinian Emergency Situations Ashraf al-Kudra. According to Hamas, among the dead are three influential field commander of this group. They were killed at a rocket fire to the house in the city of Rafach.

"FINE!" - I exclaimed almost aloud when, after a crescent break (summer!) I got to the Maidan of Nezalevniy. Fine! The space, the entire volume of the area and the adjacent Khreshchatyk was for the first time in more than eight months clean, bright, low -minded, spacious and rest. Enjoying this unusual feeling, I suddenly realized to what extent I was tired (and probably many or many residents of Kyiv) from the military barricade camp in the heart of the city.

James Fouley in Syria in November 2012 The murder of the Islamists of the reporter James Fowley as an occasion for journalists to leave the world without information about the war in Syria and Iraq On Wednesday evening, it became known that the American special forces took this summer in Syria to a confusing attempt to save American hostages captured by the militants of the Islamic State.

The Moscow police re -qualified the criminal case on painting a star in the colors of the Ukrainian flag on the spire of a high -rise building on the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment from the article "Vandalism" to "Hooliganism". The maximum sentence for hooliganism committed by a group of persons is seven years of imprisonment. On Wednesday, the police detained 48 hours four people on suspicion of involvement in this incident.

Vladimir Kara -Murza: Today, for the first time in almost a quarter of a century, lovers of McDonald's, in particular the first of them - on Pushkinskaya Square, were deprived of their traditions to go to this American invention. Today - McDonald's, who is tomorrow? This is the topic of our conversation today.