Moscow said that she would take measures if NATO begins regular rotations of troops in NATO members in eastern Europe. The constant representation of Russia under NATO stated through Twitter on August 27 that the reaction of Russia will ensure its own security. These statements followed after NATO Secretary General Anders Fogg Rasmussen announced the rotation of troops in the NATO members in eastern Europe in an interview with The Guardian on August 26 in the British newspaper.

In Kostroma, relatives of Russian paratroopers gathered on Wednesday, who were detained in Ukraine, gathered in the office of the Union of Soldiers' mothers. They told reporters that they learned about what happened by accident, so far the Internet remains the only source of information for them.

Vyacheslav Savostyev, the dad of the Kostroma paratrooper Vladimir Savostyev, will soon go to Ukraine to ask for the liberation of his son, captured by the Ukrainian military.

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Minsk summit, diplomacy, Putin, Lukashenko, Poroshenko, the European Union ... How in the United States reacted to negotiations of the presidents of Ukraine and Russia Negotiations between the presidents of Russia and Ukraine did not lead to noticeable progress in the termination of the conflict in eastern Ukraine. This conclusion comes to American information funds.

Representatives of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic say that about a hundred Ukrainian troops were captured in the Kuteinikov region. There is no confirmation of this information by the Ukrainian side yet. According to the separatists, over the past day, the Ukrainian military has lost more than 50 people and 10 units of equipment. In the area of Ambrosievka, according to the separatists, there remains a blocked group of Ukrainian soldiers.

Putin and Poroshenko spoke for two hours. Will there be any sense? President of the Effective Policy Fund Gleb Pavlovsky about how the result of a meeting, which is considered to be unsuccessful.

Leonid Martynyuk Activist of the Opposition Party of the RPR-Parnas Leonid Martynyuk was arrested for 15 days. This decision was made yesterday by the Krasnodar court. A day earlier, Martynyuk was detained at the Krasnodar railway station. Martynyuk came from Sochi to Krasnodar with his wife Ekaterina Zavgorodnaya. On the way to the building of the activist’s railway station, a certain person was greatly pushed. Immediately after that, insults and threats fell to the opposition.

US Secretary of Defense Chuck Heigel said that the leaders of the seven states, in addition to the United States, promised to provide urgent military assistance to the Kurdish formations of Peshmerga in Iraq, which confront the militants of the Islamic State group. Among the promoting the help of countries, Hagel called Albania, Great Britain, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Italy and France.

Elena Rykovtseva: We are discussing an event that we had been waiting for a long time, until the very last minute we did not know whether it would take place. And only at 10 hours 24 minutes yesterday late in the evening Dmitry Peskov, a press secretary of President Vladimir Putin, announced that bilateral negotiations between Vladimir Putin and Peter Poroshenko had begun. They lasted for a long time, it is believed that for two hours, about three.

Ahmet Davutoglu, appointed by the Prime Minister of Turkey, became the new leader of the ruling party of justice and development. He was elected at this post by the overwhelming majority of delegates to a specially convened party conference. According to the Constitution, on August 28, Davutoglu will take office as head of government, and the 29th reportedly will announce the composition of the new office. Since 2009, Davutoglu served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey.

The head of the Committee of the Soldiers' Mothers, Valentina Melnikova, said that some military soldiers are forcibly sent to fight east of Ukraine. As Melnikov’s rain, all this resembles a war in Afghanistan, said on Wednesday. Earlier on Wednesday, the chairman of the Committee of the Soldiers' Mothers of the Stavropol Territory Lyudmila Bogatenkova told the Rain TV channel that there was a list of 400 killed and wounded Russian soldiers.

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The relations of the Russian authorities with NGOs are discussed by Kirill Koroteev, Boris Altshuler and Natalia Taubina.

Ashraf Gani (left) and Abdullah Abdullah The applicant for the post of President of Afghanistan Abdullah Abdullah decided to boycott the vote counted on the second round of the election on June 14. On Tuesday, the influential employee of the election headquarters of this candidate Fasel Ahmad Manavi called the audit "joke". Manavi claims that members of the election commission are not going to get rid of the ballots, which experts participating in recounting are suspicious.