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Demonstration of the Kurds Representatives of the US State Department held direct negotiations with the leading Syrian Kurdish political party due to the fact that the United States is forming a coalition against militants of the Islamic State extremist group. This was announced on Thursday by the official representative of the State Department. For some time, we are negotiating with the Kurdish Democratic Union party, said the press secretary of the State Department Jen Psaki.

Andrei Sakharov Award The chairman of the European Parliament Martin Schulz said that the announcement of the announcement of the laureate of the Andrey Sakharov Prize "For Freedom of Thought" was postponed until October 21. According to him, members of the European Parliament failed to make a decision on this issue due to the fact that they need to hold additional hearings on the new composition of the European Commission.

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Pro -Russian separatist near the Donetsk airport named after Sergey Prokofiev In Donetsk on Thursday evening, explosions were heard, single volleys of heavy guns, 36 transformer substations were de -energized. This was reported on the website of the City Council. In the morning, as a result of a projectile hit, the workshop workshop was damaged and a fire occurred. Due to the artillery, the Zasyadko mine was left without energy supply. At that moment there were 668 miners underground.

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi welcomed the Chancellor Germany Germany Angela Merkel German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin late in the evening on Thursday at the summit in Milan a meeting postponed due to the delay of the Russian leader with arrival in Italy from Serbia.

Freedom quotes on October 16, 2014 Liveblog about discussions on the network Fresh from above 19:33 10/16/2014 Liquidation of the population . It is forbidden to get sick. Cry together. Schoolchildren are not cucumbers. The vices of adulthood While Twitter trolls Navalny’s sandwich, and Facebook was freestro with this sandwich, the mournful news of medicine and education remained almost unnoticed. In Moscow, for example, hospitals and maternity hospitals are closed.

In souvenir shops in Belgrade, you can buy T -shirts, mugs, magnets for refrigerators and other goods with the image of Vladimir Putin, who visited Serbia on October 16 and attended the parade of Serbian troops in honor of the 70th anniversary of the country's liberation from fascist invaders.

The inscription in Arabic on the poster: "Please do not rape me!" More than 25 thousand young Iraqi Yezidok women found themselves in sexual slavery among the militants of the Islamic State " Anna Politkovskaya Prize laureate, deputy of the Iraqi parliament, Vian Dahil accused the radical group of the Islamic State of mass abductions and rape of women belonging to the ethnoconfessional group of Yezids in Iraq.

The phenomenon of Alexander Dugin through the eyes of a Western expert. How the US is illuminated in the USA between Russia and Ukraine. Energy safety for Kyiv is an unexpected factor. The righteous of the world is a Spanish consul in Greece. The tomb of Qin Shihuan is 40 years old on the survey of people.

Senator Ben Cardin - Chairman of the Helsinki Commission of the United States The US Helsinki Commission states that Russia's attempt to liquidate the Memorial Society, the oldest and most famous human rights organization of the country, is an "obvious attempt to drown out the voice of its own conscience." “It is very alarming that the organization, founded by the Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov to investigate the crimes of the Stalin era, has now become the target of a new wave of repression,”

The court re -qualified the "murder" into "hooliganism" and immediately amnestied the defendant, human rights activists consider the process a political The Chertanovsky court of Moscow re -qualified the charges of the "murder" for "hooliganism" by Nationalist Daniil Konstantinov. He was sentenced to three years of colony of settlement and immediately amnestied, freeing from punishment right in the courtroom. His case was considered from June 9, 2014.

Photo of participants in the Aem Summit in Milan In Milan, the Asia -Europe forum (Asem), an organization uniting more than 50 countries in Europe and East Asia, has opened today. As part of this meeting on Friday, it is expected to negotiate the presidents of Russia and Ukraine Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko .

In one of the district centers of the Saratov region, an incident happened: a man and a woman who were not in official relations fell together from the balcony. At the same time, they were, as if to say softer, not quite dressed. Since the floor was the third, the victims escaped with easy injuries compatible with life. Well, it happens, it happens. We do not happen to us.

Andrey Konchalovsky. Photo by Boris Kavashkina (TASS) Events of one week: Nikita Mikhalkov’s “Sunny Bun” was released, and the first channel will show the “white nights of the postman Alexei Tryapitsyn” by Andrei Konchalovsky. We discuss both films with film critics Olga Galitskaya and Yuri Bogomolov. Presenter Elena Rykovtseva. Elena Rykovtseva: "Two brothers are two premieres," so we called today's program.