The Taliban, which was prohibited in Russia as a terrorist organization, first took part in negotiations in Moscow about the settlement of the situation in Afghanistan. The meeting was held as part of the Moscow format of world consultations in the country. Will Moscow help stop the war in the republic?

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For a long time, rumors have come from the White House about a certain “wonderful” plan of the peaceful settlement of the Middle East conflict, although recently they have calmed down somewhat. This will be, as we are assured, the proposal, from which the Palestinian autonomy will not be able to abandon. But since the film "Godfather" was released on the screens, this formula has lost its uniqueness.

Dozens of cultural figures of France and other countries made an open letter in which they called on the leaders of the Western countries to influence the Kremlin in order to achieve the liberation of the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov from the Russian colony. The letter was published in the newspaper Le Monde the day before and timed to the arrival of Russian President Vladimir Putin to France for celebrations on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.

Femen activists, archive photo Activists of the Femen International Movement held a promotion in Paris against the arrival of "war criminals" in Paris. Such they consider a number of heads of states that arrive in the French capital in celebrations in honor of the centenary of the end of the First World War.

The results of the intermediate elections in the United States: the democrats are somewhat disappointed, Trump's support is quite real among voters, the US president may think about nomination for a second term. What does this mean for Moscow and Kyiv in the light of the coming in the spring of Ukrainian presidential elections?

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Enemies or friends and how do they get along in the soul and in the life of believers? The Ukrainian Bishop Igor Isichenko and the Russian Religious Researcher Nikolai Sitnikov speaks about this in the program “From a Christian point of view”.

The failure “Crimean bridge”, an unsuccessful statement of the Sverdlovsk official and a dinner with crabs for the chamberlain.

US President Donald Trump called "offensive" the proposal of French President Emmanuel Macron to create the Armed Forces of the European Union. Trump criticized the proposal of the French leader on Twitter, arriving in Paris on celebrations on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.

50 years ago, in the essay "Man - Evolution Evolution" Arthur Kestler put forward the hypothesis that Homo sapiens is not a crown of creation, but a pathological error. He found in the human appearance five symptoms of pathologies that cannot be found in other animals. Among them are the desire to exterminate their own and "schizoid gap between rational thinking and irrational beliefs." Director Viktor Kosakovsky offers the same questions about human vices.

Ukraine is discussing the new law on the state language Vitaliy Portnikov: Our guest in the Kiev studio is an adviser to the chairman of the Committee on Culture and Spirituality of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Yuri Ugonyak , from Moscow in touch Elena Marinicheva , a well -known translator of literature. Before we start the conversation, I propose to get acquainted with the plot on this topic.

In St. Petersburg, activists of the youth opposition organizations on behalf of the fictional movement "New Doubleness" held a theatrical action against the law on involving minors in inconsistent rallies. Last Tuesday, the State Duma adopted a bill in the first reading, "designed to protect the responsible and national oriented and creative youth from political dealers who need to hit their hands." The authors of the document are a group of deputies from United Russia.

The island of Kunashir Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will offer Russian President Vladimir Putin to force negotiations on the Kuril Islands belonging. This can happen at the Singapore summit in mid -November. This Japanese newspaper The Mainichi was reported by sources close to the government. Japan does not recognize the Russian belonging of the island of Iturup, Shikotan, Kunashir and Habomai occupied by the USSR at the end of World War II.