Korea was divided equally only geographically These days mark 60 years since the formation of two states on the Korean Peninsula: the Republic of Korea (ROK) in the south and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in the north. The state, which had been united since the 7th century, split. “No division of a nation during the redivision of the world after the Second World War was so dubious, abnormal and artificial as the division of Korea,” wrote American historian Gregory Henderson.

Experts argue about the new balance of power in foreign policy Representatives of the Russian expert community discussed the near future of Russian foreign policy after the conflict in Georgia on the information platform of the Rosbalt agency. Analysts are not afraid of the Cold War, but they predict a global reformatting of the system of international relations after Russia recognizes the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

The new Pakistani president will most likely take the oath of office tomorrow and officially take office. This is 53-year-old Asif Ali Zardari, co-chairman of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and widower of the country's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto ( she was killed on December 27, 2007 after returning to the country from exile to fight the “dictatorship of Pervez Musharraf”).

Americans understood Lukashenko's hint Washington has lifted some of the economic sanctions against Belarus. American businessmen are now again allowed to cooperate with the Lakokraska enterprise and the Polotsk Steklovolokno plant. Both are part of the state concern Belneftekhim. This is the main Belarusian exporter, which also sold its products to the USA. “Our Ministry of Finance has made exceptions to the sanctions.

The favorites of the qualifying round are already losing points The qualifying campaign for the World Championships, which will take place in 2010 in South Africa, has truly begun in Europe. The first match of the Kazakhstan-Andorra cycle was already played last month. Last weekend, which the Russian team missed due to the will of the calendar, almost all the group favorites entered the fight. Many of them already missed the planned points in the first matches.

A three-day tour of North African countries by American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ended with a discussion of the problems of separatism in Morocco. The Moroccans convinced the guest that the problem of the province of Western Sahara, where there are supporters of independence, can only be solved within the borders of the kingdom. Rice, for her part, called for closer coordination of efforts in the fight against terrorism. She discussed the same problem in Tunisia and Algeria.

Bells of the St. Danilov Monastery again in Russia For the first time in 78 years, the ringing of the bells of the St. Danilov Monastery was heard yesterday on Russian soil. All this time, the Orthodox belfry was located in America at Harvard. The desire of the clergy, the assistance of the authorities and the financial support of businessmen helped bring the shrines home. The ancient bells stood all day yesterday on St. Isaac's Square. Almost 80 years ago they were taken from St.

The route network and the state-owned part of the assets of the AirUnion aviation alliance will come under the control of the Moscow government airline Atlant-Soyuz by the end of September. AirUnion member companies will most likely be liquidated. At the same time, their new owners - the state corporation "Russian Technologies" and the capital's government - do not want to go bankrupt.

An oil pipeline construction project has been submitted to the government for consideration. The process of implementing the BTS-2 pipeline project is moving forward, despite Minsk's attempts to convince Moscow to abandon the construction of an alternative to the existing Druzhba. As you know, last week Belarus offered the Russian Transneft to buy out shares of key state-owned oil transit enterprises.

Russia is looking for answers to NATO expansion and American missile defense in Eastern Europe Russia, as promised, does not leave unanswered the ongoing attempts to expand NATO to the East (now at the expense of Georgia and Ukraine), as well as the upcoming deployment in close proximity to the Russian borders - in Poland and the Czech Republic - of the third echelon of the American missile defense system defense Last Friday , members of the Russian State Duma Committee on Defense left the

The Moscow Philharmonic opened the season with Bellini's opera In recent years, the Moscow Philharmonic has made a powerful leap towards capitalism, prestige and artistic persuasiveness. An integral part of her repertoire has become concert performances of operas and the development of the cantata-oratorio genre with the involvement of top-class foreign soloists. It is no coincidence that it was precisely this kind of event that became the celebration of the opening of the 2008/09 season.

Officials of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region argue about the ownership of the museum-reserve The quiet bureaucratic war between officials of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region for the right to own the Gatchina State Museum-Reserve is close to completion.

Human rights activists sum up the first results of the conflict in South Ossetia With the cessation of hostilities in South Ossetia in the conflict zone - both in the most recently recognized republic and on the territory of Georgia - representatives of non-governmental organizations began collecting information about war crimes that may have occurred.

Due to the Atlantic cyclone, which is circling off the southern coast of Norway, today the weather will remain unstable in the north-western region - there will be short-term rains, thunderstorms in places, daytime temperatures will be +20...+25оС. In the central region there will be mostly no precipitation, only in the north there will be short-term rains, thunderstorms in places, fog in places in the morning, temperature +23...+29оС, in the south up to +32оС, in the north +19оС.

A court in Switzerland allowed to freeze the accounts of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation The head of Noga, Nessim Gaon, continues a large-scale offensive against Russia , which, he believes, owes him a tidy sum under contracts concluded in the early 90s of the last century. At the beginning of January 2008, based on Mr.