Belgian parliament voted for a ban on women wearing veils in public places. If the upper house approved the bill, Belgium becomes the first country in Europe, have adopted laws against wearing Muslim clothing, a fully veiled woman”s face.

As the channel “EuroNews” , the organization Amnesty International condemned the decision. “This bill is grossly violate the human right to freedom of speech and religious freedom. The decision creates a very dangerous precedent for other European countries”, – said the head of the Brussels branch of David Nichols.

Despite to split the acute political crisis in Belgium, the vote in Parliament was almost unanimous – with only two abstentions. continue reading…

Family Kurmanbek Bakiyev busted Kyrgyzstan at least $ 44 million damage the country, according to the local prosecutor general”s office, was deposited by a corruption schemes, money laundering, illegal privatization of enterprises and the raider captures the approximate ex- President of the country.

writes “The View” , the total number of criminal cases filed against supporters of Bakiev, has already exceeded 20, but at the republic”s authorities do not intend to stop, and threatened prosecution of all who has illegally stored weapons.

In particular, we are talking about the realized environment ex-president of corruption schemes, money laundering, illegal privatization and enterprise raider attacks. continue reading…

airspace of Iceland again closed to flights. Do not operate the principal airports of the country. Concentration in the atmosphere of volcanic ash last night again reached dangerous levels. And, yet, on Monday the weather conditions were normal, and the major terminals functioned normally.

As the “News” , volcano behaves unpredictably, and scientists still do not see signs that the eruption will stop. True, they say, natural disaster at the moment has a local character, and European air transportation is not threatened. The European Commission, meanwhile, continue to count the impact of traffic jams. During the crisis have been lifted more than 100 thousand flights. Financial losses exceeded 2.5 billion euros. continue reading…

Statements of the Georgian leadership of the Russian involvement in the smuggling of uranium in the Caucasus are groundless and are a provocation. , Said Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko.

According to the BBC , Nesterenko said that official Tbilisi has not provided any evidence of Russian involvement or any other state to intercepted a consignment of nuclear material. ”

“This suggests that in this case probably is not the real facts, but about bad its normal provocation. There is – another attempt to stir up anti-Russian political scandal,” – says Statement A. continue reading…

the agenda of the PACE spring session, which opened April 26 in Strasbourg, to discuss the report on the famine of the 1930″s in the former Soviet republics, as well as currenea5t debate on the Russian-Georgian dossier. Will also be discussed to combat piracy and extremism, as well as the impact of the global economic crisis.

As the channel “Vesti” , the rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Russian -Georgia dossier will Matias Eorsi (Hungary) and David Wilshire (United Kingdom). continue reading…