Main news of September 21 Posted byRussian_Village September 22, 2011 Leave a comment on Main news of September 21 World * U.S. President Barack Obama called on UN members to focus their efforts on encouraging direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians to achieve Middle East peace * Two Americans convicted of spying in Iran were released in a $1 million bail-for-freedom deal Russia * Russia‘s NATO envoy Dmitry Rogozin, who also heads a Russian nationalist campaign group, has urged his colleagues to support Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and join his People’s Front * Russia needs to make urgent changes to its political system if it is to avoid instability, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned