Correspondent: Pavel Borodin was not allowed to set foot on American territory - he was arrested right at passport control. On the night of Wednesday to Thursday, the Secretary of State of the Russian-Belarusian Union flew to New York, presented his general passport, his name was entered into the computer, and it appeared on the Interpol stop list.

Correspondent: At the beginning of the week, the financial information agency Bloomberg reported that the founding father of the CNN television company, Ted Turner, expressed a desire to acquire a stake in the NTV channel. On January 17, the Wall Street Journal reported that Turner's confidants Bob Wasler and Taylor Glover arrived in Moscow.

January 21, 21:00 Hello, I greet everyone who is watching NTV at this moment. The program "Itogi" is on air, in the studio Evgeny Kiselev. Undoubtedly, the loudest event of the past week was “Borodin’s day,” as colleagues wittily called the day when the news came out of New York like a bolt from the blue: Pavel Borodin, the former manager of the affairs of the President of Russia, and now the Secretary of State of the Union of Belarus and Russia, was detained upon entering the United States.

Here are the data from a survey conducted over the past two days specifically for our program by VTsIOM - the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion. 1,600 Russian citizens were surveyed - this, I note, is a standard sample for such all-Russian surveys; the current survey was conducted in 83 cities and towns of our country. And here is the result.