With the former Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, the leader of the Union of Right Forces, the candidate for the post of mayor of Moscow, Sergei Kiriyenko, is talking to Mikhail Sokolov. Mikhail Sokolov: Mr. Kiriyenko, you are running for the post of mayor of Moscow. Is your program at least in these elections? The program is the maximum of understanding - to win the elections and become the mayor of Moscow.

The program is conducted by Savik Schuster. Radio Liberty correspondents participate in it: in the North Caucasus - Andrei Babitsky, in Paris - Semyon Mirsky, and in Madrid - Victor Cheretsky. Savik Shuster: The special correspondent of Radio Liberty Andrei Babitsky visited the Chechen village of Samashki, which we still remember in that war - the tragic village. Here is his report. Andrey Babitsky: The village of Samashka makes the impression of the extinct during the day.

The final list of candidates for the president of the professional football league was approved the day before the elections at the PFL conference.

Our employee continues Sergei Danilochkin continues a series of interviews about the American business on the Internet - this time with the head of the Detroit company "BIG" Duayn RAO. Interview Mr. Rao, it seems to me a very interesting story of the creation of your company. After all, only a few years ago you were engaged in completely different things - by the way, in the Detroit car spirit - and, it seems, were not going to open the case related to the Internet.

Presenter Alexey Tsvetkov Our employee continues Sergei Danilochkin continues a series of interviews about American business on the Internet - this time with the head of the Detroit company "Big Net" Dwayne Rao. Interview Mr. Rao, I find the story of the creation of your company very interesting.

On Tuesday on Sakhalin, 250 teachers and doctors of the city of Dolinsk blocked traffic along the main highway of the island , the Sakhalin Region reported in the Department of Internal Affairs. Bastulars require a complete repayment of salary arrears, which has not been paid to public sector employees since February this year.

Hasin Raduev, North Caucasus: Russian aircraft last night exposed massive blows to the Vedeno district center and the village of Chiri-Yurt in the Shali district. The largest cement plant in the North Caucasus is located here, according to which rocket and bombing were applied before. In the area of the village of Novogronzensky, Russian units strengthened their positions, pushing Chechen detachments further to the village of Aleri.

The program is hosted by Mikhail Sokolov and Vladimir Baburin Vladimir Baburin: Today Mikhail Sokolov and I, Vladimir Baburin, invited the Chairman of the State Duma of the first convocation, Ivan Rybkin, and State Duma deputy Viktor Sheinis, one of the authors of the current Russian Constitution, to the studio of the “Elections” program. Viktor Sheinis is again running on the list of the Yabloko movement, Ivan Rybkin heads the list of the Socialist Party.

The program is conducted by Giovanni Benxi and Elena Kolomiychenko . Radio Liberty correspondents participate in it: in Paris - Semyon Mirsky , in London - Natalya Golitsyna , in Madrid - Victor Cheretsky .

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Lev Roitman: In early November, the several largest environmental organizations in Russia sent a letter to the FSB director Nikolai Patrushev with a very harsh protest against the increased accusations of ecologists of espionage. It so coincided that on November 23 in St. Petersburg the trial in the case of Captain Nikitin, an ecologist accused of espionage, resumed. Can environmental information be spy? The question of Marina Katys to the Moscow passerby.

Employees of the New York Hospital of the Mount Sinai used magnetic resonance scanning to detect fat deposits on the inner surface of the blood vessels. Advanced equipment makes it possible to determine the degree of sclerotization of arteries without resorting to x -ray angiography. On Monday, the results of the first stage of clinical tests of new diagnostic technology were reported at the conference of the North American radiological society in Chicago.

Proceedings of the laureate The poet in America is no more than the poet. And if you attach Russian measurement, then sometimes less. For example, one of the best in this century, Wallace Stevens, worked all his life in an insurance company - and not only worked out a salary, but made a good business career. For some time, however, in the USA there is a slightly mysterious position of poet-laureate.

The host of the Liberty Live program Andrey Sharry: The sister of Paul Tatum, an American businessman, killed three years ago in Moscow, has no evidence of the involvement of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov in his murder, but she hopes that the civil lawsuit against Luzhkov will force the Russian side to confirm his guilt. Our correspondent in New York, Yuri Zhigalkin, contacted Michael Kimerer, lawyer of Tatum's sister. Yuri Zhigalkin: What does your client specifically accuse Yuri Luzhkov?

The exhibition "SE Man" opened on November 30 at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. It presents more than fifty sculptures and sculptural groups for gospel stories from the countries of the Northern Renaissance (Germany and the Netherlands) and the folk sculpture of the Perm Territory. The European sculpture is dated hu-hu1, the Perm- Hu111-x1x centuries. The exhibition will last until February 6.