Mikhail Sokolov: The scandal of the week was the beating right in the building of the Kursk Regional Administration of the former vice-governor Sergei Maksachev. Interrogation with addiction with the help of two guards was led by Vasily Oleinikov, chief of the election headquarters of the communist Alexander Mikhailov, who won the recent governor’s elections.

In Beijing, a closed trial began in the case of one of the followers of the religious teachings of Falungun - Dan Chunyan. Dan Chunyan is a citizen of China with a residence permit in the USA. He is charged with the collection of information about the persecution of the sect by the authorities and the transfer of materials to journalists. According to the representative of Falungun in New York, Dan Chunyan may be sentenced to 10 years in prison.

The lawyers of Edmond Up - an American businessman accused of espionage - achieved the exclusion of a number of documents from the materials of the case, which is being considered by the Moscow City Court. In particular, witnesses who were not interrogated in court were seized. According to Pavel Astakhov’s lawyer, the defense will seek through the Uleg Plotnikov prosecutor Oleg Plotnikov.

Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov is found today in Warsaw with Polish President Alexander Kvasnevsky and Prime Minister of the hedgehog Buzek. Ivanov is the most high -ranking Russian representative, who arrived in Poland over the past 4 years. Negotiations will affect plans for the construction of a gas pipeline from Russia to Western Europe - bypassing Ukraine, which Moscow accuses of illegal selection of gas.

The number of victims of the Middle East conflict continues to grow. This morning, the Israeli checkpoint underwent a mortar shelling in the gas sector. One soldier died, two were seriously injured. A Palestinian was killed in the shooting after this shootout. At least 14 Palestinians were wounded in shootouts in other areas.

This year, on December 10, 11 and 12, it will be non -working days . Due to the fact that December 12 - the Constitution Day - falls on Tuesday, the day off from Saturday December 9 is transferred to Monday December 11. In the city of Artem, Primorsky Territory, 15 thousand people are still left without heat - they reported in the Far Eastern Center of the Ministry of Emergencies. Heating in the city will be included only on December 1, after the repair of heating networks is over.

At a press conference dedicated to the anniversary of the movie operator and director of Juris Redex, Radio Liberty correspondent Elena Fanailova visited. A friend of his youth, Peter Vail, recalls Juris of Land. The host of the Liberty Live program Andrey Sharry: On Thursday, in Moscow, in the Russian Culture Fund, an evening of memory of the Russian film operator and director of Yuris Leduxe, who would have turned 50 years old, was held.

The GAAG conference on "World warming" is under the threat of a breakdown. The European Union and a group of countries, led by the United States, cannot agree on measures to prevent climatic disasters. The United States propose to combat the "greenhouse effect" to expand forest and land. EU countries and many non -governmental organizations - in turn - insist on a sharp reduction in the release of gases into the atmosphere that cause this effect.

The candidate for vice-presidents of the USA from the Republican Party Richard Cheney expressed confidence that he will be able to fulfill his duties after the operation. Cheney said this in an interview with CIN-EN, being in one of the Washington hospitals, where he had a small operation to expand the coronary artery. Cheney was hospitalized on Wednesday due to complaints of chest pain and shoulder. According to him, he feels well and in a day or two will be able to discharge from the hospital.

Yuri Zhigalkin, New York: In the current situation, the Kremlin simply could not create more embarrassment for the White House in the current situation. As it turned out, 4 days before the US presidential election, Secretary of State Madlen Olbright received an official notification that Russia will begin on December 1, weapons, including tanks, to Iran.

Russia will build an alternative gas pipeline in Western Europe, even if Poland does not agree to provide its territory, ”Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said in Warsaw today. Warsaw expresses fears that the gas transit agreement, recently concluded between the Russian company Gazprom and four Western European firms, jeopardizes the interests of Ukraine - the strategic ally of Poland.

In Kosovo, 10 local Albanians were arrested on charges of terrorism. The command of the peacekeeping forces Keiphors said that, according to the available information, the arrested belongs to an underground terrorist group operating in Serbia. All ten were arrested at the moment when they tried to return from Serbia to Kosovo, bypassing passport control.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. Radio Liberty correspondents participate: in Vladivostok - Marina Loboda, in Krasnoyarsk - Alexander Makarov, in Yoshkar -Ola - Lyubov Rogacheva, in Moscow - Lyubov Chizhova. Andrey Sharry: The authorities of the Primorsky Territory are trying to stabilize the situation in the fuel and energy complex. Fuel has already been sent to the Cavalier and Hasan districts to the cities of Partizansk and Artem.

Leading Marina Katys At one time, the president of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, Alexandrov, said that the RBMK reactor (high -power channel reactor) can even be set on Red Square in Moscow. But they put him in Chernobyl. In this sense, Moscow was simply lucky, because the nuclear workers were completely sincerely convinced of the safety of this type of reactors. Voronezh seems to be less lucky.

The United States is extremely concerned about the resumption of the investigation of the case of the Russian military journalist Grigory Pasko, who transferred the Japanese media materials that relate to the burial of nuclear waste in the Sea of Japan. The representative of the US State Department, Richard Bucker, noted that the Pasko case is another example of the persecution and intimidation of journalists, human rights activists and environmentalists criticizing the Russian authorities.