The program is conducted by Peter Vile. Radio Radio Freedom Lyubov Chizhov and Maxim Yaroshevsky participate. Peter Vile: The claims of the victims as a result of a terrorist act in the theater center on Dubrovka will begin to be considered on January 16. Such a decision today, December 24, was made by the Tver court of Moscow. Today, the exact date of the resumption of the musical Nord -Ost - February 8, became known.

In the west of Iran, in the province of Kermanshah, over the past day, two earthquakes took place by force about 5 points on the Richter scale. According to the latest data, several thousand houses were destroyed or damaged. 15 people were injured. Many were left without shelter.

Iran and Russia agreed to accelerate the construction of the nuclear power plant in the Bushera and consider the possibility of building a second power unit there. The agreement on this occasion was signed on Wednesday in Tehran by the head of the Ministry of Defense of Russia Alexander Rumyantsev and Vice President Iran Golyam Agazade. Washington believes that Tehran can use atomic technology to create nuclear weapons.

A citizen of Lebanon, convicted by the Swiss court for terrorism, but fled from a conclusion, was again arrested. According to the authorities of Switzerland today, Hussein Hariri, sentenced to life imprisonment for the theft of a passenger airliner in 1987, was arrested in Morocco 3 months after the escape. 36-year-old Hariri fled from a Swiss prison in September. This was already his second escape in 13 years.

In the west of Iran, in the area of the city of Kermanshah, an earthquake took place by force five and three tenths of the points on the Richter scale. According to the Iranian news agency, four people were injured.

Andrey Shary: The Man of the Day of Radio Liberty on December 25-mathematician Olga Ladyzhenskaya. She was awarded the highest award of the Russian Academy of Sciences - Lomonosov Golden Medal. Born in 1922 in the Kostroma region. She graduated from the Mechanical and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow State University. Specialist in the field of mathematics, mathematical physics and theoretical hydrodynamics. Head of the Department of Higher Mathematics of the Faculty of Physics of St.

President of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is found today in India with the Dalai Lama - the spiritual leader of the Buddhists of the world. The meeting will be held in the city of Dharamsala, where the Dalai Lama residence is located. In August of this year, Russia refused to issue the Vai-Lama entrance visa. Half of the inhabitants of Kalmykia, whose population is 300 thousand people, professes Buddhism.

In Rostov-on-Don, in the process in the case of Yuri Budanov, accused of the murder of a Chechen girl, Elsa Kungaeva, relatives of the deceased study the case file. The judge refused the victim in a written translation of documents, but allowed to get acquainted with the materials of psychiatric, forensic and forensic examinations of the accused using the translator.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law on the state budget for next year today. The budget will be surplus - its income will amount to about 2 and a half trillion rubles. The budget was calculated based on Russian oil prices (21 and a half dollar per barrel) and an inflation level of 12 percent.

In Grozny, one of the leaders of the local branch of the United Russia party, Sid-emin Adizov, was killed. In the capital of Chechnya, an attack was attacked on a military column. The employee of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Sverdlovsk Region died, another was wounded. In the village of Ilyinskaya, Grozny district, as a result of an attack on a police detachment, guarding the oil well, two employees of the Chechnya Ministry of Internal Affairs were injured.

The leaders of the Arab countries are doing everything possible to convince Saddam Hussein to disarm and avoid war in Iraq, ”said Prince Saud al -Faisal, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia. Earlier, Saudi Arabia agreed to open its airspace for American military aviation, only if the military operation is carried out from the UN sanction. Prime Minister of Turkey Abdullah Gul said that Istanbul has not yet agreed to participate in a possible operation against Iraq.

The family of the Chechen girl, Elsa Kungaeva, killed by Colonel Yuri Budanov, intends to file a lawsuit in the state for compensation for material and moral harm, the lawyer of the victims Abdullah Khamzaev said in Rostov-on-Don today. According to Khamzaev, the lawsuit will be filed by the Ministry of Finance - as a representative of the state. Budanov should be exempted from liability - since at the time of the crime he was an official.

The universal strike in Venezuela, organized by trade unions and the opposition, lasts on December 2. As a result, Venezuela - the fifth oil supplier in the world - sharply reduced oil exports. Oil prices in the world market in recent days exceeded $ 31 per barrel. In Venezuela itself, there is an acute shortage of gasoline, which was cheaper than drinking water.

International experts have pronounced on Wednesday seven Iraqi objects - in search of weapons of mass defeat. The UN inspectors visited a number of military plants, the gas industry enterprise and the paper plant. President Iraq Saddam Hussein, speaking on Wednesday on television, announced that his country was ready for the "Holy War".

Tatyana Kondratovskaya , Omsk: according to the general director of the Omsk airport Sergey Kruglov, the movement of aircraft through Omsk will resume on the evening of December 25 at 22 hours local time. Flights in the Omsk zone were stopped by his order a day before. Sergei Kruglov explained his decision by the fact that the health status of starving air traffic controllers does not allow any of them to work. Now he says that the shift on duty will be formed from resting workers.