The author of the program Dmitry Volchek Dmitry Volchek: guests of Radio Liberty - Berlin translators of Russian literature. Pheionstrasse 23 - the mansion of the Berlin Cultural Center - here last week the conference "City on the water" dedicated to the three hundredth anniversary of St. Petersburg was held. The organizers of the conference are people representing Russian literature to German readers.

In Monrovia - the capital of Liberia in the West Africa - on Sunday to the artillery shelling was subjected to a quarter, where foreign diplomatic missions and offices of humanitarian organizations are located. The rebellion was fired, trying to capture the center of the city, which is defended by troops, faithful to President Liberia Charles Taylor.

In Chechnya, as a result of the explosion in the village of Gikalo Groznysky rural district, a local resident died, her two -year -old child was injured. According to local authorities, the explosion occurred on Sunday night near a private house. In the village of Assinovskaya, near the border with Ingushetia, one employee of the Novocherkassk Internal Affairs Directorate died and 13 were injured when the bus in which they drove was blown up by a landmine.

14 American tourists died in a plane crash in the Mount Mount Kenya Mining Arrave, in the east of Africa. According to local authorities, the aircraft belonging to South Africa and heading to the Kenyan National Park Samburia crashed. Judging by the documents found at the site of the disaster, all the dead passengers are US citizens. There was no news of the fate of the crew of the aircraft.

In the parliament of Iran, the deputies-reformers criticized conservative judicial authorities in connection with the death of the Canadian photojournalist of Zakhra Kazemia. During the debate, deputy Mokhsen Armin entrusted his responsibility for what happened to the state prosecutor Saad Mortazavi. Armin said that Kazemi was arrested and underwent, as a result of which she had a hemorrhage in the brain and she died.

Today, US President George Bush meets at his Texas ranch the Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi. They will discuss issues of the post -war Iraq recovery, the situation in the Middle East, as well as the problems of combating terrorism. It is expected that Berlusconi will try to mitigate the contradictions between the United States and Western Europe, which arose in view of the war in Iraq. Italy at this time presides in the European Union.

In the Ukrainian village of Semishinen there is a flash of toxic hepatitis. Three out of four children taken from the village to the hospital in Kharkov died. The condition of the fourth child is critical.

The Iranian "Corps of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution" entered the arsenal of new ballistic missiles "Shahab-3". The rocket is capable of, in particular, to hit goals in Israel.

In the north of Iraq, near the city of Tal -Afar, today two American soldiers were killed and one was wounded as a result of shelling of the convoy. Today, the American command reported that one soldier died and two were injured as a result of a car accident near the Baghdad airport. According to the UN, a hundred kilometers south of Baghdad, a humanitarian a motorcade was ambushed in the area of the city of Hill.

Emir Kuwait Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah opened on Saturday the first session of the recently elected parliament of the country. According to the emir, the main task of legislators to conduct the economic reform to the economic of the economy is to adopt the legislation on privatization, taxation and foreign investments in the oil sector. More than 90 percent of Kuwait residents are busy in the public sector, receive high wages, they are guaranteed a generous pension.

Liberia President Charles Taylor said that he was ready to fight to the end against the rebels who broke into the capital of the country on Saturday - Monrovia. Taylor repeated that he was ready to resign, but only after the arrival of international peacekeepers in the country. Including - from the USA. Washington claims to send his troops to Liberia only after the resignation of Taylor.

More than 60 people were detained in Ulyanovsk during the investigation of the possible preparation of the attack. According to Yuri Shuvalov, head of the information and public relations department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, all detainees are not local residents.

Kirill Kobrin: Radio Liberty represents a new Sunday program "Russia. Three Generations". We compare the points of view of different generations of Russians to the problems important for the development of the country. We will choose topics, which differs not only because of beliefs, but also just by age. After all, the number of years lived is the only worldview characteristic that is measured by numbers.

The heads of government of Israel and the Palestinian autonomy - Ariel Sharon and Mahmud Abbas - held negotiations in Jerusalem today. The prospects for the implementation of the international plan of peaceful settlement "Roadmap" were discussed. Particular attention was paid to the issue of the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons.

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