The head of the oil company Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky was charged under six articles of the Criminal Code, in particular, in large theft and tax evasion. The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office applied to the court with a petition for the arrest of the entrepreneur. According to the Interfax agency, Khodorkovsky was taken to the Basmanny Court of the capital. The head of the Yukos was detained this morning in Novosibirsk.

Pyongyang said that he was ready to consider the US new proposals to resolve the crisis around the North Korean nuclear program. The DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs made the relevant statement. According to this week, US President George Bush, the United States, South Korea, Japan, China and Russia could provide Pyongyang with written guarantees of security in exchange for his refusal to develop nuclear weapons. Initially, North Korea rejected this plan, calling it ridiculous.

The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. The Radio Liberty correspondent Tatyana Tkachuk, who is talking with the former chairman of the Central Bank of Russia, Viktor Gerashchenko, takes part. Andrei Sharogradsky: For several days now, the official dollar exchange rate in Russia is less than 30 rubles - this is the lowest cost of the American currency since December 2001.

In Iraq in the city of Tikrit, an American military helicopter is shot down. According to eyewitnesses, at least one of the crew members was injured. The representative of the British military, speaking in Kuwait, said that in the city of Basra in the south of Iraq, two bomb plants were discovered during the raid. Several arrests were produced. According to the British military, in the city of Amara in the south of the country on Friday near the mosque, the police chief was shot dead.

Today we are talking about patriotism: what does this concept mean for each of us; Is it necessary to educate patriotism in children; Where does the line run between national pride and national swagger? Guests of the Moscow Studio are writers Maria Arbatova and Alexander Prokhanov. Hello, gentlemen! I propose to start our conversation from a survey of Muscovites who answered the question of Mikhail Salenkov: "Do you consider yourself a patriot?" "No. I just don’t think. I don’t know.

Inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are sent today to Tehran to verify the recently Iran information about the Iranian nuclear program. Experts intend to determine whether the high -enriched uranium is produced in Iran, which can be used to create nuclear weapons. Iran rejects accusations of developing such weapons. Tehran claims that in the PAGATE document, all aspects of his nuclear program are reflected.

On Saturday evening, the Basmanny Court of Moscow gave the arrest of the head of the Yukos oil company Mikhail Khodorkovsky. It will be placed in an investigative insulator, which is ambitious as "sailor silence." The court thus granted the petition of the Russian Prosecutor General to the arrest of the entrepreneur. The Prosecutor General’s Office brought Mikhail Khodorkovsky a prosecution under seven articles of the Criminal Code, in particular, in large theft and tax evasion.

Marina Katys: Today are the guests of the Moscow Studio Radio Liberty - Doctor of Medical Sciences, a leading researcher at the reconstructive and plastic surgery of the Central Research Institute of Dentistry Lyudmila Arsenyevna Brusova and Doctor of Medical Sciences, professor of the clinic of the marshmallow surgery of the Moscow Medical Academy named after Sechenov, Robert Ivanovich Bagramov.

The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Belgrade Aiya Kuga and the reviewer of the broadcasting service in South Slavic radio, free Europe, Sdgan Kusovats, participate. Andrei Sharogradsky: A large rally is held in Belgrade, organized by opponents of the issuance of Serbian generals in the Hague, accused by the International Hague Tribunal of the Commission of Military Crimes during the conflict in Kosovo.

On the western coast of the Jordan in the city of Nabluz, the Israeli soldiers held raids in hospitals and arrested two Palestinians suspected of involvement in terrorist attacks. The activist of the Khamas radical group Khaled Abu Hamad, who was then taken to the Israeli hospital, was arrested. Last Wednesday, Hamad, along with two other militants, Hamas, was seriously wounded as a result of the explosion of the atom, in which they, according to eyewitnesses, transported explosives.

UN Secretary General COVIO Annan stated on Friday that the recommendations of an independent commission of experts who sharply criticized the state of security system of representative offices of the UN in the world will be implemented .. according to the report of experts, the death of many employees in Iraq on August 19 could have been avoided if it were not serious miscalculations of the UN Security Service. Among the 22 dead was a special representative of the UN in Iraq Sergio Viyira Diral.

The program involves: deputies of the Kyrgyz Parliament Alisher Abdimonov and Alevtina Pronenko, Radio Liberty correspondent in Bishkek Zamir Sydykov, an employee of the Kyrgyz edition of the RS Naryn Ayyp. Tengiz Gudava: This week, with a large pomp, the Russian Air Force base in the Kyrgyz city of Kant opened. Russian President Vladimir Putin, Minister of Defense Sergey Ivanov and many other senior officials of Russia arrived at this event. We will try to discuss this event now.

American sociological measurements show: Vladimir Putin in America is popular. It was not how Gorbachev was popular in Germany, from whom, according to the newspaper Stuttgarter Zaytung, the Germans experienced “Gorbasm”, but - popular. To this, undoubtedly, the reason is both personal and political, that is, the foreign policy style of Vladimir Putin. What else? That's what we'll talk about.

US President George Bush positively appreciated the results of the Madrid conference on Iraq, whose participants agreed to allocate $ 33 billion to help this country. Bush said that additional international assistance to Iraq will contribute to the speedy restoration of the country. As the American president noted, the coalition led by the United States not only wages the fight against terrorists in Iraq, but also restores schools, hospitals and power plants.

The program is Andrey Sharogradsky. Radio Liberty correspondents take part. Radio Liberty correspondents Dmitry execution, Viktor Rezunkov, is attended by the head of the St. Petersburg branch of the Norwegian environmental organization Bellon, the captain of the first rank Alexander Nikitin. Andrei Sharogradsky: Our radio station has already told the story about the radiation irradiation of workers of the former base of the Russian Navy in the village of Gremikha Murmansk Region.