With me in the studio - a member of an independent expert legal council, lawyer Sergey Nasonov. Not so long ago, amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation entered into force. It is about them that we will talk in detail in today's program. And in order to set the tone for the conversation, I propose to listen to the plot that our correspondent in Saransk Igor Telin prepared.

The world community had the opportunity, but there was neither desire nor determination to prevent mass murders in different countries in the 90s, ”said COVIO COLY General Coofi Annan. The statement was made at the International Conference on the Combat of the Genocide, which opened today in Stockholm. Annan called the most shameful example of the Massage of Massage of people in Yugoslavia and Rwanda, carried out under the slogan of "ethnic purges".

In the Northern Military Naval Court today, as expected, hearing in the case of the death of 9 crew members of the K-159 nuclear submarine will resume. The previous court hearing was postponed on January 21 in connection with the disease of the main accused - commander of the Northern Fleet Admiral Gennady Suchkov. He was hospitalized with a diagnosis of "hypertension". K-159 sank on the night of August 30 in the Barents Sea during the towing for disposal.

International human rights organizations called on the parliamentary assembly of the European Council to achieve the liberation of the Russian scientist Igor Sutyagin, who was concluded on charges of espionage. In a joint statement by the international amnesty, Himen Raits Uchch, the International Helsinki Federation on Human Rights and the Moscow Helsinki Group, it is emphasized that the Sutyagin case is politically motivated.

In Iran, the Council of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution rejected the bill, limiting his right to remove objectionable candidates from participation in the elections. The bill proposed a parliament that seeks to restore several thousand candidates rejected by the Council. The reformists are sure that the goal of religious conservatives is to block the liberals to parliament.

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the government to consider the possibility of highlighting Belarus of a loan for the purchase of Russian gas. Putin confirmed that he agreed with the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko to switch to market relations with Russian gas suppliers. However, Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko told the president that Belarusian consumers were “evading” the agreement.

The Iranian government may refuse to hold parliamentary elections on February 20 - in response to the decision of religious conservatives, to remove several thousand candidates -reformists from the participation of them. The representative of the Iranian cabinet Abdullah Ramazanzade said that the government does not intend to finance "unfair" elections.

International human rights activists criticized the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Great Britain for attempts to retroactively justify the military operation in Iraq. George Bush and Tony Blair are now talking about the atrocities of the Saddam Hussein regime, although in the past, when military intervention would be justified, the West ignored these crimes, says Huuman Raits Uchch. Human rights activists note, in particular, the extermination of the Kurds in 1988.

Russian human rights organizations at the forum in Moscow will discuss measures to combat human trafficking on Tuesday, ”the chairman of the human rights commission Ella Pamfilova said today. According to her, Russia occupies one of the first places in the world in the number of such crimes. Pamfilova noted, in particular, that according to international experts, in recent years, more than 50 thousand women have been taken from the CIS to the West or force.

Messages about the spread of the epidemic of the so -called "bird flu" come from an increasing number of Asian countries. A flash of the disease among poultry is confirmed on Monday in Indonesia. In Pakistan, since November last year, at least four million chickens died from the disease. In Laos - thousands. The epidemic covered Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam and Cambodia. The disease is transmitted to people. Seven deaths have already been registered in Vietnam and Thailand.

Since November last year, in Pakistan, at least four million chickens died from the disease, by all signs similar to the bird flu, ”the representative of the Ministry of Agriculture said today. The flash of the epidemic was recorded in the area of the city of Karachi. There were no data on cases of infection of people. Farms in many Asian countries are struck by the Bird flu virus. The disease is transmitted to people. Seven deaths have already been registered in Thailand and Vietnam.

The program is maintained by Melanie Bachin. Participation: Radio correspondent Freedom Nikita Vaulin, rector of the Academy of Management and Market Veniamin Kaganov, professor of the Higher School of Economics Yevgeny Yasin. Melanie Bachin: the administrative reform prepared by the Russian government under the leadership of the Kremlin is a key factor in the economic course for the development of small and medium -sized enterprises - they agree on politics and economists.

Harry Kasparov, chairman of the 2008 Public Committee, criticized the Congress of the SPS party to support Irina Khakamad in the presidential election. In an interview of Interfax, Kasparov emphasized that the decision of the delegates demonstrated, as he put it, the “pro -Kremlin position” of the congress.

In the capital of Indonesia, the trial of the Islamic action movie, accused of a terrorist attack of Jakarta last summer, began. At the opening of the process, Mohamad Rais said that he wanted to kill the Americans, and expressed regret that the overwhelming number of victims were his compatriots. In the explosion near the Marriott Hotel, 11 Indonesians and a citizen of the Netherlands were killed in Jakarta on August 5. If the court finds Raisa guilty, he faces the death penalty.

Russia and the United States advocate the work of international inspectors to search for weapons of mass defeat in Iraq - the heads of foreign policy departments of the two countries - Igor Ivanov and Colin Powell said in Moscow. After a meeting in the Kremlin with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the US Secretary of State emphasized that Washington does not plan to create military bases in Georgia, and the mission of American military instructors in the Georgian army is coming to an end.