The program is conducted by Nadezhda Pertsev. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Moscow takes part. Nadezhda Pertseva: Cultural values taken from the country during the Great Patriotic War are returned to Russia.

In the Iraqi city of Basra, extremists who captured the British journalist threaten to execute it if the coalition troops do not stop the offensive in the Angajaf within a day. The journalist - an employee of the newspaper "Sandy Telegraph" - was stolen from the hotel. According to reports, his leg was shot to deprive him of the opportunity to resist.

The program is conducted by Olga Pispanen. The owner of the store for left -handed Igor Kuznetsov takes part. Olga Pispanen: The current theme of our conversation is left -handed, because today is the World Lychy's Day. In our studio, the owner of a store for left -handed Igor Kuznetsov. Since childhood, I remember how the teacher beat a boy who wrote with his left hand. It was very difficult for him to write the right, but nevertheless he was forced all the same: take the pen to the right hand.

Viktor Rezunkov: The Russian government of one of the main macrieces calls the improvement of the quality of life of the population. And at the same time, it pushes the adoption of such an unpopular law on the abolition of benefits. President Vladimir Putin is satisfied with the adoption of the law. And journalists and political scientists ask questions: where is the country? Is there a state ideology? Why is power corrupt through?

In South Ossetia, the motorcade of the Prime Minister of Georgia Zurab, RIA Novosti, was fired. Zhenya made a trip to the Tskhinvalsky region when, near the village of Eredvi, fire from small arms and mortars was opened along his motorcade. The Prime Minister was not injured, he was evacuated from the scene. In the police of the Shida Kartli region, the responsibility for shelling was assigned to Ossetian armed groups.

In the Iraqi city of An-Snajaf today relatively calmly-American troops temporarily suspended the operation against the detachments of the radical leader of the Shiites of the Moktada al-Sadra. The Iraqi authorities are negotiating to stop bloodshed. The many thousands of manifestation of the supporters of the AS-Sadra took place in Baghdad after it became known about his wound during the operation of American troops. Iraqi authorities refute information about the wound of the Shiite leader.

In China, a typhoon fell on the southeastern province of Zhejiang - the most powerful over the past seven years. Over 60 people were killed, wounded - about two thousand. More than four hundred thousand inhabitants are evacuated from the natural disaster zone.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Yekaterinburg takes part Daria Zegomyslova. Andrei Sharry: The 100th anniversary of the heir to the royal family Alexei Romanov turned 100. In Yekaterinburg, the rare archival photos and copies of the drawings of Tsarevich are specifically presented to this date. The first visitors to the exhibition have conflicting impressions.

The consumer loans market in Russia today in Russia begin to assemble another foreign car, the Dutch company Heineken and leading beer manufacturers in Russia. Review of publications of the British weekly "Economist" Sergey Seninsky: The release opens, as usual, a panorama of economic news and events of recent days - one week of the year ... One week of the year Olga Pispanen: The Central Bank of Russia withdrew the license from the commercial banks Dialog-Optim and Paveletsky.

Members of the mixed control commission (SCC) to resolve the Georgian-Ossetian conflict are trying to achieve normalization of a sharply aggravated situation in South Ossetia. On Thursday, in the Tskhinvili area, three Georgian troops were killed in shootouts. The South Ossetian authorities reported 17 wounded for their part. Georgian Foreign Minister Salome Zurabishvili said that Tbilisi was insisting at Russian-Georgian negotiations at a high level.

Leading Sergey Seninsky Review of publications of the British weekly "Economist" Sergey Seninsky: The release opens, as usual, a panorama of economic news and events of recent days - one week of the year ... One week of the year Olga Pispanen: The Central Bank of Russia withdrew the license from the commercial banks Dialog-Optim and Paveletsky. The temporary administration began to work in them.

The Georgian parliament at an emergency adopted a statement, in which he demanded to suspend the mandate of Russian peacekeeping forces in the Zino-Ossetian conflict zone. As emphasized in the resolution, Russia "presents not a peacekeeper and intermediary, but one of the parties to the conflict." Today, the mixed control commission for resolving the conflict resumed work, in the zone of which shootings do not stop.

In Baghdad and several more cities of Iraq, radical Shiites held mass demonstrations in support of their leader of the Moktada al-Sadra. In the suburbs of Baghdad Sadr City, clashes of American troops with Shiite rebels continue. In the AN -Udzhafe - Lockery. Moktada al-Sadr put forward the conditions under which the rebels are ready to leave the city simultaneously with the forces of the coalition and government forces.

The American and Iraqi government troops blocked the cemetery and the mosques in the Iraqi city of A al-Sadzhaf, where they are opposed by radical Shiites detachments. The Minister of Defense of Iraq Khazem al-Shalaan said that the offensive will continue until the rebels are defeated or left the city. The military, however, are not included in the Shiite shrines of the Angajaf, where the rebels were barricaded.

The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. The Radio Liberty correspondent Gagik Karapetyan takes part. Andrey Sharogradsky: The next summer Olympic Games open in Athens. In the capital of Greece, our special correspondent, columnist of Radio Liberty Gagik Karapetyan began to work. Gagik, first of all, would be interesting to find out if you have already encountered security measures that were accepted at the games, and on which such large funds were spent.