[Radio Liberty: Programs: History and Modernity: Documents of the past] [06-01-05] Presenter Mikhail Sokolov Report from a naked island. Prisoner of Titovsky concentration camps Vladimir Poplavsky Mikhail Sokolov: Vladimir Poplavsky, a former translator from the Balkan languages of the Radio Committee and the APN, now lives in a snowy village in the Kaluga region surrounded by a dozen dogs. But a little more than half a century ago, in a convoy column, he landed from the ship to a naked island.

The head of the Iraqi Security Service believes that now in the country, under the leadership of the figures of the former Iraqi regime, from 20 to 30 thousand extremists, the figures of the former Iraqi regime. General Mohammed Abdullah al-Shahwani said this in an interview with the Panarab newspaper Ashark Al-Avsat. In his opinion, extremists are well organized and, because of their attacks, some voters will not be able to participate in the upcoming elections at the end of January.

Jakarta hosts an international conference to assist the countries of South Asia who suffered from a natural disaster. Indonesia President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said, opening the summit that overcoming the consequences of an unprecedented disaster will require unprecedented efforts. The earthquake and tsunami took away lives, according to preliminary data, are 150 thousand people.

The Supreme Court of Ukraine today considers the complaint of presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych about the actions of the Central Election Commission, who refused to invalidate the results of the vote on December 26. Yanukovych declares massive violations and requires cancel the results in all 225 constituencies. International observers, meanwhile, have not revealed serious violations of the voting procedure. According to preliminary data, the opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko won.

The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. The program is attended by Radio Liberty correspondents Kirill Kobrin and Vladimir Abarinov. Andrei Sharogradsky: In the capital of Indonesia - Jakarta - an emergency summit was held, at which urgent measures of assistance to the regions of South Asia, who suffered from natural disaster, were discussed. Kirill Kobrin: the conference was opened by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the president of Indonesia - the country most affected by the tsunami.

In the South African Republic, at the age of 54, the son of the ex-president of the country Nelson Mandela died from AIDS. Nobel Prize Laureate Nelson Mandela convened in this regard a press conference. For a long time he headed the AIDS combat campaign on the African continent, where more than 25 million people are infected. At the same time, the authorities of the African states prefer not to give publicity the true scale of the epidemic.

In Jakarta, an emergency summit was held on the problems of South Asia, which suffered from a natural disaster. The world community allocates about four billion dollars to the region. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan emphasized that the countries of South Asia are already needed by a billion - of the promised four. Japan in response promised to provide a quarter billion by March.

[Radio Liberty: Programs: Russia: From a Christian point of view] Leading Yakov Krotov "House of Maria" Yakov Krotov: Today, we are guessed by the director of the House of Maria, Sergey Borisovich Bobrovsky, Catholic, and employees of the Caritas charitable organization Elena Vyacheslavovna and Marina Feliksovna Perminova. Charity is wide. I already mentioned, our guest is the director of the House of Maria.

In Iraq, extremists killed 18 young Iraqis, who received work at the American base in the city of Mosul. Their bodies were found on Wednesday near the city. The dead (the Muslims -Shiits - from 14 to 18 years old) went from Baghdad to Mosul in two minibuses. Extremists stopped cars, brought everyone to the field and shot.

The Russian Embassy in Bangkok today is known about 772 Russians who were in Thailand during a natural disaster and were not injured. According to the operational headquarters of the Russian Foreign Ministry, over the past day it made itself felt about 21 more people. They are alive and healthy. The list of Russians, whose location has not yet been established, has been reduced to seven. The death of two citizens of Russia is officially confirmed.

President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma dismissed the government. According to Kuchma’s press service, this happened due to the resignation of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. The acting head of government was appointed Deputy Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov. The ministers are instructed to fulfill duties before the work of the new office.

In the capital of Jordan, Amman is taking place a meeting of foreign ministers of countries bordering Iraq. Jordan, Egypt, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia called on the Sunnis in Iraq to take part in the general elections scheduled for January 30. Earlier, Iraqi Sunnis announced their intention to boycott the elections. Speaking in Amman, the representative of the Jordanian Foreign Ministry said that all countries should refrain from attempts to influence the situation in Iraq.

Over the past four days, more than 50 people sought medical help in the Nizhny Novgorod district of Nizhny Novgorod after skating from the king-Gora on Minin Square. Many of the victims have fractures of limbs, ribs and clavicles.

Viktor Yushchenko, according to preliminary data, who won the presidential election in Ukraine and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili signed a Carpathian declaration in the West Ukrainian city.

Participants in the emergency summit in Indonesia called for the creation of a tsunami warning system in the Indian Ocean, similar to the one that acts in the Pacific region. Speaking at the summit, the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said that the number of victims of the spontaneous disaster will never be established for sure, but, apparently, will exceed 150 thousand.