It will take about three months to determine the amount necessary to restore all infrastructures of the South Asian region, which suffered from a natural disaster on December 26. This was stated by World Bank President James Wolfenson, who visited Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand, countries to which the elements caused the greatest damage. According to Wulfenson, the bank will allocate at least $ 250 million to the region.

[Radio Liberty: Programs: Media] [13-01-05] Go or not go to Moscow to the presidents of the Baltic countries? Russian listeners join the "neighbor" discussion Leading Rykovtsev Elena Rykovtseva: In August last year, President Putin sent invitations to come to Moscow at the occasion on the occasion of the Victory anniversary to the leaders of 54 countries.

Germany President Horst Köhler signed a law that allows aircraft to knock down by extremists by order of the federal government. At the same time, the president of the country expressed serious doubts about the new law and called on the Constitutional Court to carefully consider it

US President George Bush said that although the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq did not give results, the war against the dangerous regime of Saddam Hussein was necessary. This is stated in excerpts from an interview with the president, which will be shown one of the leading American television companies. Bush noted that many experts in a number of countries of the world believed that Baghdad had such weapons.

Nadezhda Pertseva: On the night of the thirteenth to the fourteenth of January, the new year in Russia is celebrated in the old style. Sociologists say that in recent years there are fewer Russians celebrate this holiday. Mikhail Salenkov: Until 1917, the main winter holiday in Russia was Christmas, the New Year was almost not celebrated. Together with the change of power in the country, a calendar was replaced by a calendar - from Julian to Gregorian, and the S?

Foreign Minister of Japan Nobutak Machimura arrives on a visit to Moscow. On the eve of the trip, the minister said that he did not expect a breakthrough on the issue of four islands of the Kuril ridge, which Japan claims. Machimura also noted that this problem is unlikely to be resolved during the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Tokyo scheduled for this year.

Russia and Iran will allocate $ 250 million to the completion of the construction of the Sangtudinaya hydroelectric power station in Tajikistan. The corresponding agreement was signed in Dushanbe by the Energy Ministers of Iran, Tajikistan and the head of the RAO UES Anatoly Chubais. In accordance with the agreement, Russia will finance the construction of the first hydroelectric complex, and Iran - the second.

Italian historians discovered in one of the premises of the Florentine monastery the Santissima Annunzian, the workshop of Leonardo da Vinci. The workshop was identified by a decorative fresco depicting two pigeons. In this monastery, Leonardo worked from 1500 to 1501 under the auspices of Pope Alexander VI. According to historian Roberto Maneskalka, this discovery can lead to a change in the dating of some works of the artist.

In the Evenki Autonomous Okrug, an An-2 passenger aircraft disappeared on Thursday, on board of which there were 8 passengers and 2 crew members. According to the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, the aircraft made a flight from the Vanavar village in Tura. The last time the pilots got in touch a few minutes before the alleged landing. A Mi-8 helicopter with rescuers was sent to search for the aircraft.

Russia is not negotiating with Syria on the supply of Iskander missile systems for it, the Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Ivanov said during a visit to Washington. At the same time, Ivanov emphasized that these missile systems do not fall under any export restrictions and obligations taken by Russia.

The international human rights organization Human Raits Uchch sharply condemned the practice of compulsory interrogations, used by the American military in relation to suspects in terrorism. The annual report of the organization emphasizes that such a practice seriously violates human rights. Human Raits Uchch also sharply condemned ethnic cleaning in the Sudanese province of Darfur.

[Radio Liberty: Programs: Russia: From a Christian point of view] Leading Yakov Krotov Human relationship in freedom and in prison Yakov Krotov: Today we have a Christian, a journalist Marina Lozinskaya, she is not so much present as a journalist and Christian, but as a person who, by the will of fate for a rather long time, is regularly in prison and, thus, knows the side of the lattice.

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The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. Correspondents of Radio Liberty Karen Agamirov, Vera Volodin, Nadezhda Gladesh take part. Andrei Sharogradsky: Today the next session of the State Duma of Russia has opened. Deputies refused to discuss how in practice the new law works on replacing benefits with monetary compensation. Says Karen Agamirov.

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