The program is conducted by Kirill Kobrin. Radio Liberty Oleg Kusov and Mikhail Salenkov take part. Kirill Kobrin: At today's meeting of the State Duma of Russia, Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin admitted that the provision of a number of beneficiaries worsened during the implementation of the law on monetization of benefits.

The Moldovan authorities on Thursday forbade the ambassadors of Russia and Ukraine Nikolai Ryabov and Peter Chalom - participants in negotiations to resolve the Transnistrian conflict to the Transnistria. The diplomats were stopped at the entrance to the city of Bender Representatives of the Moldavian police. Police officers explained their actions by the Moldova Foreign Ministry of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Moldova on a visit to Transnistria by foreign diplomats.

Representatives of the Yukos oil concern cannot now achieve information about whether Gazprom’s participation in the purchase of Yuganskneftegaz, the basic oil industry enterprise Yukos was legitimate. Such a decision was made by the federal judge Clark in the American city of Houston (Texas). The judge decided that the court should concentrate exclusively on the decision of whether it has a legal legal The right to consider the lawsuit of the Yukos.

The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. Radio Liberty correspondents Natalya Golitsyna, Mumin Shakirov take part. Andrey Sharogradsky: Tonight on the television "BBC" the premiere of a documentary called Suin is investigating.

In Melbourne, the open championship of Australia in tennis continues. Today, six Russians successfully performed: Maria Sharapova won over the Chinese woman on Lee, Svetlana Kuznetsova won the Argentinea Marianna Dias-Oliva, Nadezhda Petrova-Magdalena Maleeva from Bulgaria, Vera Dushevina defeated the German Anna Lena Grenefeld, Evgenia Linetskaya defeated American Emmy Emmy Milling mill.

The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. The correspondent of Radio Freedom Lyubov Chizhova takes part. Andrei Sharogradsky: Human rights activists who investigated the facts of mass beaten by police in the Bashkir city of Blagoveshchensk in mid -December last year are going to send the materials received to the parliamentary assembly of the European Council. They believe that the situation in Blagoveshchensk should take control of international legal institutions.

The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. The correspondent of Radio Liberty in Kyiv Vladimir Ivakhnenko is involved. Andrei Sharogradsky: Inauguration of the newly elected President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko will be held on Sunday, January 23. This was announced by the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Volodymyr Litvin.

President of North Ossetia Alexander Dzasokhov met today early in the morning with the residents of Beslan, who overwhelmed the federal highway "Caucasus". Dzasokhov promised that he would seek the publication of the materials of the preliminary investigation of the attack in Beslan, which is conducted by the Parliamentary Commission. The protesters did not convince this. According to them, they will not be dispersed until their requirements are met. The rally lasts the second day.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. Radio Radio Freedom Jan Runov, Vladimir Abarinov take part. Andrei Shary: In Washington, on Thursday, the inauguration of US President George Bush, who was chosen in November for a second term, takes place on Thursday. Bush is again in the oath, he appears with the presentation of his program, and the solemn procession follows from the Capitol to the White House. Spectators are at least half a million people.

The newly elected President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko will visit Moscow on Monday, January 24th, the day after the inauguration in Kyiv. This information was confirmed today in the administration of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Parliament of Kyrgyzstan made amendments to the constituency, which allow diplomats and civil servants, sent abroad, to participate in the elections. The initiator of the amendments, deputy Azimbek Beknazarov explained that when signing the law by the President of the Republic, four former Kyrgyz diplomats, who recently were refused to register with candidates, will be able to continue the struggle for a place in parliament.

Nine British soldiers and several Iraqis were injured as a result of an attack near the British military base west of the city of Basra in the south of Iraq. The group of Abu Musab Az-Zarkaui said that the explosion made by a suicide bomber was a response to the bullying of the British soldiers over the Iraqi prisoners. Five wounded military personnel are hospitalized. The number of affected civilians is not reported.

Residents of the North Ossetian city of Beslan, who blocked the Caucasus highway yesterday morning, continue the blockade of this federal road tonight. They demand the resignation of the President of the Republic of Alexander Dzasokhov and that the head of the parliamentary commission to investigate the Beslan tragedy, Alexander Torshin, no longer came to the city.

The organization "International Amnesty" is preoccupied with a call for interrogation in Nizhny Novgorod, the head of the Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship, Stanislav Dmitrievsky. Dmitrievsky was questioned in the FSB department of the region as a witness in the criminal case related to the publication of the appeals of Chechen leaders Aslan Maskhadov and Ahmed Zakayev in the human rights newspaper published by the Company.

In the Japanese city of Kobe, a World Conference is being held to reduce damage from disasters. The University of United Nations presented a report under the name "Underground spaces: hidden vulnerability of megalopolises" at this conference. The report notes that in large cities, significant underground volumes are created, which are often not supplied with the necessary safety systems in case of natural disasters.