In the center of Moscow, a large fire was eliminated on the Rubtsovskaya embankment. Fire calculations managed to extinguish the fire, which covered an area of 3 thousand square meters. The building of the auto center completely burned down. Up to 30 fire crews took part in the extinguishing of fire.

The program is conducted by Dmitry Morozov. The Radio Liberty correspondent Irina Peters takes part. Dmitry Morozov: The book “Lukashenko. Political Biography”, written by the former ally of the President of Belarus, a political scientist, journalist Alexander Fedut, was published in Lithuania.

Especially for the site, Alexei Tsvetkov “Council and Consent” - this is the name in the US Constitution of the Senate, in accordance with which the upper house of the American Congress received the right to approve or reject the candidacy for higher administrative and judges proposed by the president. Sometimes this procedure turns into a pure formality - especially in cases where the party of the president belongs to the majority of the votes.

The consortium of small aerospace companies suggested that NASA consider sending astronauts into space on small spaceships separately from other payload. According to existing plans, a new manned research ship for flights to the moon will not be ready earlier than 2014. At the same time, the chartls should be written off in 2010. As a result, the United States can be left without manned spacecraft for several years.

On May 18, 1838, a fire broke out at night at the Nicholas Bar, heading from St. Petersburg to Lubeck. Among the 120 passengers were young Ivan Turgenev, the then wife of the poet Fedor Tyutchev and Prince Peter Vyazemsky. Turgenev recalled: “A dark red glow, like from burning stone coal, flashed there and him. The terrible turmoil began. The desperate sense of self -preservation covered all these human beings, including me the first.

The program is conducted by Svetlana Tolmacheva. The program is attended by Dmitry Golovin, head of the non -profit partnership “Committee -101”, and Angelica Gembar, Executive Director of the Tyumen Regional Branch of the Public Organization of Small and Medium Enterprises “Rossiya”. Svetlana Tolmacheva: Today in Yekaterinburg, the results of a survey of city entrepreneurs, which were conducted by employees of the Non-Profit Partnership “Committee-101”, will be announced in Yekaterinburg.

The Uzbek city of Andijan has arrived today a group of foreign journalists and diplomats. As a result of the mass riots, last week, according to some reports, over five hundred people died here. The night before, the President of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, said that there would be no international investigation into Andijan - according to him, the attack on the city was organized by international terrorists in Afghanistan.

Russia and Estonia have entered into an agreement on the state border. The signing of the document has been postponed for many years. The Russian Foreign Ministry said that under the agreement the border is fixed in its current form - that is, it takes place along the former administrative border between the RSFSR and the Estonian SSR. Estonia became the second of the Baltic countries that signed an agreement on the border with Russia. In 2003, Lithuania did this.

The fire in the center of Moscow on the Rubtsovskaya embankment is localized. Fire calculations managed to stop the spread of fire, which covered an area of 3 thousand square meters. As the Interfax informed with reference to the fire service, the building of the auto center and neighboring buildings were burning. Up to 30 fire crews participate in the extinguishing of fire.

The program is conducted by Arslan Saidov. A radio correspondent Freedom Mumin Shakirov takes part. Arslan Saidov: Russian human rights defenders accuse the Uzbek authorities of provoking the armed speech of citizens in the depressed regions of the republic. According to experts, international organizations should immediately take part in the investigation of the tragedy in Andijan. The correspondent of Radio Liberty Mumin Shakirov will continue the topic.

[Radio Liberty: "Time of Guests"] [18-05-05] In the St. Petersburg studio - Oleg Basilashvili Leading Mikhail Sokolov Viktor Rezunkov: Today, in the St. Petersburg studio of Radio Freedom, a People’s Artist of Russia, artist of the Russian State Academic Great Drama Theater named after Tovstonogov Oleg Basilashvili. Oleg Valeryanovich, I want to immediately thank you for finding in your hard schedule time to come to our studio.

Iraq and Iran expressed their readiness to establish relations after the war of the 1980s and post-war rivalry. Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Harrazi during a visit to Baghdad promised that his country would not intervene in a neighbor’s international policy and would not allow the Iranian territory to penetrate the Iranian territory to penetrate.

[Radio Liberty: Programs: Culture] [18-05-05] Memory of Max Jacob. Ballet Prolog for the Nutcracker. Russian European Nikolai Karamzin. British films about the war. Memorial plaque to General Krasnov Editor and presenter Ivan Tolstoy Let's start with the biography of Max Jacob, whose name today is remembered in France. From Paris Dmitry Savitsky.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. A radio correspondent of Radio Freedom Jan Runov takes part. Andrei Shary: The events in Uzbekistan put the American administration before a difficult choice - how to express their attitude to Karimov? From New York Radio correspondent, the word Jan Runov. Jan Runov: The Presidential Administration Bush is trying to balance his allied relations with Karimov.

In the city of Kiselevsk, the Kemerovo region at the mine there was an explosion of methane - according to preliminary data, four people received burns. As the correspondent of Radio Liberty reports, at the time of the disaster in the mine there were 132 miners. 126 workers were brought to the surface, the fate of two more - unknown.