Vladimir Kara-Murza: Russia insists on extradition of the ex-head of the Minatoma Evgeny Adamov not in the USA, but to his homeland. This was officially announced in the Mid report after a meeting in Moscow by a delegation of the US Department of Justice with representatives of the Prosecutor General. We discuss the topic with Sergey Mitrokhin, deputy chairman of the Yabloko party, one of the active opponents of the legislation on the import of foreign nuclear waste into Russia.

Iran threatens to close the admission to their nuclear facilities for UN inspectors. Iranian Foreign Minister Mancher Mottaki said on Friday in a television interview that such a decision can be made if the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at a meeting in November will not change its previously adopted resolution on Iran. The resolution involves the transfer of the Iranian "nuclear dossier" to the UN Security Council, which can impose sanctions against Tehran.

The ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavel Lazarenko, who is under trial in the United States, intends to return to his homeland and participate in the parliamentary elections in the spring of next year. Lazarenko said this yesterday in an interview with ICTV. The verdict in the case of a former prime minister accused of laundering money and other financial fraud should be issued by the American court on December 2.

In Iraq, American troops completed a 7-day operation against the rebels. According to the command, 50 militants were killed, of which about 30 were killed during the operation near the Syrian border. On Friday, 6 naval infantrymen of the United States died in battles. A week later in Iraq, a referendum should be held on the project of the new Constitution of the country.

In the village of Elistanzhi, the Vedensky district of Chechnya, a scout of the army special forces was wounded by the explosion of the unidentified device. In the same area, another intelligence officer was injured due to an uncertain handling of a grenade. In the village of Tolstoy-Yurt, the Silkovsky district, during the detention, exerted armed resistance and Mujahidean was killed.

In Azerbaijan, the press service of the Opposition Democratic Party, said that the night before, three activists of the organization were arrested and taken away in an unknown direction, reports from Baku Yalchin Tairoglu. Party representatives have not yet been able to get any information about the arrested. A day earlier, two more activists of this party were detained, one of whom was sentenced to 5 days in prison, and the other was released after a warning he had done.

According to the latest data, more than a thousand people became victims of the catastrophic earthquake in South Asia. The largest number of those who died and suffered in the north-west of Pakistan, where the epicenter of earthquakes by force seven and six tenths of the point on the Richter scale, and in Kashmir was located. Several villages have been destroyed in rural areas. The city of Muzaffarabad was badly damaged in the Pakistani part of Kashmir.

The number of victims of a catastrophic earthquake in South Asia continues to grow. According to the Pakistan authorities, in the north of the country, where the epicenter of earthquakes was seven and six tenths of the point on the Richter scale, more than 500 people were killed. Thousands were injured. Many remain under the rubble. Several villages have been destroyed in rural areas. The city of Muzaffarabad was badly damaged in the Pakistani part of Kashmir.

Romania authorities report three new cases of "bird flu". According to the chief veterinarian, sick birds were found in the Danube Delta - the place of stopping a large number of migratory birds from Russia, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. The day before, the first three cases of infection with bird flu in poultry were recorded in this area. The Romanian authorities began the destruction of hundreds of poultry heads to prevent the spread of the virus.

The Istanbul court found the journalist Grant Dinka guilty of insulting the Turkish nation and sentenced to imprisonment for a term of eight months, Elena Solntseva reports from Istanbul. Grant Dink is the editor of the only bilingual Armenian-Turkish newspaper Agos in Turkey. In his publications and performances, he repeatedly spoke about the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey at the beginning of the last century.

[Radio Liberty: Programs: Human Rights] [08-10-05] Leading Christina Gorelik On October 8, Andrei Sinyavsky would have turned 80 years old. Is the child labor good or bad? Kristina Gorelik: On October 8 this year, Andrei Sinyavsky would have turned 80 years old. Philologist, researcher at the Institute of World Literature in Moscow, then Professor Sorbonne in Paris and, above all, the writer - Sinyavsky managed to turn his life history.

Over 150 people became victims of earthquakes in the north of Pakistan and in a number of areas of Afghanistan and India. According to unconfirmed reports, the number of victims reached 250. Hundreds of people are injured. Local authorities believe that the number of dead can increase sharply. According to the Pakistani military, there will be at least a thousand of them.

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A strong earthquake occurred in the north of Pakistan and in a number of areas of Afghanistan and India. The first data on the dead and wounded. There is destruction. The underground shocks reached the force of 7 and 6 tenths of the point on the Richter scale. The epicenter was located one hundred kilometers north of Islamabad. In the capital itself, two apartment buildings were destroyed. Dozens of people were under the rubble. In the city of Ravalpindi, a women's school collapsed.

Three Hamas members, abducted a day earlier, were released in Bethlehem on Friday night and sound, reports from Tel Aviv Rovshan Huseyn. The responsibility for their abduction was taken by the previously unknown Palestinian group "Brigade of Al-Faruk Omar ibn al-Khattaba." The Brigads were abducted by Basem UBeida (leader Hamas in Hebron), Hassan Safi (leader Hamas in Bethlehem) and Riyad Abd al-Karim Ar-Raed (leader Hamas in Tulkarma).