The Pope Benedict XYI and the American actor John Voit together watched the new television mini-series, in which Voit plays Pope John Paul II. The film, which lasts four hours, was demonstrated in the Great Hall of the Vatican, containing an audience of several thousand people. Some spectators were moved to tears. The film recreates in detail the events that led to the fall of the Berlin wall and the further life of John Paul II up to the death of this year.

In Moscow, the Prime Minister of Chechnya Sergey Abramov was accidentally on the Rublevo-Uspensky Highway. According to the NTV television company, Abramov was hospitalized in serious condition and is now in intensive care. He has already been done by kidney and liver operations. The premiere car collided with Kamaz. According to preliminary data, the truck driver is to blame for the accident.

The program is conducted by Tatyana Kanakhina. The program is attended by Dmitry Utkin, the creator and director of the South Yekaterinburg hockey clubs, Ele, Forward, and Leonid Rapoport, Director of the Institute of Physical Culture, Social Service and Tourism of the UPI, deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Council.

In the South Korean city of Pusan, a summit of the member countries of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation opened. Within two days, the leaders of the 21st state will discuss issues of free trade, the fight against bird flu and counteracting terrorism. Before the opening of the summit in Pusan, a meeting of the presidents of the United States and Russia - George Bush and Vladimir Putin took place.

In Moscow, a meeting of the Presidium of the President of Russia on the implementation of priority national projects was held. First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that in order to increase the standard of living of Russians, four special projects will be developed - on healthcare, education, affordable housing and agriculture. For these purposes, it is planned to allocate over 160 billion rubles from the budget.

In Uzbekistan, Minister of Defense Kadyr Gulyamov was removed from his post. The reasons for the resignation are not reported. Ruslan Mirzaev, who had previously held the post of secretary of the National Security Council, was appointed in his place.

Alexander Ilichevsky The Publishing House "Hummingbird" published the book "Choosing its History." It was written by three historians: I. Karatsuba, I. Kurukin and N. Sokolov. The book is compiled from historical essays telling about the turning points of Russian history, about those episodes when the story, as it were, hesitated, nevertheless followed the path along which it went. Historians tried to show that everything could be completely different.

Russia makes a bail half a million dollars for the Russian citizen Vladimir Kuznetsov arrested in the United States. This was reported by the press secretary of the Russian representative office at the UN Maria Zakharova. Kuznetsov held the post of chairman of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budget issues.

According to the head of the press service of the President and the Government of the Chechen Republic, Abdul-Kahir Israelov, at 12 o’clock in the afternoon on Friday the Government of the Chechen government in Grozny was planned to hold an expanded meeting of the government of the Republic with the participation of the plenipotentiary of the President of Russia in the Southern Federal District Dmitry Kozak.

The program is conducted by Tatyana Valovich. The general director of the Red Lake resort Viktor Timakov and the Radio Lake correspondent in St. Petersburg Tatyana Voltskaya take part. Tatyana Valovich: Astronomical winter is approaching, and lovers of winter sports are already preparing equipment. Meanwhile, the effective work of the largest ski resort of the Leningrad Region "Red Lake" can be broken due to the conflict of co-owners.

The program is conducted by Mikhail Frolov. A radio correspondent Freedom Mumin Shakirov takes part. Mikhail Frolov: In the State Duma of the Russian Federation today, a meeting of the round table on the topic "Economic development and financing of the regions of the Far North and the areas equated to them" was held.

[Radio Liberty: Programs ... Personal business] [18-11-05] Network communication Author and leadingatyana Tkachuk Tatyana Tkachuk: In what ways we communicate with each other is really our personal business, so more than one broadcast was devoted to this intimate, pleasant and diverse side of our life. However, today we will talk about communication very peculiar - communication via the Internet, and mainly about communicating with people of strangers.

In the Vedensky district of Chechnya - near the village of Elistani - army intelligence discovered a detachment of Mujahideen, who was moving in the direction of the Vedeno district center. Additional units and armored vehicles were sent here. Two Mujahideen died in the battle, three troops were injured, the Radio Liberty correspondent reports. Near the settlement of the Selmentazen District, the special forces reconnaissance group killed three militants.

The Russian State Duma is considering today in the third reading a draft budget for 2006. The bill provides for income at the level of five trillions of 50 billion rubles, expenses-about four trillions of 270-billion. The volume of the stabilization fund by the end of the year, as predicted, will reach two trillions of 240 a billion rubles.

The program is conducted by Kirill Kobrin. A radio correspondent Freedom Mumin Shakirov takes part. Kirill Kobrin: The State Duma accepted the budget for 2006 in the third reading. The surplus is planned in the amount of 25 billion US dollars. The deputies supported the initiative of representatives of the United Russia faction on the allocation of funds to maintain Russian organizations abroad. The topic will continue our correspondent Mumin Shakirov.