Israel - along with the entire international community - sharply reacted to the next statement of President Iran Mahmud Akhmadjad to the Israeli state. Akhmadinjad, expressing doubt about the Holocaust fact, said that Israel should be in Europe in general. As the head of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sylvan Shalom emphasized, it cannot be allowed that Tehran, the leading work to enrich uranium, has mastered nuclear weapons.

Ivan Starikov, a well -known politician of the right -wing camp who went to the Democratic Party, said that his party in the 2007 elections could apply for 20-25 % of the vote. Starikov said about this, speaking live radio "Freedom". According to the politician, in order to achieve such a result, “it is necessary to abandon dogmatism, sterile, refined liberalism, on the one hand.

Russia has joined the international community that sharply condemned the next statement of President Iran Mahmud Akhmadjad about Israel. Akhmadinjad, expressing doubt about the Holocaust fact, said that Israel should be in Europe in general. The Russian Foreign Ministry called the statement unacceptable. In Austria and Germany, Iran’s ambassadors are called to the Foreign Ministry for explanation.

An extremist group, calling itself the "Islamic Army of Iraq", announced the murder of a hostage-American hostage. An American electrical engineer was kidnapped the other day. Extremists demanded that in exchange for his life - to free all prisoners from Iraqi prison. Today in Baghdad, the suicide bomber blew himself up on the bus - at least 30 people died, many wounded.

In St. Petersburg, the leader of the extremist group "Schulz-88" Dmitry Bobrov was sentenced to 6 years in prison. The court found Bobrov guilty of extremist activity and inciting racial and national hatred. Three members of the group are sentenced to conditional terms, one is justified.

The international community sharply condemned the next statement of President Iran regarding Israel. This time, Mahmud Ahmadinjad said that Israel should be in Europe. According to him, European countries, which feel responsible for the death of millions of Jews during the Second World War, such as Germany and Austria, should allocate a place for the Jewish state.

The program is conducted by Tatyana Kanakhina. Vladimir Sharkov, chief specialist of the Ural Directorate of the Gosavianadzor, takes part in the program. Tatyana Kanakhina: In Yekaterinburg, the implementation of the Aviataxi project began. Probably, already next year, residents and guests of the city will be able to move on business and with excursions on helicopters. The mayor's office promised the Avtaxists to help organize the runways.

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court sentenced the case of the death of children in the hospital of the city of Krasnoturinsk. The former chief physician of the maternity hospital Marat Salakhov was sentenced to two years in prison - for negligence. He is also forbidden to occupy the position of chief physician within a year after serving a sentence. Three other defendants -doctors were found guilty of violating sanitary standards and received conditional punishment - from one and a half to two years.

In the Irkutsk region, more than seven thousand residents of the city of Slyudyanka are left without heat for the second day - due to the accident on the heating main. Classes in schools are canceled. Repair and restoration work is complicated by the fact that the pipe break occurred under the building of the central boiler room. The townspeople had to spend the night without heating (at temperatures on the street - minus 20).

The Russian ship "Terna", detained off the coast of North Korea, arrived this morning to proceed with the Kimchhek port - as the DPRK authorities demanded. On board the ship are armed North Korean border guards. It is allowed to meet the Russian General Consul in Chondzhin Evgeny Valkovich with the crew of Terney. On Monday night, a motor ship, which was walking with a load of buses from the South Korean port of Pusan to Vladivostok, got into a storm.

The Central Election Commission of Russia appointed on March 12 next year the missions to the State Duma in two single -mandate districts - Medvedkovsky in Moscow and Bryansk. The deputy mandates were freed after the appointment of George Boos and Nikolai Denin - the governors of the Kaliningrad and Bryansk regions. Today, the CEC approved the victory of the candidates from United Russia Stanislav Govorukhin and Sergey Shavrin at the slats to the State Duma, held on December 4th.

At the airport of the American city of Chicago, a passenger plane, landing in complex weather conditions, moved off the runway and, rammed the fence, ended up on the street. The child died and eight people were injured - they were in the cars that the liner faced. Boeing-737 made a flight from Baltimore. About a hundred people were on board. Two - received minor injuries.

Andrei Sharry: The man of the day Radio Liberty December 8 is the Polish singer Maryl Rodovich, who celebrates her sixty -eater anniversary. She was born in 1945 in the city of Green Gura. I received fame in Poland and beyond its borders in the late sixties of the victory at several music festivals. I recorded about 500 songs, released more solo 25 albums, among them one even in Russian, most of which diverged with record circulations.

The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. Anna Kolchina, a Radio Liberty correspondent. Andrei Sharogradsky: Exactly 30 years ago on December 9, 1975, a trial of human rights activist Sergei Kovalev began in Vilnius. Editing, manufacturing, distribution of the print publication of the Chronicle of current events were declared anti -Soviet activities. Kovalev was sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment and 3 years of exile.

Vladimir Kara-Murza: Today, the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Russia, Valery Zorkin, spoke in favor of speeding up the consideration of an amendment to the Criminal Code establishing a type of punishment such as confiscation of property acquired by criminal means. We are discussing this initiative with State Duma deputy Viktor Pokhmelkin, a professional lawyer.