Doctors of the Jerusalem clinic of Hadassa will begin to withdraw from the artificial comer-minister of Israel Ariel Sharon from the artificial comer. Only after that they will be able to evaluate the degree of brain damage after a heavy stroke transferred by the ball. The condition of the Sharon, which was done by several operations, remains difficult, but stable.

The German car concern "Volkswagen" intends to build a plant in Russia. According to the company's management, such an agreement was reached after several years of negotiations. The construction of the plant in the Moscow region will begin this year. In the next five years, up to 250 thousand Volkswagen cars will go from its conveyor annually. The company hopes to increase its share in the Russian automobile market from the current two to ten percent.

In the north-west of Iraq, the American military investigate the circumstances of the crash of a helicopter, which died 12 people. According to preliminary data, there were four crew members and eight passengers on board. One of the possible causes of the tragedy is adverse weather conditions. Last weekend in Iraq, another 5 American troops were killed. Three soldiers were killed in clashes with militants in El Falluge, two - in the heads of landmines.

In Grozny, in a shootout with military personnel, two Mujahideen from the detachment of the field commander Isa Munaev were killed. One militant managed to hide. Three contractile soldiers were hospitalized with wounds of varying severity, the Radio Liberty correspondent reports. Two landmines are neutralized on the Tolstoy-Yurt-Argun. The search is carried out by persons involved in the installation of explosive devices.

In the Jerusalem hospital, doctors bring to the Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon from an artificial coma. The director of the hospital said that the prime minister began to breathe on his own. Only after the completion of the withdrawal from a coma will doctors determine the degree of damage to the functions of the brain as a result of an extensive stroke that happened to the Prime Minister on Wednesday. Two operations were performed 77-year-old Sharon to stop the hemorrhage into the brain.

Mehmet Ali Agja, who attacked the life of the Pope John Paul the Second, is released from the Turkish prison, Elena Solntseva reports from Istanbul. Sentenced to life imprisonment for attempted pope John Pavel the Second Agja stayed for almost 20 years in an Italian prison. Then, as a Turkish citizen, he was transferred to the Turkish authorities.

American astronomers unprecedentedly precisely measured the size of the satellite of Pluto Haron. The data was collected on July 10, 2005 during Haron Covering a distant star. Observations were carried out immediately in four observatory in South America. As a result, by the time of the disappearance of the star, it was possible to determine that Haron has a diameter of 606 plus or minus 8 kilometers. It was also confirmed that it is practically deprived of the atmosphere.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai invited the leader of the Taliban Mulle Omar together to discuss the possibility of reconciliation. In an interview with the Associated Agency, Press Karzai called on all Afghans to participate in the life of the country. However, the hope that Mullah Omar wants to get out of the underground is not enough, - Karzai believes. Touching upon the problem of drugs, the Afghan leader noted that the drug business threatens the very existence of Afghanistan as a state.

The funeral instead of the holiday. The next victim of the bird flu virus, which struck Turkey, ends its earthly path. The chief sanitary doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko offers the Russians to refrain from traveling to Turkey due to the outbreak of bird flu. First of all, he warns of the danger of visiting the eastern province of Van, where the disease claimed the lives of several people. “Why is this worried about us? Firstly, the immediate vicinity of our borders.

The international group of archaeologists came to the conclusion that the hieroglyphs discovered by them in April 2005 during the excavations of a complex of pyramids in Guatemala are samples of the ancient Mayan writing. The age of inscriptions applied to stones is 2300 years. They were found in the same place as the oldest Mayan frescoes. 10 hieroglyphs look like signatures under the most ancient frescoes applied to the wall of the pyramid in San Bartolo.

In Saudi Arabia, more than two million Muslims are performed by Hajj - an annual pilgrimage. On Sunday - on the first day of Haja - the pilgrims went from the city of Mecca to another sacred city - a mine. On Monday, they will make a ritual ascent to Mount Arafat.

Georgia and Azerbaijan banned the import of poultry from Turkey to prevent the spread of "bird flu". In Tbilisi, all markets are checked. The city authorities, however, are not sure that the already sold eggs and meat of the bird passed a proper sanitary inspection. The European Union intends to prohibit the import of poultry products from six states bordering Turkey - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq and Syria.

The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. The Radio Liberty correspondent is attended by Rovshan Huseynov. Andrei Sharogradsky: the doctors of the Jerusalem clinic of Hadassa began to reduce the supply of anesthesia to Ariel Sharon in order to assess the degree of brain damage after a stroke, which was transferred by the Prime Minister of Israel.

[Radio Liberty: Programs: Media] [09-01-06] New Year's-child's holidays on the television screen Presenter Anna Kachkayeva Anna Kachkayeva: Well, here is the poster. And today we will summarize its first results. The year 2005 ended with the premiere of "Master and Margarita" on the Russia channel. The first event of the New Year's Eve of the coming 2006 was the dashing prime minister of "Day Watch" from the producers of the first.