The ruling party of FATH is the leading of the Palestinian Autonomy Parliament - the voter surveys testify to. Extremist group "Hamas"- in second place. The turnout of the voters was high - 3 hours before the closure of the plots, 58 percent of the voted were reported. The elections of the Palestinian Parliament were held for the first time in 10 years.

The turnout of the voters in the Palestinian Autonomy Parliament amounted to 73 percent, the authorities said. Judging by the surveys, the ruling party Fath (more than 42 percent) is the leader in the election. The extremist group "Hamas" is in second place (at least 34 percent). The first official results will be known no earlier than a few hours later.

The program is conducted by Nikita Tatar. The Radio Liberty correspondent Danila Halperovich takes part. Nikita Tatarsky: In Strasbourg, the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe continues. One of the main points of today's agenda is the consideration of a resolution on condemning totalitarian communist regimes. With details - Radio Liberty correspondent in Strasbourg Danila Halperovich.

In 2005, Russian airlines increased the volume of passenger transportation by 3.6 percent compared to the previous year - up to 35 million people, a representative of the country's Ministry of Transport said. The largest of them remains Aeroflot, which has transported 6.7 million passengers on internal and international flights. Meanwhile, this is about 2 percent less than a year earlier. The five largest Russian air carriers also have Siberia, Pulkovo, UTair, as well as Krasnoyarsk Airlines.

The program is conducted by Kirill Kobrin. The radio correspondent Freedom Karen Agamirov takes part. Kirill Kobrin: The State Duma of Russia adopted an appeal to the parliaments of European countries, where the practice of financing the special services of non -profit organizations is condemned. The State Duma statement is caused by a scandal around the intelligence activities of British diplomats in Moscow, at least, the FSB reports about this activity.

The commission of the Russian Emergencies Ministry recognized the actions of firefighters in the liquidation of fire in an office building in Vladivostok on January 16. As noted in the official conclusion, firefighters showed "decisiveness and coherence", which allowed to save 102 people. The media repeatedly reported - citing eyewitnesses - about unprofessionalism in the fight against this fire, the victims of which were nine people.

The program is conducted by Nikita Tatar. The Radio Liberty correspondent Maryana Torocheshnikov takes part . Nikita Tatarsky: From today, a new procedure for accounting for crimes has been introduced in Russia. Now a crime statement can be submitted to any law enforcement agency, and not just to the police department. In theory, this should contribute to improving the work of the investigating authorities and to terminate the practice of concealing crimes.

In the Moscow Oncology Center, located on the Kashirsky highway, there was a fire. The fire was assigned the third category of complexity on a five -point scale. Reinforced fire brigades were sent to the scene. There has not yet been received information about the victims. 20 fire bills take part in the extinguishing of the fire.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe condemned the crimes of communist regimes, especially noting that the organizers of these crimes were not devoted to the court - unlike Nazi criminals. The PACE resolution emphasizes that the stay in the power of communist regimes was accompanied and accompanied by massive violations of human rights. 99 PACE members voted for the adoption of the resolution, 42 against - 42.

Cruel frosts in Europe take more and more lives. In Ukraine, over the past day, 53 people died from the cold, in Poland - 14, in Romania - 3. In Turkey, where, due to the strongest snowfalls from the outside world, tens of thousands of settlements were cut off, 2 people became victims of frost.

At a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, a resolution on violations of human rights in Chechnya was adopted. Document - as the Radio Liberty correspondent reports - was approved along with the amendment on the recognition of the new Russian law on non -governmental organizations inappropriate standards of the Council of Europe.

According to the Federal Statistics Service, the volume of television production in Russia in 2005 increased by 45.1% compared to 2004. In Russia in 2005, 6.8 million TVs were produced, CNews reports .

The main topics of the issue: discussion of the Russian-British spy scandal in the State Duma, statements of the PACE session under the Russian Law on NGOs and violations of human rights in Chechnya, the beginning of the economic forum in Davos, the investigation in the case of the torture of military personnel in Chelyabinsk, a new procedure for taking into account crimes in Russia.

In the west of Iraq, a local television journalist was killed near the city of Ramadi. He fell under the cross shell when he was a report on a clash between the American military and rebels. In Baghdad, an attack on a popular Iraqi television journalist was committed. She received minor injuries when she jumped from the balcony of the second floor, fleeing the attackers. In addition, in the Iraqi capital, the police, under unknown circumstances, shot the Sunni clergyman.

American biologists from the Whitehead Institute have developed an environment in which adult hematopoietic stem cells are effectively propagated. In the experiments on mice, the initial number of stem cells was increased by 30 times . This is an order of magnitude surpasses the best previous achievements. If this experiment can be repeated with human cells, this will become a significant breakthrough in the treatment of a number of serious blood diseases.