Alexander Lukashenko did not rule out that criminal prosecution may be launched against opposition candidates About five hundred supporters of the Belarusian opposition spent last night in Oktyabrskaya Square in Minsk, breaking tents there. Oppositionists not only accuse the authorities of harnessing the results of voting, but generally consider the participation of Alexander Lukashenko in the elections illegitimate.

The rebels in Iraq attacked the police station, killing at least 18 people. The attack was committed in the city of El Mukdady north of Baghdad. The rebels managed to free more than 30 prisoners contained in the site. Police and guards showed fierce resistance attackers, killing ten. On Tuesday, in the vicinity of Baghdad, an American unmanned reconnaissance aircraft fell at the Blades Air Force base. The reasons for the crash are clarified.

Mikhail Sokolov: Together with me in the Moscow Studio, Radio Liberty is the director of the Institute of Globalization Problems, political scientist and publicist Boris Kagarlitsky and President of the Russian Financial Corporation, Professor and former Minister of Economy of Russia Andrei Nechaev. We are talking about the fate of liberal reforms in Russia. I spent two days at the conference that took place in Moscow.

The program is conducted by Alexander GOSTOV. The Radio Liberty correspondent Oleg Kusov takes part. Alexander GOSTEV : In Novaya Gazeta, photographs of a person are published, whom the authors call the materials "someone similar to Kadyrov." In the photographs, you can see the beaten Russian troops, the scene of human abduction, as well as the shots of the obscene behavior of this person in the bath.

At the University of Texas, an artificial muscle is developed in Dallas, working on the effect of form memory in some materials. The wire made of a titanium alloy is covered with a platinum catalyst. If you blow it with pairs A methanol, hydrogen and oxygen, these substances actively react with each other on the surface of the catalyst. The released heat warms up the titanic wire, which is reduced. When cooling, the metal muscle relaxes and returns to the original form.

The victim connects an attack with his social activities. Leader of the United Civil Front Harry Kasparov In Moscow, an attack on Marina Litvinovich, the editor -in -chief of the site "Pravda Beslan", assistant leader of the United Civil Front Harry Kasparova, was attacked. Litvinovich is sure that this is not street hooliganism and not an attempt to rob, she already had to hear threats addressed to her.

Italian material scholars have developed a methodology for checking the authenticity of ancient sculptures and other artifacts without damage. The method is based on observation of the scattering of x -rays on crystals inside the material. The method also allows you to distinguish between the technologies used in the manufacture of objects. Traditional methods for checking authenticity require the capture of materials.

The first supplies of Russian gas to China can begin for five years - with deposits in Western and Eastern Siberia. For its transportation, Russia will build two gas pipelines at its own expense, said the head of Gazprom Alexei Miller. According to plans, the volume of future supplies to China will be up to 80 billion cubic meters per year - this is more than 10% of all gas production in Russia today.

Two deserters who killed three people were detained in Samara. According to Radio Liberty, on Saturday, the soldiers arbitrarily left the military unit and went for a walk around the city. They met two men and a woman who offered them to drink together. Later, a quarrel arose between them, as a result of which the military shot all three.

On Tuesday, the second parties of the semifinals took place at the World Chess Championship in Yekaterinburg. After drawing in the first parties on Monday, the Russian chess player Alisa Galyamova and KSU Yuhua from China beat Victoria Chmilita from Lithuania and Russian Svetlana Matveeva, respectively. In the final, rivals will play four parties, the first of which will be held on Thursday.

The Bulgarian government announced that he would sell 100% of the shares of power plant in Varna, one of the largest in the country, the Czech State Energy Company CEZ for 206 million euros. This is almost half the amount proposed by the RAO UES of Russia. Last spring, the Russian company won the competition for the purchase of a Bulgarian power plant, but at the beginning of the current, after additional negotiations with the Government of Bulgaria, refused this deal.

In Minsk, ambassadors of a number of European countries arrived at the rally of the Belarusian opposition. According to the correspondent of the RS, on the Oktyabrskaya Square there are now the diplomatic representatives of 11 countries. Among them are ambassadors of Great Britain, Germany, France, Latvia and the Czech Republic. According to the diplomats, they came to personally understand what is happening, since they could not get reliable information from official Belarusian sources.

Activists of the Polish public oralization “Union for Democracy in Belarus” say they will be in the tent camp at the Belarusian embassy in Warsaw until the opposition will protest in Minsk, Radio Liberty correspondent Alexei Dzikovitsky. The tent near the Belarusian embassy in the Polish capital is already the eighth day. In it, despite the frost, members of the Union for Democracy in Belarus are on duty around the clock. “We feel good because we support the right business.

The Belarusian opposition calls not to recognize the results of the official elections and stand on the square to the end arrested the accounts of the public organization "Open Russia" Marina Litvinovich associates an attack on it with the investigation of terrorist attacks in Beslan and "Nord-Ost" in the case of the seizure of the school in Beslan, employees of the police department of the Right-Bank district appear

The program is conducted by Arslan Saidov. The Radio Liberty correspondent Igor Karney takes part. Arslan Saidov: In the center of Minsk, the protest of the Belarusian opposition continues, who believes that the results of the presidential election were tucked. On the direct broadcast line from the scene, Radio Liberty correspondent Igor Karney. Igor, good afternoon. Please tell me what happens in the square at these minutes?