Before the end of 2006, the European Union may begin preliminary negotiations on the transition to free trade regime with six Central America countries-Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama and Salvador. This was stated by the chairman of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroza following the results of the summit of the EU and Latin America, held in Vienna.

Do Russian legislation and law enforcement agencies protect representatives of sexual minorities? Is public morality protected by law? In the studio: Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee on Public Associations and Religious Organizations, Member of the Rodina faction Alexander Chuev, editor of the Fool Lex “magazine Money”, lawyer Maxim Chernigovsky, and the producer of the musical group “Blue Watch” Vyacheslav Varman.

Maryana Torocheshnikova: Do Russian legislation and law enforcement agencies defend representatives of sexual minorities? Is public morality protected by law? This is where we will try to figure out today's program with experts. On telephone communication with us, he is the deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Public Associations and Religious Organizations, a member of the Rodina faction Alexander Chuev.

The program is conducted by Oleg Vinokurov. The Radio Liberty correspondent Mikhail Salenkov takes part. Oleg Vinokurov: The dollar rate is reduced. For the first time in a long time, he was in Russia below 27 rubles. Experts call different reasons for such a fall. In an interview with radio correspondent, Liberty Mikhail Salenkov is analyzed by the senior economist of the Uralsib financial corporation Vladimir Tikhomirov.

After two years of imprisonment, the leader of the movement of Belarusian entrepreneurs Valery Levonovsky was released. In September 2004, the court of Grodno found him guilty of insulting the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. On Monday, it has been a year since the arrest of another Belarusian businessman, the former leader of the opposition deputy group "Republic" Sergey Skrebets -

Prices in the European market for the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere have fallen about three times in the last weeks at once. It turned out that the volume of real emissions turned out to be less than the amount of quotas issued. Thus, the permitted volume of the “greenhouse gases” emission for companies and enterprises of 22 of the 25 countries of the European Union in 2005 in 2005 exceeded the real amount of emissions, the European Commission said today.

The President of Russia looked in the east of another "friend" Russian President Vladimir Putin held negotiations in Sochi with the head of the Palestinian autonomy Mahmoud Abbas. Russia opens against the financial isolation of the Palestinian autonomy, the government of which has formed a radical group of Hamas. What did Putin and Abbas talk about and what did you agree on?

The Russian state -owned company Atomenergomash, one of the world's largest manufacturers and nuclear fuel suppliers for nuclear power plants, signed an agreement on the creation of the holding with the private company, which will belong to the state. The Emalliance was created in 2005 on the basis of the Taganrog Plant Red Kotelchik and the Zio-Podolsk machine-building plant, the only manufacturer of steam generators for atomic blocks in Russia.

The program is conducted by Nadezhda Pertsev. The Radio Liberty correspondent Marina Timasheva takes part. Nadezhda Pertseva: On June 3, all metropolitan film critics will go to Sochi to the 17th Festival "Kinotavr", whose program has already been announced. Marina Timasheva: The audience is given the opportunity to watch 14 feature films of the main competition and 32 short-term, as well as about 50 paintings presented in 10 non-exchange programs of the festival.

The course of the Chinese yuan to the American currency today for the first time in 12 years increased to a level of less than 8 yuan per dollar and amounted to 7.99. The total rise in price of the yuan in relation to the dollar, from the moment of revaluation in July last year, amounted to 1.4%.

Andrei Sharogradsky: The man of the day Radio Liberty Igor Kolyvinov is a senior coach of the Russian youth team of Russia, who for the first time in the history of the European champion. Igor Kolyvanov was born in 1968 in Moscow. In childhood, he was engaged in music, football was really carried away at 9 years old. During the football career, he played for the Moscow Dynamo and the Italian clubs Foji and Bologna.

The security of the ex-head of the Yukos is still in question The lawyers of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, serving a sentence in the Krasnokamenskaya colony, confirmed that their client was nevertheless transferred from a single camera to a common hut. Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service Yuri Kalinin announced this on Thursday last week. However, the Chita lawyer of Khodorkovsky Semyon Rosenberg said that Khodorkovsky was returned to cellmates only on this Monday.

Frenchwoman Amelie Mororemo leads the championship race - the current rating of the Women's Tennis Association. The second place is occupied by Russians Nadezhda Petrova, who won the tournament in Berlin on Sunday. The third is the finalist of this tournament - Justine Anen -Ardenne from Belgium. The top ten includes three more Russians: Maria Sharapova-4th, Svetlana Kuznetsova-5th, Elena Dementieva –7th.

The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Moscow Yuri Bagrov takes part. Andrei Sharogradsky: The General Prosecutor's Office of Russia appealed in the Supreme Court a verdict in the case of the murder of the editor -in -chief of the Russian version of Forbes magazine Paula Khlebnikov.

In the south of Afghanistan, 11 Taliban were killed in a battle with government forces, including two field commanders. According to the authorities of the province of Kandahar today, 5 security forces also died in a clash that occurred on Sunday. The battle in the vicinity of the capital of the province - the city of Kandar - lasted several hours.