The program is conducted by Polina Oldenburg. The correspondent of Radio Freedom Nikita Tatarsky takes part. Polina Oldenburg: Yesterday morning, the shipment of equipment and personnel of the Russian engineering battalion to Lebanon began. In the coming days, about 300 people and more than 130 tons of cargo will be delivered to Beirut. Russian troops will restore roads and bridges in Lebanon, destroyed during a recent conflict with Israel.

The program is conducted by Victor Nechez. The Radio Liberty correspondent Oleg Kusov takes part. Victor Nechez: relations between Russia and Georgia have a constant tendency to deterioration. What is the basis of the Russian-Georgian crisis? At what historical stage did these countries turn from good neighbors into implacable opponents? My colleague Oleg Kusov continues the cycle of conversations with figures of politics, culture and science.

Vitaly Portnikov: Today's release of our program from the Kiev Bureau of Radio Liberty. And the reason for a conversation with our guest today was a television event. On the air of Ukrainian television, the “One Plus One” television channel, the Epicenter project returned along with its permanent leading Vyacheslav Pikhovshek. Hello, Vyacheslav. Vyacheslav Pikhovsk: Hello, Vitaly, hello, dear listeners.

The UN representative, engaged in the problems of applying torture to prisoners, is forced to cancel the visit to Russia. According to Manfred Novak, the visit had to be canceled due to the refusal of the Russian authorities to give him the opportunity to visit prisons without notifying it in advance, and meet with the eyes of the eye on the face. Novak was going to visit the imprisonment in Chechnya.

In Baku, the journalist of the opposition newspaper Azadlyg Sakit Zakhidov was sentenced to three years in prison. The court found him guilty of the storage and use of drugs. The defense states that the heroin threw the policeman Zakhidov, and there was no evidence of guilt in court at all. As the Radio Liberty correspondent reports, Zakhidov himself connects the arrest with the publication of satirical verses in which he sharply criticizes power.

Russia is trying to put pressure on Georgia through the United Nations. The Ambassador of Russia to the UN Vitaly Churkin submitted to the Security Council a draft resolution demanding to stop the “provocative actions” of Tbilisi against Abkhazia. This requirement has been linked in a document with the future mission of UN observers, present in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone since 1993. The mandate of the mission expires on October 15.

In the Berlin opera, the performance of the opera of Mozart Idomeno, recently removed from the repertoire, was restored - out of fear of causing the anger of Muslims. German politicians, including the Chancellor of Angela Merkel, and the public representatives of the Berlin opera criticized the decision to stop showing the performance.

In Moscow, journalist Alexei Shvedov died. He collaborated with various media, including Radio Liberty. I made a lot of reports about the tragedy in Beslan. Alexei Shvedov was 54 years old.

The world's largest radio telescope will be built in the coming years in the southern hemisphere of our planet, BBC reports . Two countries-Australia and South Africa claim the role of a unique scientific device, called Square Kilometer Array (SKA) . The choice in favor of one of the two countries will be made by the International Committee of Astronomers. The area occupied by the antennas of the telescope will be about 1 square kilometer, that is, 200 football fields will cover.

South Korea called on Pyongyang to abandon the planned nuclear tests. As the representative of the South Korean Foreign Ministry emphasized, Seoul will not allow a weapon of mass destruction to appear on the Korean peninsula. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan warned North Korea that the tests would cause a categorical condemnation of the world community and, contrary to the expectations of Pyongyan, will not strengthen the country's security, but on the contrary, they will cause damage to it.

The Mongol community in America initiative to erect a monument to Genghis Khan, the founder of the Mongol Empire, in the pantheon of American presidents in Washington. The Embassy of Mongolia in Washington supported this initiative. According to the representative of the embassy, in the West, Genghis Khan has a controversial reputation, however, the great conqueror was tolerant of various religions and created a huge empire in which a single taxation system functioned.

Continuation of the cycle symbols "al-Qaeda". Middle Ages: Arab Caliphates in Spain Irina Lagunina: The call to recreate the caliphate is a single and fair state of Muslims, based on the law of Sharia and the harmony of society - thanks to the Osama Bin Laden in recent years, he was heard all over the world. The caliphate has become a symbol, and I can only envenue Muslims, a new terrorist course. But what is trying to recreate Al-Qaeda?

The situation in Georgia, after the introduction of economic blockade by Russia, Russian human rights activists are concerned about the growth of the tension of Russian-Georgian relations, the head of the Center for Mediterranean and Black Sea Institute of European RAS Alla Yazkova and professor of the Tbilisi State Conservatory Nodar Anguladze about Russian-Georgian relations, Sergei Lavrov’s performance at the PACE session

The program is conducted by Alexander GOSTOV. Radio Liberty Maryana Torocheshnikov and George Kobaladze take part. Alexander GOSTEV: The confrontation of Moscow and Tbilisi continues. The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Lavrov, playing today at the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, accused the leadership of Georgia of hostility to Russia. Relations of Russia and Georgia are discussed today by deputies of the Russian State Duma.