Veronica Bode: Hello, Victor. Victor Shenderovich: Good evening. My guest today is journalist Matvey Ganapolsky. Matvey, good evening. Matvey Ganapolsky: Good evening. Viktor Shenderovich: You know, everything that happens in the last week resembles such a sad old Jewish joke about black and white stripes.

In France on Saturday, a monument was solemnly opened to reporters who died in the performance of a professional debt. At the ceremony in the city of Bayo, in the presence of their loved ones and colleagues, a bedspread was removed from the first four white columns, on which the names of 406 journalists from different countries were carved from 1997 to 2005.

The murder of the famous journalist Anna Politkovskaya caused indignation of the Russian public. Mass actions of the Politkovskaya memory took place on Sunday in Moscow and St. Petersburg. In Samara they brought flowers and candles to the portrait of Politkovskaya in the city center. The journalist was killed on Saturday evening in Moscow.

In Latvia, parliamentary elections are recognized as held. According to the Central Election Commission, the appearance in the elections exceeded 62 percent. There were no serious violations. According to the results of surveys of voting voters, the ruling coalition was leading, which gained over 40 percent of the vote. It is also reported about success in the elections of the Center for Consent, which protects the rights of the Russian -speaking population, and the Right Party "New Time".

In 68 regions of Russia, elections to local authorities are held today. They elect deputies of regional parliaments and mayors of several cities. In a number of regions, elections of local governments and missions of deputies of the State Duma are held. The elections in Primorye, the Jewish Autonomous Region, the Sakhalin, Kemerovo, Astrakhan and Lipetsk regions, as well as the mayor’s elections in Samara were recognized. In total, 14 million citizens can take part in the vote.

In Moscow, an action was held dedicated to the memory of Anna Politkovskaya Today, at noon on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow, an action began dedicated to the memory of Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist in Novaya Gazeta, killed on Saturday. Politkovskaya was shot on Saturday in the elevator of the elevator of her house on Lesnaya Street.

In Vladivostok last night, a cafe belonging to immigrants from the Caucasus was fired from a grenade launcher. Three of them are injured, one is hard. Two visitors received light injuries. The prosecutor's office of the Primorsky Territory opened a criminal case. Several versions are considered, including accounting with competitors.

In Moscow, a protest against the incitement of the anti -Georgian campaign in Russia will take place today. Participants in the action intend to demand from the Russian authorities to bring to justice officials guilty of discrimination against immigrants from Georgia and inciting hatred of the Georgian people. On Saturday, a group of Russian writers opposed the destruction of traditional Russian-Georgian ties. Among those who signed the statement - Daniil Granin and Boris Strugatsky.

In Pakistan, the first anniversary of a catastrophic earthquake is celebrated today, the victims of which were almost 75 thousand people. More than three and a half million inhabitants of the country lost their beds. Hundreds of thousands still live in tents. In the mourning ceremony of memory of the victims of the tragedy in the city of Muzaffarabada, which a year ago ended up in almost the epicenter of the earthquake, the President of Pakistan Pakistan Musharraf took part.

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On Monday, a special issue of Novaya Gazeta will be released, dedicated to Anna Politkovskaya, who was killed on Saturday in Moscow. It will publish excerpts from her articles, including the last interview with Radio Liberty, which Politkovskaya gave a few days ago, where she reported that she was conducting a journalistic investigation of torture of prisoners in Chechnya. International and human rights organizations are shocked and outraged by the murder of a Russian journalist.

The presenter Ivan Tolstoy raises sharp, often painful, issues of the Russian cultural process: are the established stereotypes are true, are the assessments, are these entertaining and unfairly forgotten by certain cultural figures?