The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. A radio correspondent Freedom Sofya Kornienko takes part . Andrei Shary : In the Netherlands, the second edition of Anna Politkovskaya “Putin’s Russia” has already been published, and this winter it is planned to publish the diaries of the journalist. Only after the murder of the Politkovsky, the West began to seriously think about what is happening in Russia.

In Kalmykia, security measures are strengthened. More than a hundred police officers were sent to the village of Vorobyovka, the Priyutnensky district, the roads were blocked. On October 31, in this village there was a fight between two teenagers and visitors from Dagestan. One teenager died from stab wounds. The Dagestan was detained - he was charged with murder.

NASA photographed the cosmic “snake” of Halloween. NASA published a snake -like space object obtained using the Spitzer Space Telescope space telescope. The cosmic “snake” is a core of a huge dark cloud, located at a distance of 11 thousand light years from the Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. Optical telescopes did not notice him. Due to the fact that the cloud is hot, it emits infrared waves passing through cosmic dust.

Two Russian tennis players played on Wednesday at the Masters series tournament in Paris: Teimuraz Gabashvili (Russia) - Thomas Yukhanson (Sweden) - 7: 6, 4: 6, 6: 3 Dominic Grbaty (Slovakia) - Igor Andreev (Russia) - 6: 4, 6: 3

10 best performances of the German -speaking space at the Berlin Theater Festival, recalling Georges Brassans (25 years old), Europe through the eyes of the Flemish writer Tom Lanua 50 years old by the emigrant Czech magazine (evidence), the festival of the forbidden Belorussian bardic song in Poland, Princess Golitsyn - Russian Emigrant, Italian fashion designer. European musical calendar

The Moscow authorities made the final decision on the ban on the so -called “Russian march”. The metropolitan mayor Yuri Luzhkov explained such a decision last year. Then the participants in such a procession chanted nationalist slogans. However, despite the official ban, the leaders of the right -wing movements and organizations urge their supporters to take the streets. The main means of disseminating information about the plans for right -winging movements was the Internet.

On Wednesday, basketball teams held matches of group tournaments in the Euroleague Uleb: CSKA (Russia) - "Aris" (Greece) - 83:68 "Tau Ceramics" (Spain) - "Dynamo" (Russia) - 77:61

Pan Hi Moon, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Korea, who enters the UN Secretary General in January, is conducting Moscow today. The main topics are the role of Russia in the activities of the UN Security Council and the problem of nuclear programs of Iran and North Korea.

In Russia, the number of poisoned by surrogate alcohol is growing. In the Irkutsk region, 39 people have already died from "toxic hepatitis". They suffered - over a thousand. In the Volgograd region, three died, the number of victims increased to 147-and. Cases of poisoning by surrogate alcohol have been identified in more than ten Russian regions, in some an emergency has been announced.

On Wednesday night, the Israeli infantry, with the support of large forces of armored vehicles and the Air Force, launched an expanded operation in the Beit Khanun area, under the code name "Autumn Clouds", reports Rovshan Huseynov from Israel. The purpose of the operation is to prevent missile shelling of Israeli territory.

Cultural alternative in the media. In the Kyiv studio, Radio Liberty is the editor -in -chief of ShHO magazine Alexander Kabanov.

Georgian Foreign Minister: "The meeting with Putin was not planned" Georgian Foreign Minister Gela Trahjuashvili today arrived in Moscow to participate in a meeting of the organization of Black Sea Economic Cooperation. At the end of the forum, the Georgian minister must meet his Russian colleague Sergei Lavrov. According to Gelahuashvili, he intends to discuss with the head of the Russian Foreign Department the details of the upcoming meeting of the presidents of Russia and Georgia.

In Moscow today there is a meeting of the Council of the Heads of the Foreign Ministry of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (OCHS). The meeting participants will discuss, in particular, issues of interaction in the field of transport, energy, communications and telecommunications, as well as the elimination of the consequences of emergency situations.

In the north of the gas sector, in shootouts with Israeli military and airlines, four Palestinians were killed (two of them are militants). Over thirty people are injured. Air strikes were inflicted on objects of Palestinian extremists in the area of the village of Beit Hanun.