Elena Rykovtseva: The jury of the Prize "Journalism as an Act" named after Andrei Sakharov yesterday announced the winners: a laureate and four diplomats. Today we have in the studio and laureate, and one of the diploma, and one of the jury members. Now I will present them, but first I will say about the prize itself.

Dmitry Volchek : Man of the Day of Radio Liberty December 14 - American artist Christine Svenningen, who acquired 10 islands of the Timble archipelago, located off the coast of Connecticut in the northeast of the United States. In total, she spent 33 million dollars on the purchase. The area of the largest of the islands belonging to the artist is only three hectares.

Ipswich observes the "commandant hour". In the area of "Red Lights" The British police continues the investigation of a series of murders that occurred in the vicinity of the city of Ipswich. Over the past five weeks, the bodies of five women have been found in rural areas. They were naked and had no signs of sexual violence. Three victims were identified, all of them were engaged in prostitution on the streets of Ipswich. The personality of two more is established.

The final matches of the UEFA Cup in four groups were held on the football fields of Europe. The three best teams from each five entered the 1/16 finals. Here they are: Group E: “Blackburn” (England), “Nancy” (France) and “Feyenoord” (Holland); Group F: “Espanyol” (Spain), “Ajax” (Holland) and “Zulte-Waregem” (Belgium); Group G: “Panatinaikos” (Greece), “Hapoel” (Tel Aviv, Israel) and “Paris Saint-Germain” (France); Group N: Newkasl (England), “Celta” (Spain) and “Fenerbach“ (Türkiye).

OPEC countries decided to reduce oil production by 500 thousand barrels per day or almost 2%, starting on February 1, 2007. The previous reduction - twice as much - was undertaken by them from November 1. In general, OPEC countries account for about 40% of all oil produced in the world, the price of which has decreased over the past five months by 20%.

Theoretical developments conducted at the American National Institute of Technologies ( National Institute of Standards and Technology ) by a group of scientists under the leadership of Taner Yildirim from the Turkish University in Bilkent University , showed that ethylene can be founded. Use the hydrogen as a storage of hydrogen if you attach two titanium atoms to the ends of the ethylene molecule. A complex of organic molecule with titanium atoms is able to hold 20 hydrogen atoms.

In Brussels, the Summit of the European Union is opening today. The focus of the meeting participants is the prospects for further expansion of the EU. On Monday, the European Union decided to partially freeze negotiations with Turkey about its possible entry - due to Ankara’s refusal to make concessions on the Cyprus issue.

The International Foundation of Mozart (IMF) completed the placement on the website DME.Mozarteum.at the full works of the Austrian composer born 250 years ago. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote more than 600 works occupying more than 24 thousand musical sheets. Now they can be freely loaded in PDF format for personal use. The site is a copy of the collected works of the composer “Neue Mozard Ausgabe” (“New Edition of Mozart”), which the musicologists made up since 1954, the AFP agency reports.

In the NBA’s regular championship, the leader of the Western conference and the championship as a whole “Utah”, which prevailed over Los Angeles Clippers, won another victory-105: 86. Andrei Kirilenko brought Utah 12 points.

The South Korean politician Pan Hi Moon is offered as an eighth UN Secretary General. Officially, he takes office from January 1, 2007. At a meeting of the UN General Assembly, the 62-year-old Pan Hi Moon announced his intention to rely on the legacy of Kofi Annan, who had stayed at the post of UN Secretary General for 10 years.

The head of the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia, Yuri Trutnev, refused to reprimand Oleg Mitvol,-ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the press service of the ministry. The head of the Rosprirodnadzor Sergey Sai, who asked his deputy reprimand, addressed his deputy, with a complaint about the ineffectiveness of the work of Mitnev to Trutnev.

The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Kyiv Vladimir Ivakhnenko takes part. Andrei Sharogradsky : On Thursday, almost the whole day, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko talked with the press. “Ukraine: the Year of Political Reform” is the main topic of its many hours of press conference.

In Moscow - at closed doors - today a court session is held in the case of the seizure of hostages in the pre -trial detention center near Moscow. In September, three convicts for serious crimes for several hours kept 16 employees of the Kapotnya isolator hostage. The hostages were released as a result of a special operation. No one was injured.

The commissars of “ours” are pursuing Brenton everywhere - they surround his house, the embassy building, block the embassy machine, and break off meetings British diplomats express indignation in connection with the persecution in Moscow of the Ambassador of the United Kingdom of Anthony Brenton by members of the organization "ours".

Expert: "In the [confrontation of the President and Prime Minister], only one political force is now interested" Today, almost all day with reporters in Kyiv, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko will communicate. “Year with political reform” is the topic of many hours of press conference at which the head of state will comment on his last conflicts with the ruling coalition and personally the Prime Minister.