The program is conducted by Oleg Vinokurov. The Radio Liberty correspondent Maxim Yaroshevsky takes part. Oleg Vinokurov : The wives of eight Russian helicopters-peers, who, according to unconfirmed data, crashed in Afghanistan, are asking for help from the president and government. Women do not believe that their husbands are dead and hope that the state will help them. Says the Radio Liberty correspondent Maxim Yaroshevsky.

The best scorer of the NHL regular championship, Alexander Ovechkin, could not replenish his account today, but he made a hot program that helped Alexei Semin throw the 16th in the pucking season. True, this did not save “Washington” from the defeat from “Montreal” - 1: 4. Atlanta prevailed over Pittsburgh - 4: 2, Vyacheslav Kozlov distinguished himself among the winners, and Evgeny Malkin could not score again from the losers.

Elena Rykovtseva: In this issue of our program, we are trying to summarize the media-ithogs of the outgoing year and predict a little. What happened to the press? What will happen to the press? What will the authorities calm down in relation to the press, taking into account the fact that in a year - all kinds of elections? Today we are visiting the new editor -in -chief of the old New Time magazine Raf Shakirov.

The lawyers Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev met today with their clients in the pre -trial detention center of Chita. According to lawyer Yuri Schmidt, new accusations of the ex-head of the Yukos and the head of Menatep are unlikely to be brought in the coming days. On December 30, defenders return to Moscow.

In Riga, protests were held against the presence of the military contingent of Latvia in Iraq, after the death of two Latvian troops there. According to Mikhail Bombin, 24-year-old Vitaliy Vasiliev and 25-year-old Gins Bley, according to the commander of the Armed Forces of Latvia, Yuri Maklakov, died from an explosion of a home-made bomb during the next patrol near the base of the coalition forces in Elda. Three more Latvian troops received fragmentation wounds of varying severity.

In Somalia, Islamic militants announced that they were leaving the capital of Mogadish. The troops of Ethiopia are advanced to the city - together with the Somali government forces. The second attempt by the UN Security Council to coordinate the resolution on Somalia ended to no avail. Catarus representative - current chairman Council - continues to insist on the withdrawal of Ethiopia troops from Somalia.

The investigative and operational groups of the Russian Prosecutor General of Russia, investigating the “Nevznin case” and “Litvinenko case”, combined their work The Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia declares the possible involvement of a number of Yukos leaders in the death of Alexander Litvinenko. The Prosecutor General’s Office claims, in particular, that Leonid Nevzlin could be the customer of the murder of the ex-officer of the FSB and the attempt on entrepreneur Dmitry Kovtun.

The Khoroshevsky court of Moscow is returning to the consideration of the claim against the ex-Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Kasyanov on the return to the state of the cottage "Sosnovka-1". The Federal Property Management Agency asks to recover from Kasyanov the actual cost of a dacha in the amount of more than 46 and a half million rubles, as well as more than 60 million for illegal enrichment.

If Iran continues to continue to deploy a nuclear program, this will only harm its people and exacerbate relations with the world community. This is stated in a statement by the representative of the White House Scott Stanzel. On Wednesday, the Iran’s parliament approved the law obliging the government to reconsider the approach to cooperation with the IAEA and accelerate the work on the nuclear program.

According to the reporting reports, the passenger plane of Aeroflot, who made a flight along the route of Moscow-Vozh, made an emergency landing in Prague. The CHDK agency with reference to the police reports that the plane is captured. Who is unknown. No additional details are reported.

Russian technology showed its indispensability in Afghanistan and in the 21st century The wives of the crew of the Russian helicopter, which, according to unconfirmed reports, crashed in Afghanistan, ask for help from the President of Russia. Women do not believe that their husbands are dead and hope that the state will help them return them. According to representatives of the American contingent in Afghanistan, on December 2, the Russian Mi-26T helicopter has crashed in this country.

The program will be devoted to the anniversary of the "Synodal Translation of the Bible": the head of the Russian biblical society Anatoly Rudenko, biblicalist Mikhail Seleznev, priest Georgy Chistyakov will talk about why the history of the Bible translation into Russian is similar to a new translation, and in general: if most Orthodox Bible never read, but still good people, maybe only one Christ for Christ for Christ for Christ. salvation?

The military intervention of Ethiopia forced the Islamists to leave Mogadisho The Islamist detachments today left the capital of Somali Mogadisho. Parts of the Ethiopian army, which had previously invaded a neighboring country at the request of its international recognized government, are on the outskirts of the city, while without entering it. The "Union of Islamic Courts" promises to continue the fight against interventionists by partisan methods.