The program is conducted by Arslan Saidov. Radio Liberty correspondents Yuri Bagrov, Alexander Valiev and Nadezhda Glades take part. Arslan Saidov: The Minister of Health and Social Development Mikhail Zurabov will remain at his post, at least until March 20. The deputies decided to cancel the planned performance of a senior official in the State Duma in the State Duma in the State Duma.

Leningrad region is preparing for regional elections On a single voting day on March 11, elections to the Legislative Assembly will be held in the Leningrad Region. The composition of the parties - applicants for deputy mandates in the region is the same as in St. Petersburg: "United Russia", the Communist Party, LDPR, "Fair Russia", ATP, "Patriots of Russia". Due to the excess of the amount of marriage in the signature sheets in registration, the democratic and folk party was denied.

Kira Alliluyeva "Stalin's niece", "Vagrius", M.2006 The Vagrius publishing house published memoirs of Kira Alliluyeva, the niece of Stalin and the granddaughter of a professional revolutionary, in whose apartment V.I. Lenin was hidden in July 1917. Her father was the brother of Stalin's wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva, so Kira Pavlovna always called the formidable leader "Uncle Joseph." One combination of surnames-Alliluyeva-Polokovskaya-can easily be introduced into the stupor of today's reader.

The spring election campaign is coming to an end. How did she go? Which of the parties allowed for the elections have the greatest chance of success? Features of the situation in St. Petersburg ... About this - in an interview with the head of the laboratory of political psychology of St. Petersburg State University Vladimir Vasiliev, senior researcher at the Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences Tatyana Protasenko and candidate for deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St.

Alexander Kostinsky: The theme of our program today is “Are schoolchildren and students from smoking?” In the Radio Studio Liberty - vice -president of the evidence -based medicine Society, Doctor of Medical Sciences Vasily Vlasov and consultant to the Open Institute of Health, Candidate of Medical Sciences Kirill Danishevsky. And my first question is Kirill Danishevsky. Cyril, please tell me how are things with smoking schoolchildren and students in Russia?

More than 160 Shiite rebels have died over the past two weeks in battles with Yemenian government troops, Yemen’s authorities said today. Clapses in the Saad mountain area have been continuing since the beginning of the year - after the exacerbation of relations between the Sunni and Shiite community of Yemen. Sunnis make up the majority of the country's population, Shiites - about 15 percent.

In the holy for the Shiites, the Iraqi city of Karbela continues to arrive pilgrims - despite the attacks and armed attacks directed against them. On Tuesday, about 120 pilgrims died in the Iraqi city of Hill as a result of two explosions carried out by suicide bombers. Today in Baghdad 7 were killed and about ten Shiites were injured. UN Secretary General Pan Hi Moon sharply condemned the attacks on pilgrims.

In the morning on Wednesday, a Georgian citizen was abducted in the Zazhny district of South Ossetia. According to Tbilisi, George Kobaladze, with reference to the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs, unknown in military uniforms, armed with machine guns, abducted the resident of Kutaisi Timur Basilidze, who was traveling to Tskhinvali. According to Georgian sources, the Ossetian armed formation that stole Basilidze allegedly requires 10 thousand dollars as a ransom.

Jean Bodriyar (1929-2007) On March 6, the most famous French philosopher Jean Baudrillard died in Paris at the age of 77. He was the last of the galaxy of thinkers, known throughout the world, as the “classics of postmodernism” - Bart, Foucault, Delez, Derrida, and now - Baudrillaria.

At least 45 people died on Wednesday in different areas of Iraq. During the explosion of a bomb in a cafe in the city of Baladruz, three dozen people were killed. Earlier, on the same day, as a result of two attacks on the Shiite pilgrims, 15 were killed in Baghdad and 30 were injured.

At the Czech nuclear power plant in the Temelin, radioactive water leaks again occurred. According to the NPP administration, about a thousand liters of liquid spilled during the work on the reactor. Outside of the special controlled reactor zone, water did not penetrate. Increasing the level of radiation in the vicinity of the station was not recorded. On March 1, a similar leak has already occurred at the NPP in the dark.

The divers who studied the underwater caves in Mexico on the Yukatan Peninsula discovered the longest underground river in the world with a length of 153 kilometers . Specialists for a long time examined the second and third largest cave systems on the Yukatan Peninsula and led the possible place of their connection. The existence of such a compound was supposed to be researchers earlier, they intended to open it in 2004, but as it turned out, then they led in the wrong direction.