British sailors, who returned to their homeland from Iranian captivity, say they were captured in the territorial waters of Iraq. At the press conference, which took place on Friday on the basis of the Navy in England, the sailors also said that they consciously decided not to resist, since there were fewer than the Iranian military, and - in addition, they did not want to provoke an international conflict. The sailors said that in captivity were under constant psychological pressure.

The program is conducted by Dmitry Morozov. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Moscow Lily Palvelieva takes part. Dmitry Morozov: In Moscow, in the State Historical Museum, three paintings by the famous battalist Vasily Vereshchagin were put up for public display. Their plots are associated with the Napoleonic invasion of Russia. Thus, here they decided to remind you of the idea of almost a hundred years ago - a non -embodied project of the creation of the Museum of the Patriotic War of 1812.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. The Radio Liberty correspondent Tatyana Valovich takes part. Andrei Shary : The Movement "Another Russia" continues to prepare in the city on April 15 of the second "Marsh of the Non -Losch". We are talking about St. Petersburg. Today, the city has started spreading the special issue of the newspaper "Forward, Petersburg!", Talking about the upcoming event.

The Russian State Duma adopted in the third - final - reading the law on the new rules for redistributing deputy mandates. The document allows the political parties to distribute the vacant places in parliament themselves. Until now, with the early termination of the powers of a deputy elected according to the party list, his place passed to the first candidate in this list, which was not included in the Duma.

After the first day of the quarter -final matches of the Davis Cup, the Belgian team, which hosts the German team on its court, loses with a score of 0: 2. With the same account, the Sweden team wins on their court with Argentina tennis players.

Inauguration by Ramzan Kadyrov. Turkish "green" for control over gases emissions into the atmosphere. Ecology: garbage as a business. Science: The mortality rate as the main cause of the demographic crisis in Russia.

Two Frenchmen - passengers of a cruise vessel, sank in the Aegean Sea, are missing. On Thursday, the cruise ship "Sea diamond" sat aground and received a hole off the coast of the Greek Island of Santorin. The Greek coastal guard removed about 1,600 people - passengers and crew members distress. A few hours after that, the saved tourist from France reported the disappearance of her husband and daughter.

Scientists have discovered a new variation of the gas phase of a substance called nanopuses. William Ducker and his colleagues from the University of Melbourne have experimentally proved the existence of nanopuses. Nanopuses occur under a number of conditions on the border between substances located in different phase states. It was the attempt to prove the impossibility of the existence of nanopuses that led Daker to their experimental discovery .

The United Russia party is preparing the Personnel Reserve project

The program is conducted by Kirill Kobrin. The Radio Liberty correspondent Yuri Bagrov takes part . Kirill Kobrin : On the clash of political courses of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, my colleague Yuri Bagrov talked with Russian and Ukrainian experts.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, a quarter of a million Ukrainians visited various rallies from the beginning of the political crisis at various rallies The State Duma of Russia today expressed its full support for the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, which refuses to submit to the decree of President Viktor Yushchenko on the dissolution of the parliament.

The State Duma today will take place of the third reading of amendments to the law "On Technical Regulation", which clarify the procedure for adopting technical regulations in Russia. According to this law, GOSTs and other, mainly Soviet, Standards must be replaced by technical regulations until 2010. According to ITAR-TASS, it is necessary to revise more than 60 thousand regulatory documents.

Andrei Shary : The Man of the Day of Radio Liberty on April 6 is the Greek violinist Leonidas Kawakak, one of the brightest musicians invited this year by the artistic director of the Moscow Easter Festival Valery Gergiev for concerts in Moscow. On the opening day of the festival, in the Great Hall of the Conservatory, Kawakako will be performed by Tchaikovsky's violin concert. The sixth Moscow Easter Festival is held in 22 cities of Russia and includes 120 concerts.