Danila Galperovich: Guest Radio Freedom today is the chairman of the Central Election Commission of Russia Vladimir Churov. We will talk about what will become the main thing in the current political season - about the elections to the State Duma and about the subsequent elections of the President of Russia. And now right from the place - to the quarry. Vladimir Evgenievich, hello. Thank you very much for having come to our studio. Vladimir Churov Vladimir Churov: Good evening.

The program is conducted by Alexei Kuznetsov. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Yekaterinburg Evgeny Nazareta takes part. Alexey Kuznetsov: In Verkhnyaya Pyshma, the Sverdlovsk region since July 20 with suspicion of pneumonia, 117 people were hospitalized, half of them have already been confirmed. Three sick people died, six are now in intensive care. According to the main version, the causative agent of pneumonia - the rare bacterium of Legionella - spread through the hot water supply system.

The speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament intends to convene an extraordinary session of the Verkhovna Rada, the resignation of Mikhail Gutseriev reminded the story with Mikhail Khodorkovsky history of the West and East. "Standard bread" disappeared from Israeli stores

In France, a medical examination confirmed the presence of a bird flu virus that is dangerous for the member of the virus-ASH-5-EN-1 in two swans found dead last weekend. This is the second out of a month of the outbreak of disease in the country. Over the past year, many cases of "bird flu" have been recorded in more than 30 countries. In most cases, the virus hit wild birds.

Russian tennis player Igor Kunitsyn beat in the first round of the tournament in Washington Frenchman Sebastian Grozhany 6: 7, 6: 4, 6: 3. Evgeny Korolev won Ricardo Mello from Brazil 6: 4, 6: 4.

The program is conducted by Kirill Kobrin. The Radio Liberty correspondent Natalya Golitsyna takes part. Kirill Kobrin : Today, at midnight ends the action of the Mandate of the British troops in Northern Ireland. The operation "Banner", which lasted 38 years, is completed. The Armed Forces of Great Britain, with the exception of five thousand military personnel, leave the province. Our correspondent Natalya Golitsyna conveys from London.

Three airports in the Moscow Aviation Node - Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo - provide 75% of international aviation transportation in Russia, said the representative of the Department of Transport and Communications of Moscow Sergey Kalitin. The most dynamically developing airport of the region, according to him, is Vnukovo today, more than 60% of which shares in November 2003 were transferred to the city from federal property.

In Baghdad, two local residents died during the explosion, three soldiers of the National Guard were injured. Earlier, the US military reported the death of another US soldier. He was killed on Monday - in a combat operation against the rebels in the province of Anbar, west of Baghdad.

In Chechnya, as a result of shelling, a soldier of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was wounded. Not far from the Grozny road, unknown people opened fire on a group of military personnel who conducted engineering intelligence.

Vladimir Kara-Murza: A few hours later, the ultimatum has expired, announced by the Starting Committee of the Independent Unity of the AvtoVAZ leadership. The probability and scale of the strike of the labor collective of the auto giant is discussed with Pavel Kudyukin, the president of the expert fund of social research, the former Minister of Labor. What is the symptom of labor strikes, strikes for the country's economy?