The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. A radio correspondent Freedom Lada Ladeneva takes part. Andrei Sharogradsky : In the Stavropol Territory, the number of children hospitalized with acute intestinal infection reached 168. In general, the outbreak of food poisoning among children in the Caucasian mineral waters is the third over the past month. The preliminary cause of the disease is a poor -quality local production kefir.

In Nizhny Novgorod, Anna Politkovskaya’s International In memory of Anna Politkovskaya, the opening of which was scheduled for today, was torn. VTB-24 Bank refused to transfer a grant to the organization of the forum allocated to the United States to the Nizhny Novgorod Fund in support of tolerance. Money was supposed to go to pay and residence of the participants and guests of the conference. The bank said that the Fund was included in the "black list" of Rosfinmonitoring.

Sergey Lebedev was approved by the Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States, who still headed the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. The decision was made at the CIS summit in Dushanbe without voting. According to Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan, presiding in the CIS, Lebedev’s candidacy was supported by all the leaders of the countries that are part of the Commonwealth at the closed meeting.

The Russian State Duma intends to accept today a statement on the consequences of the placement of US anti -missile defense elements in Eastern Europe. The document emphasizes that such plans pose a threat to Russia's security and significantly violate strategic stability. Deputies propose to discuss this problem at the inter -parliamentary conference in Moscow. Next week, US Secretary of State Rice Rice and Pentagon Head Robert Gates plan to come to Moscow for negotiations.

In the center of Moscow, two people tried to sell 6 kilograms of mercury. According to ITAR -TASS, citing law enforcement agencies, both are visitors from the Samara region. They were detained by operatives who came to the meeting under the guise of buyers of mercury. A criminal case has been instituted under an article on the illegal turnover of potent or toxic substances.

Natalya Estemirova, a journalist and human rights activist from Grozny, was awarded the first annual prize named after Anna Politkovskaya in London. This award, established by a special fund with the support of several Nobel laureates, will be awarded to women who showed themselves in human rights activities in the zones of military conflicts.

After leaving REN TV, Olga Romanova did not cease to be an “uncomfortable” journalist Rodionov’s publishing house fired the editor-in-chief of the Businessweek Russia magazine Olga Romanov and the chief editor of this publication Alexander Gordeev.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili announced an imminent restoration of the country's unity. Speaking in the city of Zugdidi near the border with Abkhazia, Saakashvili, in particular, said: "I give the word that we will return to Abkhazia soon." The president took part in a rally-concert dedicated to the opening of the new Radio Voice of Abkhazia.

The American court found the guilty of a single mother Jammie Thomas in the illegally distribution on the Internet of more than twenty songs and sentenced it to pay a fine of $ 222 in favor of companies, which at the trial represented the American Association of the recording industry ( RIAA ). Earlier, the defendant abandoned the amicable agreement proposed by the association and preferred to appear before the court. This is the first case of this kind that came to the court.

Irina Lagunina: Radical Basque Nationalists called for a protest in Spain after the police arrested 22 Basque leader, members of the Batasun party, forbidden for communication with the separatist group, this. This one has been in Spain since the late 60s of the last century. He is trying to achieve an armed way from the country of its northern regions and the formation of an independent Basque state in these areas. The regional Basque government also achieves the same goal, but only peacefully.

Lyudmila Alekseeva: “We spoke in our dissident circles: we have one academician - Sakharov, and one general - Peter Grigoryevich Grigorenko” Russian human rights defenders celebrated the 100th anniversary of the dissident general and publicist Peter Grigorenko. A participant in World War II and a personnel officer, Grigorenko was unclenched in the mid-60s, was repeatedly arrested and was forcibly placed in a psychiatric hospital. The evening of his memory took place in Moscow.

Victor Rezunkov: Political life in Russia is seething. Journalists barely have time to report the news. Here is just today's example: the Newsru.Kom agency reports that the candidacy of the new Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov in Minsk is submitted to the Supreme State Council of the Union State of Belarus and Russia to approve it as the head of the Union Government. The Fontanka.ru online publication reports that Gennady Seleznev announced in St.

A group of researchers of the NASA orbital observatory for the Stereo Sun under the leadership of Dr. Angelos Vourlidas (Angelos Vourlidas) registered and investigated an interesting case of a comet with a powerful coronary emission of the sun, the official website of the mission reports . Scientists first watched the solar storm tore off the comet tail. The tail of the comet occurs due to the evaporation of its nucleus when approaching the sun.

The merger of the Ugricdskaya and Yuzhkuzbassugol coal companies will be completed until the end of 2007, said the president of the main shareholder of these assets - the company Evraz Group - Alexander Frolov. Earlier it was reported that the parameters of the transaction, which should be approved by shareholders and regulatory authorities, will be determined in the second half of 2007.

The first place in the parliamentary elections was taken by the Party of Regions, led by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. She has more than 34 percent of votes. The opposition bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko (BYUT) has almost 31, and his ally, the pro -presidential “Our Ukraine - People’s Self -Defense” has more than 14 percent, reports from Kyiv the RS correspondent Vladimir Ivakhnenko.