The call to find and punish the killers of Anna Politkovskaya were prominent public figures of different countries. A letter under which more than 60 signatures are published today in the British newspaper Times. Among the authors of the appeal are the South African Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu, British playwright Harold Pinter, American actress Susan Sarandon, French philosopher Bernard -Henry Levy. Anna Politkovskaya, who was criticized by the Kremlin, was killed in Moscow on October 7, 2006.

Members of the family of the late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet were released on bail. On Thursday, the widow of Pinochet and five adult children were arrested on charges of secret transfer of $ 27 million into foreign banks during the dictatorship. Together with them, on charges of community, 16 more people were arrested, who were also released - on certain conditions. Pinochet in Chile is 17 years old - until 1990.

Peter Finch, manager of the first television channel of the BBC, resigned in connection with the show on the broadcast of the video, on which Queen Elizabeth II was presented in false light. The video was the announcement of the documentary "Year with the Queen". As a result of an official investigation, it was revealed that during editing and subsequent presentation of the video, "erroneous judgments" were made.

Life expectancy .. Guests - Head of the Laboratory of the Research Institute of Gerontology Elena Vladimirovna Tereshina, Director of the Institute of Demography of the Higher School of Economics Anatoly Grigoryevich Vishnevsky and a writer, our frequent guest Anatoly Korolev.

The President of Pakistan is accompanied by actions of violence. The stormy protests of the opponents of the current head of state of the Musharraf Perevoz flared up in Peshavar and Karachi. The police used tear gas and batons for the dispersal of demonstrators. Few doubt that Musharraf will be elected for another 5 years.

In Pakistan, presidential elections will be held today. The head of state is elected by deputies of federal and provincial parliaments. It is expected that the current president Perevez Musharraf will be elected for another 5 years. The Supreme Court of Pakistan, however, ruled on Friday that the voting results cannot be announced until he makes a decision that Musharraf’s candidacy is legitimate. The President is simultaneously the commander in chief of the army.

In Dushanbe, the CIS summit adopted the concept of the development of the Commonwealth. A document talking about the main mechanisms of interaction between the CIS countries in the coming years did not sign Georgia and Turkmenistan. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said that there are almost no positive norms in the part of the Commonwealth in relation to his country. " Azerbaijan announced his "special opinion" in a number of points of the approved document.

US President George Bush again expressed his negative attitude to the project of the Congress resolution, in which the mass destruction of Armenians in the territory of the Ottoman Empire is called "genocide." Bush talked on the phone with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan. The text of the resolution will go to the US Foreign Affairs Committee next week and, as expected, will be approved. Armenia claims that during the First World War the Turks killed one and a half million Armenians.

At the women's championship of Europe in Italy, matches of the 1/4 finals ended: Russia - Lithuania - 75:58 Spain - Belgium - 72:53 On Saturday, the semifinal meetings of Russia - Latvia and Spain - Belarus.

The countries of the Organization of Collective Security Treaty (CSTO) will buy Russian weapons and equipment at domestic prices in Russia. This was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the end of the CSTO summit in the capital of Tajikistan Dushanbe. The meeting participants signed more than 20 documents.

Olga Beklemishcheva: Today we have a rather unusual topic - medical law. Of course, our life is becoming more and more difficult, and probably many have already asked the question: “And what, in fact, my rights are determined by law, and what should I do so that they are fulfilled in full in such a subtle and delicate sphere as medicine, the provision of medical care?” And you need to look for answers to these questions. Here is such an attempt to take place right now.

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In the coming months, there will be no early parliamentary elections in the UK, the country's Prime Minister Gordon Brown said. Brown’s statement was a response to the reports that appeared in recent weeks that the British prime minister will announce early elections to ensure the work of his office for another five years. Elections to the British parliament should be held in 2010.

In the east of Georgia, in the city of Gurdzhani, a mass action of the opposition was held with a demand for the resignation of President Mikhail Saakashvili and the government of the country. According to Radio Liberty correspondent, the participants in the action also demanded to increase the purchase prices for grapes, accusing the authorities that they did not pay due attention to private wine producers. The opposition plans to hold protests in many regions of Georgia.