Mikhail Sokolov: In the Moscow Studio of Radio Liberty - Doctor of Economics, Director of the Institute of Problems of Globalization, Mikhail Delyagin and deputy of the State Duma of Russia (United Russia faction), member of the budget and tax committee Andrei Burenin. And let's start our conversation with an agreement, which the authorities, well, the party, considering itself the ruling, is presented as its great victory.

Yuri Zhigalkin : President Bush calls to prepare for life without Castro. The list of potential terrorists of American special services has hundreds of thousands of names. Who will help the California fireworks? These are some of the topics of the section "Today in America." On Wednesday, President Bush addressed a loud and, in general, unexpected call for Cubans to prepare for life after Castro.

The program is conducted by Nikita Tatar . The Radio Liberty correspondent Tatyana Voltskaya takes part . Nikita Tatarsky: In St. Petersburg, the Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House is presented with the interactive media installation of Alexander Reichstein "Add Friends" - as part of the city tolerance program. My colleague in St. Petersburg says Tatyana Voltskaya. Tatyana Voltskaya : White balls hang from the ceiling. Under them are ladders - ladders.

On the eve of the parliamentary elections, which will be held on November 13, a nationalist Danish national party, which is included in the ruling coalition, released prophet with a portrait of the founder of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad and the slogan “Freedom of speech - the concept of Danish, Censorship - no,” the Radio Liberty correspondent in Scandinavia Sergey Dzhanyan. “Yes, this is the Prophet Muhammad, and anyone can be depicted in his place. Is it forbidden?

The manuscript of the Qur'an, rewritten in 1203, was sold at the auction of Christie's for 2 million 330 thousand dollars. This manuscript is considered the most ancient to our time the full publication of the Holy Book of Muslims.

In the Moscow City Court today, the so -called "Bittsev maniac" Alexander Pichushkin will perform with the last word. On Wednesday, the jury found him guilty of 48 murders and three assassination assassinations. At the same time, the jury considered that Pichushkin does not deserve condescension. The accusation demanded for him a life imprisonment. Protection is trying to achieve a milder sentence - 25 years in prison.

The volume of the economy of China, the fourth in the world, in the third quarter of 2007, compared with last year, increased by 11.5%. In the second quarter, the growth rate of the Chinese economy was 11.9% - this is the highest indicator over the past 12 years. According to the results of 2007, in general, China in terms of GDP can become the third country in the world, ahead of Germany and second only to the United States and Japan.

Between Russia and NATO, the disagreements of the PRO and the Treaty on ordinary Armed Forces in Europe (DOVS) are retained. This was announced after an informal meeting of the Russian Council - NATO in the Dutch Nordweike General Secretary of the North Atlantic Union of the Jaap de Hop Scheffer. He expressed the hope that Russia will not leave Dovs - a key agreement to control weapons.

The local trade unions celebrated in Lithuania in Lithuania by pickets with a demand for the government to curb inflation, reports from Vilnius the RS correspondent Irina Peters. Chairman of the Lithuanian Confederation of Trade Unions Arthrats Chernyauskas: “If the situation does not change, we will change the government.” - Are your speeches related to such performances of trade unions of neighboring Latvia? “We support them. We spoke near the Latvian embassy.

He held his first match in the Group Tournament of the UEFA Cup Zenit - in St. Petersburg he hosted the Dutch team Az Alkmar. The meeting ended in a draw - 1: 1. The account was opened in the 20th minute, the striker of the guests of Ari, who was deleted after 19 minutes. And in the 43rd minute, the owners received the right to a penalty, which was realized by captain Anatoly Tymoshchuk.

June 22 will officially become a memorable date in Russia. The corresponding decree was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The day of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in 1941 was called "Day of Remembrance and Sorrow."

In Transnistria, the court sentenced two people to 9 and 10 years in prison - for an explosion arranged on the bus. The brothers Alexander and Sergey Varbasevichi last year made and undermined the bomb, as a result of which eight were killed and 46 people were injured.

The program is conducted by Dmitry Volchek. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Moscow, Maryana Torocheshnikov, takes part. Dmitry Volchek: The European Court of Human Rights recognized the maintenance of the detention from March 31 to April 6, 2004, the co -owner of the company Yukos Platon Lebedev.

In the American state of California, covered by fires, the wind gradually subsides, which interfered with the fire. Four days ago, when fires began, the wind speed exceeded 160 kilometers per hour, now it is almost three times less. Three people became victims of the elements. More than one and a half thousand houses burned. The total material damage is estimated already at a billion dollars. Today, US President George Bush plans to visit California.