Andrei Buzin: Signs of the election campaign, which we now see, have already been observed in the embryo state in 2003, the features of television campaigning: Russia showed the DPR video, parody of the ATP Association in the Vladimir Russia "United Russia" interfered with the Kamchatka accident in Petropavlovsk and poverty in Koryakia Lobanov-Rostov’s mansion in the Koryaki. Petersburg will become an elite hotel

Sergey Mironov confirmed that Putin is in St. Petersburg In St. Petersburg, intriguing confusion reigns. The head of state was to come to the congress of supporters of United Russia and part -time the first number of the election list of this party. However, it is still unknown whether Putin came to the city. The party itself refuses to comment on what is happening, both phones of the United Russia public reception in St. Petersburg are temporarily disconnected.

Former head of the Ministry of Economic Development, German Gref, was elected president, chairman of the board of Sberbank. The decision was made at a meeting of shareholders. The former head of Sberbank Andrei Kazmin, as already reported, can lead the "Russian Post".

Ivan Tolstoy: Let's start with France, where they recall the singer Barbaru, who had passed 10 years ago. Dmitry Savitsky. Barbara: “I always thought, even in early childhood, when I“ played the singer ”that I would sing. I did not understand at that time that this means, I did not know what to do for this, I did not know what a "star" was. This is later, much later, I understood all this. But I wanted to sing, and here I was completely sure of that. " Dmitry Savitsky: "....

The United States will be actively involved in the process of peaceful settlement in the Middle East. This was stated by US President George Bush on Wednesday after a meeting with the head of the Palestinian Autonomy Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. This meeting marked the formal beginning of the peaceful Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, the agreement on which was reached on Tuesday at the International Conference on the Middle East in Annapolis (Maryland).

Congress of the Party "Our Ukraine" in Kyiv Vitaly Portnikov: Today, in the Kiev Bureau of Radio Liberty, we will talk about the latest political events in Ukraine, where, finally, a new parliament, elected during extraordinary elections, began its work. But the meeting of the parliament has not led to any organizational decisions so far.

The Secretary of State Rice (a protest participant in her mask on the right) can bring Annapolis to his asset, experts believe US President George Bush announced on Tuesday about the success of the Middle Eastern Conference in Annapolis, convened on his initiative. The reason for such a declaration was the readiness expressed by the leaders of Israel and Palestine to begin peace negotiations, which may end in the creation of the Palestinian state by the end of 2008.

Israel delivered a new blow from the air at the gas sector. The positions of the Hamas group in the southern part of the sector were found to be shelling. Two were killed, somewhat injured. The Israeli command said that the blow was inflicted in response to the ongoing missile shelling of its territory from the Gaza sector. On Wednesday, 11 missiles were released on the south of Israel.

In the Austrian city of Baden, negotiations on Kosovo status should be completed today. The day before, the participants stated that the dialogue had come to a standstill. Kosovo Albanians insist on the independence of the region from Serbia, Belgrade said that the proclamation of independence would be an illegal step, and Serbia could take response measures.

In general, the election campaign in Primorye passes calmly The Primorsky press about the main political event of the year - elections - writes a little. Basically, all newspaper strips are occupied by advertising materials, for the most part it is agitation for Putin and United Russia. The newspaper Moscow Komsomolets in Vladivostok reports: Primorsky deputies of the Legislative Assembly accepted an appeal to Vladimir Putin with a request not to leave.

Irina Lagunina: Last week, Britain was shocked by a large-scale scandal associated with the loss of personal data of 25 million people. The Minister of Finance of the country Alistair Darling announced this largest loss in the History of the loss. Of course, an incident of this scale could not help but raise the question: or maybe something is wrong with the information storage system, which should be confidential. The discussion in London is watched by Elena Vorontsova.

The International Amnesty considers Harry Kasparov a prisoner of conscience and requires his immediate liberation. The special statement of this human rights organization, entitled “Russian Federation: systematic repressions on the eve of the elections,” said that the Russian authorities are arresting and persecuting supporters of the opposition to force them to shut up.

The program is conducted by Nikita Tatar. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Novgorod Svetlana Gerasimova takes part. Nikita Tatarsky: In the Novgorod region, the course of the election campaign was significantly influenced by the change of regional leadership, which happened at the very start of the nomination of candidates for the State Duma. From Veliky Novgorod with the details of Svetlana Gerasimova.

The clashes occurred during the funeral of the demonstrator killed the day before,- the Radio Liberty correspondent Rovshan Huseynov reports. Palestinian police officers opened a warning fire on the participants in the funeral procession, which left the permitted route. People began to throw police stones. In response, the police opened fire to defeat, and then dispersed the procession with batons. Palestinian doctors report that they received 26 wounded, three with bullet wounds.