Olga Orlova: The theme of our today's program is “The main events of 2007 in Russian education”. In the Radio Studio Liberty - Deputy Director of the Institute for the Development of Education of the Higher School of Economics Irina Abankina and director of the Center for Applied Economic Research and Development of the Higher School of Economics Tatyana Abankina. And my first question is Irina Abankina. Let's first talk about high school, about what happened in high school this year.

The 4th round of group competitions began in the Women's League of the Champions. In the group, the Zarechya volleyball players from Odintsov played in Turkey with the local club "Fenerbach" and won in five batches - 3: 2. The Zarechye now has four victories.

The program is conducted by Nikita Tatar. The Radio Liberty correspondent in St. Petersburg Tatyana Voltskaya takes part. Nikita Tatarsky: in St. Petersburg they drafted into the army of the 11th grader, 18-year-old Alexander Timofeev. Human rights activists require the initiation of a criminal case on the fact of abduction of a student.

Millennium bridge in London, one of the famous projects of Norman Foster The Crystal Island will be built in Moscow. The cultural and business complex, the project of the British architect Norman Foster with a total area of about three thousand square meters is planned to be placed in the south of the capital, in the eastern part of the Nagatin floodplain. This decision was made at a meeting of the Public Town Planning Council under the mayor of Moscow.

The program is conducted by Nikita Tatar. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Istanbul Elena Solntseva takes part. Nikita Tatarsky: With the details of the Turkish military operation in Iraq and the reaction of Turkish citizens, our correspondent. Elena Solntseva: In the first lane of the central newspaper "Hurriet", Turkish military fighters are depicted. We read a comment on bright red color at the bottom: “Basy aircraft inflicted missile and bombing through the territory of the Northern Iraq.

The Central Election Commission of Kyrgyzstan published new preliminary results of the parliamentary elections. According to the CIK, the 5 percent barrier necessary for passing to parliament was overcome by 4 games, Radio Liberty correspondent Nadezhda Tolkunova reports. The Party of Ak Zhol is still the leader, which gained almost 47% of the votes. The opposition Socialist Party "Ata-Meken" follows the second with a large margin, it managed to gain 8.29%.

From the building of the Moscow City Court this morning, employees and visitors were urgently evacuated. According to the press service of the court, an anonymous call was received about the threat of an explosion. Checking.

The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. The Radio Liberty correspondent Danila Halperovich takes part. Andrei Sharogradsky : Russian Communists registered their initiative group to nominate Russian President Gennady Zyuganov in the Central Election Commission. They also turned to the prosecutor’s office with the demand to investigate falsification, which, according to them, took place in the elections to the State Duma.

In Ingushetia, another suspect was detained in the case of undermining the Nevsky Express train. This was reported by Russian news agencies with reference to law enforcement agencies of the republic. Earlier, the Prosecutor General’s Office accused two residents of Ingushetia of involvement in the attack. They are under arrest. As a result of the undermining of the "Nevsky Express", which was following from Moscow to St. Petersburg, on August 13 this year, 60 people were injured.

Three Dutch companies are fined a total of one million euros for the illegal distribution of malware. Companies were engaged in installing users of users who load advertising. In total, illegal software was installed on 22 million computers in the Netherlands and other countries. To distribute the program, the zombies-computers (Botnets) were used. The number of infected computers increased daily by an average of almost 8 thousand.

In New York, a copy of the English great charter of liberties was sold at the Sotbis auction for $ 21 million. Only about 20 copies of this historical document have been preserved. A copy sold at the auction dates back to 1297. The Great Charter of the Frequencies was signed in 1215 by the English king John Lightless under the pressure of the rebellious barons. It is considered one of the first documents in Europe to fix the basic civil rights and freedoms.

Travel in ground transport and trains will rise in price by 13%, in long -distance trains - by 14-19% The Russians, who are going to go on a trip by the train on January 1 of the coming year, will be paid for their tickets at the lowest price, and on December 29-30 of the year-at the highest year. Such is the strategy of flexible regulation of tariffs for tickets for long -distance trains in 2008, approved by the Federal Tariff Service .

Badri P. almost forgot his passport name until his opponents reminded him On Tuesday, at the building of the campaign headquarters, Badri Patarkatsishvili (it is located in the former Palace of Marriage) lined up a huge queue. Thousands of people tried to break into the palace in order to have time to register as supporters of Patarkatsishvili. On the eve of Tbilisi, rumors crawled that everyone who had time to register at the headquarters before Wednesday will receive 300 Lari.

Irina Lagunina: In past programs, we talked about the Private Museum of the Ice Age Park, in which a collection of representatives of the mammoth fauna is exhibited. A huge collection of fossil playing age, collected in the museum, allows you to conduct unique scientific research. Of particular interest is the study of soft tissues of fossil animals. Its creator and director Fedor Shidlovsky talks about the scientific work of this museum. Olga Orlova and Alexander Markov talk to him.