In Bishkek, the opposition picket is overcame. Demonstrators gathered near the CEC of Kyrgyzstan to express a protest against the falsification of the results of the parliamentary elections. Police officers detained the picketers, put him on the bus and took away. Among them was the journalist of the agency France Press Tolkuna Namatdaev. The police explained their actions by the fact that there are specially designated places for holding protests.

Vladimir Kara-Murza: The American magazine Time called Vladimir Putin the "man of the year." How successful is the choice of American journalists? We discuss this topic with the former editor -in -chief of the magazine "America" Konstantin Borov. Do you think this choice is successful or would you call anyone else this year of this year? Konstantin Borova: You know, this choice seems very successful to me. Because indeed Putin made a very strong impression on the rest of the world.

American film producer Gerald Green and his wife were arrested at the Los Angeles Airport after arriving from Thailand on charges of a bribe by a Thai official. Spouses Green offered 1 million 700 thousand dollars to a responsible employee of the State Tourist Agency for assistance in receiving contracts for the film festival in Bangkok. The total amount of contracts is estimated at about 10 million dollars.

How successful is the choice of American journalists who called Vladimir Putin the "man of the year"? We discuss the topic with the former editor -in -chief of the magazine "America" Konstantin Borov.

The UN Security Council, which discussed the problem of Kosovo, failed to find a compromise decision by the Moscow Arbitration Court suspended the holding of auctions for the right to rent forest sites in the Moscow region

Russia and Serbia insist on continuing negotiations on the status of Kosovo, despite the statement of the United States and the EU that all the possibilities that have existed for this have already been exhausted. The UN Security Council, which discussed the problem on Wednesday, was not able to find a compromise solution. The Albanians, representing the majority of Kosovo, intend to announce the department in the near future in the near future.

The program is conducted by Alexander GOSTOV. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Moscow Danila Halperovich takes part. Alexander GOSTEV: At the building of the Moscow Bureau of Radio Freedom today, a picket of a certain group of citizens who, as they themselves said, came to protest against the doubles of the US radio station Voice of America. The way this strange action took place, the correspondent of Radio Liberty Danila Halperovich was watching.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Moscow Lily Palvelieva takes part. Andrey Sharry: Russia refused to send paintings from its museums to the exhibition in London. At first, Moscow requires guarantees of the security of exhibits, for example, those that these exhibits will not be confiscated or arrested. Such a guarantee could, according to Russian officials, become the adoption of a special act of the British government.

Andrey Soldatov: "The SVR under Fradkov can cease its independent existence" Yaroslav Shimov: the expansion of the Schengen zone, like any large phenomenon, a stick about the two ends

The US Congress approved the allocation of $ 70 billion to finance military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. These articles are provided in the bill on federal expenses, the volume of which is 555 billion dollars. Now the document will enter the signature of President George Bush.

The program is conducted by Nikita Tatar. The Radio Liberty correspondent in St. Petersburg Tatyana Voltskaya takes part. Nikita Tatarsky: On December 20, 90 years old, Russian security agencies - VChK, NKVD, KGB, FSB. Tatyana Voltskaya: All -Russian Emergency Commission to combat counter -revolution and sabotage in Soviet Russia was formed by a resolution of the Council of People's Commissars on December 20, 1917.

Russia refused to send paintings from its museums to the exhibition to London. Moscow first requires guarantees of the security of exhibits (for example, guarantees that they will not be confiscated or arrested). Such a guarantee could be the adoption of a special act of the British government. This is stated in a letter from the head of Roskulture Mikhail Shvydky, the State Secretary of the British Culture Department, James Perelu.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. The special representative of the Russian Foreign Minister of Russia to resolve in the Balkans, Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, takes part. Andrei Sharry: Russian diplomats that reproach Western countries in haste in solving the Kosovo problem, indicate that during the negotiations it was possible to find a compromise. Which ones?