The program is conducted by Mark Krutov . The Radio Liberty correspondent George Kobaladze takes part . Mark Krutov : The Central Election Commission of Georgia today must announce the first official preliminary results of the presidential election held on Saturday. According to unofficial data, the current president Mikhail Saakashvili, who gained 52 percent of the vote, won the victory in the first round. In second place is the opposition candidate Levan Gachechiladze with 25 percent.

On Tuesday, in the area of the Lebanese city of Sidon, on a mine laid on the road, the Unifil patrol jeep - the UN peacekeeping forces in Lebanon. Two troops received light injuries. This was reported by the Lebanese authorities and representatives of the UN. On the eve of the night, two Grad missiles released from Lebanese territory exploded in the center of Shlomi in the north of Israel, the RS correspondent in the Middle East Rovshan Huseynov reports.

The program is conducted by Mark Krutov. The Radio Liberty correspondent Viktor Cheretsky takes part. Mark Krutov : In the north of Spain, in the small historical province of Palencia, there is a village called “Anti -Hudad”, which means “antiquity”. Many legends and mysterious phenomena are connected with this village, which for centuries will excite the hot imagination of the Spaniards. Says the Radio Liberty correspondent in Madrid Viktor Cheretsky.

The inhabitants of Makhachkala, outraged by turning off electricity in ten -degree frosts, blocked some streets of the city. This was reported to Interfax on Monday to the law enforcement agencies of Dagestan. Citizens who require the authorities to solve the problem turn to the leadership of the republic and to the federal center.

The program is conducted by Mark Krutov. The Radio Liberty correspondent Oleg Kusov takes part. Mark Krutov : This year, in one of the former Soviet republics, elections will be held. We are talking about Armenia, where the vote is scheduled for mid -February, but presidential candidates have actually began to fight. Oleg Kusov talked about the attitude of official Moscow to the election campaign in Armenia with Russian experts.

The leader of the Russian Democratic Party Andrei Bogdanov announced the completion of the collection of signatures in his support for registration in the presidential election in March this year. In addition to Bogdanov, two million voter signatures in the Central Election Commission should be represented by the leader of the Russian People's Democratic Union Mikhail Kasyanov. His headquarters stated that about 1 million 700 thousand signatures were collected.

In Georgia, the opposition canceled the protest planned today against the official results of the presidential election. The opposition candidate Levan Gachechiladze said that so far he would fight exclusively by legal methods. After the counting of 90 percent of the Bulletin, the Central Election Commission of Georgia said that the current president Mikhail Saakashvili scored more than 50 percent of votes. In second place Gachechiladze is about 25 percent.

US President George Bush held negotiations in Washington with Turkish President Abdullah Gyul. The leaders of the two countries stated that they would continue the joint struggle with the Kurdish rebels in Iraq who attacked Turkish territory .. George Bush supported Turkey’s desire to join the European Union, saying that he was considering this country as a bridge between Europe and the Muslim world.

The results - not years, but eight years - gathered in a bundle in the famous "Luzhnikovskaya" speech of Putin. Classics of the genre! You will begin to retell in your own words, and you yourself will take it in the back of the head: what, dear, we have, the millennium in the yard? Yes any.

Palestinian and Israeli leaders should meet today for negotiations on the resumption of the peace process. The meeting of the Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert and the head of the Palestinian autonomy of Mahmoud Abbas will be held in Jerusalem the day before the coming to the Middle East of US President George Bush.

Five large international broadcasting companies condemned the threat of freedom of the press growing in the world. As the leadership of the BBC, the German Wave, the French International Radio, the World Radio Netherlands and the Voices of America, in many countries they broadcast, are more and more limited, journalists are attacked. Broadcasting companies called on to comply with the UN Rights Declaration and not impede the free dissemination of information.

In the Tabasaran district of Dagestan, two militants were killed during the special operation. The police officer was injured. The searches of several more Mujahideen are being conducted. According to RIA Novosti, a group of militants was blocked this morning in the area of the village of Heli-Pendzhik.

About 70 percent of the Czechs - against the placement of a radar in the country, which is an element of the American missile defense system. These are the data of a public opinion poll just published in the Czech Republic. Washington states that the radar, like missile defense systems, which is supposed to be placed in Poland, are directed against the threat of Iran and other countries with radical regimes. Russia is opposed to US plans.