Dmitry Medvedev Andrey Sharry: The man of the day Radio Liberty March 3 is the first deputy prime minister of the Russian government Dmitry Medvedev. According to official preliminary data, he won the election of the President of the Russian Federation, gaining about 70 percent of the vote in the first round. Dmitry Medvedev was born in 1965 in Leningrad in a family of university teachers. He received a legal education, taught civil and Roman law at Leningrad universities.

The theme of the elections in Russia is on the pages of Russian and foreign amanations The Russians chose the president. By 9 o’clock in Moscow time, representatives of the Central Election Commission processed more than 99% of the ballots. The turnout has not changed - 69.6%.

Iran’s nuclear program should today be the subject of discussion at a meeting of the board of directors of the IAEA in Vienna. The focus will have a recent Magate report, which, in particular, says that so far it has not yet been possible to get complete clarity on all issues of the Iranian nuclear program. Tehran repeatedly denied that he was working to create nuclear weapons.

According to the Ministry of Finance, the volume of the reserve fund of Russia, by March 1, amounted to more than $ 128 billion, and the National Welfare fund - more than 32 billion. Thus, the total amount of savings in them exceeded $ 160 billion. Both funds were created in early 2008 due to the separation of the funds of the former stabilization fund of Russia between them, to which part of the treasury income from the export of Russian oil was sent.

The results of the presidential election in Russia. Visiting Anna Kachkayeva Irina Khakamada.

Five tennis tournaments on different continents ended at the last weekend at once: Memphis women Lindsay Davenport (USA) - Olga Govortsova (Belarusian) - 6: 2, 6: 1 men Steve Darsis (Belgium) - Robin Soterling (Sweden) - 6: 3, 7: 6 Acapulco women Flavia Penetta (Italy) - Alisa Korne (France) - 6: 0, 4: 6, 6: 1 men Nicholas Almagro (Spain) - David Nalbandan (Argentina) - 6: 1, 7: 6 Zagreb men Sergey Stakhovsky (Ukraine) - Ivan Lyubichich (Croatia) - 7: 5, 6: 4

Dimitris Christopias elected by President Cyprus will meet at the end of March with the leader of the Turkish community of the divided island Mehmet Ali Talatom. This was announced by the UN representative in Cyprus. At a meeting, the exact date of which is not yet called, the parties will discuss the possibility of resuming negotiations on the reunification of the Greek and Turkish units of Cyprus.

Joseph Reichelgauz, artistic director of the Moscow Theater "School of Modern Play" Amazing - nearby. For the second year in a row, the Theater "School of Modern Play" under the leadership of Joseph Reichelgauz , goes to the festival in Iran. Last time, Boris Akunin’s play “Why did Konstantin Gavrilovich shot there?”, They now presented the play “Russian Jam” based on the play by Lyudmila Ulitskaya. True, in Iran it was renamed the Russian Jam.

The program is conducted by Alexander GOSTOV. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Moscow Oleg Kusov takes part. Alexander GOSTEV: The head of the Central Election Commission Vladimir Churov today announced preliminary voting results in the election of the President of the Russian Federation in the morning. The CEC plans to publish the official results of the election on Friday, March 7. For this, paper protocols of election commissions must enter the CEC.

The program is conducted by Alexander GOSTOV. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Moscow, Maryana Torocheshnikov, takes part. Alexander GOSTEV: According to observers of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, who monitored the progress of the presidential election in Russia, their result really reflects the will of the people. This was announced at today's press conference in Moscow by the chairman of the delegation of PACE Andreas Gross.

The program is conducted by Mark Krutov. The correspondent of Radio Freedom Vera Volodin takes part. Mark Krutov: Yesterday in Moscow, in addition to the presidential, elections of deputies of municipal meetings were held. 3 thousand candidates claimed 1,500 places. The turnout of the voters approached 60 percent. Vera Volodina: The Muscovites, even already extending after the vote, were most difficult to answer the question of choosing candidates for deputies of the municipal assembly.

Irina Khakamada Anna Kachkaeva: We continue to discuss the results of the elections or what political scientists now call the political event that happened on March 2. The country has the third president in its recent history. But life continues. In Moscow, the "disagreements" are still dispersed, in St. Petersburg the march is allowed, and people have passed there today. Gazprom, after exhaling after the elections, nevertheless limits the supply of gas to Ukraine.

In Moscow, St. Petersburg and a number of other cities today it is planned to hold the protest of the opposition. In St. Petersburg, the city authorities allowed "march Disagnuts. "In Moscow, the organizers of the march did not receive permission to hold it, but they did not refuse the interaction of the action. Today, the City Hall of the capital stated that the attempt to" conduct another Russia "is a provocation.

Iranian President Mahmud Akhmadidjad, completing a visit to Baghdad, called on the United States and their allies to withdraw troops from Iraq. The President of Iran called the presence of foreign troops in Iraq "insulting and humiliation for all countries of the region." During the first Iranian President’s visit to Iraq, Mahmood Akhmadidjad, negotiated with the president of this country, Jalyal Talabani and Prime Minister Nuri Al-Malika.