Anton Corbine. Portrait of David Bowie The Dutch photographer Anton Corbine came to Moscow. In the metropolitan museum of contemporary art, its retrospective exhibition has opened. Corbine brought world fame pictures of rock musicians, video clips and directing concerts. Among the models of the master are participants of the U-2 groups, Depeche Mode, Nirvana and Metallica. The name of the exhibition is “Four dimensions of Anton Corbine”. And this corresponds to the four periods of his work.

Two employees of the US State Department were dismissed, another was disciplined for the fact that Senator Barack Obama, without appropriate permission, gained access without appropriate permission. The official representative of the department Sean McCormak did not exclude that the employees had failed "careless curiosity." At the same time, McCormak noticed that the true causes of the act were still not clear.

The State Duma of Russia adopted in the second reading a package of bills on the participation of foreign investors in the capital of Russian companies and enterprises classified as strategic. It includes 42 types of activities, including the production of weapons and special equipment, aircraft industry, the space industry and atomic energy. The strategic category also includes mining in the subsoil sites of federal significance.

Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky meets with a delegation of the Russian government in this composition for the last time Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov meets in Minsk with his colleague Sergei Sidorsky. The trip of the Russian prime minister to Belarus is related to a number of economic issues that arose in a union state.

The program is conducted by Mark Krutov. The Radio Liberty correspondent in St. Petersburg Viktor Rezunkov takes part. Mark Krutov: In St. Petersburg, a cassation appeal of the lawyers Maxim Reznik, the leader of the St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko party, arrested on suspicion of beating the police officers on the eve of the recent "Marshal of the disagreement", immediately after the presidential election.

Russia and Israel signed an agreement on the abolition of the visa regime. The document was signed on Thursday Tel Aviv by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the two countries - Sergei Lavrov and Tsipi Livni. The agreement will enter into force in three months. According to the head of the Israeli Ministry of Tourism, the abolition of the visa regime will double the flow of Russian tourists in Israel.

The program is conducted by Mark Krutov. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Moscow Danila Halperovich takes part. Mark Krutov: The Russian State Duma today at its plenary meeting should accept a statement that will be a response to the request of the heads of the unrecognized republics of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria to the Russian authorities to recognize their independence. These requests, as expected, followed the declaration of independence by the Serbian region of Kosovo.

The program is conducted by Mark Krutov. Radio Radio Freedom Oleg Kusov and Armen Dulian take part. Mark Krutov: From today in the capital of Armenia, Yerevan ceases to operate a state of emergency. It was introduced by Ziden Robert Kocharian on March 1, after the opposition rallies that grew into riots. Supporters of the opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who lost the recent presidential elections, insisted on the cancellation of voting results and recounting votes.

George Bush sums up the war in Iraq George Bush is convinced that under the new president of the country's politician in the Middle East will remain the same. On the eve of the New Year on the ancient Persian calendar and five years after the beginning of the war with Iraq, George Bush gave an exclusive interview to the Radio Farda correspondent .

In Makhachkala, the head of the Gadzhi Abashilov, the head of the Dagestan GOSTELEDRALRADOMENTS. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic, unknown people fired at his car. Abashilov died on the spot from the wounds, his driver was hospitalized. Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika said that he was undergoing personal control investigation of the murder.

In Nice, at the traditional Amber tournament, where the 12 strongest grandmasters of the world in each round are held in two parties (one is blindly, the other in “fast” chess), the 6th tour was played. Vishvanatan Anand approached the leader of Levon Aronyan, who scored 7.5 points, who had 7 points. Five grandmasters scored 6.5 points.

A meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Union Russian-Belarusian state was held in Minsk. President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, met with Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov and told him about the problems that arose in the economy after Washington introduced sanctions against Belarus, Radio Liberty correspondent Vitaly Tsygankov. “The economic relations of Belarus and Russia are developing with unique intensity,” Lukashenko said at a meeting with Zubkov.

The leader of the St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko party Maxim Reznik was released from the investigative insulator. The City Court of St. Petersburg decided to release it, entrusting the lower court to the arrest sanction, to reconsider the issue of the extent of the suppression. The prosecutor's office accuses Reznik of insulting and using force against a representative of the authorities. The charges have not been removed from him.