"Fairy tale". Our guests are a folklorist Natalya Vedernikova, poet Andrei Orlov, artist Nikita Dzhigurda.

The Chinese Taikonaut Zia Zhigan was the first person in the history of the Cosmonautics of the PRC to go into outer space. He stayed outside the Shanzhou-7 ship for about 15 minutes and conducted a number of experiments during this time. In particular, Jia Zhigan was supposed to experience a protective spacesuit weighing 120 kilograms. Shenzhou-7 went to orbit from the Cosmodrome in Gansu Province in the north-west of China last Thursday.

During the first round of election debates in Oxford, Mississippi, both US presidential candidates - Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama - sharply condemned Russia's actions in Georgia. Obama called "aggressive Russia" a "threat to peace and stability in the region", McCain said that Russia should comply with "international norms of behavior." Both candidates advocated strengthening the connections between NATO, Ukraine and Georgia.

In the Black Sea off the coast of Bulgaria, there is a search for sailors from the sunken dry cargo "Tolstoy". According to preliminary data, there were 13 crew members on board. The ship left the Rostov port on September 21 with a load of scrap metal and followed the Turkish port of Nimrud. The distress signal was supplied on the morning of September 27 and was adopted by the marine rescue center of Varna.

The program "Results of the Week" is maintained by Andrei Shari. Boris Nemtsov and expert of the Karnegi Foundation Nikolai Petrov take part.

The Russian patrol ship "Unsuitable" is directed to the coast of Somalia. The assistant to the Commander -in -Chief of the Russian Navy Igor Dygalo said that Russian warships would periodically go to areas in which sea pirates operate. On the eve of the coast of Somali, the pirates captured a Ukrainian ship, on board of which there are 17 citizens of Ukraine, three Russians and a citizen of Latvia.

Yuri Shevchuk, leader of the DDT group, at the invasion festival, July 7, 2008 Andrey Shary: A man of the week Radio Liberty-Russian rock musician Yuri Shevchuk. In Moscow and St. Petersburg, anti -war concerts organized by him were held under the name "Do not shoot!" In addition to the group of Yuri Shevchuk DDT, musicians from Georgia, Ossetia and Ukraine took part in them. Yuri Shevchuk is 51 years old, he organized the DDT group in 1980 in Leningrad.

Several hundred air passengers can not fly from Moscow to Egypt from a noon on Friday. It is reported by "Echo of Moscow." The aircraft of the airline "Russia" flew out of Vnukovo Airport, but was forced to return. According to some passengers, Greece and Cyprus allegedly banned the flight of a Russian aircraft in their airspace. Now they promise passengers that after a while the plane will be replaced, and they will be able to fly to Egypt.

On October 2, the Federal Political Service of the Union of Right Forces will consider at the “Further Fate of the Party” at the meeting - after the resignation of its former leader Nikita Belykh, which was announced on Friday. Belykh also declared his exit from the party. A number of analysts believe that in the near future the merger of the ATP with the Democratic Party of Russia and the Civil Power Party will be held.

Maryana Torocheshnikova: The right to participate in state management is the topic of today's program that I am completing the cycle of programs dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed it in December 1948.

At the men's tennis tournament in Bangkok, the finalists decided. The results of the semifinals: Novak Djokovic (Serbia) - Tomash Berdykh (Czech Republic) - 7: 5, 6: 1 Jo -Vilfried Tsonga (France) - Gael Monfis (France) - 6: 0, 6: 3

Victor Erofeev: Our guests are a folklorist Natalya Mikhailovna Vedernikova, actor, poet Nikita Dzhigurda and poet Andrei Orlov. The theme of our today's program is a fairy tale. Today we will talk about the tales of our life, about the tales of our culture. We will think about whether our country is still fabulous, and whether it is good to live in a fabulous country if it is actually fabulous. So, fairy tales in our lives.

The program is conducted by Marina Dubovik. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Kyiv Vladimir Ivakhnenko takes part. Marina Dubovik: In the past week, Ukrainian politicians changed their own decisions several times. They either unfolded the headquarters in preparation for new elections, then stated that they had almost agreed on the new coalition. One thing in the country remains unchanged: the authority of leading Ukrainian politicians among citizens of Ukraine is slowly and confidently falling.

On September 27, 1840, Thomas Nast, one of the first American political cartoonists, was born. There is evidence that Nast suffered from dyslexia and dysgraphia, that is, he could not read and write, but this did not prevent him from becoming an excellent illustrator artist. He became famous after drawing an elephant and a donkey, which became emblems of the Republican and Democratic parties. A native of Germany, Nast was brought by parents in the United States at the age of 6 years.