The program is conducted by Kirill Kobrin. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Berlin Yuri Veksler takes part. Kirill Kobrin: Our release will continue the topic related to modern television. It will be about the scandal that erupted on the German public television channel. Here, unlike private television channels, scandals, and even more so on the air, is a rare phenomenon.

Tajan Langdon almost alone provided his team from the advantage at the very beginning of the match CSKA basketball players from victory started in the new Euroleague draw. Updated more than a third, who lost before the start of the season due to the injury of the captain of the Matyazh Smodysh team, the acting owner of the main European trophy rushed into battle for the next title and defeated the Milan “Armani Jeans”-90:64.

Vladimir Baburin : The State Duma adopted on Thursday amendments to the federal budget for 2008-2010. Without changing the main macroeconomic indicators of the budget for this year, next year the law provides for an increase in financing in individual anti -crisis areas through the savings of individual budget allocations this year, as well as the redistribution of expenditure data between 2008 and 2009. In total, several hundred billion rubles for anti -crisis measures are allocated.

In Pskov, at the conference of the regional branch of the United Russia party, it was decided to exclude Pskov mayor Mikhail Zhoronen from the Presidium of the Regional Political Council. As Radio Liberty correspondent Anna Lipina reports, most of the conference delegates voted for this decision. The reason was an unsatisfactory assessment of the activities of Mikhail Zhoronen as the mayor.

The metropolitan authorities intend to place new houses, hairdressers, laundries and repair workshops at the central heating points and on the first floors of inaudible houses. So the government is going to solve the problem of lack of catering and household services - Muscovites are only 60% provided with similar services. Residents of the first floors await resettlement.

At least 11 people died and 14 were injured in an explosion in the capital of Iraq Baghdad. According to the authorities, the suicide bomber in a mined car crashed into a motorcade of the Ministry of Labor and Social Relations. Minister Mahmoud Mohammed Ar-Radhi was not injured. Among the dead are three of his guards.

In the Abkhazian city of Gali, a senior officer of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic Eduard Emin-Zade was killed. According to law enforcement agencies, the head of the intelligence department was found dead in one of the private houses. The Minister of Defense of Abkhazia, Mirab Kishmaria, has liable for the murder of Georgia on the authorities. It is also reported that President of the Republic Sergey Bagapsh gathered an urgent meeting in connection with what happened.

The announcement of the annual message of the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, the federal assembly was posted today, has been postponed from Thursday for an indefinite period. The head of state intends to introduce anti -crisis editing into it, daily correcting the text. Earlier this week, Medvedev imposed the blame for the crisis for the financial policy of the United States, predicting the end of the era of economic dominance of the United States in the world.

The United States warned Baghdad about the consequences of the failure to accept the agreement on the stay of the US troops in Iraq until 2011. According to the representative of the White House, Dana Perino, if the contract is not accepted, American troops will not be able to conduct active operations in Iraq after December 31, 2008, when the UN mandate expires. US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that in this case, Iraq is threatened with serious consequences in the field of security.

The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. The economic observer of Radio Freedom Ivan Trefilov takes part. Andrei Sharogradsky: The panorama of economic news on the waves of "Freedom" is led by the observer Ivan Trefilov. Ivan Trefilov: The Russian currency in relation to the American continues to get cheaper. On the morning of Thursday, her exchange rate at the interbank currency exchange was reduced to 27 rubles per dollar, updating the minimum summer of 2006.

In the United States, sales of the first G1 smartphone working on the Google Android platform began . Google believes that the smartphone will provide mobile phone users with convenient Internet access. The G1 smartphone was made by Taiwanese HTC companies. It is sold at a price of $ 180, including a two-year T-Mobile contract for accessing a third-generation network. This is almost half as much as the cost of Apple's iPhone.

In fact, this is not a dollar grows, but the euro falls The Russian currency continues to become cheaper than the American one. On the morning of Thursday, the dollar exchange rate at the interbank currency exchange increased to 27 rubles, updating the maximum summer of 2006. However, Russia is by no means an exception - over the past days, the dollar is strengthened in relation to most other world currencies.

Visiting Vladimir Baburin, the head of the Center for Social Research of the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences Evgeny Gontmaker