In Minsk today, the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko holds Negotiations with the head of Libya Muamar Gaddafi. The Libyan leader arrived in the Belarusian capital the day before. During the meeting, it is expected to have issues of bilateral cooperation in politics, economics and trade. Gaddafi came to Minsk from Moscow, where He met with the Russian leadership last week.

Accomplish urb وoffared ريزی وزارت opinions: از اlfدای س وه imes ۱۰۰ي fut ۱۰۰ ۱۰۰و happen در ليتughterق می شود. (Upکund In the exhibition complex “Project Factory” , an exhibition dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the animation studio “Pilot”, which was headed by the most famous director Alexander Tatarsky , is held.

The 11 largest writers supported the Czech writer Milan Kunders, who was recently accused of cooperation with the communist regime. The writers called it a slanderous campaign, aimed at staining the reputation of Kunders. Among the signing are the appeal - Carlos Fuentes, Garcia Marquez, Salman Rushdi, Philip Roth, as well as Nobel Prize laureates Nadine Gordimer, Joseph Kutzey and Orhan Pamuk.

In the German city of Hannover, on November 8, a festival of synagogue music is opened, dedicated to the seventieth anniversary of the burning of the Nazis of the synagogue in Austria and in Germany in 1938. The festival program includes works written for synagogues from 1810 to 1938, among them the compositions of Franz Schubert and Kurt Vile. The festival will end on November 16.

In Kalmykia, a light -engine aircraft crashed. The pilot and passenger died. This was reported to Interfax in the Southern Regional Center of the Russian Emergencies Ministry. The plane fell at the village of Kagult. According to eyewitnesses, he caught fire in the air. Details of the incident are clarified.

Syrian human rights activists report that Damascus authorities prevented the trip of the Syrian film director Mohammad Malas to the Paris Film Festival. This decision was made by the special services of Syria, which recently intensified control over the intellectual and cultural life of the country. Their goal, according to human rights activists, achieve the isolation of Syria from the outside world.

The economy of Europe next year will practically not grow, the European Commission predicts. According to her calculations, due to the global financial crisis, the growth of the EU economy will be 0.2 percent, the growth of the economy of the Eurozone countries is 0.1 percent, and there will be no growth in Germany and France, and the UK will have a recession. A significant increase in the number of unemployed is expected.

A senior representative of China arrives at Taiwan - for the first time since 1949, when the island began to be controlled by its own administration. The Chairman of the Beijing Association of Relations through the Taiwanese Strait Chen Yunlin will discuss with his Taibey colleague the issues of economic cooperation. First of all, the expansion of air transportation and the establishment of direct marine communication between mainland China and Taiwan. No political issues will be discussed.

In Tallinn, on Monday, the trial of the organizers of the protest against the transfer from the center of the Estonian capital of the monument to the Soviet soldier, which ended in April 2007, will resume by riots. The activists of the Night Watch movement Dmitry Linter, Maxim Reye and Dmitry Klensky, as well as the leader of the Estonian branch of the Prochrevsky youth movement "Our" Mark Sirok, were charged with organizing unrest. They face up to 5 years in prison.

From today, the airline "Vladivostok Avia" has reduced the fuel allowance on Russian routes from today. This was reported by ITAR-TASS a representative of the airline. According to her, this will lead to a decrease in ticket prices. So the flight along the route Vladivostok-Moscow and will cost a passenger an economic class of less than 16 thousand rubles, while in the summer the ticket price exceeded 20 thousand. "Vladivostok Avia" is the largest passenger air carrier in the Far East.

The program is conducted by Mikhail Salenkov. The Radio Liberty correspondent in New York Yuri Zhigalkin takes part. Mikhail Salenkov: November 4 in the USA Presidential elections. According to numerous election polls, the Senator-Democrat Barack Obama leads in the race. Today, presidential candidates make the latest efforts that to persuade voters to their side.

The head of the central command of the United States, General David Petraus is negotiating in Pakistan. The main topic is an aggravation of bilateral relations after a series of American strikes from Afghanistan on shelters and Taliban bases in Pakistani territory. On a trip of the general is accompanied by US Secretary of State Richard Bucher. Earlier, David Petreus commanded US troops during military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Alexander Genis: Today's “American hour” will complete the “Book Review” of Marina Efimova, in which she will introduce our listeners to the new biography of Fred Aster. Joseph Epstein. Fred Astaire Joseph Epstein. "Fred Aster" Marina Efimova: Epstein's book Frad Aster was published in the nostalgic series “American Idols”, which is published by the Publishing House of Yale University. But I must say that this idol - Fred Aster - does not yet need a reminder of himself.

Minsk and Tripoli adhere to similar positions in issues of international policy, said President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko at a meeting in Minsk with the Libyan leader Muamar Gaddafi. Lukashenko expressed the hope of expanding trade and economic ties between countries. The day before, the Libyan leader arrived in Minsk from Moscow, where he held negotiations with the Russian leadership.

The Chinese authorities in the first official document on the problem of preserving the environment admitted that China throws into the atmosphere as many harmful gases as the United States. The dependence of the country's economic growth on coal further complicates the task of monitoring the atmosphere pollution. The country's authorities believe that China needs the help of developed countries in the field of creating air and water purification technologies.