The program is conducted by Dmitry Volchek. The correspondent of Radio Liberty in Washington Vladimir Abarinov takes part. Dmitry Volchek: In the United States Today is a holiday - thanksgiving. On the eve of the holiday, President George Bush pardoned two turkeys. I asked to tell the Washington Radio Radio Freedom Vladimir Abarinov about this traditional action.

The program is conducted by Mark Krutov. The Radio Liberty correspondent in St. Petersburg Tatyana Voltskaya takes part. Mark Krutov: An unusual festival called "Cyberfest" continues in St. Petersburg. It was visited by our correspondent Tatyana Voltskaya, who sometimes noted controversial, but without exception interesting moments in the so -called "cybernetic art." Tatyana Voltskaya: The festival takes place at several venues - in the Youth Center of the Hermitage and in three art galleries.

Since December 1, the Central Bank of Russia increases the refinancing rate from 12% to 13% per annum. Other key interest rates for the operations conducted by the bank are also increased. It is reported that the decision was made as part of measures to reduce the outflow of capital from the country and contain inflationary trends. This is the sixth increase in the refinancing rate in Russia since February 2008 - then it was increased from 10% to 10.25%.

In Vladikavkaz today they say goodbye to the mayor of the city, Vitaly Karaev, who died as a result of an attempt. Near the house where the mayor lived, a mourning rally will take place. The funeral is on the alley of fame. Vitaly Karaev died on November 26. An unknown sniper fired at him. The investigation is conducted by the Investigative Committee under the prosecutor's office of Russia. All versions are considered, including professional activities.

The program is conducted by Dmitry Volchek. British expert Jason Burk and Indologist Evgeny Vanin take part. Dmitry Volchek : a famous British expert in the field of international security, author of Al-Qaeda. The true history of radical Islam ”Jason Burke noted in an interview with Radio Freedom that the radical Islamic group, which took responsibility for the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, is still almost nothing.

In Mumbai, an operation continues against militants holding hostages in the building of the Center for the Jewish Community. 5 hostages are killed. Two terrorists were eliminated. At the Taj-Mahal hotel, explosions thundered again, a shootout continues. According to the latest data, at least six militants holding hostages settled in the hotel. Earlier, the authorities stated that the militants were released from the Hotel "Trinno/Obora". During the operation, 2 terrorists were killed.

II All -Russian Women's Congress opened in Moscow

A working group of the Public Chamber is sent to Tomsk to verify applications about the pressure of law enforcement agencies to the local TV channel TV-2. According to the press service of the chamber, lawyers and human rights activists were included in the delegation.

The Royal British Society for the Security of the Peresaty said that more than 25,000 British turned their gardens into small reserves. According to the representative of the society, this will help survive such birds as sparrows, starlings and singing blackbirds. The latest news is commented by the Radio Observer Freedom Igor Pomerantsev: “At the end of the nineties of the last century, the exhibition of Claude Monet was held at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

The tragedy in Mumbai: hundreds of dead and wounded terrorist attacks in Mumbai are part of a long -standing conflict that American newspapers write about the trip of Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow arrested an employee of the consulting company Firestone Duncan Sergey Magnitsky today. 30 years of non -state literary prize named after Andrei Bely

US President George Bush welcomed the decision of the Iraq parliament to approve the contract with the United States. The agreement provides that American troops will be withdrawn from Iraq until the end of 2011. The president’s statement, which was published by the White House on Thursday, says the development of democracy in Iraq and the country's growing ability to protect itself.

They say and recall the Lipovans - the Russian Old Believers living in Romania. Profession: Grimer: Theater from the point of view of the Grimeries. One of the participants in the program recalls how she worked with the actors of the Moscow Art Theater K. Stanislavsky. "Red Dry": Conversation with the popular writer Andrei Kurkov, who stayed in the estate of the French Hennessi family

The program is conducted by Alexander GOSTOV. The correspondent of Radio Freedom Lily Palveliev takes part. Alexander GOSTEV : Today in Moscow, a monument to Osip Mandelstam was opened. Its authors are sculptors Dmitry Shakhovskaya and Elena Muntz, as well as architect Alexander Brodsky. The monument is erected in the city center, in the square on the corner of Starosadsky Lane and Zabelin Street, next to the house in which the brother of the poet Alexander lived.

Scientists of the University of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania state university) were studied by the dog's olfactory organs. It is known that the dog has a wonderful scent that allows it to feel a deeply hidden drug or to determine the presence of cancer cells in humans by smell. Scientists came to the conclusion that before the smell molecules fall into the olfactory receptors of the animal, they undergo preliminary sorting.