On December 4, three men came to the office of the International Human Rights Human Rights Human Rights Society on 23 Rubinstein Street in St. Petersburg, two of them in masks, and began to search. Employees of the organization are in the office, but it is impossible to contact them, since the phones are turned off. At the door are other employees of Memorial and human rights activists who are not allowed inside, including the chairman of the board of human rights organization Sergey Khakhaev.

The program is conducted by Sergey Tarasov. The correspondent of Radio Freedom Lily Palveliev takes part. Sergey Tarasov: “Episodes from the life of the city” - such a subtitle is worn by the photo exhibition “Moscow Soviet and Nonvetskaya”, which was prepared by the Moscow Time Foundation. Pictures of the views of the capital and its inhabitants, made in the twentieth century and today, are compared here. The exhibition was opened at the Museum of Modern History of Russia.

Vladimir Isakov, the head of the rear of the Russian Armed Forces, was dismissed by Vladimir Ryzhkov: United Russia set the task of breeding amendments to the Constitution until December 24 of Omsk employers plan to dismiss their employees

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev appointed a pension of his mother Dmitry Ganin, who died in Tallinn during the riots caused by the transfer of the monument to the Soviet soldier. The monthly material allowance will be three times the basic part of the old -age labor pension.

Today, Penza opens the third congress of non -governmental organizations of the Council of Europe. About 50 leading NGOs from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus refused to participate in the forum. According to the head of the Moscow Helsinki group, Lyudmila Alekseeva, the organizers refused to discuss acute issues that concern the Russian civil society in particular.

In Iraq, the Presidential Council on Thursday approved a contract with Washington, which determines the terms of withdrawal of American troops from the country. President Dzhalyal Talabani, who is Kurd, and two vice presidents-Sunnit Tarik al-Hashemi and Shiit Adele Abdul-Mamedi-signed an agreement in the residence of the head of state in Baghdad.

Should we expect a noticeable decrease in prices in Russia? The premiere of Masha Novikova about Harry Kasparov in the Netherlands. Azerbaijani human rights center. Friendly relations between Roosevelt and Churchill during the II World War.

The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. The Radio Liberty correspondent in St. Petersburg Tatyana Voltskaya takes part. Andrei Sharogradsky: In St. Petersburg, a group of people in masks blocked the office of the Human Rights Center "Memorial". Now on the air of our correspondent in St. Petersburg Tatyana Voltskaya. Tatyana, is it known what these events are related to? What are these people who came to the office of the Memorial?

The Supreme Court of Russia freed from the guard Ivan Mironov-the last person involved in the case of the attempt on the ex-head of the RAO UES of Russia Anatoly Chubais. Mironova’s lawyer informed Interfax that six people were guided by her client. In 2005, unknown people fired at Chubais's motorcade, then no one was injured. On suspicion of organizing an attempt, four people were detained.

The trade unions of the scriptwriters and film actors of Hollywood decided to be friends against producers. They object to the fact that films are laid out on the Web without sufficient fees to the author’s teams. The latest news is commented by the Radio Office of Freedom Marina Timasheva: “The studios agreed to pay actors to 23 dollars for each repeated Internet, but this is much less than the payment of the television scuses (they give 700 dollars for them).

The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. The economic observer of Radio Freedom Ivan Trefilov takes part. Andrey Sharogradsky: Our program will continue the "Economic Panorama". It is led by Ivan Trefilov. Ivan Trefilov: The Russian government intends to allocate 300 billion rubles for the provision of state guarantees for loans allocated by banks to the real sector of the country's economy, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Government, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said.

Georgian Minister of Tkeshelashvili was in Finland in the spotlight The heads of diplomatic departments of the OSCE member countries at a meeting in Helsinki today discussed the consequences of the armed conflict in the Caucasus. Representatives of France, Ukraine and Georgia spoke out in favor of activating international intermediary efforts in the region.

In the south of Afghanistan, two Danish soldiers died on Thursday. The command of Denmark’s forces reported that the soldiers died during the patrol service in the vicinity of the city of Gereshk (Gilmain Province). The contingent of Denmark in Afghanistan has 700 troops and is part of the international forces under the command of NATO. General losses of Denmark in Afghanistan are 18 people.

The European Union intends to activate the efforts to build the Nabukko gas pipeline, which is going to Russia from Central Asia to Russia. According to the special representative of the EU Pierre Morel after a meeting in Ashgabat with the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, the Russian-Garsuzin armed conflict in August demonstrated the need to speed up the implementation of the project. The Nabukko pipeline will reduce European dependence on Russian energy carriers.