The Iranian human rights activist and lawyer Nasrin Sotud could not fly out of Tehran’s airport to Italy, where the ceremony of her awarding by the International Prize for Human Rights was to be held. Sotut said that at her a passport was taken away by people who introduced themselves as employees of the Presidential office. Her husband and little daughter were allowed to fly away, but the human rights activist and her son were forced to stay.

Coalition suffering in Ukraine. Who with whom and against whom? The program is participated in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Irina Gerashchenko and the president of the Interfax-Ukraine agency Alexander Martynenko.

The World Bank predicts a sharp slowdown in the growth of the world economy. According to the latest calculations, in 2009, growth will be 0.09 percent. The US government said that for the first time since the 80s of the last century, oil consumption will decrease in the world.

Carbon dioxide was first discovered on a distant planet, NASA's American space agency reported. The Khabbla space telescope discovered gas in an atmosphere of the planet, which turns around a star located in 63 light years from the Sun - this is another evidence that life can be born everywhere. NASA notes, however, that on this particular planet, the surface temperature reaches a thousand degrees, that there is too much for the emergence of life.

In St. Petersburg, during the action against changes to the country's constitution, five people were detained, Radio Liberty correspondent Tatyana Voltskaya reports. On December 10, two promotions took place near the walls of the St. Petersburg parliament: at 9 a.m., a single picket began the activist of the Yabloko party, she had a small poster with Putin’s portrait and a quote from his speech in her hands: “They need to change my brains, not our constitution”.

The Organizing Committee of the Pulitzer Prize said that from now on, journalists of online publications can be awarded the prize. The prize is the most prestigious professional award, it has been awarded to the best American journalists since 1917. Now in all 14 nominations, journalists of periodic online publications will be able to apply for the prize.

J. In the center of Moscow, the floors of a residential building, which were on reconstruction, fell. At least one person died, two more were injured. According to the Russian Emergencies Ministry, eight people are saved. At least six people remain under the rubble, for the salvation of which, perhaps, one of the walls of the house may have to be partially dismantled.

In Moscow, the Coalition "Another Russia" and the city authorities could not agree on the holding of the "Marsh of the Disagent" in the capital. The organizers were going to hold the action on the Triumphal Square, but representatives of the city hall refused to them, offering alternative places. The leaders of "other Russia" do not agree with these proposals. Earlier, the authorities of St. Petersburg also did not allow the "marsh of disagreements". The organizers of the St.

In the center of Athens today there were clashes of the police and participants in mass anti -government manifestations. Demonstrators threw policemen with stones and bottles with incendiary mixture. In response, the police used tear gas. In Greece there is a general strike. Protests began after a policeman shot a 15-year-old teenager on Saturday. The performances of youth and radicals over a few days grew into a mass anti -government movement.

The program is conducted by Dmitry Morozov. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Kyiv Vladimir Ivakhnenko takes part. Dmitry Morozov: In Ukraine, Vladimir Litvin was elected by the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada and announced the creation of the parliamentary coalition of the Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko, “Our Ukraine - People’s Self -Defense” and the Litvin bloc. The previous “orange” coalition, which included two of these political forces, broke up almost three months ago.

A regular participant in the shares of the “disagreed” Nikita Belykh (in the photo in the center) this time would hardly have joined the protesters: the authorities made him an offer, which he could not refuse In Moscow, the leaders of the Coalition “Another Russia” personally went to the city hall to agree on their event. Harry Kasparov and Eduard Limonov and the Deputy mayor Valery Vinogradov and the head of the coordination of the activities of Moscow’s security, Valery Kadatsky, talked.

Russia has no and did not have plans to invade Georgia, said General Nikolai Makarov, head of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. Information that Russia allegedly in the spring of 2009 is going to attack Georgia is not based on anything, the general noted. Speaking on Wednesday at a meeting with the foreign military attache, Makarov spoke out to resume cooperation with NATO, interrupted in August after the conflict in South Ossetia.

The program is conducted by Mikhail Salenkov. The Radio Liberty correspondent Andrei Shary takes part. Mikhail Salenkov: Today marks the 60th anniversary from the date of adoption by the United Nations by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This small document out of 30 articles has become one of the powerful imperatives of morality in world politics, unfortunately, far from always and not for all that has the norm of the law.

Human Right Day in Belarus The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the foundation of international legislation, creating a legal basis for protecting the main human values and combating violations such as discrimination, torture and illegal arrests. The document was adopted 60 years ago in Paris at a meeting of the UN General Assembly. 48 delegates voted for. There were no votes against the document. Eight delegates abstained, all from the countries of the Soviet bloc.