The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. Radio Liberty correspondents Vladimir Ivakhnenko and Danila Galperovich take part. Andrei Sharogradsky: the parties to the Russian-Ukrainian gas crisis make rather conflicting statements. In particular, today the message of the Russian concern Gazprom was widespread, according to which Naftogaz of Ukraine abandoned its own proposal for gas transit to Europe. Radio Liberty correspondent Vladimir Ivakhnenko live on the air.

Angel Merkel and Vladimir Putin are again trying to agree on the supply of Russian gas to Europe Angel Merkel hopes that the supply of Russian gas, the transit of which through Ukraine was stopped on January 7, will be resumed on Monday January 19, the Radio Liberty correspondent from Berlin, where the press conference of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Chancellor of Germany, Angel Merkel, has ended. Mrs. Merkel said that the “test” mode of gas transit is possible under expert control.

A meeting was held in the district court of St. Petersburg to consider a complaint of a lawyer of the Memorial Center for the illegality of a search conducted in the Memorial on December 4, Radio Liberty correspondent Tatyana Voltskaya reports. The meeting lasted several hours. Witnesses of two sides were heard. The employees of the Memorial, a lawyer who were not allowed to be allowed to.

The “plot of the“ inhabited island ”is edited by Bondarchuk to the extent that it is completely lost” Of course, the younger Bondarchuk is not a “progressor” . And the surname of the scriptwriter Volodarsky is no longer associated with outstanding films shot many years ago according to his scenarios, but with a completely different genre . But historical truth is concrete.

The next rally against the parole of Yuri Budanov, as usual, took place in the center of Grozny, on the Friendship Square of peoples, said Radio Liberty Ahmed Sultanov. The action was attended by several hundred people, among whom were representatives of human rights and public organizations of the republic. All the speakers extremely negatively perceived the news of the liberation of Budanov, to whom, according to them, a place behind bars until the end of his life.

The military prosecutor's office introduced representations by the commander of the Baltic Fleet and the troops of the Volga Ural Military District due to mass diseases with pneumonia. In January of this year, about 200 military personnel of the Baltic Military Fleet and the Elan of the training center in the Sverdlovsk region were hospitalized with a diagnosis of Pneumonia.

Makhachkala airport, where two IL-76 military transport aircraft collided on Thursday evening, was closed to a special disposal. Investigators of the military prosecutor’s office work at the scene, ”RIA Novosti reports. As a result of the collision, according to the Dagestan Ministry of Internal Affairs, 4 people were killed - crew members of one of the aircraft. Two were injured.

The program is conducted by Mark Krutov. The radio correspondent Freedom Karen Agamirov takes part. Mark Krutov: The promises of Russia's leadership to improve the financial situation of pensioners - victims of political repression remained not fulfilled. This conclusion was reached by the participants in the conference in Moscow dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Moscow Public Movement "For Democratic Civil Rights of Victims of Political Repressions".

Russian Foreign Minister summarizes the foreign policy results of the year On Friday in Moscow, a large press conference of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was held at the end of 2008. The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry affected all the most important issues of the past and the beginning of the year, summed up the results of the country's foreign policy.

Now George Bush can devote himself to the family On Thursday evening, four days before the transfer of keys from the White House of Barack Obama, President Bush made a farewell appeal to the Americans. According to tradition, he tried to concernly imagine his own vision of the main in his heritage.

The United States imposed financial sanctions against the son and three alleged assistants to the head of the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization, Usama Bin Laden. The sanctions provide for the arrest on the accounts of these persons in US banks and forbid American citizens and organizations to enter into business relations with them. According to the US Department of Finance, Saad Bin Laden, presumably living in Iran, took an active part in Al-Qaeda.

The United States and Israel discussed the prospects for achieving a truce in the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli operation continues for three weeks against the Palestinian group of Hamas. The heads of the foreign policy departments of the United States and Israeli Kondoliza Rice and Tsipi Livni, in particular, discussed measures to prevent the smuggling of weapons into the gas sector - this is one of the key requirements of Israel.

The British tabloid SUN official apologies to Sharon Osborne for the publication, which stated that she tormented her husband, a rock star Ozzi Osbourne, and, ignoring his ill health, forces him to participate in the television competitions that she leads. After the appearance of this note in October 2007, Sharon Osbourne filed a lawsuit with the newspaper.

The program is conducted by Mark Krutov. A radio correspondent of Radio Freedom Veronika Bode takes part. Mark Krutov: Yesterday in Moscow, the 11th annual conference organized by the analytical center of Yuri Levada was held in Moscow.