Two dozen people gathered at the monument to Griboedov A picket was held in Moscow with a request to free Igor Sutyagin , a scientist serving a 15-year term on charges of espionage for the distribution of materials received from open sources. The action is timed to the birthday of the political prisoner. The picket was appointed at 14:00, but began later, since human rights activists, civil activists and members of various opposition movements came into conflict with the police.

Yulia Tymoshenko solves both economic and political problems in Moscow The Ukrainian government hopes that Moscow will be reached in both the resumption of Russian gas transit to Europe and its supply to Ukraine. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko the day before outlined the basic principles of negotiations with her Russian colleague Vladimir Putin.

The program "Results of the Week" is conducted by Dmitry Volchek. Radio Liberty correspondents Vladimir Ivakhnenko and Danila Gallepovich take part Dmitry Volchek: Contrary to all forecasts, the Russian-Ukrainian gas war this week did not end, but its absurd element increased. Gazprom European clients were still freezing and could not calculate, in Moscow or Kyiv there is a culprit of their disasters.

Observers of the European Union and the OSCE condemned the murder of a sniper in the region adjacent to South Ossetia, a Georgian policeman. On Saturday, the EU mission in Georgia called a violation of the ceasefire regime completely unacceptable. The chairman of the OSCE, the head of the Greece Foreign Ministry, Dora Bakoannis said that the incident only exacerbates tension and threatens stability in the zone of recent military operations.

Yulia Tymoshenko and Vladimir Putin sooner or later will have to find a way out of the gas conflict An international conference begins in Moscow, which is informally called the "gas summit." Russia counts on the participation of all parties involved in the gas conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Today in the Russian capital a meeting of the prime ministers of Russia and Ukraine-Vladimir Putin and Yulia Tymoshenko should be held.

Why is there a parole? Is this procedure needed at all and is it worth thinking about its reform? In the studio of the RS - a lawyer of the Moscow City College of Lawyers, Associate Professor of the Department of Criminal Procedure Law, MGUA, candidate of legal sciences Yevgeny Rubinstein and the head of the program of visits to prisons, Deputy Director of the Center for Assistance to Criminal Justice Reform Lyudmila Alpern.

In Moscow, an international conference on the issues of ensuring the supply of Russian gas to Europe began. Representatives of Russia, 11 countries - importers of Russian gas and the EU take part in it. After the conference, a meeting of the prime ministers of Russia and Ukraine Vladimir Putin and Yulia Tymoshenko is planned, who will try to resolve the dispute, because of which most of Europe was left without Russian gas.

A conversation with experts about a gas summit in Moscow, reviews of American weekly and Russian Internet publications, the heading “Question of the Week” and “Man of the Week”. Putin's picture

On the air we will discuss the topic "Who Read?" Our guests are writers Mikhail Elizarov, Boris Evseev, Lyudmila Shchelokova and editor -in -chief of the newspaper Book Review Alexander Gavrilov.

The former colonel of the Russian army, Yuri Budanov, said that he was repenting of the murder of the Chechen girl Elsa Kungaeva. In an interview with the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, he also said that staying in the colony all these years was very difficult for him. Budanov was released on Thursday. He spent 8 and a half years out of 10, to which he was sentenced. The decision on early-conditional release was made by the court. Budanov’s liberation caused mass protests in Chechnya.

Boris Grebenshchikov has an exact way of time: "The struggle of life from the devil knows what ." We are used to how easily the devil knows what. You won’t have time to look around, and where the reserved forest has been growing, already “ elite real estate ”, instead of a scientific institution - “ horns and hooves ”, instead of fine art - “ relevant ” garbage dump, instead of a normal store, a boutique with prices is higher than in the center of Zurich.

In Kyrgyzstan, one of the leaders of the opposition, the former speaker of the parliament, the head of the Ata-Meken party, Omurbek Tekebaev, was detained. As Interfax was told in the party headquarters, Tekebaev was heading to the city of Talas in the north of Kyrgyzstan to a party conference. The car in which the opposition was located was stopped by the police. Tekebaev was detained for illegal storage of weapons.

Victor Erofeev: Today we have guests - writers: writer Lyudmila Shchelokova, writer Boris Evseev, writer Mikhail Elizarov and editor -in -chief of the newspaper Book Review, publisher of the magazine “What Read” Alexander Gavrilov. The theme of our program today is what to read, why read. That's why we gathered here the writers of our respected guests.

Maryana Torocheshnikova: Conventionally aid liberation-why is this institution? Does it need it at all and is it worth thinking about its reform? We will try to give answers to these questions with experts in the Radio Studio Liberty.

In Kabul, 2 American soldiers died and another 12 were injured in the explosion. According to the Afghan authorities, at least one Afghan was killed, more than 20 were injured. The explosion occurred in a specially protected area of the city, near the American military base and the German Embassy. Earlier it was reported that the attack was committed by the suicide bomber. It is not yet clear who he was directed against.