The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. The Radio Liberty correspondent Ivan Trefilov takes part. Andrei Sharogradsky : Our observer Ivan Trefilov leads the panorama of the economy news on the waves of radio. Ivan Trefilov: The Central Bank of Russia on Friday completed the adjustment of the exchange rate of the ruble, begun on November 11 last year. During this time, the Russian ruble fell to the dollar and the euro by more than 20 percent.

Tatyana Lokshina: "Human rights violations in South Ossetia were committed by all aspects of the conflict" The head of the Moscow office of the Human Rights Watch Human Rights, Tatyana Lokshina, commented on the report “In the war in war” for the Radio Freedom - on a violation of human rights as a result of the August armed conflict in the Caucasus.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili advocates the normalization of relations with Russia, but "subject to the territorial integrity of Georgia." Speaking today on the direct television, Saakashvili noted that he does not consider the enemy of Georgia "the Russian people, and even more so Ossetians and Abkhazov." However, the President of Georgia expressed doubt about the possibility of quick normalization of relations with Moscow, with the exception of, as he put it, "level of folk

The human brain on the screen of the tomograph Neurobiologists from the Columbia University of New York (Columbia University in New York) Evgeniy B. Sirotin and Aniruddha das showed that one of the main methods use psychologists and neurobiologists when studying the brain-method-method-method Functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) does not always work correctly. The FMRI method is based on the fact that blood flow is especially intense in those areas of the brain that are currently active.

14 people died, according to the specified data, on Friday in the north-west of Pakistan as a result of presumably an American missile strike. Last year, the United States unmanned aircraft inflicted about 30 beats on the alleged fighters' bases in the regions of Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan. The authorities of Pakistan have repeatedly protested against such blows, which, according to Islamabad, violate the country's sovereignty.

According to the weekly "City 812", in St. Petersburg there is more than in other cities of Russia, a decrease in production and trade. Why? Discuss: editor of the economy department of the newspaper St. Petersburg Vedomosti Viktor Nikolaev, political observer of the online publication Gazeta.ru Sergey Shelin and the observer of the weekly city 812 Anton Mukhin.

The Minister of Information Livana Tareka Mitri announced that the film “Waltz and Bashir” nominated for the Oscar will not be shown in his country. The film of the Israeli director Ari Folman is dedicated to the memories of the 1982 Lebanese War and the massacre in the camps of the Palestinian refugees of Sabra and Shatil. Any Israeli products, including films, are prohibited in Lebanon. The Minister of Information, opposing censorship, called the ban as absurd.

Leading researcher at the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences Dmitry Oreshkin The political reform of Dmitry Medvedev as a path to the "wide democratization of the country's social life." Last week, a new edition of the Constitution of the Russian Federation was printed.

In Moscow, they said goodbye to the journalist Anastasia Baburova Lawyer Stanislav Markelov buried in the Ostankino cemetery the use of anti -icing reagents on the streets of Moscow

Russia - A Combo Picture of Undated and Unlocated Handout Images Made Avalable by the Russian Newspaper Novaya Gazeta On January 20, 2009 Showsan Human -Rights Lawyer Stanislav Markelov (r) and novaya Gazeta Reporter anastasiya Baburova (L). A Maske The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. A radio correspondent Freedom Mumin Shakirov takes part.

The main distributors of the Obamomania virus were American bloggers It is difficult to recall in the American-and in the Western European-the history of the last hundred years, a great euphoria when taking office as a new head of state, rather than now, when Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States.

The British economy officially entered into a recession. The drop in the gross domestic product within two quarters in a row confirmed the data published on Friday. Over the past 3 months of last year, the fall of the British economy has amounted to 1.5 percent - this is the worst indicator over the past 29 years. After the publication of the data, the pounds continued to fall in relation to the US dollar.

The program is conducted by Evgenia Nazaret. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Moscow Maxim Yaroshevsky takes part. Evgenia Nazareta: In Moscow, the funeral of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and farewell to the journalist of Novaya Gazeta Anastasia Baburova were held in Moscow today. They were killed on January 19. The farewell ceremony with journalist Anastasia Baburova was in the central clinical hospital, where her friends and colleagues came. Our correspondent Maxim Yaroshevsky was also there.