The largest Bank of Switzerland - UBS - will pay $ 780 million to financial authorities of the United States as part of an agreement on the settlement of claims related to the accounts of American citizens suspected of paying taxes in the United States. The Ministry of Justice of the United States accused the bank of covering accounts of about 17 thousand Americans totaling up to $ 20 billion.

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Marina Timasheva: In St. Petersburg, the fifth All -Russian Volodinsky Theater Festival "Five Evenings" was held. Says Tatyana Voltskaya. Tatyana Voltskaya: Why is this offer of Volodina this offer today? There are many answers. One of them is in the words of Stanislav Lyubshin carried out on the booklet: “In it, such independence was from life, from age, from our system. He was completely individual, that's how it is - the highest degree of sincerity.

The new Russian literary prize "Informat" declared its laureates by young writers Ulyana Gamayun, Eve Rappoport and Vera Polozkov. The award was founded by the writer, businessman and member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation Dmitry Lipskurov. The jury was headed by Yuri Mamleev. The jury included the network poet Orlush and Ksenia Sobchak.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky and former head of Menatep Platon Lebedev will be transferred to Moscow for a new lawsuit being in prison. Such a decision was made by the Khamovnican court of the capital. According to lawyers of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, a new case against their clients will be considered in this court. The Prosecutor General’s Office put forward new accusations against the former co -owners of Yukos - they are charged with a large -scale theft.

Two members of the House of Representatives and Senator of the US Congress arrived in the gas sector. This is the first visit to the sector by American lawmakers since the radical group of Hamas to power in Gaza. The American consulate in Jerusalem reported that the purpose of the arrival of congressmen and democrat Senator John Kerry is a meeting with representatives of international organizations working in the sector.

The Makhmudov brothers leave the building of the Moscow District Military Court The jury in the case of Anna Politkovskaya recognized all the defendants innocent. The correspondent of the RS Maryana Torocheshnikova, who followed the course of the process, considers it logical.

The program is conducted by Kirill Kobrin. The Radio Liberty correspondent Ivan Trefilov takes part. Kirill Kobrin: news of exchanges, financial markets, reports, interviews, comments on economic topics, currency courses - in the panorama of Ivan Trefilov. Ivan Trefilov: The cost of a minimum set of food products included in the cost of living of at least Russian citizens increased by 4.6 percent compared to December, almost twice the growth rate of consumer prices as a whole in a month.

The role of a woman in Russian society and the attitude to a woman in the country - in the program "Public Opinion" on Sunday, March 8. Visiting Radio Freedom is psychologist Olga Makhovskaya, sociologist Boris Dubin and Nadezhda Shvedova, head of the Center for Social and Political Studies of the Institute of the United States and Canada. We are waiting for calls on the air, starting from thirteen thirty. Repeat of transmission at seven in the evening and at two in the morning.

In Minsk, the Secretary General of the EU Council Javier Solan met with representatives of democratic parties and movements, and then with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Radio Liberty correspondent Igor Karney reports.

Irina Lagunina: These days, Germany celebrates the anniversary of the desperate performance and the death of members of the student anti -fascist organization "White Rose". In February 1943, after they spread at the University of Munich, anti-Hitler leaflets calling for an uprising, the members of the White Roses were arrested and executed. What inherited from the "White Rose" today's youth anti -fascist movement. About this - my colleague Vladimir Tolts.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. The Radio Liberty correspondent Maryana Torocheshnikov takes part. Andrei Shary: Today in Moscow, the jury just justified all the accused in the process of the murder of the Observer of the Novaya Gazeta, Anna Politkovskaya. The jury considered that the investigation could not prove their involvement in the crime.

It is almost unrealistic to wait for a decision to pardon in Russia The St. Petersburg Commission for Clogue adopted an appeal to the President of Russia, in which she asks him to shift the authority to decide the fate of convicts for a short time on the shoulders of the governors. Until 2001, a special commission under the President of Russia was pardoned. Then the then headed the state Vladimir Putin abolished it, creating 89 similar commissions of the regional level. In St.

Marina Timasheva: The opera program “Golden Mask” was opened by the performance of the Mariinsky Theater “Brothers Karamazov” (Libretto by Yuri Dimitrina). It is nominated for a prize in six positions. The best performance, composer Alexander Smelykov, artist Zinovy Margolin, director - Vasily Barkhatov, and singers: Nikolai Gassiev (Fedor Karamazov) and Alexei Markov (Ivan Karamazov). Valery Gergiev, a conductor, took, as always, self -expression. Otherwise, there would be seven nominations.