The US presidential administration Barack Obama said that she would not take part in the UN conference to combat racism, since the wording of the final document is condemned by Israel. At the same time, Washington said that he would act as an observer at the meetings of the UN Human Rights Commissariat. At the first similar meeting, which took place in 2001, the United States and Israel refused to equate Zionism with one of the forms of racism.

The head of the foreign policy of the European Union Javier Solan visited the gas sector. He held negotiations with Palestinian leaders, but did not meet with representatives of Hamas, since the European Union announced a boycott to this movement. Solana approved the efforts to achieve a truce between Hamas and the ruling Palestinian Fath party. This is the first visit of Solan to Gas since 2007.

Barack Obama begins to fulfill election promises The President of the United States of America Barack Obama said that he plans to withdraw most of the American troops from Iraq by August 31, 2010. Almost six years after the start of the military campaign in Iraq, President Obama firmly stated that it would be completed soon. The presidential statement was made on the basis of the Campa Marine Corps in the state of North Carolina.

The Political Committee of the Yabloko party called on the Russian authorities clearly and unequivocally condemning Bolshevism and Stalinism. In the statement adopted at a meeting in Moscow on Saturday, the Politic Committee of Yabloko called for equating mass repressions in Soviet times to equate the criminal offense.

In the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, the Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia, the car of the acting head of the criminal police of the district Magomed Yevloev was fired. According to the Investigative Committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office, three people were injured - Yevloev himself, his brother and driver, the latter is in serious condition. All victims are hospitalized. An investigation is underway.

On February 28, 1933, after the Nazis came to the power of the Nazis in Germany, the playwright, the poet, the theoretician and director Bertold Brecht left his homeland. Until 1947, he lived in Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, the United States, became famous for his anti -fascist performances and plays: “A good man from the Sezuan”, “Career of Arthur Wi”, “Mother Kurazh and her children”.

The program "Results of the Week" is conducted by Dmitry Volchek. The correspondent of Radio Freedom Semen Mirsky takes part. Dmitry Volchek: This week one of the most significant private art meetings in the world was sold. The auction house "Christis" put on a trading collection of Iva Saint Laran and Pierre Berget. The word to the Parisian correspondent of freedom to Semen Mirsky.

St. Petersburg housing can cause nursing On Friday in St. Petersburg, the Constitutional Court of Russia recognized the Constitution to the Constitution some of the articles of the Law "On Psychiatric Assistance and Guarantees of the Rights of Citizens when Providing it". The reason for consideration in the Constitutional Court was three cases - Pavel Plastature, Maria Yashinina and Julia Gudkova, who were recognized as incapable by the court .

In Vladivostok, more than 300 people held a rally demanding to completely cancel customs duties for the import of foreign cars to the country. As the Radio Liberty correspondent reports, not all protesters reached the venue of the action. The rally participants rode in a column on personal cars, but on the path of many were stopped by employees of the road patrol service.

The program "Results of the Week" is conducted by Dmitry Volchek. The Radio Liberty correspondent Oleg Kusov takes part. Dmitry Volchek: Political contradictions grow in Georgia. Here the opposition calls for the early presidential elections. Special correspondent of Freedom Oleg Kusov met in Tbilisi with politicians and experts. Oleg Kusov: The Georgian opposition offers its supporters two options for a change of power.

Perhaps the "Kovachevich case" someday will take a place in the Museum of the History of Serbia The public and the government of Serbia are shaking the scandal, which, at first glance, should not have any relation to state affairs. The case of a fight in a bar in America in the participation of Serbian student Miladin Kovachevich is discussed at the highest international level. Even US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is engaged in it.

Canadian Minister of Defense Peter McKay said that the Canadian Air Force did not allow the Russian bomber to invade the country's airspace. McCay said that the incident occurred above the Arctic last week. According to the minister, the Russian bomber approached the border of Canada, which is why two fighters were sent to intercept, which forced him to turn back.

The program is conducted by Marina Dubovik. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Moscow Olga Vakhonicheva takes part. Marina Dubovik: On February 18, the right business party was registered in Russia at the federal level. Today in Moscow, the Constituent Assembly of the City Branch of the Party is being held, where our correspondent Olga Vakhonicheva works.

Off the coast of Spain on Friday, the coast guard was detained by the Venezuelan fishing vessel with a cargo of cocaine - about five tons. The cost of drugs is estimated at about 250 million euros. Five members of the vessel team, citizens of Venezuela, were arrested. According to Interpol, the number of drugs supplied to the international market by Venezuelan drug carters from 2002 to 2007 increased by 5 times.

The program "Results of the Week" is conducted by Dmitry Volchek. The Radio Liberty correspondent Vladimir Ivakhnenko takes part. Dmitry Volchek: In Ukraine, there are calls of politicians to the head of state to resign. President Viktor Yushchenko himself announced a truce with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, since only in this case the country can count on receiving a loan from the International Monetary Fund. About the main events of the outgoing week in Ukraine - in the material from Kyiv.