What do ecologists of the north-west require and fight for? They discuss in the program "Press hour" on Friday at 13:00: editor-in-chief of the Internet publication "Antiatom.ru" Vladimir Slivak and representative of the public organization "Eco-Besting" Rashid Alimov. Presenter: Victor Rezunkov. Ask your question to the program participants.

The presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan will be held until October 25, 2009. Such a decision on Thursday was announced by the Constitutional Court of the Republic. The exact date of the election will determine the parliament. The Committee on Constitutional Legislation proposes to appoint them on July 23. Voting on this issue in parliament is expected tomorrow. The current president of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiev was elected in July 2005.

In Austria, Joseph Fritzl, a man who kept imprisonment and raped his daughter who gave birth to seven children for 24 years , was sentenced to life imprisonment. The jury found the 73-year-old Fritzl guilty of all the accusations, which include incest, rape, enslavement and unconducting murder of one of the children born to his daughter. Fritzl fully pleaded guilty after his daughter’s video executions were demonstrated in the courtroom.

The American dollar rate to the euro has decreased by about 4% over the past day - to almost 1.35 per euro. This is the largest fall over the past 18 years. The main reason was the statement of the federal reserve system of the United States on plans for a large -scale purchase of state securities in order to provide an additional $ 1 trillion.

For Russia, Dokins had to write his book differently, experts say "Rottweiler Darwin." So, by analogy with Darwin’s Bulldog, Thomas Haxly, modern journalists called the evolutionist Richard Dokinza. In his last work "God as an illusion" the famous scientific popularizer decided to refute the existence of God.

What is happening with confidence in power? Will labor migrants return and are the state ready for their return? The host of the program "Time of Guests" Vitaly Portnikov talks about this on Thursday at 19:00 with the director of the Institute of Demography and Social Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Academician Ella Libanova. Ask your question to the program participants.

Valery Yakov, editor -in -chief of New Izvestia Oleg Ptashkin and Elkhan Mirzoev, who have lost their jobs, declared their claims to former employers last Wednesday. They sent letters to the President Medvedev, who is the Commissioner for Human Rights and to the Public Chamber. The letters emphasized: they were dismissed illegally, not paying the rewarding compensation. Journalists demanded their restoration at work and further dismissal within the framework of the current Labor Code.

In France, a one -day universal strike began with a demand for the authorities to increase the social support of workers during the economic crisis. Serious restrictions in the work of transport, schools, hospitals, and mail are expected. According to trade unions, hundreds of thousands of people will reach marches in dozens of French cities. In Paris, the police offered demonstrators more than one route for the march through the city, but two, in case there are too many people.

At the Moscow Airport of Vnukovo, four armed robbers attacked a passenger and stole more than 40 million rubles in cash from him. According to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, the robbery occurred near the hall of official delegations. The robbers forced the victim - a citizen of Russia - to give a bag of money and disappeared by a car. A criminal case has been opened.

Employees of the St. Petersburg plant GM want to work in a civilized manner. Someone doesn't like it A criminal case has been instituted on the fact of threats against the profiteer of the St. Petersburg plant General Motors Evgeny Ivanov. This happened almost a month and a half after the receipt of threats and the beating of a trade union activist.

The international (gold and foreign exchange) reserves of Russia for the period from March 6 to 13 decreased by $ 4.4 billion or by about 1.2% to $ 376.1 billion, the Central Bank said. Thus, from mid -August 2008, when the country's international reserves reached the historical maximum - $ 598 billion, their volume decreased by 37.1%. Golden reserves are large than Russia in the world - China and Japan today.

In the Karabudykent district of Dagestan there is an anti -terrorism operation. As Interfax was informed in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic, the police and internal troops blocked the area where a group of militants of 10 to 15 people is located. During the operation, the wound in the head was the arrows of the helicopter of the internal troops.

Moscow State University will accept the anti -crisis congress of Russian rectors Today at Moscow State University, the ninth congress of the Russian Union of Rectors, which will last until March 21, has opened at Moscow State University. The main topic of discussion is the development strategy of higher education in new socio -economic conditions.

The prosecutor's office of Ingushetia canceled the decision on the initiation of a criminal case on the fact of the illegal detention of the owner of the opposition site "Ingushetia.ru" Magomed Evloev. As the lawyer of the Jusheti.ru website Kala Achilgov said in an interview with Radio Liberty, all employees who took part in the detention of Yevloev, including the ex-minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, could be held accountable in the framework of this case.

In Moscow today there will be a picket in defense of civilian activists. The organizer of the action, the deputy of the National Assembly, Tatyana Kadieva - in an interview with Radio correspondent, Liberty noted that the action was not aimed at supporting any political force. The picket is carried out in defense of the article of the Constitution on the holding of meetings, rallies and processions, ”said Kadieva. The action is allowed by the capital's authorities.