Boris Gryzlov commented on the freedom for radio to combat the economic crisis

Europe met Barack Obama Evening discussions in the framework of the NATO summit were devoted to the situation in Afghanistan and the operations conducted in this country by NATO. The US President brought a new concept of this operation, which will require additional efforts from the allies. He stated that it is necessary to create conditions under which the troops can be withdrawn, because no one is going to occupy Afghanistan.

The program is conducted by Evgenia Nazaret. The Radio Liberty correspondent Denis Kamenchikov takes part. Evgenia Nazarets: In the city of Serov, the Sverdlovsk Region, an attack was attacked on a correspondent for the Globus newspaper. The injured Dmitry Skryabin connects what happened to his professional activity. But this attack is still a unique case in its own way.

In Latvia, on the recommendation of the International Monetary Fund, a large -scale reduction in the state apparatus began, Radio Liberty correspondent reports. Among the countries of the European Union, economically backward Latvia takes second place in terms of consumption for the maintenance of the state apparatus and the third - in the number of officials per capita.

In the Ingush village of Troitskaya, the house of an employee of the Investigative Committee of the Republic was fired. There are no victims. Unknown people opened fire on a house from automatic weapons and a grenade launcher, and then disappeared. They are looking for them.

The program is conducted by Evgenia Nazaretaret and Mikhail Salenkov. The radio observer Freedom Marina Timasheva takes part. Evgenia Nazareta: The film of Vladimir Bortko "Taras Bulba" was released. A very magnificent premiere was organized in the October cinema. The 200th anniversary of Nikolai Gogol was awarded the first film adaptation of his story.

NATO in 2020. What tasks are faced with the union. As evaluated in Armenia, the opportunity to open a border with Turkey is evaluated. What will replace the Kyoto protocol and whether ecologists have an occasion for optimism. And - science: how scientists managed to restore the appearance of the “little Italian prince”.

The capital of Tatarstan Kazan received the right to be called the "third capital of Russia" - after Moscow and St. Petersburg. The corresponding brand is registered by the Federal Intellectual Property Service, patents and trademarks. Nizhny Novgorod, who also claimed the title of "Third capital of Russia", received in Rospatent a trademark "Capital of the Volga region".

Alexey Parshchikov In Germany, in the 55th year of life, the famous Russian poet Alexei Parshchikov, one of the leaders of the poetic "new wave" of the late eighties, the winner of the prize Andrei Bely (1987) and the honorary award of Russia "Literary Legend" (2005), died. The first book of Alexei Parshchikov was not in Russian, but in a doom. He completed graduate school in the American Stanford. He was translated by the famous American poet Michael Palmer.

For seven years, NATO has been fighting in Afghanistan without a specifically set realistic goal In Strasbourg, a solemn NATO summit is opened, dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Alliance. Almost a third of this period, the organization created to confront Soviet danger lives in the absence of a “red threat”.

The sixtieth anniversary of the creation of NATO is noted at the summit of the North Atlantic Union opening today. A two-day meeting is held in the French city of Strasbourg and neighboring German cities of Kel and Baden-Baden. The situation in Afghanistan and relations with Russia are among the main topics of the forum. The summit takes place with reinforced security measures, since many thousands of anti -NATO demonstrations are expected.

Igor Goncharuk. "N. S. Mikhalkov is in a hurry to report on the results of the congress of the Union of Cinematographers" Drawn from nature

Alexander Genis When President Obama declared his only short -term sentence Detroit, the newspapers began to guess why General Motors lost $ 82 billion over the past four years. As an American car came to such a life, no one really knows, but I guess. It all started with the fact that when we arrived in America, my brother was the first to buy a car. Naturally - American. After all, we grew up on automobile catalogs from the famous Moscow US Exhibition of the 59th year.