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Alexander Genis: Today's “American hour” will complete the next issue of “film facilities” with Andrei Zadansky. Steven Serbing, “Patti Smith: Dream of Life” Stephen Serbing, "Patti Smith. Dream of Life" Andrei Zadansky: On October 15, 2006, the famous club GBGB was closing on Baueri Street in New York. This is the very place where Punk rock was born. The club closed forever and the right to play the last evening was provided to the poet, musician, performer Patty Smith.

On April 27, in Togliatti, eight activists of the Samara Regional Public Organization "Union of Chernobyl Veterans" began an unlimited hunger strike. As the leader of the Togliatti Chernobyls, Nikolai Petrukhin, said, the hunger strike is held in the office of the Togliatti branch of the Chernobyl Veterans Union. According to the Chernobyls, the hunger strike is caused by the actions of local officials who do not pay attention to the problems of the Chernobyls.

The program is conducted by Mikhail Salenkov. The correspondent of Radio Liberty Tamara Lyalenkov takes part. Mikhail Salenkov : Demographic situation in Russia. Conclusions and comments of experts in the report of Tamara Lyalenkova.

In Sochi, an American journalist, an employee of the New Yorker magazine, Keith Hessen, who illuminated the election of the mayor of the city. According to Russian agencies, Hesse was in one of the polling stations, where Boris Nemtsov arrived with representatives of the election headquarters. According to the authorities, after clarifying the circumstances of the appearance of an American in the polling station and checking his documents, he will be released.

The electric cable along the bottom of the Baltic Sea will connect Sweden and Lithuania-such a decision was made in Vilnius at a meeting of the Prime Ministers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. According to Radio Liberty correspondent Irina Peters, the Livo-Latvian-Estonian declaration of cooperation in the field of energy, adopted with the assistance of the Swedish side, provides for the construction of the energy monitor that allows the electric systems of the Baltic and Scandinavia countries.

The mention of Limonov’s only the newspaper was credited as crime Two Kirov newspapers will judge at once for extremism. The "Vyatka special" newspaper is attracted to the propaganda of National Bolshevism, and the advertising weekly "Pro-city"-for advertising of National Socialism. Under the threat of closing was the independent weekly Vyatskaya Special. The editor of the newspaper Nikolai Golikov is accused of spreading extremist materials.

The program is conducted by Yuri Zhigalkin. The Radio Liberty correspondent Allan Davydov takes part. Yuri Zhigalkin : The outbreak of a new type of influenza at the end of last week provoked an extremely alarming warning to the World Health Organization and anxiety in the US regions bordering Mexican. This virus, as some experts fear, claims to be the pathogen of global Pandemia of influenza, which virologists predicted the last decade. Says Allan Davydov.

At the election headquarters of the opposition candidate Boris Nemtsov, they talk about major falsifications in the elections of the mayor of Sochi, which took place on Sunday. Nemtsov himself said on Monday of our radio station that his supporters would seek the cancellation of the voting results. Representatives of the Communist Party, from which the leader of the local branch of the Communist Party Yuri Dzagania participated in the elections, believe that the elections were an imitation.

Alexander Genis: When Obama wants to like America, he calls himself a “pragmatist”. When America wants to praise her new president, she agrees with him. Pragmatism is the most popular ideology in the country simply because it is not it: anything, if only it works. In politics, this implies readiness for compromises, for the slow, painstaking struggle of different branches of power - the White House with the Capitol.

The Russian state -owned company Transneft began the construction of the branch of the oil pipeline East Siberia - the Pacific Ocean in the direction of China. According to the agreement signed on February 17, Russia will annually supply 15 million tons of oil to China for 20 years in exchange for a loan of $ 25 billion, which will be received by state -owned companies Transneft and Rosneft. It is expected that these deliveries will begin in January 2011.

In Europe, the first case of pork flu is confirmed. A person who recently returned to Spain was ill from Mexico, where the number of victims of the disease, according to official figures, exceeded 100. The EU ministers will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday dedicated to the fight against the spread of pork flu. Measures to prevent the epidemic are taken in many countries of the world. In the USA, where 20 people fell ill, an emergency regime has been introduced.