Valery Zubov, Andrey Kolesnikov and Mikhail Sokolov in the Radio Studio Liberty Mikhail Sokolov: Today we are with our guests, and this is the deputy of the State Duma of Russia Valery Zubov and the Columonist of the Newspaper Vedomosti Andrei Kolesnikov, we will talk about the reaction of the Russian authorities to the crisis-the reaction that I would personally define in some elements as a conservative cramp, in a sense, returning the country to Soviet methods Administrative-bureaucratic

Place of disaster of the Caspian Eirines aircraft in Iran In Armenia, today is the day of mourning in connection with the catastrophe of the Tu-154 aircraft in Iran . The passenger aircraft Tu -154 of the Caspian Eirines Airlines, which performed the Tegeran -Yerevan flight last Wednesday, crashed 16 minutes after takeoff. As a result of the crash, 168 people died, including 15 crew members and 2 children.

Alexander Vedernikov leaves. Five conductors will perform his work at the Bolshoi Theater The Bolshoi Theater is touring in Milan. Behind the remote control is Alexander Vedernikov. On July 18, he is going to announce that he was leaving the post of chief conductor Gabta.

In Munich, negotiations between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and German Chancellor Angela Merkel were cooked. According to Radio Liberty, Yuri Veksler, at a press conference, Dmitry Medvedev, a question was asked about the murder of human rights activist Natalia Estemirova and the possible involvement of Ramzan Kadyrov in him. The Russian president froze this version and promised a speedy investigation of the crime.

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The program is conducted by Dmitry Volchek. Radio Liberty correspondent in Munich, Alexander Mannheim, and professor of the European Center for Strategic Research named after George Marshall Alexander Garin, take part. Dmitry Volchek: A three -day, ninth in a row "Petersburg dialogue" takes place in Munich. About 100 representatives of the German and Russian elite take part in this forum.

In the north of Moscow, tenants of a multi -storey building are evacuated - due to cracks that appeared in it. According to ITAR-TASS with reference to the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate, a large crack of about a meter long formed between the 14th and 15th floors of the house. Firefighters, rescuers, and police officers arrived at the scene. The reason for the appearance of the crack is clarified. The house was commissioned recently.

Ingmar Bergman during filming, 1970 On July 14, on the birthday of the great Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, an interview with Radio Freedom gave the theater, Natalya Kazimirovskaya and Nathan Gorelik, living in Stockholm. They prepared for the publication of the recently published dramatic works of Ingmar Bergman "Fifth Act" - perfectly published, with excellent illustrations and audio approval. - Natasha, work on the “fifth act” stretched for two decades, and once the first version came out?

In the museums of Russia, there was a shortage of thousands of exhibits. According to the deputy head of the Roosculture Viktor Petrakov, the experts checked 1300 museums. It turned out that about three thousand exhibits were lost during the Great Patriotic War, and nine thousand are absent for unidentified reasons. It was also found that in many museums, most of the exhibits do not have the necessary design.

The human rights activist Natalya Estemirova, who was killed on Wednesday in Ingushetia, was buried in her native village in the Gudermes district of Chechnya. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent, hundreds of people - human rights activists and local residents, who Estemirov helped in the search for stolen relatives, participated in Grozny in the farewell ceremony. Her memory shares took place in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and others Russian cities.

In the North Caucasus, as a result of armed attacks committed today, two people were killed, two more were seriously injured. In the Baksansky district of Kabardino-Balkaria, unknown people fired at the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The operative officer of the Center for Combating Extremism was killed, the investigator was wounded. In Dagestan, the head of the administration of the village of Gedzhukh of the Derbent district, whose son works as a district policeman, was shot.

The program is conducted by Evgenia Nazaret. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Grozny Ahmed Sultanov takes part. Evgenia Nazarets: On the eve of the murdered employee of the Memorial human rights center in Chechnya and a journalist for Novaya Gazeta, Natalya Estemirova, was found. Her body was found on Wednesday evening in a forest belt near the village of Gazi-Yurt, the Nazran district of Ingushetia.

(Osama Baysaev)

The international (gold and foreign exchange) reserves of Russia for the period from July 3 to 10 decreased by $ 8.4 billion, or by about 2.1% to $ 400.7 billion, the Central Bank said. Since mid -August 2008, when the country's international reserves reached the historical maximum - $ 598 billion, their volume has decreased by almost a third. Big countries in the world in the world - China and Japan, are large than Russia's gold and foreign exchange reserves.