Vladislav Inozemtsev Mikhail Sokolov: In the Moscow Studio of Radio Liberty - the supervisor of the Center for Research of the post -industrial society and a member of the Council on Foreign Defense Policy Vladislav Inozemtsev and the historian, columnist of the Brani.ru website Dmitry Shusharin.

The investigation softened the charge against the owner of the Euroset Evgeny Chichvarkin. What does this mean from the point of view of the struggle for the redistribution of the property that is conducted around this case? The editor of the Politics Department of the newspaper Vedomosti Maxim Glikin and the observer of the weekly “interlocutor” Rimma Akhmirov are discussed.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Japan, at the suggestion of the Prime Minister of the Tarot ASO, spoke out for the dissolution of the lower house of the country's parliament. Representatives of the ruling party decided to initiate the dissolution of the parliament after they were defeated by elections to local authorities in Tokyo. Early elections to the Parliament of Japan will be held on August 30.

Yuri Zhigalkin: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed several agreements during a visit to India, which will help to significantly bring the United States and India in the field of military cooperation and atomic energy. One of the most important agreements will allow American companies to now sell India to modern weapons. Says Jan Runov. Jan Runov: Thanks to this agreement, American manufacturers of modern weapons can compete more freely with other weapons in the Indian market.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko and US Vice President Joseph Biden discussed national security issues. At a joint press conference, Yushchenko said that Kyiv was interested in the development of Russian-American relations, because, according to him, the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine depends on its relations with neighbors and the whole world. Yushchenko again emphasized the importance for Ukraine to join NATO.

In the east of Afghanistan, five police officers died in a shootout with the Taliban. 5 militants were killed. A group of militants attacked the police station, the headquarters of the intelligence service and the house of the governor in the city of Gardez (Pactia Province). Among the attackers were suicide bombers. Almost at the same time, such an attack was committed in the city of Jalalabad, by the border with Pakistan.

Residents of the 66-quarter, located in the center of the working Samara, said that they began an unlimited hunger strike on Tuesday. 10 people will starve - members of several families living in emergency two -story cottages built during the Second World War. Twenty years ago, these apartments were recognized as emergency housing, but the Samara authorities refuse to provide people with new housing, ”the Radio Liberty correspondent Sergei Khazov reports.

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The police have grounds for dissatisfaction with human rights activists In Kazan last night, searches were held in two human rights organizations. And in the morning of the head of the Kazan human rights center Igor Sholokhov, police officers interrogated for several hours.

In the Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia, an action movie was killed, who fired at police officers. During the search, the militant found a passport in the name of the missing resident of the village of Ordzhonikidze Batyr Albakov. On July 10, the 26-year-old Albakov was taken away from his house with people in camouflage uniforms, who introduced themselves as employees of the Nazran District Department of Internal Affairs.

Joseph Biden reminded the Ukrainian authorities of the main task. US Vice President Joseph Biden, on a visit to Kyiv, said that the improvement of the relationship of Washington and Moscow will not take place at the expense of Ukraine. For about two hours, the official negotiations of Joseph Biden and the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko continued. The focus of attention was security issues, including in the field of energy.

The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. The Radio Liberty correspondent Ivan Trefilov takes part. Andrei Sharogradsky: The program will continue the "Economic Panorama", today, on the waves of freedom, our observer Ivan Trefilov leads it. Ivan Trefilov: The American concern General Motors completed the acceptance of applications for the purchase of its European units, including a large share in the German company Opel, completely belonging to it.

The seven famous experts of the UN Human Rights proposed Russian assistance in the investigation of the murder of human rights activist Natalia Estemirova. Their statement noted that the Russian authorities promised to make every effort in order to find Estemirova killers. However, the authors indicate the inability of the Russian authorities in recent years to organize effective and impartial investigations of the murders of human rights activists.