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The program is conducted by Alexander GOSTOV. The Radio Liberty correspondent George Kobaladze takes part. Alexander GOSTEV : On August 8, a year has been performed since the beginning of the Russian-Georgian armed conflict. In anticipation of this date there is no shortage of memories, analysis, opinions about that war. Moreover, the situation in South Ossetia and on the border with Georgia has become aggravated in recent days.

(Patriarch Kirill, Patriarch Filaret, Yuri Kostenko, Efgraf Glum)

(Vera Pashkovskaya, Anna Stavitskaya, Murad Musaev, Dmitry Muratov)

The program is conducted by Evgenia Nazaret. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Washington Allan Davydov takes part. Evgenia Nazareta: North Korean leader Kim Jong Ir made a “special pardon” to two previously convicted American journalists. This happened after his negotiations in Pyongyang with the former President of the United States Bill Clinton, who on Tuesday inflict a blitz-visit in Pyongyang.

At the airport of the city of Bourbank, California, a plane landed, on board the former US President Bill Clinton and American journalists Yuna Li Laura Lin, who spent more than 4 months in the North Korean prison, Radio Liberty correspondent Vladimir Morozov. They were pardoned after negotiations by Bill Clinton with the North Korean leader Kim Jong Ir. During a meeting at Yuna Li and Laura Lin, Lin could not hold back tears.

Lawyer Henry Padva considers the initiative of the Moscow mayor of "impassable". Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov considers it necessary to introduce the death penalty for drug distributors. He announced this initiative yesterday at a meeting of the Moscow government, and later he could offer it to the federal authorities. Argumentizing his proposal, Yuri Luzhkov referred to the democratic principles and experience of Singapore: - In Singapore, there is no drug problem.

In China, an investigation has begun in relation to the head of the state nuclear corporation Kana Gisinin. According to the special correspondent of Radio Liberty in China Andrei Sharogradsky, Kan Zhisin, who heads the cockpit for almost 6 years, is suspected of "serious violations of the discipline." Specific details are not given, but observers note that there are usually accusations of corruption behind this wording.

The United States does not exclude the possibility of supplying Georgia for weapons of a “purely defensive nature,” said Alexander Vershbou, Deputy Minister of Defense of the United States. Speaking at Senate hearings in Washington, Vershbow at the same time emphasized that the military assistance of the United States Georgia will consist primarily in the preparation and modernization of the Georgian army.

In St. Petersburg, two police officers were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment of accusations of abduction of a person and excess of powers. The court recognized the district police officer Klimin and the operative Andrei Korshunov guilty of the fact that in October 2007 they beat two detained citizens of Uzbekistan, and then put on one of them a plastic bag on their heads and took away in an unknown direction.

Police on the streets of Urumchi (July 11, 2009) Official media of China report the prevention of several terrorist attacks in the Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region, where at least 200 people were killed in early July, as a result of clashes between Uyghurs and Han residents . RS observer, KITA specialist Andrei Sharogradsky recently arrived in Beijing: - Is it possible to trust this message? Is there really a certain subversive activity in the areas of China inhabited by Uyghurs?

In the US stock market, on Tuesday, the quotes of the main shares have reached the highest level over the past 9 months. Analysts talk about the next feature of the gradual exit of the American economy from the recession. In June, the consumer expenses of Americans increased, there was an unexpected increase in the number of transactions in the secondary housing market. At the same time, the incomes of the Americans are at the lowest level in 4 and a half years.

In Dagestan, a serious contusion was received by the police platoon commander in the Khasavyurt district, RIA-News reported. A homemade remote control bomb, laid on the road near the village of Airfield, worked when a policeman in an official car drove by. An investigation is underway.

The program is conducted by Alexander GOSTOV. The Radio Liberty correspondent Elena Solntseva takes part. Alexander GOSTEV : The British newspaper Independent assures that, following Spain, Portugal and other countries of southern Europe, Turkey has become a very popular and even fashionable country, where wealthy citizens of Great Britain and Ireland are now leaving for permanent residence.