In Iran, one of the opposition leaders Mehdi Karrubi said that some of the participants in the protest demonstrations after the presidential election, while in prison, were subjected to physical bullying. In particular, in the letter of Mehdi, published on his website, reports on the rape that some young women were subjected to. The head of the Iranian police department admitted on Sunday that some of the prisoners were beaten in prison.

Oleg Kusov, July 2009 The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. The Radio Liberty correspondent Oleg Kusov takes part. Andrei Shary : In the capital of North Ossetia, Oleg Kusov, a special correspondent of radio, began to work. Oleg grew up in Vladikavkaz and knows the Ossetian mentality well. We are talking about the relationship of North and South Ossetia.

The crashed interview with Kadyrov’s radio station "Freedom" is a difficult test for the listener. The language in which the Chechen leader is explained. The thoughts that he expresses is painful. In particular, about the deceased Natalia Estemirova , whose death, as you can understand, brought Ramzan more harm than her human rights activity. Or about Putin, for whom he is ready to give life every minute. Actually, this is the same thought - about Estemirov and about Putin.

(Marina Shishkina)

Tourists now live in the old house of writers Last winter, Petersburg writers again had their own house. On this occasion, many thanksgiving speeches to the city administration were uttered, but the summer has already come, and the writers still cannot say that they have a full -fledged refuge.

Since the end of the nineteenth century - the time of the beginning of the industrial revolution - the amount of coalway in the Earth’s atmosphere has grown by a third. Today in Bonn the next session of negotiations on the preparation of a new international agreement has begun, which should replace the Kyoto Protocol.

The number of officially registered unemployed in Russia by August 5 amounted to 2 million 140 thousand people, said Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov today. Thus, in a week from July 28, it decreased by 6 thousand people or by 0.3%. According to Alexander Zhukov, from the beginning of October, almost 590 thousand people lost their jobs, of which only 164 thousand or approximately 28%were able to find work again.

Marina Shishkina hopes that the conflict with the rector will be able to settle "inside the corporation" Rector Nikolai Kropachev deprived the dean of the journalism department of Marina Shishkin, the right to manage the activities of the faculty. The conflict in the St. Petersburg State University continues. Recall that the leadership of St. Petersburg State University filed a lawsuit to protect the honor and dignity against the dean of the Faculty of Journalism of Marina Shishkina on July 22.

In the Leninsky district of Grozny from the office of the non -governmental organization "Savior Generation", the head of the NGOs was stolen Zarema Sadulaev and her husband. As a member of the Board of the Human Rights of the Human Rights of the Human Radio Center, Alexander Cherkasov and Chechen human rights activists, a group of men who submitted employees of law enforcement agencies, reported in an interview with the spouses took the spouses in an unknown direction.

Ford plant in Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad Region, on Monday, will resume work after a three -week scheduled vacation. RIA Novosti reports that a new schedule provides for a four -day working week. It is expected that from the end of September the plant will begin to work in two shifts. Currently, in scheduled leave from August 3 to 16, there are workers of the St. Petersburg plants Toyota and Nissan. The General Motors plant suspended the conveyor from July 1 to August 31.

The prospect of the possible resignation of the representative of the president in the southern district of Vladimir Ustinov is discussed in the program "The City of Time" on Monday August 10 at 23 o’clock with the former chairman of the State Duma and Secretary of the Security Council Ivan Rybkin. Leading Vladimir Kara-Murza. Ask your question to the program participants.

The program is conducted by Mark Krutov. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Moscow Olga Vakhonicheva takes part. Mark Krutov: Today, August 10, the last day of nomination of candidates for deputies in the elections to the Moscow City Duma, which will be held on October 11.