Viktor Erofeev: Our guests are the editor-in-chief of the OPO and Counter, the Moscow Center of Carnegie Maria Lipman, historian Alexander Viktorovich Nearns and co-chair of the Moscow European Club Vladimir Koptev-Dvornikov. The theme of our today's program is a handle of ranks. Today we will talk about how this phenomenon of Russian, then the Soviet nomenclature and further post -Soviet life works in our country, works for the country or against the country. How to deal with it?

The Communists in Moldova said on Saturday about the impossibility of creating a coalition with political rivals - liberals. Representatives of the Communist Party announced their intention to create a fraction of the levocentric direction on their own. The Communists have been in power in Moldova since 2001. As a result of universal elections last month, they lost the parliamentary majority, taking 48 out of 101 seats.

(Boris Nemtsov, Natalya Fateeva)

The last week the world media widely covered the mysterious history with the disappearance of the ARCTIC Sea dry cargo , belonging to the Finnish company, which sailed under the Maltese flag with a Russian team of 15 people.

In the south of Portugal, search and rescue operations in the area of the fall of a piece of a cliff on a crowded beach were stopped in Albuyir. As a result of this, 5 people were killed on Friday, including 4 members of the same family. 10 people were injured. The accident occurred in that section of the beach, where there were inscriptions warning about the threat of rockfall.

For many, the "Sunday" remains one of the best rock groups of the Soviet era The musicians of the Rock Group "Resurrection" announced the holding of an anniversary concert dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the creation of the team. It will take place on September 24 in Moscow.

Elena Kashkarova : Inhabitants of the hostel on Pavlova Street, 4 years have been living like in a volcano for three years. In 2006, as a result of a dubious transaction, one of the successful realtors of the find acquired this building in the property. And the tenants wanted to evict. One of the residents of Alexander Zubkovsky tells. Alexander Zubkovsky : For the past three years, a new owner of documents for this building has appeared.

The cause of a strong oil fire in the Khanty -Mansi Autonomous Okrug was a lightning strike, ”the Ural Regional Center of the Russian Emergencies Ministry said on Saturday evening. According to him, an explosion occurred in the caught fire tank with oil, after which the fire spread to two other tanks with fuel. According to updated information, one person died, five were injured - employees of the Kanda pumping station. Four of them are hospitalized. The ignition area was 1800 square meters.

In Russia today the State Flag Day is celebrated. 18 years ago, a three -color flag was first raised over the building of the Russian parliament in Moscow - after the failure of the so -called August Putch. The opposition movement "Solidarity" will hold a rally in the center of Moscow in memory of those who died in the defense of the Russian "White House" in 1991. The Moscow authorities refused the procession.

Galina Markina : The agricultural season 2009 has not yet ended, and in the region they have already begun the formation of a labor quota for the next year. Presumably it will be about 12.5 thousand people, almost 8 thousand will go to the fields. But now it is clear that this amount must be increased by a third. In the region, more and more peasant farms and, as a result, there is an increase in agricultural products.