Justice in Russia today ... Reforms on the contrary. We are discussing with the lawyer Mikhail Khodorkovsky, president of the Russian Committee of Lawyers in Protection of Human Rights, Yuri Schmidt.

After the failure of the year, the demand for Russian coal begins to recover The accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station "turned off" more than 4 thousand megavatts from the Siberia energy system. They have to replace them due to coal thermal generation. As a result of the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, the energy system of Siberia lost more than 4 thousand megawatts of power.

Elena Rykovtseva : And on TV, we are watching today a project that, in fact, is not intended for me, dear listeners. He is for teenagers. They are the owners there: they themselves are removed, they themselves advise adults who nevertheless refuel this project. Hence the name-"All in the adult way!" The first release of this show was released on May 24, but I personally saw it only last Saturday. I liked it, I laughed. Near me was our guest from Kyiv, 11-year-old Nazar, who was also very amused.

The Yabloko party presented 78 thousand signatures of Muscovites in support of the registration of a party list in the elections to the Moscow City Duma. On the eve of 80 thousand signatures, the party "Patriots of Russia" passed. Today, the Mosgorizbirk completed the acceptance of documents for registration. The parties represented in the State Duma - "United Russia", "Fair Russia", the Communist Party and the LDPR, according to the legislation, are recorded automatically.

In London, negotiations of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a special representative of the United States in the Middle East George Mitchell ended. As the correspondent of Radio Freedom Natalya Golitsyna reports from London, negotiations between Netanyahu and Mitchell were held after the meeting of the Israeli Prime Minister with the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and lasted four hours.

Georgia protested in connection with the opening of a gas pipeline from Russia to South Ossetia. The Georgian Foreign Ministry said that Russia thereby violated the principles of international law, the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of Georgia. The new gas pipeline, according to which South Ossetia will receive fuel bypassing Georgia, is launched on the anniversary of the recognition of Russia's independence of the republic.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. A radio correspondent of Radio Freedom Jan Runov takes part. Andrei Shary : Edward Kennedy belonged to the most influential family in the political life of America over the past century. About this to our New York correspondent, Jan Runov, is told by American historian Robert Forty. Robert is far : with him, one might say, the Kennedy era, the dominance of the Kennedy family in American political history, ended.

The program is conducted by Kirill Kobrin. The Radio Liberty correspondent Irina Peters takes part. Kirill Kobrin : How do Lithuanian politicians spend summer vacations? Vilnius correspondent of Radio Liberty Irina Peters found that most often it is a trip to bicycles, rest on the seaside or in a rural estate.

The program is conducted by Kirill Kobrin. The Radio Liberty Giniatululin correspondent takes part. Kirill Kobrin : Today, as part of an organization of the collective security agreement (CSTO) in Moscow, the staff exercises of the collective forces of operational response will be held. The CSTO includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. It is planned that the following stages of complex exercises will be held in the fall in Kazakhstan and Belarus.

The current president of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai increased his separation from the main opponent, ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Dr. Abdullo, in the election of the head of state. This was announced today by the election commission of Afghanistan. According to her, after the calculation of 17 percent of the ballots filed in the August 20 elections, from 43 to 45 percent of voters voted for Karzai, about 35 percent voted for Abdullo.

In the Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia, two policemen were injured in the explosion. According to Interfax in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic, the explosive device was laid in the car where the OMON employees were located. An investigation is underway. In Chechnya, on Wednesday night, a police officer died in a shootout with militants, another policeman was hospitalized with injuries.

The leadership of the company "Paradise", which established the automatic protection system for the second hydraulic unit of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, claims that the automation worked properly before the accident. On the eve of Rostekhnadzor said that not one of the three automatic station protection systems worked. The version of the attack was excluded by the investigating authorities. As a result of the accident, 71 people died, four are listed as missing.

Ordinary Americans did not hesitate to express their attitude to Muamar Gaddafi (in the photo: the Libyan leader arrived at the G8 summit in Italy, July 10, 2009) The US State Department is trying to prevent a potential international scandal associated with the arrival of the General Assembly of the UN General Assembly to the Libyan leader Muamar Gaddafi.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow at the request of the Investigative Committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office (UKP) issued the arrest of the ARCTIC Sea dry cargo. According to the official representative of the SCP Vladimir Markin, the investigation intends to find out what cargo transported the ship. Earlier, he denied reports that crew members are isolated and cannot communicate with loved ones. Eight suspects in the abduction of the vessel will be charged in the near future, Markin said.

Irina Lagunina: As we have already reported on the news, on Wednesday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev admitted that the situation in the Caucasus has worsened in recent months. And of course, the fault of the Kremlin is believed - the measures taken by law enforcement agencies are insufficient. And then a rather typical reaction is to provide law enforcement agencies with additional opportunities. But whether the functions of the central government are only in this.