Georgy Satarov Veronika Bode: Today we will talk about the attitude in Russia to problems related to corruption. Do the Russians are aware of the seriousness of the problem? What are the ways of its resolution? Visiting us - Georgy Satarov, president of the Indem Foundation, Andrei Stolbunov, leader of the justice public organization, and Yuri Boldyrev, writer, publicist, and deputy chairman of the County Chamber of Russia in the past.

The Libyan leader Muamar Gaddafi said that he did not conclude any "transactions" with London in connection with the recent liberation of the Libyan from the British prison, convicted of involvement in the explosion of an American aircraft in the sky over Scotland in 1988. The authorities of Scotland substantiated the liberation of Abdelbasset Ali al-Migrahi by the fact that he was mortally ill.

In Abkhazia, the 16th anniversary of the capture of Sukhumi is celebrated during the Georgian-Abkhaz war. The flag of the republic was solemnly raised on the Constitution Square. As part of the celebration, a sailing regatta and a chess tournament will be held. After the collapse of the USSR, Abkhazia announced independence from Georgia. After the entry of Georgian troops into the republic, a war began, which lasted more than a year.

Iraqi President Jalyal Talabani said that Iraq would not allow Israel or any other country to use its airspace for impacts on Iran nuclear facilities. Talabani called on a “group of six” - five regular members of the UN and Germany Security Council - to lead, as he put it, “really” negotiations with Iran. Iraq president believes that Tehran should guarantee compliance with his rights to use nuclear facilities for peaceful purposes.

Hamas leaders intend to resume negotiations with the leadership of Egypt on the issue of inter -Palatic settlement. The first meeting should be held in Cairo on Monday. The delegation of Hamas is headed by the political leader of the Khaled Mashaal group. Egypt has been trying to reconcile Hamas, which has controlled the gas sector since 2007, with the Fath movement, led by the President of the Palestinian Autonomy Mahmud Abbas.

The Pope Benedict XVI today served in the open -air mass in the city of Brno in the south of the Czech Republic. It is reported that the service was attended by more than 120 thousand believers. In his sermon, Benedict XVI noted that technological and social progress does not always lead to "moral well -being." Dad emphasized the need to remember spiritual principles. The head of the Roman Catholic Church arrived in the Czech Republic on Saturday. His visit to this country will last three days.

In three more Russian regions, cases of influenza virus H1N1 are registered among schoolchildren. According to the head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko, three cases were detected in Yuzhno -Sakhalinsk, six in the Kaliningrad region and four in Moscow. The disease proceeds in mild form, ”Onishchenko said. Earlier, the infection of 19 schoolchildren in the Murmansk region was reported.

More than 40 thousand residents of the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny were left without electricity. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the support of the power line collapsed. Recovery work has begun.

International forces in Afghanistan continue to suffer losses. Over the past day, according to the NATO forces command, 6 soldiers were killed in different areas of the country. Two Americans and the Briton were killed as a result of bomb explosions. Three Frenchmen died in the north of Afghanistan during the storm. On Sunday, in the province of Herat in the western of Afghanistan, Taliban organized an attempt on the former Governor of Herat, now the Minister of Energy of Ismail Khan.

In the suburbs, law enforcement officers tried to detain one of the organizers of the protest against the expansion of the Kashirsky highway, lawyer Dmitry Arkhipov. Dmitry Arkhipov himself said in an interview with Radio Liberty that work is underway to expand the paid road, so illegal. Protesters in the framework of the action "Plant the forest!" They planted new ones on the site of uprooted trees.

In the north of Sri Lanka, when trying to escape from a military camp for refugees, three people were injured. According to the command, the soldiers opened fire after the refugees began to throw them with stones. International human rights organizations have repeatedly appealed to the country's leadership with a request to allow ethnic Tamila contained in several similar camps to return home.

In Germany, elections to the lower house of parliament - Bundestag will be held today. It is expected that the main struggle will unfold between Christian Democrats (CDU/CSS), headed by the current federal chancellor, Angel Merkel and the Social Democrats, from whom Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier claims to be the post of chancellor. These two parties are now forming a ruling coalition in Germany.

Ivan Dykhovichny In Moscow, at the 62nd year of his life, film director Ivan Dikhovichny died. It is reported that recently he has been seriously ill. A few years ago, a oncological disease of the lymphatic system was found in a Dykhovichny. Among the most famous directorial works of the Dykhovichchny are the films "Women's Role", "Black Monk", "Proter", "Kopeyka", "Music for December", the documentary "Fatal War. Photos of the abyss".

On September 29, the writer Peter Vail is 60 years old to our colleague. For more than 20 years, Vail spent on the microphone of freedom, wrote and talked about cinema, about literature, about travel, about cooking, Russian, about politics. In the days of his anniversary, Peter, unfortunately, is seriously ill, but we all hope for a miracle of recovery every day. And today we want to speak not by ourselves, but simply to listen to his voice.

Gallomania and Francophony. Why and for what they love France in Russia? France as a political, intellectual model and a multinational country. Do the Russian French envy? Translators Boris Dubin and Natalya Mavelvich, culturalist Sergei Zenkin, critic Konstantin Milchin, film historian Natalya Nusinov, director of the Franco-Russian Center for Public Sciences Jean Radwani