The program will be a member of the Communist Party faction, deputy. Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of Russia on Constitutional Law and State Construction Viktor Ilyukhin.

Moscow, Ilyinsky gates, October 16, 2009 Mikhail Sokolov: In the studio, our guest is a member of the Fair Russia faction in the State Duma of Russia Oleg Shein. Today we will talk about what actually became a political consequence of the events that took place in the regional elections on October 11. Astrakhan, Oleg Shein has been representing this region of Astrakhan in the State Duma for many years, has become one of the hot spots.

In the west of Iraq, three policemen and a peaceful resident died during an explosion of a mined car. According to the authorities, the explosion occurred at a gas station in the city of Saklavai, 75 kilometers west of Baghdad. In the Iraqi capital itself, in the area where the Shiites live mainly, the minibus was blown up. A local resident died, four were injured. In the city of Hill south of Baghdad, a police patrol was blown up on a mine, one policeman died, two were injured.

The Khamovnican Court of Moscow today partially satisfied the lawsuit to protect the honor and dignity of the Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov to the co-chair of the right-hand Party Leonid Goman and the Ren-TV television channel. The court decided to recover 50 thousand rubles from Gozman, and from the television company - 20 thousand, in addition, Ren -TV should give a refutation. In the statement of claim, Luzhkov demanded 500 thousand rubles from each for compensation for moral damage.

Oleg Shein talks about the mayor’s elections in Astrakhan Former candidate for the post of mayor of Astrakhan, the deputy of the State Duma of Russia Oleg Shein believes that the voting results were changed in favor of the mayor Sergei Bozhenov. Shein counted 26 % of the vote, and Bozhenov - 65 %.

The reason for the damage to the medium -pressure gas pipeline in the north of Moscow could be construction work, - Interfax told in the press service of Mosgaz. A leakage of methane from under the ground found road workers on Tuesday night. Specialists who arrived at the scene managed to quickly block the gas supply. As a result of the accident, no one was injured. The reasons for the incident are clarified.

US President Barack Obama called on Prime Minister Iraq Nuri Al-Malika as soon as possible to conduct electoral legislation, necessary for the parliamentary elections in January next January. The Iraqi prime minister, for his part, called on Obama to contribute to the abolition of international sanctions imposed against the Saddam Hussein regime after Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Al-Maliki is located in Washington at a conference on attracting foreign capital to Iraq.

Why did the authorities discuss the future message of the President to the Federal Assembly? In the program "Hour of the Press" on Wednesday October 21 at 13 o’clock Vitaly Portnikov is talking with reporters Andrei Kolesnikov and Gleb Cherkasov. Ask your question to the program participants.

In the Donetsk region of Ukraine, a fire occurred at the Bulavinskaya mine. According to preliminary data, all the miners in the face are raised to the surface. Fire calculations work at the scene. The reasons for the incident will be found out a special commission.

The State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov does not exclude that the deputies of the Communist Party faction, who did not attend plenary meetings, will be counted for absenteeism and salary is cut. Last Wednesday, three opposition factions - the LDPR, the Fair Russia and the Communist Party left the State Duma meeting in protest against violations in the October 11 elections.

In Volgograd, the chairman of the regional council of trade unions Vyacheslav Kobosev was arrested on suspicion of abuse of powers, Radio Liberty correspondent reports. Thus, the court granted the petition of the prosecutors, according to whom Kobosev, being free, could put pressure on the investigation. The leader of the Volgograd Regional Council of Trade Unions is suspected of property fraud.

In Croatia, 7 people were arrested on charges of committing war crimes of The time of the war in Bosnia in the 1990s. According to local media, the arrested - former military personnel of the Croatian Army. They are accused of killing five Serbian prisoners in September 1995 during the offensive of the Croatian army and the forces of the Bosnian Muslims against the Serbs in the West Bosnia.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expects Afghan President Hamid Karzai today will propose a plan to get out of the crisis related to summing up the results of the country's presidential election, Radio Liberty correspondent Allan Davydov reports. Speaking to the reporters in the State Department, Hillary Clinton welcomed the expected announcement of Hamid Karzai his intentions to resolve the post -eating crisis in Afghanistan.

In the north of Moscow, road workers, when replacing asphalt, discovered a gas leak. According to RIA Novosti with reference to sources in law enforcement agencies, methane leakage occurs from the gas pipe laid underground, for the unidentified reason. Mosgaz experts work at the scene.