The program We discuss the latest initiatives of Dmitry Medvedev. Guest - political scientist Leonid Radzikhovsky.

The volume of the United States economy in the third quarter increased by 2.8% to the level of July-September last year, and not by 3.5%, as previously expected. The updated assessment was presented by the US Department of Trade. In the second quarter, US GDP volume decreased by 0.7%, and in the first - by 6.4% to last year. In general, the growth of the United States economy resumed after its reduction during four in a row, which happened for the first time in half a century.

US Minister Eric Holder calls not to be afraid of what the accused can say in civil attacks in the civil process. The defendants in the case of terrorist acts on September 11 intend to turn the trial of them in court on the foreign policy of the United States, the lawyer of one of the defendants said. The possibility of using a civil court as a propaganda instrument is one of the main arguments of those who insist on leaving the accused to the military tribunal.

In the Nazran district of Ingushetia this morning, the car of the employee of the convoy service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was fired by unknown people. The policeman was hospitalized with injuries, the woman who was in the car died. The operational-investigation group is working at the scene.

Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the first half in the 1980s, the number of HIV-infected people in the world was about 60 million. 25 million people died. Such data are given in the new report of the UN AIDS organization. More than two thirds of HIV -infected - about 22 million people live in Central and South Africa.

Several suspects of involvement in the murder of the head of the compulsory medical insurance department of the Chelyabinsk region Valery Nekrasov were detained. As Interfax was informed in the ATC of the city of Satka, where the crime was committed, the suspects are in the investigative authorities, they are interrogated. Valery Nekrasov was killed by two shots on the morning of November 22 at the entrance of the house. According to the witnesses, photobots of the alleged killers were compiled.

Tenor Joseph Malovani, Cantor synagogue on the fifth Avenue The concert of the American Tenor Cantor Joseph Malovani and the United Moscow Male Jewish Choir will take place today in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. The joint performance is dedicated to two anniversary dates-the 35th anniversary of the creative activity of Joseph Malovan and the 20th anniversary of the Moscow Jewish choir.

In London, at the Christie's auction on Tuesday for 200 thousand dollars, a King Kong figure was sold from a famous American film shot in 1933. A figure of 56 centimeters high was used in the famous scene from the film, in which King Kong, a giant monkey, climbs the top of the Empire State Building-the highest skyscraper in New York. For 76 years, only a metal frame remained from a figure covered with layers of rubber, cotton and rabbit fur.

The Hague International Tribunal refused the former leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Radova Karadzhich, in the right to file an appeal to the decision of the judges to appoint him a lawyer, Bibisi reports. The decision on the appointment of lawyer Karadzhich was made by the tribunal on November 5 - after the defendant, who decided to defend himself, announced the boycott of court hearings. Karadzhich, accused of war crimes and genocide, claimed that he needed additional time to study the case file.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that it was too early to talk about the conclusion of a transaction to release the prisoner Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit. Earlier, a member of the Israeli government, Benjamin Ben Eliezer, said that the agreement with the Palestinian group of Hamas on the release of Shalit is “very close”. In Cairo, through the mediation of Egypt and Germany, negotiations are underway on this issue. Gilan Shalit was captured by militants in June 2006.

The bridge in Ulyanovsk was opened by presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Ilham Aliyev. Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Ilham Aliyev arrived in Ulyanovsk, where they officially opened the second largest bridge over the Volga in Europe. In fact, it was opened on September 13th. The early opening was forced to avoid panic and transport collapse in connection with a large fire in the territory of 31 arsenal. Then, as a result of the gap of shells, two died, another 60 people were injured.

In the mountains of Dagestan, 28 people were saved, who remained for several days on a mountain pass due to snow drift. According to the local department of the Ministry of Emergencies, on Tuesday morning, rescuers with the help of special equipment managed to break through the road to the pass. According to preliminary data, there are no victims. The snowy drift on the Vedeno-Andi highway was formed on November 21. Seven cars stuck in the snow, in which more than 40 people were.