In Moscow, the famous Russian actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery on Tuesday. Earlier, in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the funeral service of Tikhonov was held, then hundreds of people came to the civilian memorial service to the cinema house. Tikhonov died on Friday after a long heart disease. He was 81 years old. Vyacheslav Tikhonova brought great fame to the role of Soviet intelligence officer Stirlitz in the television series Seventeen Moments of Spring.

In Prague, in the hospital, after a serious illness, our colleague, the editor -in -chief of the Russian Radio Liberty Service, the famous writer and journalist Peter Vail , died. He cooperated with Radio Liberty since the mid-80s, he began to work on a RS on an ongoing basis in 1988.

The materials of the Khodorkovsky readings will be transferred to Mikhail Khodorkovsky; This was promised by lawyer Yuri Schmidt. The organizers of the Fifth Khodorkovsky readings were the Human Rights Society "Memorial", the Institute of the National Public Treaty Project and the Informatics for Democracy Foundation (Indem). This time, participants in the Khodorkov readings tried to understand the "physiology" of the ruling in Russia the political regime and its prospects.

The television journalists Oleg Ptashkin and Elkhan Mirzoev appealed to the decision of the Golovinsky Court of Moscow, who obliged them to pay the Ostankino to the Ostankino television center in the amount of 115 thousand rubles. According to Radio Liberty Oleg Ptashkin, the corresponding appeal was submitted to the Moscow City Court. On March 18 this year, journalists announced a hunger strike in protest against the illegal, in their opinion, dismissal from Channel One.

In Romania, a representative of the Social Democrats, whose candidate lost the presidential election, displays the legality of voting results in the Constitutional Court. Member of the leadership of the Social Democratic Party, Liviu Dragnea, stated in his lawsuit about violations and tags during the second round of elections on December 6. On Monday, the winner in the election was announced by the current president, legal ententeric politician Trajan Basescu.

In the Moscow City Court, a resident of Dagestan Ahmed Magomedov, accused of the murder of Alexei Belyaev, - adviser to the vice speaker of the State Duma Alexander Babakov, pleaded guilty. On Tuesday, a re -consideration of this case began in the Moscow City Court. In August, Magomedov was sentenced to 15 years in prison, and his accomplice - a citizen of Uzbekistan Anvar Igamberdiev - to two and a half years in prison. However, this sentence was canceled by the Supreme Court.

The funeral of those who died as a result of a fire in a Perm club. Seven representatives of the state supervision of the Perm Territory are removed from office. Among them are the head of the department, his deputies and the heads of departments. This is due to the fire in the Perm club "Lame Horse". Today , the number of victims of the tragedy has increased to 119, dozens of people remain in Perm hospitals and other cities .

Irina Lagunina: At the opening of the UN conference on climatic changes, Rajendra Pachauuri, the head of the intergovernmental group of experts - leading scientists who study the problems of climate change, was forced to say that a month ago it was not at all in his plans.

Monument to ruble in Tatarstan The Russian ruble cannot cheaper only because the Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin wants this, the professor of economics from the Goverov Institute (USA) Mikhail Bernsstam believes.

In the south of Afghanistan, a British soldier was killed. Since the beginning of the year, 100 military personnel of Great Britain have died in Afghanistan, and 237 from the beginning of the operation in 2001. The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in a special statement honored the memory of the dead troops.

Parliamentary elections in Iraq were postponed for one day and will be held on the 7th, and not on March 6, 2010, as previously reported on Tuesday. Officially, the reason for this decision is not reported. According to the head of the presidential apparatus Nasir al-Ani, President Jalyal Talabani signed a decree on the entry into force of the new election law, the adoption of which was repeatedly postponed due to conflict in the Iraqi leadership.

In Lithuania, during a parliamentary investigation of reports that the country's secret prison of the US Central Intelligence Directorate was interviewed in the country five years ago, former presidents of the country were interviewed. According to Radio Liberty in Vilnius, Irina Peters, members of the Lithuanian Secret Committee on National Security and Defense interviewed the former leaders of the country of Valdas Adamkus and Algirdas Brazauskas.

Is parliamentary control possible in Russia? We discuss in the program "Time of Guests" on Tuesday December 8 at 19 o’clock with legal professors-legal entities Boris Nadezhdin and Elena Lukyanova. Mikhail Sokolov is conducting the program. Ask your question to the program participants.

Peter Vail (in the picture on the left) with Sergey Dovlatov were among the founders of modern Russian essays. Peter Weil passed away . He was the author and co-author of many books, including them-written with Alexander Genis "Russian cuisine in exile", "native speech" and "60s. The world of Soviet man", as well as the books "Genius of the place", "Map of the Homeland" and "Poems about me".