The President reminded the bankers that recently they kept afloat only thanks to taxpayers. US President Barack Obama on Monday appealed to the country's leading bankers with a request to maintain economic recovery with active lending to small businesses and support for banking regulation reform. But as the banks returned to the treasury of Washington, there are fewer levers of influence.

The Supreme Court of Russia on Tuesday recognized the legal sentence to former officials of the Accounts Chamber, convicted of extortion and receiving a bribe of 120 thousand dollars. Thus, the court refused to satisfy the cassation appeal of the defense, asking for the mitigation of the verdict issued in late August by the Moscow City Court on the basis of the jury verdict.

Irina Lagunina: One of the ways to replenish the terrorist budget of almost all organizations - drugs. Special services of different countries are trying to fight this, including the American dea. However, the task of combating drugs is complicated whenever it turns out that the state structures of some countries are behind the merchants. Says the correspondent of RS Victor Cheretsky.

The problems of Russian automotive industry on the day of special parliamentary hearings are discussed in the program “The City of Time” on Tuesday December 15 at 23 hours with their initiator by the State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein and the leader of the movement of Russia's motorists Viktor Pokhmelkin. Leading Vladimir Kara-Murza. Ask your question to the program participants.

A large group of refugees - mainly, citizens of Russia of Chechen nationality tried on Tuesday to leave Poland to Strasbourg to complain about the poor, as they say, the attitude to refugees in the Polish authorities. After 8 -hour negotiations, the Polish border guards by force removed them from the train, the Radio Liberty correspondent Alexander Lemeshevsky reports.

The Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi, on which on Sunday was an attack, should be discharged from the hospital today. The attending physician recommended Berlusconi, who had lost a lot of blood due to injuries, to refrain from work within two weeks. The Italian prime minister has already refused to participate in the environmental summit in Copengen, and also canceled the meeting with the Turkish colleague scheduled for December 16.

In Iraq on Tuesday, at least 8 people were killed as a result of a series of terrorist attacks. In Baghdad, three cars filled with explosives were undermined. At least 4 people were killed, 14 people were injured. Explosions occurred near the so -called green zone - a specially protected area where government institutions are located. Earlier in the city of Mosul, 4 people became victims of a similar terrorist attack, about forty were injured.

The co -chair of the right -hand party Leonid Gozman intends to challenge the decision of the Moscow City Court, which deflected his lawsuit against the mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov. According to Gozman, he will appeal to the Supreme Court, and then, if necessary, to the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights. Gozman sought compensation for non -pecuniary damage in the amount of about 650 million rubles - for the statement of Luzhkov, who called him a slanderer.

Chechen refugees in Poland More than 200 refugees from the CIS countries, mainly from Georgia and the Russian republics of the North Caucasus, captured on December 15 in the evening a passenger train, which was traveling from Poland to Germany, and demanded to deliver them to Strasbourg. In Strasbourg, they intended to file a collective complaint about poor conditions in the centers for emigrants in Poland. To date, Polish police brought them out of the train.

In Ukraine, where the presidential election will be held on January 17, the main candidates refused to participate in television battles. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent in Kyiv Vladimir Ivakhnenko, only 13 out of 18 18 candidates will take part in the television battles who start on January 4. As a result of the draw in the Central Election Commission of the Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was the head of state Viktor Yushchenko. Both of them refused the television.

In the city of Korolev near Moscow, due to severe frosts, a major accident on the heating main occurred. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent, several multi -storey buildings have been disconnected from heating. About a thousand people were left without warmth. Recovery work is underway. Air temperature in the city is about 30 degrees of frost.

The past 20th anniversary of the death of Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov forced to take up the pen. In the same December frosts of 1989, I, together with tens of thousands of Muscovites, stood in a multi -kilometer convoy of those who came to say goodbye to the great humanist. And yesterday I was surprised to read the president’s greeting on the occasion of the sad anniversary. "Participants and guests of the conference" Sakharov Ideas Today " December 14, 2009 Dear friends!

In the Central District of St. Petersburg, 6 people were killed in a residential building in a residential building, including two children. 7 people were hospitalized with carbon monoxide poisoning. According to the regional center of the Ministry of Emergencies, on Tuesday night there was a fire in a communal apartment of a five -story building. The ignition area was about a hundred square meters. In the morning, the fire was localized.

The final summing up of the day of the past, the prospects of the day of the coming, discussing hot topics with guests of the morning broadcast.