Marina Timasheva: In Tel Aviv, the festival, which is called “Isradma”, ended. It is held annually, but every time invites theatrical figures from different countries. This time, a huge delegation came from the Union of Theater Workers of Russia, as well as from Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia, Uzbekistan, Moldova and Georgia. All performances went with Russian titles in excellent translations. The organizer of the festival is the Institute of Israeli Drama named after Hanoch Levin.

In the American state of Virginia, four hostages captured by an armed man are released. A man in a wheelchair, almost the whole day kept people in a post office in the town of WTVLIL. Now he was detained by the police, the motives of his act are not clear.

Israel is not interested in achieving peace with Syria, ”says Bashar Assad, president of this country. He made this statement on Wednesday in Damascus after negotiations with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan. Assad believes that Israel’s assertion of readiness for negotiations without preliminary conditions is a certificate of desire to disrupt the peace process.

Irina Lagunina: Today we continue the story of people who were deported from traditional places of residence. We are talking about Turkish-Conshets, who in the world have up to half a million people-about 90 thousand in Kazakhstan, 70 thousand in Russia, 30 in Kyrgyzstan, 10 in Uzbekistan and Ukraine. The Council of Europe determined that those who wish to return to Georgia can do this before 2011.

Irina Lagunina: A recent abduction in Mauritania of three citizens of Spain confirmed the presence in the Western Sahel region, giant territory south of Sahara, bases of the Al-Qaeda International Terrorist Network, in which many Western Europeans have not believed. Says a RS correspondent in Madrid Viktor Cheretsky. Victor Cheretsky: Anxiety about the presence of international terrorists in the Sachel was raised several years ago.

Muslim Abdullaev, champion in Thai boxing, was killed in Moscow. The body of the 27 -year -old native of the Khasavyurt district of Dagestan was found on Thursday late in the Nauka stadium on Thursday evening, the Investigative Committee said under the Russian Prosecutor's Office. According to law enforcement agencies, Abdullaev was killed by a shot in the head. An investigation has begun.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev today gave an interview to the heads of three federal television channels about the results of the outgoing year. Among the main topics that were affected during a year and a half conversation on the air are the fight against terrorism, modernization of the economy, the situation in the army, the reform of the justice system.

Vladimir Poblovsky The Russian President on the air talked with the leaders of leading television channels, summing up the outgoing year . The first impressions of the speech by Dmitry Medvedev were shared by the Political scientist, the head of the Panorama information and research center Vladimir Poblovsky. - What seemed remarkable to you in the speech of Dmitry Medvedev? - In his speech this time there is almost no propaganda.

The US Senate today approved the bill on the reform of the healthcare system. The document was adopted thanks to the majority of the Democratic Party in the Senate. In the final form, the plan for reforming the healthcare system will be adopted after its coordination between both chambers of the US Congress, which will begin in mid -January. US President Barack Obama considers the reform of healthcare to its domestic political priority.

President of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov The interview of President Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov often ends with scandals, and his recent communication with British journalists was no exception. The words said in this interview were regarded as a call to destroy Georgia and Ukraine. And the reaction was not long in coming.

In Turkey, the police detained more than 40-A activists of the Pokurdi Party recently prohibited by the court. Among the detainees are the mayors of several cities. All of them are suspected of connections with Kurdish separatists. Police raids were held in the capital of Ankara, Istanbul and several more cities of the Southeast region.

Dmitry Maksimov, Deputy Head of the Department of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, was charged with the murder of lawyer Sergei Biryukov. According to the lawyer Maksimov Ismanali Uzalov, in the near future the court will decide on the election of a preventive measure. Earlier in this case, three people were detained. Sergey Biryukov was killed in Moscow in December last year.