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Alexander Genis: Today's “American hour”, the latter this year, will complete the “musical offering” of Solomon Volkov, in which the 2009 musician will be named. Solomon, who is the musician of the year? Solomon Volkov: I think that this choice will fully satisfy you. Our musician of the year is Leonard Cohen, a wonderful Canadian chansonnier, who turned 75 this year, and who spent an amazing world tour and performed several times in New York.

Major Evsyukov agreed with the prosecution only partially. In the Moscow City Court today, in open mode, a consideration was held on the merits of the case of the former police major Denis Evsyukov. The prosecutor's office read out the charges with which the former chief of the Kingitsyno Department of Internal Affairs partially agreed, who arranged a massacre in one of the supermakets of the capital in April this year.

President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari is confident in the victory of the Pakistani troops over militants in the mountainous regions of the country. In the article published today by the American publication Wall Street Journal, Zardari notes that in the past year the army managed to cleanse the Svat and Malacand regions near the Afghan border. An article by Zardari appeared on the second anniversary of the death of his wife, former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

In Poland in 2010, the remains of the famous astronomer Nikolai Copernicus will be reburied - more than 450 years after his death. The ceremony will be held on May 22 in the Cathedral of the city of Frombork, where Copernicus lived and died. Fragments of the remains of the scientist were discovered in the same cathedral 4 years ago during archaeological studies. DNA tests confirmed that they belong to Copernicus.

The Union of National Teachers of Latvia demands to translate public Russian schools into the Latvian language of study. According to Radio Liberty correspondent Mikhail Bombin, at the moment in Russian schools 40% of subjects can be taught in their native and 60% in the state language.

Farewell to the composer Isaac Schwartz, who died on Sunday at the 87th year of his life, will be held on Wednesday in the village of Siversky, Leningrad Region, where the composer lived in recent years. According to preliminary information, Isaac Schwartz will be buried in a Volkov cemetery in St. Petersburg, Interfax reports. People's Artist of Russia Isaac Schwartz was the author of many symphonies, wrote music for more than 35 performances and 110 films.

Isaac Schwartz In the eighty -seventh year of his life in his cottage in the Leningrad region, after a severe long -term illness, the famous composer Isaac Schwartz died. People's Artist of Russia Isaac Schwartz was born on May 13, 1923 in the city of Romny (now the Sumy Region of Ukraine). In 1930, the Schwartz family moved to Leningrad. In 1935, Schwartz took part in a youth concert in the Great Hall of the Leningrad Philharmonic. In 1945 he entered the Leningrad Conservatory.

Lithuanian deported to Siberia in the train car. For 20 years, a resident of Lithuania Gintoutas Alekna has been holding all his vacations in Russian Siberia, going with a backpack to the places where in the 40s of the 20th century, the Stalin regime sent many tens of thousands of Lithuanians. He collects information about the exiles, searches for old cemeteries and puts burials in order. Gintoutas Alekna - a television operator by profession.

Iranian opposition on Tehran's streets Last Sunday in Iran there were large clashes between the police and supporters of the opposition. Conflicting messages come to the victims of events in Iran. According to some reports, at least eight people were killed. The opposition claims that during the riots a 35-year-old nephew of the leader of the opposition Mir-Hosein Musavi lost his life, Interfax reports.

The court in Kyrgyzstan sentenced the pilots of a passenger aircraft to be a crashed in August last year near Bishkek to five years. As the correspondent of Radio Liberty Nadezhda Tolkunov reports, the judges considered the pilots guilty of the crash of the airliner, considering that the crew commander Yuri Goncharov and the second pilot Timofei Vodolagin, when managing the aircraft, violated the rules of technical security.

In the Primorsky Territory, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin put into operation the Eastern Siberia oil pipeline - Pacific Ocean. He arrived in the Far East as part of a two -day working trip. It is reported that Putin will also hold a meeting on the development of the shipbuilding industry of the region and will visit the Sollets -Far East Avtozavod.

The United States, Italy and France sharply condemned the suppression by the Iranian security forces of opposition demonstrations. Washington said that the United States support peaceful demonstrators. Paris emphasized the inadmissibility of violence against the manifestants protecting their rights. The statement of Rome says the need to protect human life.