Irina Lagunina: 60 years ago, February 9, 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy began his crusade against communism. His name became a common sense of the shameless demagogue, and the concept of “macartism” derived from this name is a synonym for political persecution. Was there even a grain of truth in the accusations that Senator McCarthy was terminated? Today is the first part of the story of our correspondent in Washington Vladimir Abarinov.

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Elena Rykovtseva : How does the Ukrainian press react to the results of the second round of the presidential election and what will happen next? - We are talking about this today with our guests. In touch, the editor-in-chief of Kievsky’s newspapers Sergey Tikhiy, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Native Azovye from the Donetsk region Sergey Shvedko and political scientist, historian from Simferopol Gulnara Bekirov.

On the coast of the Turkish resort province of Antalya, a storm fell. Three people died and two were missing, according to preliminary data - they were carried away to sea, Radio Liberty correspondent Elena Solntseva reports. In Antalya, hundreds of trees are hidden with a hurricane wind, and damaged many buildings. By decision of the local authorities, schools and other educational institutions are closed. Ahmet Kaak said: "The speed of the wind at times reached one hundred kilometers per hour.

As a result of the collision of the car and the train at the railway crossing near Astrakhan, according to the specified data, three people were killed, 11 were injured. The dead are the driver of the car and two passengers of the train. The condition of two victims is extremely serious, said the representative of the regional center of the Ministry of Emergencies. 8 wagons of electric trains have left the rails, small damage received railway tracks.

Irina Lagunina: Iran began the process of enriching uranium up to 20 percent. The official version of the regime in Tehran is for a medical reactor. By the way, the declared medical goals of the Iranian nuclear program is a way to make the people's program itself, to inspire the idea that the world does not confront the suspicious behavior of the government of Mahmud Akhmadinejad, but punishes the entire Iranian people.

Leaders of the United Russia party Vladimir Putin and Boris Gryzlov Today, the leadership of United Russia tried to find explanations of the already second attack of a high -ranking government official on this party in the last few days . We are talking about the speeches of the Speaker of the Council of the Federation Sergey Mironov and the Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin.

In Afghanistan, at least five people were killed as a result of heavy snowfalls and avalanches. As the Radio Liberty correspondent reports, due to avalanches, the message between the northern and southern regions of the country is also violated. The regional authorities turned to the government with a request for help.

In the north of India, 23 people died as a result of a road accident. According to the police, an inverted van, in which about 70 people were located, was attached to the bus. Among the dead are 14 children.

In Iran, the production of uranium, enriched up to 20 percent, began. About this today was informed by the Iranian state television channel Al-Alam, broadcasting in Arabic. It is reported that production began in the presence of inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The United States and France said the day before that they would insist on applying the new tough sanctions of the UN to Iran - in response to the next step in the development of the Iranian nuclear program.

Dmitry Oreshkin The United Russia party is increasingly becoming an object of criticism from senior government representatives. First, the speaker of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov stated in the program of Vladimir Pozner about disagreement with the budget policy of the leader of the United Russia.

More than 60 people probably died under the avalanches, which went down in the mountains north of the capital of Afghanistan - Kabul. This was announced on Tuesday by the Afghan Minister of the Interior Hanif Atmar. According to him, while the bodies of 24 dead were found, but under the snow, obviously, are yet at least 40. About 430 people managed to save, most of them were injured.

Embed Share Embed Share The text of the copy Width PX Height PX The url has been copied to your clipboard No Media Source Currently Available 0:00 0:01:48 0:00 Russia following the countries of the West condemned Iran’s resumption of works on the enrichment of uranium raw materials. As the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Andrei Nesterenko stated on Tuesday, Tehran’s actions “are doubtful of the sincerity of his actions” in a nuclear issue.