Vladimir Putin gave explanations to American viewers. At the same time and everyone else Will the image of the Russian Prime Minister be presidential? This question remained the focus of American specialists involved in Russian problems long before the interview with Vladimir Putin with Larry King, which will be aired by American television late on the evening of December 1. However, American viewers have already received some answers to their questions, looking at excerpts from this interview.

In London, on Tuesday, more than 150 participants in the student protest campaign against raising education fees were detained. The clashes of the manifestants with the police on the Trafalgar Square of the British capital are reported. In three more cities of Great Britain-Birmingham, Bristol and Sheffield, the shares were held without any serious incidents.

President of the AST Group of Companies Telman Ismailov Russian Minister of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliev instructed the head of the State traffic inspectorate Viktor Kiryanov to check the car’s belonging with Migita, who became a participant in the road conflict on November 24 on the Moscow Ring Road. In the metropolitan traffic police, it is added that the culprit of the MKAD incident almost unequivocally used the “flasher” illegally and will be punished.

The growth rate of the incidence of HIV infection in Russia overtook similar indicators of African countries. This was reported to "Interfax" by the head of the Federal AIDS Center Vadim Pokrovsky. According to him, at present the worst indicators in AIDS - in Eastern Europe, namely in Ukraine and in Russia. Pokrovsky referred to the UN data given in the annual report on the global AIDS epidemic. He stated that at the moment 567 thousand HIV-infected are registered in Russia.

Unauthorized action of HIV infected with the building of the Government of the Russian Federation HIV-infected people who came from different regions held a picket at the White House. They called their campaign "The funeral of hope." All participants in the action - and there were 10 people - were detained. The impetus for the protest of the protest was interruptions with vital drugs for HIV-infected. Despite the assurances of officials, problems with medicines are increasingly arising.

The United States welcomed Belarus’s decision to get rid of the end of 2012 from all reserves of highly enriched uranium. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus Sergei Martynov on the sidelines of the OSCE Summite in Astana called the decision of Minsk "a decisive and important step." The United States will provide Minsk with technical and financial support for the implementation of these plans.

Irina Lagunina: How common is smoking in Russia? - It was trying to find out the public opinion fund through a mass survey. What percentage of the population smokes? How many want to quit? Do batch and increase in tobacco products contribute to the fight against smoking? What is smoking from the point of view of a physician and a psychologist? Tells Veronika Bode. Veronika Bode: According to Thomas, thirty -seven percent of citizens smoke in Russia.

In Europe, snowfalls and frosty weather violated the work of transport. A number of large airports were closed on Wednesday - in Geneva, Edinburgh, London and Lyon. There, the runways was covered with snow. Several flights of Eurostar trains are postponed through the tunnel laid under the La-Channel Strait. In the Polish city of Bialystok last night, recorded frosts for this time - minus 26 degrees Celsius.

In the Krasnodar Territory, the police established a suspect in an attack on four people in the city of Slavyansk-on-Kuban. According to the acting chief of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Territory Boris Glebov, this is a former roommate of the deceased woman. His name is not called. On Wednesday, a man entered a private house and stabbed four of its inhabitants. One woman died, three, including a child, were taken to the hospital.

The public television should be replaced by public, ”said Mikhail Fedotov, chairman of the Russian Presidential Council for Human Rights. According to him, this topic has not yet been discussed in the framework of the council, but later the idea will most likely be supported. At the same time, Fedotov recalled that the draft law on public broadcasting has existed since 2002.

On November 30, the Supreme Court examined the case of the jurisdiction of a journalist’s claim from Rostov-on-Don on the protection of honor and dignity to the chairman of the Rostov Regional Court. Journalist Alexander Tolmachev believes that the phrase “must be finished with the same Tolmachev”, uttered by judge Viktor Tkachev a few months ago, poses a threat, and requires 10 million rubles of compensation for moral damage. The editor -in -chief of the newspapers “Arguments of the Week.

Kizhi Island in Karelia Irina Lagunina: We continue today a cycle of conversations about the Russian regions - their economic development or decline, the quality of power and the mood of society. And I invite you to the author's page of the program "Time and Mir", where we have made a special project in Russian regions with interactive map and general statistical data, as well as the texts of all previous conversations from this cycle. Today we will talk about the Republic of Karelia.