Valeria Novodvorskaya Mikhail Sokolov: Today, in touch with us, a publicist, an employee of the New Times magazine Valery Novodvorskaya and political analyst Yevgeny Mintchenko. Today we were going to talk about whether President Dmitry Medvedev can go through Mikhail Gorbachev, that is, through reforms, with a completely capable “father” of the regime Vladimir Putin.

Biathlon. World Cup. 1st stage. Estersund, Sweden Men. Individual race. 20 km 1. Emil Hegle Svenden (Norway) 2. Ole Ainar Bjorndalen (Norway) 3. Martan Fourcade (France)

The search for two pupils of the Poyarkovsky boarding house, who disappeared last Monday from the White Mountain sanatorium in the Amur Region, did not give positive results. This was reported on Thursday by Interfax with reference to the press service of the Far Eastern Regional Center of the Russian Emergencies Ministry.

Basketball. Regular NBA Championship Los Angeles Clippers-San Antonio 90:85 Utah - Indiana 110: 88. Andrey Kirilenko (Utah) 18 points Denver - Miluoi 105: 94 Houston-Los Angeles Lakers 109: 99 Dallas - Minnesota 100: 86 New Orlean-Charlot 89:73 Chicago - Orlando 78: 107 Miami - Detroit 97:70 Boston - Portland 99:95 Toronto - Washington 127: 108 New Jersey-Oklahoma City 120: 123 Atlanta - Memphis 112: 109

US President Barack Obama enlisted the support of another influential policy in the issue of ratification by the Senate of the new START Treaty. Former Secretary of State of the United States Colin Powell, who met with Obama on Wednesday in the White House, said that he was fully supporting an agreement with Moscow to reduce strategic offensive weapons.

The head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs Vasily Yakemenko refused to answer the questions of Gazeta.ru readers online, referring to an urgent working meeting. The editorial office of Yakemenko began to collect from November 24, when his consent was received in an online interview. However, the head of the Rosmolodezh did not like them and he demanded that Gazeta.ru provide him with a list of questions in advance, and interview himself in his office.

The governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko did not exclude that the city authorities can offer Gazprom to build a 400-meter skyscraper of Okhta Center in a different place than planned. Matvienko said this on Thursday in an interview with the television "Fifth Canal". According to Matvienko, the official decision on the beginning of the construction of the Okhta Center has not yet been made.

The Russian car owners Federation began on the Internet a collection of signatures under the appeal to President Dmitry Medvedev. Activists of the movement call on legislatively cancel the right of officials to use special signals on cars. It is planned to collect at least a million signatures.

Europe collided with a transport collapse in connection with difficult weather conditions. Airports of Great Britain, Switzerland, France, the Czech Republic, Germany, due to the ongoing strongest snowfalls, are forced to cancel flights, the work of some terminals is completely blocked. In Italy, storms led to flooding in Venice, in Pompeii two ancient buildings were damaged. Rains go in Albania. In the north of this country, a state of emergency has been introduced.

The American company Pepsico, the second largest manufacturer of soft drinks and food in the world, agreed on the purchase of 66% of the shares of the Russian company VIMM-Bill-Dann, the largest manufacturer of dairy products and one of the largest manufacturers of drinks and juices. The volume of the transaction - in case of approval by antitrust authorities - will be $ 3.8 billion.

The British newspaper "Guardian" publishes new documents from the website "Wikileaks". In those of them that relate to Russia, it is openly mentioned about the connections between the state and organized criminal groups. The murder in London Alexander Litvinenko is also mentioned, the preparation of which, according to the abstract diplomats, the Russian leadership simply could not know. What reaction will a new scandalous publication cause?

One of the strongest fires in the history of Israel began on Thursday at noon on Mount Carmel in Haifa. Several hundred hectares of forest have already burned down, there is data on the forty dead, there is evacuation. As our correspondent in Israel Ela Kotler reports, according to firefighters, we are talking about arson, since there were several foci of the fire. The evacuation of students from Haifa University and prisoners from a local prison.

An employee of the Institute of the USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences, accused of espionage and sent to England after 11 years of camps, answered questions from readers of the Radio Liberty website in online mode. In particular, during the conversation it turned out that his passport has not yet been entered into the Russian base of passports. Blog of Igor Sutyagin on Radio Liberty ... already in London it was snowing.

Elena Rykovtseva : Russian reporter magazine became an official partner of the famous Wikileaks site in Russia. “All the Secrets of the United States” - this exciting heading is decorated with the cover of today's magazine number, although I do not exclude that the heading of “all the secrets of Russia” would have caused readers even more enthusiasm. How to relate to Wikileaks files? At what angle to submit all this information for the public?

The final declaration of the Supply and Cooperation Organization summit in Europe, which takes place in the capital of Kazakhstan Astana, has not yet been agreed. It was planned that the meetings will end in the morning and the outcome declaration will be adopted. However, Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan, chairing the OSCE, announced a break to continue negotiations on the document.