Vladimir Putin 0 % Dmitry Medvedev 0 % Oksana Dmitriev 0 % Yuri Shevchuk 50 % Anyone who will win in the returned elections 50 % Some of the Kremlin "Petersburgers" 0 % The survey is not a scientific research, reflects the opinions of only its participants

In the South China Sea, as a result of a storm, five people died and more than fifty are missing. According to the Vietnamese authorities, last days, more than 20 fishing boats and a container truck rolled up in the stormy sea. Three sailors from a cargo ship and 155 fishermen were saved.

Does the party in the authorities need Vladimir Putin to lead its election list? This was arguing about this in the program "The City of Time" on Tuesday December 21 at 21 hours State Duma deputy Sergei Markov and political analyst Mark Urnov. Leading Vladimir Kara-Murza. A direct broadcast phone 8-800-200-2212 Free for all regions of Russia Pager 8-495-660-1055 Subscriber "Radio Liberty" SMS +7-903-743-2801

Vladimir Putin and former speaker of the Georgian Parliament Nino Burjanadze at the opening of the memorial On Poklonnaya Gora in Moscow in the presence of opposition Georgian politicians and veterans of the Second World War - including Georgian veterans - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin opened the monument "We were together in the struggle against fascism." This monument of the work of sculptors Salavat Shcherbakov and Andrei Kovalchuk and architects Igor Voskresensky and Vasily Perfiliev

In the parliament of Iraq today, a vote on the composition of the government, proposed the day before Prime Minister Nuri Al-Malika, is expected. In this regard, observers note that the new office in Iraq can be formed before the end of the week. For more than nine months in Iraq there is no government - since the March parliamentary elections, forces have not been able to reach a compromise.

So Okhta-Center looked on the official website of the project The scandalous project "Okhta-Center", which provided for the construction of a 400-meter skyscraper in the center of St. Petersburg, will not be implemented in the "Northern Capital"-this statement was made by the head of Gazprom Alexei Miller. The public, which protested against the construction of the Okhta Center, considers it as its victory.

Violations of transport communication due to snowfalls that became the nightmare of Western Europe these days were on Tuesday in the focus of the European Commission, the Radio Liberty correspondent in Brussels Viktor Onuchko reports. In a mess in transport, especially air, Brussels accused the European Union and Airport Member States. The first - for the shortcomings of transport infrastructures, the latter - for unbearable work in conditions of heavy snowfall.

Jafar Panahi - representative of the "New Wave" In Iran, the famous film director Jafar Panahi was sentenced to six years in prison. The Iranian court found the Panahs guilty of spreading propaganda materials that "undermine the state system." The 50-year-old director, representing the movement of the "New Wave", is prohibited from engaged in creative activities and communicate with journalists.

Residents of the Chui region of Kyrgyzstan went to the rally to the building of the regional administration, Radio Liberty correspondent Tatyana Olkhovskaya reports. The main requirement of the protesters to leave as the governor Sagynbek Abdrakhmanov, who was appointed to this position by the Provisional Government of Kyrgyzstan after the April change of power. About 300 people take part in the action. In their hands, posters with the inscription: "Republic", fulfill the election promises!

Irina Lagunina: We are completing a story about the content of recently declassified American intelligence documents, which are about the post -war fate of prominent Nazis and the connected collaborators. Our correspondent Vladimir Abarinov is talking with the professor of the history of Florida University by Norman Hood. Vladimir Abarinov: Among the huge array of declassified documents, there were also transcript of interrogations of Labor Yongge - personal secretary of Hitler.

In Irkutsk, the liquidation of the accident is completed, due to which more than seven and a half thousand people in 160 houses remained without heating. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the city administration. The accident occurred on Monday - a pipe laid underground leak on the heating highway. The air temperature these days in Irkutsk was 20 degrees of frost.

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, as a result of a collision of a bus and a truck, nine people died, nine more were injured. The accident occurred on Tuesday evening. As ITAR-TASS was informed in the Department of Safety of Road Safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, during the preliminary investigation it was found that the bus had a front wheel, as a result of which the driver could not cope with the control, drove into the oncoming lane and collided with the Skania truck.

Russian ministries agreed on a new procedure for industrial assembly of cars, according to which all the main foreign car manufacturers have been working in the country for the past five years. After this document enters into force, most of them will lose the benefits currently currently. Five years ago, special rules called the industrial assembly regime were established for foreign automakers opening their plants in Russia.