Irina Lagunina: On October 15, 2010, in the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in New York, the Congressman Crowley handed the bronze medal (one of the three highest military awards of America) 96-year-old George Voynovich for the organization of the largest-scale rescue operation of the Second World War. The medal was awarded 66 years after the event - surgery to save 500 -t pilots shot down over the German Yugoslavia occupied by the Germans.

Today it turned out that Nursultan Nazarbayev would remain in power, maybe another ten years. So what? And Vladimir Putin, perhaps, will remain in power for another twelve. We’ll talk about this in the program.

The opposition is fighting the presidential authority in all the stands - I turn on the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada In Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada adopted the budget for next year, and before that it resigned the head of the National Bank Vladimir Stelmach and appointed his first deputy Sergei Arbuzov to this post.

Vladimir Stelmakh In Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada, supporting the request of President Viktor Yanukovych, resigned the head of the National Bank Vladimir Stelmach and appointed his first deputy Sergei Arbuzov to this post. As the correspondent of Radio Liberty Vladimir Ivakhnenko reports, the reason for the dismissal of the stelmach in the presidential administration is called advanced age (he is almost 72 years old).

In Astrakhan, a criminal case was opened against the Sergey Sergeant, who in early December, a military service soldier abducted the gun and shot himself. The policeman is accused of negligence. At the same time, the headquarters of the military unit Interfax reported that personal motives were the cause of the suicide of the soldier.

The United States and the European Union intend to reconsider their relations with Belarus - in connection with the actions of the authorities of this country, which severely dispersed the protest of the opposition on December 19 and accused a number of its participants of organizing riots.

Boris Pokrovsky Marina Timasheva: The Chamber Musical Theater restored the performance of Boris Pokrovsky “The Adventure of the Droes”. In 1978, the opera Igor Stravinsky played in the old building of the theater, which was located near the Metro “Sokol ''. It was put in Russia for the first time. Then the essay of Stravinsky, which was written in 1951, and the original is called '' Career of the Excessive ''.

Marina Timasheva: In St. Petersburg, in the publishing house of the magazine 'Zvezda', two books of Alexei Purina were published: a collection of poems '' Valley of the Kings '' and the book of the essay about Russian poetry of the twentieth century '' leaves, color, branch ''. Tatyana Voltskaya is talking to the author of books. Alexey Purin: Whether the patient was gnawed cobblestone? There is no more tooth No stone. General weekend. Not a shah, but a mat (and a platform!).

Dmitry Furman Kazakhstan discusses the prospect of extending for ten years of powers of the President of the Republic Nursultan Nazarbayev. Participants in the Ust -Kamenogorsk Forum of Nazarbayev’s supporters, among whose leaders, public figures are well -known in the country, create an initiative group for holding a referendum on this issue. Now Nursultan Nazarbayev is 70 years old, he has been in power since 1991.

"Dyas adventures" in the chamber musical theater. "Valley of Kings" by Alexei Purina. Monograph of Eduard Nitoburg "African Americans of the United States, twentieth century."

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported that the Party of Highly Radioactive waste was delivered from Serbia to Russia. According to the IAEA, two and a half metric tons of waste fuel from a closed Serbian Vincer reactor near Belgrade were delivered to Russia on Wednesday. The operation carried out in conditions of complete secrecy and increased security was carried out by Serbia in coordination of the IAEA and financial assistance of Russia, the USA and the European Union.

A special group (WTF), created in the US Central Intelligence Directorate (CIA) will assess the damage caused by the publication of thousands of secret documents on the WikiLeaks website. The CIA representative George Little said that the main task of experts is to solve how this information leak can affect the contacts and operations of the department abroad.

The Ministry of Agriculture of Russia made an offer to the government to reduce imported customs duties on grain to zero, primarily on barley and fodder wheat, said the head of the ministry Elena Skrynnik. In ordinary years, Russia imports no more than 1 million tons of grain per year. However, this year, due to the abnormal heat, grain harvest in the country was reduced by about a third compared to last year, amounting to a little more than 60 million tons.