Former presidential candidate Alexei Mikhalevich, detained during the action in the center of Minsk on the day of the presidential election on December 19, relatives "found" in the investigative insulator of the State Security Committee in Minsk. On January 6, the lawyer became aware of the transfer of his client from the KGB to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

About three thousand policemen and military personnel of internal troops are ensuring order on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow in connection with the media reports about the upcoming action of radical youth. The adjacent territories patrol the outfits of horse police. Several ambulance crews are on duty on the square. According to Radio Liberty correspondent, one person was detained.

In Georgia, the cause of the explosion on the military base of KRTsanisi was a careless handling of a shell during the exercises, the country's Ministry of Defense said. As a result of the explosion, three military were killed, more than ten were injured. As the correspondent of Radio Liberty George Kobaladze reports, All wounded were delivered to the nearest hospital in the city of Rustavi.

Alexander Milinkevich One of the leaders of the Belarusian opposition, Alexander Milinkevich, called on the European Union to again introduce a ban on entry into the EU countries for the leaders of Belarus and officials responsible for the strict suppression of the opposition campaign after the recent presidential election. In an interview with our radio station, Milinkevich noted that the visa regime for ordinary citizens of Belarus, on the contrary, should be softened.

One of the vulcanes of Kamchatka In Kamchatka, the search for two tourists who disappeared at the end of December. This happened in the area of the Avachinsky volcano near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. According to the representative of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies, the searches in which volunteers and volunteers take part will continue until the end of the week.

As a result of the Israeli Aviation raid, one of the Islamic Jihad group commanders was killed in Gaza Street. This was reported from Israel by Radio Liberty correspondent Ela Kotler. According to the Palestinian Information Agency, the Israeli Air Force struck a targeted hit on the 25-year-old militant Muhammad Jamil An-Snajar, who at that time was driving on a highway along the highway in the south of the Gaza Strip.

US Vice President Joe Biden and the commander of the coalition forces in Afghanistan David Petreus US Vice President Joe Biden is negotiating with Kabul today with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai. Then Biden will meet with American military and civilian specialists in Afghanistan. The vice -president of the United States arrived in Kabul in order to clarify the changes during military operations - on the eve of the withdrawal of American troops that began in July.

The British newspaper Gardian published an article by Simon Tisdalla "David Cameron should exclude repressive Russia from the schedule of his trips." “The arrest of several opposition leaders, including former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov, scored the last large nail into the coffin of civil freedoms in Russia-this is stated by human rights activists and foreign experts. It is difficult to say how David Cameron will now have to justify his visit to Russia, which is planned for this year.

Boris Doctors, professor, doctor of philosophical sciences, who has been living in the United States, author of a number of books on the history of public opinion polls in the United States and Russia, the creator of the site dedicated to the biographies of Russian sociologists since 1994, talks about Boris Grushin. The origin of sociology in Russia dates back to the last quarter of the 19th century, but by the mid-30s in the USSR it was gone.

Vladimir Neklyaev The Minsk City Court on Tuesday left the ex-candidate for the president of Belarus Vladimir Neklyaev under arrest. This decision is not subject to appeal, the lawyer Neklyaev told Interfax. However, he intends to appeal the decision on the arrest of Neklyaev on an absenteeism, through the Prosecutor General’s Office. Neklyaev was arrested during the protest of the opposition on the day of the presidential election on December 19. He was charged with organizing mass rags.

In the south-west of Moscow, about 30 foreign workers were detained when trying to hold an unauthorized rally. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the Moscow police. Workers, mostly citizens of Kyrgyzstan, were detained in the metropolitan district of Cheremushki and taken to the local police station. According to the detainees, they wanted to protest against the mass inspections of visitors from the Federal Migration Service and the police during the New Year holidays.

Eva Neklyaeva Irina Lagunina: Let me remind you, with me in the studio, the daughter of a presidential candidate Vladimir Neklyaev Eva and a representative of the European Belarus campaign Viktor Ivashkevich. Victor, so I asked Eve whether her father was a romantic, that so, realizing what would happen, he nominated his candidacy for the president of the country. The same question is to you - you are not by chance a romantic that you are participating in the European Belarus campaign.

The sympathetic reaction of the West regarding the disgraced defendants of the Yukos affairs is discussed by the lawyer of Mikhail Khodorkovsky Vadim Kluvgan, the deputy of the European Parliament Alexander Mirsky and the former director of the Open Russia Foundation Alexander Osovtsov. Page of the program