Andrey Illarionov What economic policy to expect from Putin and Medvedev in anticipation of the elections? In the Moscow Studio Radio Liberty - president of the Institute of Economic Analysis, Researcher at the Cato Institute Andrei Illarionov, former adviser to the President of Russia. Time of guests - Andrei Nikolaevich, many experts said that Russia needs political certainty in connection with the upcoming elections.

Russian bloggers are discussing the on the eve of the meeting of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin with writers. Most of the comments appeared in connection with several questions asked by Prime Minister Zakhar Prilepin (by the way, they were perplexed how he got to the meeting and even received his word). One of the writer’s questions was about the embezzlement of Transneft by four billion dollars: why no one was punished for this.

Orchestra under the control of Mark Gorenstein The main question that needs to be solved by the managers of Russian culture after the dismissal of Mark Gorenstein is who will lead the State Academic Symphony Orchestra?

The king of Saudi Arabia Abdullah abolished the verdict of the court, according to which one of his subjects was supposed to be subjected to 10 strokes with a whip - for driving a car. Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where women, both local and foreigners, are forbidden to drive a car. A resident of the city of Gidda Shaim Jastine violated this ban in July, for which she was involved in the court. The verdict caused a wide resonance in the country and abroad.

Evgeny Yasin believes that the Russian government does not want to listen to experts Former Minister of Economics, member of the Expert Council under the President “Strategy-2020” Yevgeny Yasin made a report on the possible future of the Russian economy for the coming decades. The discussion was held at a seminar at the Higher School of Economics, the scientific director of which he is.

From the State Academic Symphony Orchestra, the conductor Mark Gorenstenin was dismissed with a bang. The conflict developed a long time ago, and the dispute was conducted around the methods of creative leadership of the team. Sacramental questions: can it be a maestro is a democrat? About this, as well as about the management of culture in Russia and we will talk in the program.

Yemena President Ali Abdalla Saleh In the capital of Yemen Sanya, 2 people were killed in clashes today, another 6 were injured. Thus, a truce was broken, which was declared President Ali Abdalla Saleh on Friday, who returned to the country after treatment in Saudi Arabia. According to Reuters agency, in three areas of the northern part of Sana, an artillery cannonade is heard, there is a shootout. Locals leave their homes, fleeing from hostilities.

Tatyana Liosnova In Moscow, in the year 88, the People's Artist of the USSR, film director Tatyana Liosnova, died. She became famous as the director of the multi -part feature film "Seventeen Moments of Spring", which was released in 1973. Liosnova also delivered such famous films as “Evdokia”, “the sky is submitted to them”, “Three poplars on Plushchiya”, “We, the lower signature”, “Carnival”. Tatyana Liosnova will be buried in the Donskoy cemetery.

Logo Summit "Eastern Partnership" Today in Warsaw the summit of the Eastern Partnership European Union is opened. The meeting will be attended by leaders of more than 30 European countries, Aleksey Dzikavitsky, a Radio Liberty correspondent in Poland. The EU leadership, the leaders of the European Union, as well as the five former Soviet republics, which are extended by the Eastern Partnership program: Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, will arrive in Warsaw.

Vitaly Churkin The UN Security Council yesterday discussed two options for a draft conflict resolution in Syria. One of them was prepared by Great Britain, France, Germany and Portugal and supported by the United States. This document refers to the possible imposition of sanctions against Syria President Bashar al -Assad - if the Syrian government does not stop military operations against civilians.

Argentina’s authorities confiscated more than a million books purchased abroad - under the pretext that it is necessary to develop national recorders. Book traders accused the authorities of introducing censorship. However, the government says that new measures are not related to ideological prohibitions, but are only a means of stimulating books in Argentine printing.

The International Space Station (ISS) threatens a fragment of a rocket. As Interfax today was told by a source in the flight control center near Moscow, a 10-centimeter fragment of the Cyclone-3 launch vehicle, which in 1991 brought two satellites into orbit, will fly past the ISS at a dangerous distance on Friday night. If necessary, experts will conduct an evasion maneuver. At the same time, the height of the orbit of the space station can be increased by more than five kilometers.

The ex-chairman of the Bank of Moscow Andrei Borodin and his former deputy Dmitry Akulinin in absentia of fraud in the amount of about 13 billion rubles were charged in absentia. According to the official representative of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the investigation has sufficient evidence that Borodin and Akulinin using their official position, stole someone else's property.

On suspicion of the murder of the head of the financial department of the administration of the city of Podolsk Vera Sviridova, two people were detained. This was announced today by the RIA Novosti source in law enforcement agencies of the region. However, in the Moscow Region Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia, this information refuted this information, noting that the suspects of involvement in the murder of an official were going through.