Compact Disk cover with the music of N. Bogoslovsky The famous composer and wit talks about himself in the program of Ilya Dadashidze and Veronica Bode. Archival project "Radio Liberty this week twenty years ago." "And we drank honey there. Figures of Soviet culture about the century and about ourselves." Air on October 17, 2000.

Marina met her future husband - a Syrian - in China. Both studied there in the magistracy. In 2012, after graduation, they moved to Latakia. Marina’s husband was called up to the government army. This text is part of the joint project of Radio Liberty and the present time " Arab night. The history of Russians in Syria ." The Syrians met me very warmly. But on the New Year, my first holiday is here, I sobbed. It was such a hot sunny day!

The European Union imposed promised sanctions against persons responsible (although probably only indirectly) to the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. The fresh list is crowned by Sergey Vladilenovich Kiriyenko. In addition to Bortnikov, the sanctions for the poisoning of Navalny, Kiriyenko and Yarin, two deputy of the Ministry of Defense and an unknown little animal named Chanylo, will fall. We waited for a different scale.

To learn the Arabic language, to go to the United Arab Emirates, to earn and return to Russia-this was a plan of a student from St. Petersburg Ekaterina Schmidtka. In 2009, she entered the Arabic Institute in Damascus. But for several years of peaceful life in Syria, Catherine has not overcome the language barrier. It was forced to speak in Arabic a civil war and a Syrian prison This text is part of the joint project of Radio Liberty and the present time " Arab night.

Alexey Grishin Former Vice -Rector of Moscow State University and Minister of Construction of the Samara Region Alexei Grishin, accused of deliberate bankruptcy, embezzlement and giving bribes, pleaded guilty and transferred under house arrest. This was reported by the Samara publication "Gagarin Park". Grishin is accused of deliberate bankruptcy of the Mordovian enterprise, the damage from which to creditors is estimated at almost 183 million rubles.

What did the Kremlin achieve when interfering in the American elections? Does Putin Washington provoke? Can Biden's election lead to new serious sanctions against Russia? What to expect Putin from Trump and Biden? We are discussing these and other issues with Marec Posard, an employee of the RAND research corporation, publicist David Satter and historian Dmitry Shlyapentokh

In Ulan-Ude, the 71-year-old professor of Buryat State University committed suicide. He was one of the authoritative Russian researchers of Buddhism. The scientist began to publish books about Chan Buddhism back in the Soviet Union. The death of the historian was reported by the regional issue of the newspaper Moscow Komsomolets. The publication “Baikal Daily” claims that Abaev “fell into a difficult life situation due to coronavirus”.

At the peak of an epidemic of coronavirus infection in the second quarter of 2020, working Russians lost 841 billion rubles of income. These are approximately 16 million average monthly salaries. This was reported by RBC with reference to the study "Price of quarantine" of the Agency National Credit ratings (NKR). For calculations, the NKR analyzed the income tax on individuals in the budgets of the regions.

In Russia, over the past day, 150 new cases of infection with coronavirus infection have revealed . This is the maximum from the beginning of the pandemic. 232 patients with Covid-19 died per day. Recovered 8485 sick. In Russia, 90 percent of hospital beds for patients with coronavirus infection are loaded, said Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko. Of the 182 thousand places, 162 thousand are occupied. In intensive care, he said, 10 percent of the beds are busy.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was charged with participation in the criminal community, the Le Figaro newspaper reports citing a statement by the main state financial prosecutor. The politician is suspected of having received money for an election campaign from the Libyan dictator of Muammar Gaddafi. Previously, he had already been charged with corruption in this case. Sarkozy is suspected of receiving 50 million euros from Libya to finance the 2007 presidential campaign.

"Putin's cook", as the businessman Evgeny Prigozhin is called, was extremely upset that he got into the new sanctions list of the European Union. What are the supply of weapons to Libya? I was not there. The Russian Federation is also extremely upset that the Netherlands are trying to make it responsible for the death of the Malaysian Boeing. What other Buk in the Donbass? We were not there. Going into a refusal is the permanent tactics of Russian foreign policy.

The dockers of the Vladivostok Sea Trade Port seized the director’s office in protest against the dismissal of the former leader. In contacting the leadership of the FESCO transport group, the control port, they demanded that the dismissed Zairbek Yusupov be returned. Protesting dockers signed their appeal, among other things, the Heshtaghi #Freedian Fourgal, but stated that their protest and demands are not political in nature.

Can the American army intervene in the election process? This question suddenly flashed in the headings of newspapers from the supply of two democrats.

Svetlana arrived in Syria a few days after the August coup of 1991. Seeing how tanks were going in the center of Moscow, she decided that she had married a foreigner on time. During the civil war in Syria, Svetlana returned to her homeland, but decided that even under the bombs it was better than in Russia. This text is part of the joint project of Radio Liberty and the present time " Arab night. The history of Russians in Syria ." I studied with my spouse at the same university.