France and Qatar conducted a joint humanitarian operation in Afghanistan - more than 300 people took out of Kabul. On board the aircraft were 258 Afghan citizens who are in danger from the Taliban. Among the passengers of a special flight were also about 60 subjects of the Netherlands and 11 Frenchmen. The liner landed in Doha, from where evacuated people will be transported to France .

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The 16-year-old activist from St. Petersburg Elizabeth Werner does not get out of the police and psychiatric clinics: police officers are handing her there for shoots from the house, and parents are in no hurry to pick up. Lisa told Radio Liberty about the confrontation with the system, prison order and violence in the center of rehabilitation treatment "Children's psychiatry" named after S. S. Mnukhin . We meet with Lisa in a cafe opposite the St. Petersburg Gostiny Dvor.

Representatives of the United States and Russia have reached a preliminary agreement on the provision of visas to employees of the American Embassy in Moscow, the Washington Post newspaper, citing sources in the State Department.

These days there was an additional opportunity to help the “foreign agent” recognized in Russia by the International Memorial. At the Non/Fiction Book Fair , which opened in the Gostiny Dvor, you need to find the stand of this public organization. In addition to books there is a donation box. "Memorial" is now difficult. A lot of effort and time goes to participate in the court sessions and preparation for them - the General Prosecutor's Office insists on the liquidation of the NGOs.

Republicans in the House of US representatives submitted a bill encouraging schools to include the history of communism in the curricula. The document was presented at a press conference by Congressed from Florida Maria Salazar, born in the family of Cuban emigrants, it was developed by 60 members of the lower house of the American parliament.

What has shown another Russian investigation of the American special prosecutor? Should the press recognize the mistakes made in the lighting of the "dossier of the style"? Is there a reason for Trump's supporters to celebrate the victory over the prosecutors of the former president? What game did Vladimir Putin lead? We discuss these and other issues with Ilan Berman , political scientist, vice president of the foreign policy in Washington and historian Yuri Felstein .

Mumin Shakirov and his guests summarize the results of the 48th week of 2021 Military maneuvers around Ukraine continue. Artificial chaos is the main weapon of Vladimir Putin. How to stop the war and allow a territorial dispute between two neighbors? What could be the proposal of Kyiv, which will be difficult for Moscow to abandon?

Hedliners two hundred fourteenth output of the podcast and the radio program "Music at Free" are performers-bunters of the second half of the 1960s, whose work is represented in the next British anthology of the history of rock. Musical critic Artemy Troitsky in detail presents us with the events of the Rock Roquion and talks about its dramatic consequences.

The court in Belgrade sentenced four former employees of the State Security Service of Serbia a total of 100 years in prison for the murder of an opposition journalist in 1999. This was reported by the Balkan Service of Radio Liberty. The 49-year-old founder of several independent publications Slavko Churuvius was shot dead in the center of Belgrade near his house. He was known as the critic of the then president of Slobodan Milosevich.

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On November 29, film director Vladimir Naumov died. In his filmography, about thirty films-prohibited by Soviet censorship "Failure joke", "Tehran-43", "Run", "Ten years without the right to correspondence" ... Alexander Alov was a friend and co-author of Naumov, there are a lot of joint brilliant work in their common account. Wife, ally and Muse of Naumova - actress Natalya Belokhvostikova.

In Tuva, members of precinct and territorial election commissions in the September elections to the State Duma admitted that they falsified the results. Their open letter was published by the Risk-inform, the editorial office of Siberia. Reali drew attention to him. The authors of the letter write that at first they hoped for honest elections, but later “certain numbers” were “brought to them”, which were supposed to be released according to the results of the vote count.