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BBC Monitoring Alert - RUSSIA

Released on 2012-10-18 17:00 GMT

Email-ID 828318
Date 2010-07-13 07:07:05
Programme summary of Russian Channel Five "Seychas" news 1500 gmt 12 Jul

Presenters: Olga Volkova and Vitaliy Lukashev.

1. 0015 Headlines: Spanish football team returns home; veteran murder
case suspect released; cockroaches set free in a Moscow court; Allegro
high-speed train tested in Moscow; and Ilya Repin painting rediscovered
in Moscow.

2. 0110 A suspect accused of brutal killing of a World War II veteran
has been released by a judge in Nizhniy Novgorod Region. Video report
showing interviews with villagers, a statement from a local prosecution
official. The judge, who was accused of corruption, is interviewed over

3. 0405 Moscow curators Andrey Yerofeyev and Yuriy Samodurov were
sentenced to a R350,000 (about 11,350 dollars) fine on exciting
religious hatred charges following a controversial exhibition in 2006,
presenters say adding that both the Ministry of Culture and Moscow
Patriarchy opposed the prosecution. Video report shows police arresting
a member of Voyna (Rus: War) art group who released thousands of
cockroaches in the courthouse, a discussion between an artist and an
Orthodox Christian radical wearing a t-shirt saying "Orthodoxy or Death"
outside the courthouse, and interview with Yuriy Samodurov who says that
the case is about defending the secular state rather than about art.

4. 0710 The head of the Russian Federal Service for Consumer Rights
Protection, Gennadiy Onishchenko, suggested that an afternoon rest is
introduced in the country as it is facing a heat wave. Presenters list
the countries that have an extended lunch break over computer graphics.

5. 0810 Fourteen Russian regions were proclaimed an emergency zone as
the weather is expected to have a major impact on the harvest. Prime
Minister Vladimir Putin is shown telling a government session that
ensuring stability of agricultural businesses is a must. The government
has also approved a list of 57 strategically important medicines which
are to be produced domestically.

6. 0910 President Dmitriy Medvedev has met Russia's ambassadors and
permanent envoys in Moscow. Video report showing Medvedev saying that he
believes Russia will become one of the drivers of international economic
growth, that all diplomats have to have an understanding of Russia's
development strategy and that he wants NATO to become a modern
organization focused on the future. Russian envoy at NATO, Dmitriy
Rogozin, says in an interview that US President Barack Obama has made a
remarkable effort to make the recent spy scandal non-damaging.

7. 1300 The Spanish football team has returned after winning the World
Cup in South Africa, presenters say over footage from the airport.

8. 1355 Paul the octopus will not make any more predictions, his
handlers at a Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany, announced.

9. 1425 Two blasts have taken place in Uganda, targeting people watching
a World Cup game and killing at least 64, presenters say over footage
showing the consequences of the terrorist attack. President Medvedev
sent his condolences, presenters add.

10. 1500 Swiss authorities refused to extradite film director Roman
Polanski to the US on rape charges, presenters say over footage showing

11. 1535 Forthcoming reports. Commercial break.

12. 1820 A museum in Moscow plans to exhibit a restored painting by Ilya
Repin. Video report.

13. 2110 Children's summer camps that do not conform to security
requirements will be shut down, children's rights ombudsman Pavel
Astakhov had announced, presenters say over news conference footage.

14. 2210 Orlenok children's summer camp in Krasnodar Territory
celebrates its 50th anniversary, presenters say over video.

15. 2300 Allegro high-speed trains which will run between St Petersburg
and Helsinki from December were tested in Moscow. Video report.

16. 2535 Police on the Bahamas have held US teenager Colton
Harris-Moore, nicknamed the Barefoot Bandit, on multiple theft and
aircraft hijacking charges.

17. 2620 Presenters sign off. End of programme.

Source: TRK Peterburg Channel Five TV, St Petersburg, in Russian 1500
gmt 12 Jul 10

BBC Mon FS1 MCU 130710 yk/di

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