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成人快手 World Service Online

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  • Russia election protest

    Masha Lipman of the Carnegie Moscow Centre joins the programme and we hear from Yuri Malovarian from the 成人快手's Russian service.

    Duration: 06:45

  • Russian protesters call for new polls

    Dimitri Peskov, the spokesman for Prime Minister Putin, says the recent election results showed that Mr Putin is the popular choice and the protesters represent a small minority of the voters.

    Duration: 14:31

  • Elizabeth Taylor's jewellery to go on sale

    The 成人快手's Laura Trevelyan has been to see the spectacular array of valuable diamonds and emeralds amassed during two marriages to the actor Richard Burton.

    Duration: 18:39

  • Fiscal policy: City jerks to get the boot?

    Bob Diamond, chief executive of Barclays Bank, says he's sacked more than thirty of his employees for being "jerks". Geraint Anderson, a former city stockbroker, tells us he used to be a jerk.

    Duration: 23:00

  • Hostage Robert Levinson

    The family of a US citizen last seen in Iran five years ago have released a video of him pleading for help. Kasra Naji, Special Correspondent for 成人快手 Persian Television, reports.

    Duration: 32:57

  • Dutch doctors call for the end of male circumcision

    The 成人快手's Anna Holligan reports from the Netherlands on the debate raised by religious groups opposed to the move.

    Duration: 38:55

  • The Knowledge

    New research has found the part of the brain associated with navigation increases with size in taxi drivers. We hear from John Kennedy, a London cabbie for thirteen years.

    Duration: 43:40

  • Is Russia ready for change?

    We speak to the 成人快手's Richard Galpin who is at the protests in St Petersburg.

    Duration: 48:01

  • My life in Russia

    The British author AD Miller, whose time in Russia was the inspiration for his novel Snowdrops, gives his personal view of what's happening in Russia at the moment

    Duration: 53:00

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  • Sat 10 Dec 2011 12:05GMT
    成人快手 World Service Online

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