This time I’m combining two programs simultaneously – one in English and one in Russian, devoted to more or less the same issue and namely the so called cultural-scientific centers of the United Kingdom in Russia and of Russia in the United Kingdom.

Hello to all the listeners of the radio Voice of Russia. Today again with you is Konstantin Kosachev, now the Head of the Federal Agency for CIS Countries and International Humanitarian Cooperation.

So, my dear friends, today we have our weekly program with me Konstantin Kosachev, still the Member of Russian

Hello my friends! This is Konstantin Kosachev and my weekly program from Moscow, Russia. And as always we discuss in this studio of the Voice of Russia the most interesting events which took place inside and outside of Russia during the last week, the events which have drawn the greatest attention and different comments.

My special guest today is Mr. Sergey Vershinin who is the Director of the Middle East and North Africa Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. And by his position you can easily understand that the main topic of our discussion today would be definitely Syria and the surrounding countries, and questions connected with them.