BBC Question Time to cover G8 agenda from Moscow

March 30 – Question Time, a famous BBC program, will be broadcasting from Moscow Thursday.

The BBC announced on its official Web site that a special edition of its flagship political program Question Time would be devoted to the Group of Eight industrialized nations, whose rotating presidency Russia holds this year.

Debates will focus on Russia’s role in the world, its relations with post-Soviet states, economic and political reform and Russia’s relations with European Union countries.

The guests and participants will include foreigners living in Moscow and English-speaking Russians. They will put their questions to prominent British and Russian politicians, namely Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin, British Minister of State for Europe Douglas Alexander, economist Andrei Illarionov, prominent public figure and chess legend Garry Kasparov, Natalia Narochnitskaya of the Rodina (Homeland) Party and industrialist Igor Yurgens, vice president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.

Question Time is broadcast Thursdays on BBC One and BBC World and is presented on the BBC One Web site. It is broadcast from various cities in the UK and occasionally from foreign countries. It has been a regular BBC feature since it was first aired in 1979. Host David Dimbleby invites prominent British politicians, economists, experts, public figures, scientists and artistic intellectuals to discuss acute topics of the week and reply to questions.