Correspondent: “Debt is worth paying” - an old Russian proverb. However, foreigners remind us of it today. 17 creditor countries that are members of the Paris Club demanded that Russia fulfill its obligations on the so-called “Soviet debts.” Representatives of the Russian government announced at the beginning of the year that they would not be able to adhere to the payment plan in the first quarter.

Correspondent: American Kenneth Gluck disappeared completely without a trace. In the 5 days that have passed since his disappearance, no traces have been found, and the kidnappers did not make contact with his colleagues, even through intermediaries. Many foreigners disappeared in Chechnya, but the staff of humanitarian missions were lucky. The story with Gluck seems even stranger. Almost everyone who tried to find his traces unanimously say that the operation was planned to the smallest detail.

Correspondent: An interview with American media tycoon, CNN founder and Time Warner vice president Ted Turner that appeared on news agency feeds on Tuesday, in which he said that he was negotiating large investments in one of the Russian media companies, without excluding the possibility that this media company could also be NTV, caused a new wave of events around the Media-Most holding.

Beer advertisement "Fat Man": Where have you been? - I drank beer. Correspondent: Of course, doctors should be interested in this fat man. And so they became interested in him. The fat man turned out to be an alcoholic, that is, every day alcoholism and the drink that causes it are advertised on television. The diagnosis was made by the chief sanitary doctor of Russia. His name is Gennady Onishchenko.