January 28, 21:00 I greet everyone who watches NTV. The next episode of the “Itogi” program is on air, in the studio of Evgeny Kiselev. Let's start with the situation in Chechnya. Last week, new tactics of federal forces in the North Caucasus were announced. The size of the military group will be reduced. Management of the operation now passes to the federal security service and personally to the director of the FSB, Nikolai Patrushev. How successful will this tactic be?

January 28, 13:38 Today at 4:00 a major accident occurred on Varshavskoye Highway in Moscow. One person was killed and eight were injured. Among them are a 22-year-old pregnant woman and a 14-year-old teenager, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the capital's state road safety inspectorate. The taxi, in which there were five other people besides the driver, was moving at high speed along the Warsaw Highway towards the region.

Evgeny Kiselev: Especially for our program, VTsIOM - the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion - conducted a nationwide survey of 1,600 people in 83 urban and rural areas last Friday and Saturday. And this is the cross-section of public opinion on the question of what are the plans of the state and the authorities in relation to NTV.

Correspondent: Over the past five years, almost all the prime ministers of the Yeltsin era have visited Davos: Chernomyrdin, Kiriyenko, Primakov, Kasyanov. Only Stepashin was absent, and only for seasonal reasons - he held the post of prime minister in the spring and summer. And this year, Mikhail Kasyanov ignored Davos, telling the forum organizers that, they say, a politician of his level and scale has nothing to do in the Swiss Alps.

Correspondent : The current situation around NTV shares, when Alfred Koch publicly declares that in fact the TV channel has already come under the control of Gazprom-Media, became possible as a result of different approaches of the parties to their contractual obligations.

Evgeniy Kiselev Last week there were several new twists in this months-long story. And, perhaps, the most sensational event is the statement of Alfred Koch, the head of Gazprom-Media, who is seeking to establish control over NTV. A statement about what role the country's top political leadership plays in this whole story. Alfred Koch Here I am very often asked the question: “What is the role of the Kremlin, what is the role of the Kremlin?” So I'd like to stop there.

Correspondent: It seems that the trial of Pavel Borodin is of little interest to the American media. On Thursday, at the Brooklyn courthouse where the hearings took place, there were a lot of Russian journalists, reporters from Switzerland and almost no Americans. In New York, the case of the Secretary of State of the Belarusian-Russian Union is being actively discussed, perhaps only among the Russian emigration. On Brighton Beach, many people were interested in Borodin's fate.

Correspondent: A typical picture - life is in full swing, like in an anthill. People are sorting bread, warming themselves by the fire, sharing the latest news. Few people know that of the 150 thousand Chechen refugees officially registered by the authorities of Ingushetia, only a fifth live in tent cities. The rest huddle in apartments, the private sector, farms and basements. The village of Nasyr-court, a suburb of Nazran.

January 28, 10:38 American Andre Agassi won the Australian Open title. However, he did not win, but only defended, because last year Agassi was the champion of the green continent. In the final match, he beat Frenchman Arnaud Clement with a score of 6:4, 6:2, 6:2. This is already the third victory of the American on the courts of the green continent. Andre became the first since 1993 to defend his title. In 1993, Agassi’s compatriot Jim Courier was such a tennis player.

Correspondent: The war must end beautifully, this is now being said by officers who have been kneading trench mud in Khankala for the second year. The army has done the hardest part of the job, and now the intelligence agencies are going to steal its victory. Many people think so, but no one talks about it openly. Why is it necessary to lay down arms if the main goal of the operation has not yet been achieved?

Evgeniy Kiselev: Hello, Nikolai Vasilievich. Nikolai Fedorov: Hello. Evgeniy Kiselev: Nikolai Vasilyevich, as far as I know, already when you were Minister of Justice, then, in the early 90s, attempts were made to bring the Criminal Code into line with international standards. Why was it not possible to do this then, and why, in your opinion, is it still not possible to do this at the beginning of the 21st century?

Correspondent : Vladimir Putin’s current meeting with the oligarchs was the second in the year that he has been in power, and it also became evidence of a certain new stage in the president’s public relations with the people who together manage the production of no less than half of the country’s total gross product.

Correspondent: Charged with forgery. Then a letter of gratitude from the President of the Republic. Soon there is a new accusation with a severe reprimand, after which the person is transferred from a colonel’s post in the province to a general’s post in Moscow.

Correspondent :: The Taimyr capital Dudinka is a city where everything is not just close, but very close. And there are only about a hundred meters between the competing headquarters of the candidates. Here is one, and there, across the road, is the second. And both are in identical two-story houses. This is very significant, because in this campaign it is not clear whose side the administrative resource is on. One candidate is the current head of the administration.

Evgeny Kiselev: The investigators who came to interrogate Tatyana at NTV, as you saw, were greeted with mocking applause. By the way, it was truly a shame for the whole world. On that day, the story of Tatyana Mitkova being summoned for questioning was one of the main news headlines on many foreign television channels, including the most influential television channel, CNN, which has the largest international audience.