Voice of L. Brezhnev (phonogram of 1967): "Dear comrades! Dear foreign guests! These days the Soviet people, the communists of all countries, all progressive humanity solemnly celebrates the greatest holiday ..." Tolz: General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council, comrade Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev. Personally. December 19, 1996 - 90 years since his birth.

The English pharmaceutical corporation "Futura " in cooperation with the doctors of the Birmingham Hospital of Queen Elizabeth conducts clinical trials of a new medicine to strengthen the erection. The drug "Med 900" is made for an external adherence in the form of an ointment. The developers say that it does not cause violations of cardiac activity and practically does not give side effects, with the exception of certain cases of a weak headache.

Voice of L. Brezhnev (phonogram of 1967): "Dear comrades! Dear foreign guests! These days the Soviet people, the communists of all countries, all progressive humanity solemnly celebrates the greatest holiday ..." Tolz: General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council, comrade Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev. Personally. December 19, 1996 - 90 years since his birth.

Tennis . As usual on Monday, the Association of Professional tennis players and the Women's World Tennis Association published their current rating lists. In men, the main result of last week was the return to the first line of the tablets about the rank of American Pia Samprase, who was ahead of the leading two weeks of Marcelo Rios from Chile. The best Russian tennis player Evgeny Kafelnikov is in the 11th position. In women in the group of leaders, there were no permutations.

Dmitry Atlas completes his story about the evolution of the so -called "domains" - varieties of existing email addresses. Then Oleg Rodin, who returned from a summer vacation in the vicinity of Sochi, talks about some opportunities opened by the Russian Internet in front of the traveler. In the conclusion of the program, we offer a review of book trade news in the World Wide Web. Radio "Freedom", the program "Seventh Continent".

The financial crisis in the country painfully hit the Mayan ballet contest, said Maya Plisetskaya to reporters, adding: "I, like Madame Bovary, are all in debt." The debt amounted to 1 million rubles. Nikita Mikhalkov first came to the rescue, allocating part of the amount from the Culture Fund. If the ballerina will not be able to strengthen the financial situation of this creative competition, the Mayan contest, according to its organizers, will have to be transferred to another country.

Gennady Seleznev - does not exclude the possibility of the early departure of Boris Yeltsin from the post of President of Russia.

Victor Chernomyrdin continues consultations with the Duma factions on the formation of a new Russian government. Today, work should also begin on a political document, without which the Duma refuses to discuss the candidacy of Chernomyrdin at the post of head of government. Deputies demand an agreement between parliament and the president, guaranteeing the stable composition of the new cabinet.

Trading on the Moscow Stock Exchange was today suspended before Wednesday - in connection with the increase in Gazprom’s shares by more than 21 and a half percent, ”the Prime -Tass agency said. A special order on this occasion was adopted by the Federal Commission for the Securities Market. Quotes of the most popular shares of other Russian companies increased by 2-4 percent. Yesterday, the price of Gazprom shares increased by 18 percent.