The laureates of the Pushkin Prize, established by the German Foundation of Tepfer, were poets Oleg Chukhontsev and Alexander Kushner . In the anniversary year, it was decided to award two awards, and not one, as usual. Each laureate will receive 40 thousand German brands. The prize to Chukhontsev will be awarded on May 26 in Moscow, Kushner - June 1 in St. Petersburg. The annual Golden Globe film awards were awarded , awarded by the Hollywood Association of Foreign Films.

Host Savik Shuster In this issue: - Patients of the Vologda hospital for life prisoners discuss the new initiatives of Yeltsin and Seleznev; - Bryansk communists, as an exception, raise each other’s salaries; - Girls and boys of Tula school #3 will no longer be able to study physics together; - Yeltsin’s “People’s Telephone” ruined the Ivanovo weavers; - The Chechen border through the eyes of a common man; - The terrorists walked forward through the valleys and hills - from Chechnya to Dagestan;

During the All -Russian protest campaign, about 300 thousand teachers of eight and a half thousand educational institutions of Russia announced a strike or temporarily, for three hours, interrupted classes. Almost 90 percent of Russians are considered to be the strikes of teachers requiring the payment of a detained salary, a completely acceptable form of protest.

In Melbourne, at the Australian Open Tennis Championship, Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov entered the final of a male single category, winning three sets of the German Tommy Haas. In the decisive match, the rival of Kafelnikov will be the Swede Thomas Enkvist. And in the female paired category, the names of the champions are already known: Russians Anna Kurnikova and Martin Hingis from Switzerland won the American Lindsay Davenport and Natasha Zverev from Belarus in the final.

In this issue: - Patients of the Vologda Hospital for life prisoners are discussing new initiatives of Yeltsin and Seleznev; - Bryansk Communists, by exception, increase each other's salary; - Girls and boys of the Tula school #3 will no longer be able to study physics together; - "People's Telephone" Yeltsin ruined the Ivanovo weavers; - The Chechen border through the eyes of a simple person; - along the valleys and after the hills, the terrorists walked forward - from Chechnya to Dagestan; -

The Russian government on Monday decided to introduce export duties on raw oil for the next 6 months. The duty rate will be 2 and a half euros per ton if the price of oil in the European markets is above 9 and a half dollars per barrel, and 5 euros per ton-if prices in European markets exceed the level of $ 12 per barrel.

Russian President Yeltsin discharged today from the Central Clinical Hospital and moved to the Barvikha sanatorium, where he will undergo a rehabilitation course. Interfax reports with reference to medical sources that Yeltsin can spend 2 weeks in Barvikha. The gastroscopy conducted this morning showed that the president’s healing process is normal. Boris Yeltsin was hospitalized on January 17 with a diagnosis of a bleeding stomach ulcer.

In people over fifty years old, Parkinson's disease occurs as a result of the effects of adverse environmental factors, and not due to genetic defects. Such a conclusion of scientists from the Institute for the Study of Parkinson's disease in the California city of Sunniveile is based on the analysis of medical records of twenty thousand twins.