For the first time this year, one person died of an encephalite tick bite in the Irkutsk region . According to a 76-year-old man, the regional center of the state-owned school was not able to save, since he turned to the doctors a month after the bite of the tick. In total, for the spring and summer of this year in the Irkutsk region, 175 cases of tick -borne encephalitis were registered.

The program will open the material of the essay Mikhail Epstein, which notes the curious, in his opinion, parallels between the milestones of the evolution of the World Wide Web and the stages of the latest Soviet-Russian history. Then Oleg Rodin will talk about the anniversary of the human rights activist network magazine. Radio "Freedom", the program "Seventh Continent".

In Las Vegas, where the Men's World Chess Championship is held , matches of one eighth final began. In the struggle for exit to the quarterfinals, Vladimir Akopyan plays with Kirill Georgiev, Boris Gelfand - with Alexander Khalifman, Alexei Shirov - with Nigel Short, Sergey Movsesyan - with Aleksey Fedorov, Liviu Nisipyan - with Vasily Ivanchuk, Vladimir Kramnik - with Veselin Topalov, Michel Adams - with Aleksey. Dreev, and Judit Polgar - with Vadim Zvyagintsev.

The Radio Liberty correspondent in New York Yuri Zhigalkin is talking with American political scientist Dan Gure. Yuri Zhigalkin: The official American reaction to the dismissal of the next Prime Minister of Russia was distinguished by emphasized restraint. The representative of the State Department even went further than the statements adopted in such cases that this is an internal business of Russia. He urged reporters not to inflate the meaning of this event.

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Vitaly Portnikov, Macedonia: The situation in the city of Kosovsk Mitrovitsa, divided by the bridge across the Ibats River into the Albanian and Serbian units, is increasingly reminding the already unfortunately classical situation in the Bosnian city of Mostar, which was also divided by the river into two parts between rival national groups, and in which it was not possible for consent for a very long time.

The purpose of Vladimir Putin: reaction in Europe Leading Lev Roitman Lev Roitman: Suspended in March last year, Viktor Chernomyrdin, premiered 5 years - solid. Sergey Kiriyenko lasted 5 months. Evgenia Primakov, the Premier age of Evgeny, was 3 months longer, and President Yeltsin did not let Sergey Stepashin go full of three months.

Ilmar Murtazaev, Moscow: The resignation of the government Sergei Stepashin, contrary to the hardware habit, did not make a serious impression on Russian officials. Unlike previous cases, when the premieres Sergey Kiriyenko and Evgeny Primakov left their posts, the current change of ruling cabinet became an almost ordinary, everyday phenomenon for the middle and highest link officials.

The repentance of Francis Fukuyama “The family comes, and the earth is forever. The sun rises, and the sun goes, and the sun goes, and hurries to its place where it rises. The wind goes to the south, and passes to the north, circles, spins on its move, and the wind comes to its circles. All rivers flow into the sea, but the sea is not overflowing: to the place where the rivers flow, they are returning to the rest.

Lev Roitman: Suspended in March last year, Viktor Chernomyrdin, premiered 5 years - solid. Sergey Kiriyenko lasted 5 months. Evgenia Primakov, the Premier age of Evgeny, was 3 months longer, and President Yeltsin did not let Sergey Stepashin go full of three months. The new presidential chosen one - Vladimir Putin can obviously already talk about the prime minister, the Duma will hardly fail this candidacy with the risk of being dissolved on the eve of the parliamentary elections.

The Radio Liberty correspondent in New York Yuri Zhigalkin is talking with the co-director of the Center for Russian Studies of Harvard University Marshall Goldman. Yuri Zhigalkin: In recent years, when Boris Yeltsin began to behave more and more unpredictably, some American experts motivated the need to support Yeltsin by the fact that he was convinced, and, so to speak, a proven, democrat, guaranteeing the continuation of the process of democratization of Russia.

Attempts to get rid of heartbeat, sudden blood tides to the face and other unpleasant symptoms of menopause without the help of hormones are a waste of money and time . This is how doctors from two Sydney hospitals think, the results of which are referred by the DPA agency. According to Australian doctors, no drugs based on medicinal plants that many women consume during menopause can be compared in effectiveness with hormonal replacement therapy.

Russian President Yeltsin met today with the acting Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. After the meeting, Putin stated that the question of whether the previous power ministers in the new government would remain would ultimately decide the president. Yesterday, Putin said that he was not planning serious permutations in the office.

Presenter Alexey Tsvetkov The program will open with an essay by Mikhail Epstein, who notes the curious, in his opinion, parallels between the milestones of the evolution of the World Wide Web and the stages of modern Soviet-Russian history. Then Oleg Rodin will talk about the anniversary of the online magazine “Human Rights Defender”. Radio "Liberty", program "Seventh Continent".

Elena Fanailova, Moscow: As the head of the Central Election Commission Alexander Vishnyakov stated today, the resignation of Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin can affect the election to the State Duma on December 19 only if the deputies vote three times against the candidacy of Vladimir Putin proposed by President Boris Yeltsin. In accordance with the constitution, after such a decision, the Duma must be dissolved. Its new composition can gather no later than four months after the dissolution.