Andrei Babitsky talks about the situation in Chechnya with the director of the Institute of Humanitarian and Political Technologies named after Abdurakhmanov Avdurkhanov Abdulkhakim Sultygov and Radio Liberty correspondent in the North Caucasus Oleg Kusov. Andrey Babitsky: My question is to Mr. Sultygov: many Chechen politicians say that the current campaign - this war will capture the entire North Caucasus.

Mikhail Sokolov, Moscow: The meeting of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin with famous Russian public politicians pursued a clear goal: to show the people that everyone rallied around the head of the government, who authorized the military operation in Chechnya. According to the leader of the pro -government NDR faction Vladimir Ryzhkov, unanimity was complete.

Yuri Zhigalkin, New York: For several weeks of Washington’s silence and the American press, ended on Friday, after the news of the entry of Russian troops into Chechnya, when experts had a reason to talk about the fact that Moscow was astistic for the worst of all the option.

Presenter of the Liberty Live program Vladimir Baburin: According to the deputy of the State Duma Vladimir Lysenko, the lists of most electoral associations almost half of businessmen consist. This can lead to the fact that in the new composition of the State Duma, professional politicians will be much less than in the current one. Lily Palvelieva material: Lilya Palvelieva: Vladimir Lysenko is a parliamentarian with experience.

Hasin Raduev, Grozny: This day, reports of bombing of the Chechen territory came from areas bordering Dagestan and Stavropol Territory. Before dawn, Russian aircraft inflicted a series of bomb shocks along the Chechen-Dagestan border in the Nozhai-Yurt and Vedensky districts. From artillery and tanks, the positions of the Chechen defense forces in the Naderechny, Naursky and Silkovsky districts were periodically fired. Russian troops took positions to the left of the Terek River.

Presenter of the Liberty Live program Vladimir Baburin: Georgia does not agree with the proposal of the Russian side on the joint protection of the border with Chechnya from the Georgian territory and links this issue with the problem of Abkhazia.

According to the press center of the military group in the North Caucasus, the Russian units took positions around the villages of Kargalinskaya, Dubovskaya and Borozdinovskaya, without entering the settlements themselves . When promoting the Chechen territory, clashes of Russian troops with groups of armed extremists take place. Today, artillery resumed the shelling of Chechnya areas on the border with Dagestan from Grad and Hurrich settings.

Presenter of the Liberty Live program Vladimir Baburin: According to the chairman of the Central Election Commission Alexander Vishnyakov, the new rule of summing up the voting results completely excludes the possibility of manipulating the election results. From the regional meeting of the chairman and secretaries of the district election commissions, Vladimir Dolin reports by telephone.

Hasin Raduev, Grozny: Russian units in some places crossed the Chechen border and strengthened along the line of the villages of Borodinovaya, Karagalinskaya, Dubovskaya and Alpatovo. In the Silkovsky district, they advanced deep into Chechen territory by 20 kilometers. Throughout the contact of the warring parties, there were periodically shootings, but there were no serious fights over the past night.

Hasin Raduev, Grozny: This afternoon, Russian combat aircraft practically did not bomb the territory of Chechnya. Only at dawn, several bombs were dropped on skyscrapers along the Vedena gorge. At the same time, a series of missile strikes was inflicted on the positions of the Chechen defense forces north of the Terek River. The suspension of bombing in Chechnya connects with the loss over the past two days by the Russian Air Force of two combat aircraft.

Our program opens the material of Alexander Kostinsky about information, propaganda and war. Kostinsky During the Gautyansky crisis of 1994, the chairman of the committee of the chief of staff of the American army, John Shalikashvili, said: "We are not winning until CNN says that we are winning." This statement illustrates the role of information not only in everyday life, but also in war.

At home "Where are you from?" It is not easy to answer this American duty question to the man of my biography. Rather, it is not easy to answer briefly, because the question does not imply a half -hour confession. It is necessary to name the staff or country. And I answer: "Prague, the Czech Republic." I lived in five countries, although I was born only in one of them, and in America - in five states.

Hockey two matches were played on Monday in the Russian Super League championship. In Moscow, Dynamo defeated the Air Force from Samara - 5: 0, and in Lipetsk Togliatti Lada was equally confidently won by the local club - 6: 1. After nine rounds, the current champion Magngogorsk Metallurg, which scored 24 points, has a “less Dynamo”, 19 points at Metallurg from Novokuznetsk. Three matches took place in the National Hockey League . “Toronto” on its site confidently prevailed over Boston - 4: 0.

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Lev Roitman: I will begin with two quotes from the Russian press, in the “General Newspaper” Alexei Arbatov writes: “Shocked by barbaric terrorist attacks, the country is ready to bless the law enforcement agencies for any shares of retaliation, although the names and place of residence of terrorists are reliably unknown.” Another excerpt, the weekly “New Time”, Maria Pavlova-Silvana: “Until now, they have not caught a single criminal who could be convincingly presented to the society as the