Employees of the University of California at San Diego experimentally proved the possibility of treating one of the hereditary forms of heart failure. Cardiologist Kenneth Chien and his assistants in animal experiments found that the disease can be suspended by disabled one of the genes responsible for the transportation of calcium through cell membranes. Mutations of this gene do not allow the heart cells to receive the required amount of calcium, which causes heart failure.

Vladimir Dolin, Moscow: At a briefing at the headquarters of the Fatherland movement, Vyacheslav Nikonov said that all power in the country belongs to the presidential administration and some famous businessmen. Vyacheslav Nikonov: The country leads, in fact, on behalf of the president, a fairly narrow circle of persons.

President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma and the leader of the Communists Petr Simonenko - according to preliminary data - entered the second round of the presidential election, which will be held on November 14. Kuchma scored 37 percent of the votes, Simonenko - 23. In third place, the leader of the socialists Alexander Moroz, for whom 11 percent of voters voted. According to observers, these results indicate the defeat of the opposition, which could not unite and put forward a single candidate.

The program is conducted by Savik Schuster. It is participated in Radio Liberty in the North Caucasus Andrei Babitsky and Khasin Raduev, in Tbilisi - George Kobaladze, and the correspondent of the German magazine "Spiegel" Christian Neevf, who had returned from the North Caucasus, with whom Alexander Batchan spoke. Andrey Babitsky: Today we worked at the Adler-20 block, which is located about one and a half kilometers from the border of Chechnya and Ingushetia.

Savik Shuster discusses the topic with political scientist Andrei Piontkovsky and Tatyana Kutkovets, a Moscow sociologist, an employee of the All -Russian Center for Study of Public Opinion. Savik Shuster: We will discuss Pavel Borodin’s decision to run for mayor of Moscow. This is a very, very serious solution.

In Russia, from November 1, tariffs for natural gas have been increasing - an average of 15%, the Rosbusinessconsulting agency said. For consumers, the gas rises by 5%, for thermal power plants - by 30%. Russia intends to provide in 2000 to foreign states of loans totaling $ 400 million, the Prime-TASS agency said, citing a draft program of state external borrowing and the state loans provided by the Russian Federation for 2000.

- In the elections in Karachay-Cherkessia, Boris Berezovsky will have eleven rivals. - The former first secretary of the regional committee of the KPSC of the Jewish Autonomous Region Boris Korsunsky was denied registration with a candidate for deputies. - The Union of the Vyatka people stood up for Evgeny Primakov and Yuri Luzhkov and opposed TV presenter Sergei Dorenko. - The Tula police decided to check the income of the former presidential guard Alexander Korzhakov.

Presenter Vladimir Abarbanel: - In the elections in Karachay-Cherkessia, Boris Berezovsky will have eleven rivals. - Former first secretary of the regional committee of the CPSU of the Jewish Autonomous Region, Boris Korsunsky, was denied registration as a candidate for deputy. - The “Union of the Vyatka People” stood up for Yevgeny Primakov and Yuri Luzhkov and spoke out against TV presenter Sergei Dorenko.

The Russian Committee for the Nomination of Oscar Prize in the nomination "Best Film in a Foreign Language" named his candidacy. This is a picture of Alexander Sokurov according to the script of Yuri Arabov "Moloch" - about Adolf Hitler and Eve Brown. The pseudonym of B. Akunin, the author of the most popular intellectual detectives, which takes place at the end of the 19th century and which are united by the figure of the detective of Erast Fandorin, was disclosed.

24-year-old Canadian motorist Greg Moore died as a result of a catastrophe on a highway in California during the last stage of the championship of a series of cards. At a speed of 354 km/h, his Rynard-Mercedes car crashed into a chipper. The racer was taken to the hospital and after an hour died without regaining consciousness. On the eve of Moore, he injured his hand, and experts believe that it was this injury that could prevent him from managing control during the race.

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Aya Kuga, Belgrade: As the leaders of the Opposition Bloc "Union for Changes" stated before the departure to America, their main goal is to convince the American administration of the need to cancel international sanctions, which, according to the Serbian democratic opposition, only strengthen the regime of Slobodan Miloshevich, and ordinary people experience serious consequences. The opposition leaders suggest that the sanctions be lifted in exchange for free and democratic elections in Serbia.

Democracy in Ukraine, apparently, took place. Did liberalism take place? The co -editor of the Continent Europe program Elena Kolomiychenko is talking with the director of the Kyiv Institute of Political Research and Conflictology Mikhail Pogrebinsky, Radio Liberty correspondent Vitaly Portnikov and Sergey Kiselev, a journalist working for newspapers Kyiv Vedomosti and Moscow News. Elena Kolomiychenko: We discuss the preliminary results of the first round of the presidential election of Ukraine.

Andrey Babitsky, North Caucasus: I may be too emotional in my story. But, believe me, my emotionality is absolutely proportionate to what I see with my own eyes.

In Sakhalin, Kamchatka, in Yakutia, Chukotka and in the Evenki Autonomous Okrug of the fuel, no more than 12 percent of the required volume was brought in , the head of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies Sergey Shoigu said on Monday in Krasnoyarsk. In particular, in the Sakhalin Region, the northern firebround in fuel oil is five and a half percent, in coal - by 24 percent.