Oleg Kusov, North Caucasus: It is not necessary today to be a predictor in Chechnya to know when federal aircraft significantly activates its combat sorties. This always happens on clear and sunny days, when fog and cloudiness do not close visibility. So it turned out today. Federal aviation has been working in the morning. Blows are inflicted on the southern Chechnya. The military claim that these blows are carried out on the objects of the militants, their warehouses with weapons.

Lev Roitman: A fresh sociological survey shows: Putin's government approve of almost two third Russians. The survey was conducted in the midst of military operations in Chechnya, which, in the submission of Russian citizens, are reasonably linked both information and in fact with politics, with the identity of Vladimir Putin. An unprecedented Prime Minister's rating means that the information practice of the government is true in the sense that it gives a positive result for the government.

Mumin Shakirov, Moscow: Boris Berezovsky confirmed that criminal prosecution in the Aeroflot case, previously instituted on the initiative of the former Prime Minister of Russia Yevgeny Primakov, was stopped against him. According to Berezovsky, this action was political in nature. Boris Berezovsky: This was a political decision to initiate a criminal case against me both against Luzhkov and against Krasnecker, well, maybe it was the background, but the main goal, from my point of view, was me.

The judge of the district federal court in Washington Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that Microsoft is a monopoly in the field of computer applications and resorted to techniques incompatible with fair competition. Our employee Alexei Tsvetkov comments: Microsoft in every house - this is probably what the young American entrepreneur Bill Gates dreamed about a quarter of a century ago, creating a new company for the production of computer programs. Of course, any entrepreneur dreams of this.

"Our house is Russia" The program is conducted by Anatoly Shot. It is attended by sociologist Eduard Gelman, Tatyana Kutkovets, sociologist, research director of the Moscow Institute of Sociological Analysis, Otto Latsis, economist, observer of the newspaper New Izvestia.

In this issue: - war in Chechnya as an advertising campaign of Tula weapons; - How many people are killed from the Kalashnikov assault rifle? - Nizhny Novgorod Tyloviks are declared traitors to everyone who does not want to die in Chechnya; - Kostroma Dagestanis are forced to prove at every step that they are not bandits; - Why do refugees go around Mordovia? - How much does it cost to cut the Murmansk nuclear submarine?

Russian aviation - using good weather conditions - resumed the bombing of Chechnya today - mainly the southern regions of the republic. According to Radio Liberty correspondents, rocket and artillery blows were delivered along the outskirts of the half -ring of Grozny taken by Russian troops. The outskirts of Gudermes, completely blocked by the Russian military, were also subjected to intensive shelling. According to various sources, in Gudermes are from 600 to 1000 Chechen fighters.

The State Duma of Russia approved in third reading a bill on new income tax rates from individuals. At a minimum, 12 percent rate, annual income that does not exceed 50 thousand rubles will be taxed; For income from 50 thousand to 150 thousand rubles, the tax rate will be 20%; For income over 150 thousand rubles - 30%. The new income tax scale will be applied to the income of citizens received after January 1, 2000.

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 in animal experiments found out that the disease can be suspended by disabling one of the genes responsible for the transportation of calcium through cell membranes. Mutations of this gene do not allow the cells of the heart to receive the required amount of calcium, which causes heart failure.

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. Since September next year, the State Hermitage will constantly exhibit part of its collection in the six halls of the London Somerset Hall. One of the halls will be dedicated to the founder of the museum Ekaterina II.

All signs of a humanitarian disaster are observed in the North Caucasus. In recent days, however, the action of the humanitarian corridor for refugees from Chechnya to Ingushetia has been established. International organizations and central authorities of Russia sends food, medicines, tents and other equipment to the distress zones. In Sakhalin, Kamchatka, in Yakutia, Chukotka and in the Evenki Autonomous District of the fuel, no more than 12 percent of the required volume were brought.

Hasin Raduev, Chechnya: The city of Shali is 35 kilometers from Grozny. Before the war in this "Big Selo", as the Shalinsky themselves call it, about 50 thousand inhabitants lived. Now the population of Shali has almost doubled. Refugees from Grozny, Vedeno, Argun, as well as a number of settlements of the Nadtererchny, Naursky and Silkovsky districts occupied by Russian troops arrived here to relatives, familiar, or simply to strangers. The shawls were practically not bombed.

Hasin Raduev, Chechnya: The city of Shali is 35 kilometers from Grozny. Before the war in this "Big Selo", as the Shalinsky themselves call it, about 50 thousand inhabitants lived. Now the population of Shali has almost doubled. Refugees from Grozny, Vedeno, Argun, as well as a number of settlements of the Nadtererchny, Naursky and Silkovsky districts occupied by Russian troops arrived here to relatives, familiar, or simply to strangers. The shawls were practically not bombed.

Information about Chechnya: use carefully! Leading Lev Roitman Lev Roitman: A fresh sociological survey shows: Putin's government approve of almost two third Russians. The survey was conducted in the midst of military operations in Chechnya, which, in the submission of Russian citizens, are reasonably linked both information and in fact with politics, with the identity of Vladimir Putin.

In this issue: - The war in Chechnya as an advertising campaign for Tula weapons; - How many people were killed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle? - Nizhny Novgorod rear officials declare everyone who does not want to die in Chechnya to be traitors; - Kostroma Dagestanis are forced to prove at every step that they are not bandits; - Why do refugees avoid Mordovia? - How much does it cost to cut apart a Murmansk nuclear submarine?