In the Slaintsevsky district of the Leningrad Region, 260 employees of the Teploset enterprise announced a strike, they demand wages for the last five months. As a result, in residential buildings of the district, the temperature drops to 15 degrees. The total debt to the heating systems is 900 thousand rubles with an average salary of 400 rubles per month.

In this issue: - Chechen “powder keg” for Nizhny Novgorod riot police; - Rostov conscripts are hunted in the mornings; - Conscription in Tatarstan - pros and cons; - Amur echo of the Boykonur accidents; - There will no longer be free electricity in the Chelyabinsk region; - Will Rem Vyakhirev be able to save Saransk from the Mordovian winter?

Russia-Belorussia Plus Ukraine? Leading Lev Roitman Lev Roitman: According to the official forecast, on November 26, an union between Belarus and Russia will be signed in Moscow. A representative survey of public opinion is evidenced by: 70% of Russians for the merger of Russia and Belarus in general into a single state. Therefore, in our conversation, we will raise the question like this: what is the good Russian-Belarusian Union? President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko looks even further.

The studies of the study by Robert Dipaol and his colleagues from the Robert Johnson medical school showed that the root of the varnish contains a component that is of considerable interest for oncology. Experiments on cellular crops showed that this substance - lipochkon -a - enhances the effect of anti -cancer drugs on many malignant tumors.

George Kobaladze, Tbilisi: The statement of Eduard Shevardnadze about the beginning of the withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia did not become a large sensation for the Georgian public. The events that happened in Istanbul, namely, the joint statement of the Ministry of Defense of Russia and Georgia, has long been expected.

Author of the program Alexander Genis Alexander Genis: The title of our program today - “The Burden of the Alphabet” - suggests that its subject will be one of the last big topics in philosophy and cultural studies of our time. This topic is the struggle between the eye and the word, the problem of logocracy and videocracy. In the pagan world, the main thing was the eye.

In this issue: - Chechen "powder barrel" for the Nizhny Novgorod riot police; - They hunt for Rostov draftees in the morning; - call in Tatarstan - "pros" and "against"; - The Amur Echo of the Boyconorsky accidents; - In the Chelyabinsk region there will no longer be free electricity; - Will Ram Vyakhirev be able to save Saransk from the Mordovian winter?

Oleg Kusov, North Caucasus: Today, the number of refugees on the Ingush-Chechen border has increased markedly. In Ingushetia, motorcadons are formed for sending to Chechnya. This is due to the fact that the Russian military authorities allowed refugees today to return to two border villages - Sernovodsk and Asinovskaya.

The bill providing for the indexation of excise tax rates is approved in the first reading by deputies of the State Duma of Russia. According to the bill, the current excise rates in relation to strong alcohol will be increased by 40%, by 30% - for beer and automobile gasoline, 100% will be increased by excise tax rates for tobacco products.

Lev Roitman: According to the official forecast, on November 26, an union between Belarus and Russia will be signed in Moscow. A representative survey of public opinion is evidenced by: 70% of Russians for the merger of Russia and Belarus in general into a single state. Therefore, in our conversation, we will raise the question like this: what is the good Russian-Belarusian Union? President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko looks even further.

The Union of Right Forces The program is conducted by Anatoly Shot. Sociologists Tatyana Kutkovets and Eduard Gelman and Otto Latsis, economist, political observer of the new Izvestia newspaper participate in it Anatoly Shot: In the ATP, people who most deliberately and decisively do not accept the slightest “leftist”, “socialism” and are most of all persons of human rights.

The retrospective exhibition of the artist Dmitry Krasnopevtsev opened in the State Tretyakov Gallery. It presented about 120 works from private collections - a lot of little -known work of the artist, some of the paintings have never been exhibited before. The famous American film director Martin Scorsese made a new film - “Make the Dead” - about four days from the life of ambulance workers in New York.