In the RS since 1983, since 1995, I have edited and conducted the programs “Difference in Time” and “Documents of the past”. Since 2014 - a permanent author of the RS in Prague. tolz.dates@gmail.com

The program is conducted by Giovanni Benxi and Elena Kolomiychenko. Egor Yakovlev participate in it - the editor -in -chief and founder of the Moscow General Newspaper, Alexander RAR - an expert at the German foreign policy in Berlin, and the Radio Liberty correspondent in Paris Semyon Mirsky. Elena Kolomiychenko: Russian troops are preparing for the storming of Grozny. According to estimates, today from 15 to 40 thousand civilians remain in the city.

Food supplements that make up for zinc deficiency in the child's body serve as a good means of preventing inflammation of the lungs and gastrointestinal tract. This conclusion was reached by epidemiologists from the University of Jones Hopkins Robert Black and Sunni Sasaval, whose article is printed in the last issue of the Journal of Pediatrics.

Evgeny Novikov: The concept of “national security strategy” was absent in the dictionary of Soviet politicians. The term "security" had purely military-political significance. And the "strategy" was understood exclusively as a military strategy. The strengthening of national security designated one thing: we must have a strong army to repel the threat from the outside.

George Kobaladze, Tbilisi: There are several versions of how Maskhadova’s pieces came to the FSB. One of the most likely, apparently versions, is put forward in Tbilisi. According to this version, the first lady of Ichkeria was detained by the FSB officers when she returned to Chechnya from Georgia along the military Georgian road. The day before, she held a press conference in Tbilisi and announced the creation of a humanitarian corridor to supply Chechen refugees.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia confirmed the message about the start of the operation to capture Urus -Martan - 30 kilometers south of Grozny. The eastern grouping of Russian troops in Chechnya went to the outskirts of the Shali district center-30 kilometers southeast of the Chechen capital. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent, about 80 thousand people live in the city, among them there are many refugees from other regions of the republic.

The names of the new laureates of the Russian Independent Prize "Triumph" for the highest achievements in the field of literature and art were declared. This year she was awarded to the writer Vasil Bykov, playwright Alexander Volodin, conductor Valery Gergiev, actress Marina Neelova and actor-mim Vyacheslav Polunina. Each of them will smell 50 thousand dollars.

In Batumi, the team of European chess championship ended . In a dispute between male teams, the Armenian team won, scoring 22 and a half points. The chess players of Hungary were behind the half-glass, in third place the German team, in the asset of which is 21 points. The Russians, having scored 20 and a half points, finished the fifths. In women, the largest number of points - 12 and a half - scored words .

Natalya Golitsyna, London: Speaking in the British Parliament, the British Foreign Minister Robin Kuk said that the UK suggested the EU to suspend financial assistance to Moscow if Russia does not stop the war in Chechnya. The head of the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that he was welcoming the decision of the IMF to refuse Russia in the next trench. Robin Cook urged Russia not to fulfill the conditions of his own ultimatum, threatening the civilian population remaining in Grozny.

Humanitarian assistance to the population of the North Caucasian regions intends to provide foreign countries and international organizations. Saudi Arabia will allocate forty million dollars, the Red Cross Committee - twelve, the Office of the UN Supreme Commissioner for Refugees - seventeen million. Two aircraft with medicines, food, warm clothes and blankets from Turkey and Iran had already arrived in North Ossetia.

Author and presenter Vladimir Tolts Andrei Sakharov: life of ideas Vladimir Tolts: 10 years ago, on December 14, 1989, Academician Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov died in Moscow. A person whose life, ideas and actions significantly influenced the image of the modern world. According to the old tradition of “ loving the dead ,” this was also recognized in his homeland, where even the former persecutors of the once disgraced thinker and human rights activist now swear by his name.

Hasin Raduev, North Caucasus: Russian artillery continues the shelling of the besieged Grozny. The eastern group of troops came to the outskirts of the district center Shali, located 33 kilometers southeast of the Chechen capital. According to approximate estimates, about 80 thousand inhabitants are in shawls, almost half of them are refugees from other regions of the republic.

The transition to the use of a single currency and the formation of a single emission center of the Union State of Russia and Belarus is planned to be completed by 2005. This provision is included in the program of actions to implement the provisions of the agreement on the creation of the Union State, signed today in Moscow by presidents Boris Yeltsin and Alexander Lukashenko.