About 40 thousand civilians remained in Grozny , said the President of Ingushetia Ruslan Aushev. Most of the inhabitants are in private houses, people hide in the basements and practically do not have the opportunity to leave the city. These are mainly sick old people, women and children. According to Aushev over the past day, more than a thousand seven hundred refugees from Chechnya arrived in Ingushetia, and about a thousand six hundred people left.

Natalya Golitsyna, London: The so -called fatva - a religious decree with a call to attack Russian objects around the world was released by the head of the political wing of the International Islamic Front, Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad. He called on Muslims of the whole world to attack with weapons in their hands on Russian embassies, representative offices and airliners, wherever they were.

Andrey Babitsky, Chechnya: The most important news is that Grozny has not been subjected to massive aviation and artillery shelling since yesterday. Indeed, two corridors are open for refugees - one through the district of Pervomaiskoye village to the outskirts of the city, and the other through the Blackorechye district. However, refugees come out extremely reluctantly and small groups.

Aya Kuga, Belgrade: The leadership of the “Serbian renewal movement” Vuka Drashkovich reported that it would wait for the response of the ruling regime about the early elections until December 15th, and if no agreement has been reached until then, then street manifestations are coming.

Victor Rezunkov, St. Petersburg: On the evening of December 11, a lawyer of the St. Petersburg College of Lawyers, a candidate for deputies of the State Duma Andrei Malakhin, approaching the metro station "Gostiny Dvor" noted that two young people of a sports species were following him. When he went to the platform, these people caught up with him and a fight started. Andrei Malakhin was applied by numerous bruises and a broken nose. Doctors suspect the presence of a traumatic brain injury.

Last night, Russian troops did not fire the thunderstorm . The Russian command said that 700 residents left the capital of Chechnya yesterday. The Chechen side claims that there are much fewer refugees. As the Radio Liberty correspondent reports, yesterday in the area of the Novaya Stop in Grozny, three refugees with refugees fell under the shelling. 11 people died. Russian troops took control of the village of Khankala and the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny.

( part one ) Part 2 Tengiz Gudava: In the Caucasus program, we continue an interview with a Russian officer, a participant in the current Chechen war - Ermeck Spataev, who was forced to escape both from the army and from Russia. Why he had to do this - he tells in an interview with Radio Liberty, which we called the "confession of the Russian officer", today is the second part of this cycle. I will briefly remind you of what was said in the first part.

Today in our program: - Putin is running for a Duma in the Urals. - Alexander Korzhakov wants to become a Tula governor. - Gennady Seleznev calls on to give the Moscow region sober power. - A split in the Samara organization "Fatherland". - In Tatarstan, the right of the people to alternative elections is ignored. - The Omsk governor Leonid Polezhaev changed the "Fatherland - All of Russia", having loved the "bear".

Leonid Nikitinsky, Moscow: In cases where the attempts on deputies manage to reveal, the motive most often turns out to be connected not with politics, but with the business. Although these spheres are sometimes difficult to separate from each other today, yet the figure of the ultra -communist and nationalist Viktor Ilyukhin at first glance is not much knitting with business activity and market relations.

In the resin of a rare variety of pistachi, growing only on the Greek island of Khios, natural medicines for the ulcer of the stomach and duodenum are contained . Thus, three English specialists in clinical microbiology and gastroenterology, who presented their results at a press conference in Athens, think. Dr.

Oleg Kusov, North Caucasus: The Russian military continues to declare that they do not plan the assault on the Terrible. At the same time, troops continue to pull up to the Chechen capital. Around Grozny, paratroopers, gunners and units of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation are concentrated. Last night, the Chechen capital was not subjected to artillery shelling.

Georgy Kobaladze, Tbilisi: According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, US Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbot is participating in negotiations with the OVSU on sending special observers to the Chechen section of the Russian-Georgian border.

Victor Rezunkov, St. Petersburg: On the evening of December 11, lawyer of the St. Petersburg Bar Association, candidate for State Duma deputy Andrei Malakhin, approaching the Gostiny Dvor metro station, noticed that he was being followed by two athletic-looking young men. When he stepped onto the platform, these people caught up with him and a fight ensued. Andrei Malakhin suffered numerous bruises and a broken nose. Doctors suspect a traumatic brain injury.

Andrey Babitsky, Chechnya: The most important news is that Grozny has not been subjected to massive air and artillery fire since yesterday. Indeed, two corridors are open for refugees - one through the area of ​​the village of Pervomaiskoye to the outskirts of the city, and the other through the Chernorechye area. However, refugees leave extremely reluctantly and in small groups.

Mikhail Sokolov is talking with the leader of the NDR faction in the current State Duma Vladimir Ryzhkov. Mikhail Sokolov: So, we will discuss the results of the work of the State Duma. The obvious result of the day is the ratio of the Treaty of the Union of Russia with Belarus. Vladimir Alexandrovich, how close to the creation of common statehood with Belarus? Vladimir Ryzhkov: Very close. But everything will depend on the fact that two sides want to do.