Elmar Murtazaev, Moscow: Yastrzhembsky’s statement actually confirms the new alignment of forces before the presidential election. The Sunday will, which was considered by many observers as one of the main stages of much more important presidential elections, showed that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin remains the main favorite of the election race.

Natalya Golitsyna, London: How do you explain the success of pro -government forces in the parliamentary elections? Robert Sierves: For the first time in the 20th century, Russian politicians who decided to achieve popularity with the help of a quick and victorious war achieved this. In the past, for example, in 1904 or 1914, such attempts led to disastrous consequences for the Russian government.

In Russia, the calculation of the votes filed during the elections to the State Duma last Sunday. The elections are recognized as held, more than half of the minimum required number of voters took part in the vote. The party lists leads the Communist Party of the Communist Party, which has 24 and a half percent of the vote. In second place - with a small gap - the unity block, which was also supported by almost 24 percent of voters.

American doctors confirmed that the new antispide cocktail for a long time suppresses the activity of the pathogen of immunodeficiency in infected children . The head of the infectious department of the Philadelphia Children's Hospital Stuart Starr and his colleagues conducted a clinical experiment in which fifty -seven patients aged three to sixteen took part. Did these children receive a non -lfinavir inhibitor in combination with two different inhibitors of reverse transcriptase?

Marina Loboda, Vladivostok: According to preliminary and not yet final data, according to the results of voting in the governor's race, the current head of the region Yevgeny Nozdratenko, who gained more than 70% of the voters, confidently leads. In this regard, his closest rival Alexander Kirilichev made an official statement for the press today. In particular, he announced, in his opinion, the place of falsification of voting results, reaching 30%.

( part 3 ) Part 4 Tengiz Gudava: “The Confession of the Russian Officer,” so we called the extensive interview, which was given by our radio station, Ermek Spataev, a participant in the Chechen war. Today is a fourth part of the cycle. I will remind the plot of the interview. Ermek Spataev, a former captain of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, signed a contract with the Russian army and got into Chechnya. He was appointed commander of the platoon.

Masters of ski racing held the next stage of the World Cup in Switzerland , where all the races passed the classic style. Davos skiing confirmed the leading positions of Russians and Norwegians. For women on Saturday, Olga Danilova became the first race at the first race, the second is the current leader of the World Cup Larisa Lazutin, and the third is the owner of the crystal globe of the last season Norwegian Bente Martinsen.

Elections in Russia Presenter: Savik Shuster The program is hosted by Savik Shuster and Vladimir Baburin. They talk with the former mayor of Moscow, one of the leaders of the Social Democrats, Gavriil Popov, Nikolai Petrov, an employee of the Carnegie Endowment, Georgy Satarov, president of the INDEM Foundation and editor of Radio Liberty Anatoly Strelyan.

Khasin Raduev, North Caucasus: Russian long-range artillery continues to shell populated areas in the mountainous part of Chechnya. Although the intensity of the fire has decreased somewhat today, a dense fog has been hanging over most of the territory of the republic since the morning, which prevents the use of aviation and combat helicopters. In the Vedeno, Shatoi and Itumkala regions, where the main forces of the Chechen armed formations are concentrated, a large number of civilians remain.

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Russian troops blocked the mining areas of Chechnya - all roads leading to the north were blocked to the plain part of the republic. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent, Russian units blocked the entrances to the Argun and Vedena gorges near the villages of Chiri-Yurt and Sergeni-Yurt. On Friday near the Georgian border, the Russian landing took control of the section of the strategic road laid along the Argun gorge leading from Chechnya to Georgia.

Marat Dymov, Minsk: The Belarusian authorities still refrain from commenting. The opposition does not hide joy. According to the deputy chairman of the United Civil Party, Alexander Dobrovolsky, rational approaches will prevail in the New Duma, including in relation to integration with Belarus. The United Civil Party of Belarus maintains long -standing ties with the Russian right.

Elena Fanailova. Moscow: “From today, the Russian capital has been doomed to long disputes about the legitimacy of elections to the Duma and the mayor’s elections,” said the members of the ATP election headquarters. On December 18 and 19, they were marked by the most egregious violations of the election law.

The transport complex of Russia completely solved the 2000 problem . However, 2 minutes before the onset of 2000, all Russian vessels, no matter what part of the World Ocean they are, will execute the Stop -Machine command for several minutes, the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation said. The terminals will also be disconnected, through which there is a transshipment of oil, oil products and dangerous goods in the ports of Novorossiysk, St.

Evgeny Bovkun, Bonn: The results of the parliamentary elections in Russia are not the main topic of German press and television, and politicians are refrained so far from any assessments, but still both central television programs have informed citizens almost over the past night about changing the results of votes.