Hasin Raduev, North Caucasus: The village of Alkhan-Kala is located about 12 kilometers west of Grozny. This settlement is still in the hands of Chechen detachments. Two days ago, a group of up to 500 people under the command of Arbi Baraev broke through the defense ring around Grozny in the area of the village of Kirov and occupied three settlements-Alkhan-Kala, Alkhan-Yurt and Krasnopartizansky farm. Near the farm, fierce battles are going on for the second day.

Oleg Kusov, Chechnya, the outskirts of Grozny: The Chechen armed formation of about 500 people today tried to break through the ring of federal troops on the eastern outskirts of the Terrible. From the city microdistrict, according to the positions of Russian units, a mortar salvo was given, after which several Chechen groups of five to seven people made a raid deep into the suburban village of Staraya Sunzha.

Giovanni Bensi and Elena Kolomiychenko are discussing the problem of Islamist terrorism in the modern world. The program is attended by: Director of Iraqi Radio Liberty - Free Europe Kamran Karadagi, Radio Liberty correspondent in Paris, Semen Mirsky and Israeli journalist Rafail Nudelman. Giovanni Bensi: Between the end of the old and the beginning of the New Year, Islamic, or rather Islamist terrorism gave himself about itself.

The host of the Liberty Live program, Alexander Batchan, is talking with Evgeny Yasin -Director of the Independent Moscow Expert Institute, the supervisor of the Higher School of Economics. From 1994 to 1997, he was the Minister of Economics of Russia, and then as a minister without a portfolio. Alexander Batchan: Evgeny Grigoryevich, in the last issue of the Busyik weekly, popular in America, you are represented as an unofficial adviser to Vladimir Putin.

Russian troops still cannot overcome the fierce resistance of Chechen formations and advance to the center of the Terrible. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent, the Chechen detachment of up to five hundred fighters, going on a counterattack, tried today to break through the blockade ring on the eastern outskirts of Grozny - in the area of the old Sunzhi. The battle lasted about an hour. The breakthrough attempt was unsuccessful.

Khasin Raduev, North Caucasus: The village of Alkhan-Kala is located approximately 12 kilometers west of Grozny. This settlement is still in the hands of Chechen troops. Two days ago, a group of up to 500 people under the command of Arbi Barayev broke through the defense ring around Grozny in the area of ​​​​the village of Kirov and occupied three settlements - Alkhan-Kala, Alkhan-Yurt and the Krasnopartizansky farm. Fierce fighting has been going on near the farm for the second day.

The host of the Liberty Live program Alexander Butchan: On December 31, not having survived a few hours before the New Year, in New York, at the age of 57, Alexei Murzhenko, a former dissident and political prisoner Gulag, one of the participants in the famous "aircraft business" died. Says Tengiz Gudava: Tengiz Gudava: Alexey, or, as his friends called him, Alik Murzhenko, was an iconic figure in the human rights dissident movement in the USSR.

Oleg Kusov, Chechnya, outskirts of Grozny: A Chechen armed formation of about 500 people today tried to break through the ring of federal troops on the eastern outskirts of Grozny. A mortar salvo was fired from a city microdistrict at the positions of Russian units, after which several Chechen groups of five to seven people carried out a raid deep into the suburban village of Staraya Sunzha.

The host of the "Liberty Live" program, Alexander Batchan, talks with Evgeny Yasin, director of the Independent Moscow Expert Institute, scientific director of the Higher School of Economics. From 1994 to 1997, he was Russian Minister of Economy, and then minister without portfolio. Alexander Batchan: Evgeny Grigorievich, in the latest issue of the popular American weekly Business Week, you are presented as an unofficial adviser to Vladimir Putin.

Chechen armed formations continue to provide fierce resistance to Russian troops, trying to take control of Grozny for three weeks now . The parties suffer losses, data about which are contradictory and cannot be verified. A few days ago, the headquarters of the Russian group reported the complete mastery of the Old Promoslovsky district. In today's official summary - among the places of concentration of Chechen fighters, the southeastern part of the Staropromyslovsky district is named.