Andrey Babitsky, Grozny: Throughout today, massive air strikes on Grozny have been continuing since early morning. Russian attack aircraft are actually hitting all areas of the city, but the most intense strikes are being delivered to the city center, Minutka Square, and also to the outskirts. Today I was on Minutka Square and just came under fire, I observed the explosions of aircraft missiles and bombs literally one hundred to one hundred and fifty meters from the place where I was.

Oleg Kusov, North Caucasus: The federal forces last day continued to apply missile and bombing on the formidable, the environs of Shali, Argun and Urus-Martan. On the outskirts of Grozny, battles continue. The military says that about three thousand armed people defend the Chechen capital. Among the field commanders, according to them, there is no Aslan Maskhadov and Shamil Basayev. Both of them managed to leave Grozny, despite the military’s statement about the full blockage of the city.

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Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia confiscated 650 thousand smuggled compact disks and two million labels stored in the State Space Scientific and Production Center named after Khrunichev . The room was rented by Storm Storm, which is not officially registered anywhere. Pirate CDs distributed in the CIS countries, as well as in Romania and Poland. On January 24, several American television channels will show Barbara Sonneborn's documentary "We will notify with regret ..." .

The host of the Liberty Live program, Alexander Batchan, asked the independent Moscow political scientist Igor Klyamkin to comment on the reaction of Russia - at the official and public level, to the meeting of the US State Department with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Chechen Republic Ichkeria Ilyas Akhmadov. Igor Klyamkin: I will start from the official level. At the official level, this can be considered as further, so to speak, the cooling of relations between Russia and the USA.

Andrey Babitsky, Grozny: Throughout today, in fact, from the early morning, a massive aviation shelling of Grozny continues. Russian attack aircraft actually beat in all areas of the city, but the greatest intensity strikes are inflicted in the city center, a minute, as well as on the outskirts. Today I was a minute in the square and just hit the fire, I observed ruptures of aircraft missiles and bombs literally a hundred to one hundred and fifty meters from the place where I was.

Russian skiers had no equal in a combined relay of 4x5 km at the stage of the World Cup, which passes in the newcomer (Czech Republic). Olga Danilova, Svetlana Nugaikina, Lyubov Egorova and Larisa Lazutin became the winners in the first team of Russia. The second place was taken by the second national team of Russia in the composition: Olga Zavyalova, Nina Gavrylyuk, Inna Waren, Julia Chepalova. Norwegian skiers became the third.

Mikhail Sokolov, Moscow: The decision to transform the election coalition of the ATP into a single socio -political organization, at first, apparently, the movement, and then the party, was easily accepted. The Constituent Congress of the ATP will be held in the last decade of February.

Russian aviation continues to apply massive blows to objects in Chechnya. According to Radio Liberty correspondent, over the past day, aviation blows were positioned by Chechen formations in Grozny, Shali, Argun and Urus-Martan. The Russian command reports on the bombing of the settlements of Itum-Kale and Shatili, as well as the Argun and Vedena gorges. The messages refer to the control of Nozhai-Yurt, Sharei and part of the Itum-Kalinsky district.

Oleg Kusov, Chechnya: The federal units activated their actions in the vicinity of Grozny. Aviation and artillery strike at residential quarters of the city. The military says that missile and bombing precedes the active attacking actions of military personnel of the internal troops and special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The mobile detachment of the Federal Ministry of Internal Affairs operates on the eastern outskirts of the Terrible.

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The host of the "Liberty Live" program, Alexander Batchan, asked independent Moscow political scientist Igor Klyamkin to comment on Russia's reaction - at the official and public level - to the meeting of US State Department employees with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Ilyas Akhmadov. Igor Klyamkin: I'll start with the official level.

Oleg Kusov, North Caucasus: Over the past 24 hours, federal forces continued to launch missile and bomb attacks on Grozny and the outskirts of Shali, Argun and Urus-Martan. Fighting continues on the outskirts of Grozny. The military says that the Chechen capital is defended by about three thousand armed people. According to them, Aslan Maskhadov and Shamil Basayev are not among the field commanders.

Alexander Batchan talks with Marshall Goldman, Deputy Director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University. Host of the "Liberty Live" program Dmitry Volchek: The US-based Foreign Minister of Chechnya, Ilyas Akhmadov, is in Washington and is meeting with various academic and public groups there, and, on an unofficial level, he has spoken with US State Department officials, which has angered the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Khasin Raduev, North Caucasus: The Kavkaz 1 checkpoint near the village of Sleptsovskaya is the only humanitarian corridor through which refugees can leave Chechnya and move to Ingushetia. Over the past three days, more than five thousand people have gathered here, near the barbed wire that blocks the road for people fleeing the war.