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.

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Sergey Sleptsov, Rostov on the Don: Changes during the Chechen war are also visible in the same respect for the dead Russian military. From the sources in the headquarters of the North Caucasus Military District, I became aware that the bodies of those who died in the territory of Chechnya today go to the places of burial without expert research and often with very doubtful results of identification.

Semyon Mirsky, Paris: The host of the Liberty Live program Andrey Sharry: A senior representative of the European Council said today in Moscow that the European Council could suspend Russia's participation in this organization as a result of the war in Chechnya.

Oleg Kusov, Chechnya: Last weekend, federal aircraft inflicted massive blows to enemy facilities in the Vedensky Gorge. The military considers this well -fortified gorge as one of the strongholds of Chechen armed groups. The mountain village Vedeno is the estate of the commander of the eastern direction of the forces of the Chechen resistance of Shamil Basayev.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. It is involved in Radio Liberty in Belgrade Ayia Kuga and the observer of the Moscow newspaper Kommersant Gennady Sysoev. Andrey Sharry: Morogoria President Milo Dzhukanovich came to Belgrade on Wednesday to discuss with the President of Yugoslavia Voislav Koshtunitsa and future Prime Minister of Serbia Zoran Ginjishch the prospects of the coexistence of the two republics in the Yugoslav Federation.

The program participates: Christoph Royen from the Institute of International Studies of the Science and Politics Foundation in Germany, Mikhail Pogrebinsky, director of the Institute of Conflictology and Political Research in Kyiv, Alexander Konovalov from the Institute of USA and Canada in Moscow, as well as a Radio Liberty correspondent in London Natalya Golitsyna, who talked with Paul Biver, a leading expert of the British Center "Jane's Defense".

In the laboratories of the Swiss Biotechnology Corporation, the ARes-Serono International corporation, experiments are being conducted that promise to expand the possibilities of medicine in the fight against neurodegenerative diseases . Claudio Soto and his employees act on the brain through peptides - short chains of amino acids that make up protein molecules.

Oleg Kusov, Chechnya: Today, the federal military called the city of Grozny, Vedenskoye and Argun gorges in Chechnya. It is according to the enemy objects in these places that Russian aviation inflicts massive missile and bomb attacks. The motorized rifle and landing units from the Botlikh district of Dagestan entered the mountain gorges of the Vedensky district and entered the village of Kiri with Chechen formations.

Numerous doctors' warnings about the influenza epidemios approaching Russia come true . According to the professor of the Chelyabinsk Medical Academy Lyudmila Ratnikova, the flu infection, despite the fact that its pathogen known to doctors, the changed virus "A" is one of the most severe. In the Far East and Siberia over the past week, the number of acute respiratory diseases has sharply increased. According to doctors, the flu epidemic is expected here in mid -February.

The State Great Academic Symphony Orchestra announced that from February 9, he was starting a strike . It will last until the team’s demand for the removal of Maestro Evgeny Svetlanov is fulfilled from the post of head of the orchestra. Now the musicians also insist on renaming the orchestra, that is, they demand to remove the name Svetlanov from the name.

Lilya Palveveva, Moscow: The initiative group for the nomination of Aman Tuleyev is now busy collecting signatures in support of his candidate, and this is what the Kuzbass governor tells about this: Aman Tuleyev: To collect signatures, as you know, you need 500 thousand, taking into account the fact that everything can be in life, we are set to collect somewhere around 700-800 thousand, but the whole focus is that if you collect 700-800 in one region, I would have done it in one sitting, and

The Russian Ministry of Russian Taxes and Files reported today that the last day of the declarations of declarations on actually received in 1999 will be on May 3, 2000 . According to the Law of the Russian Federation "On income tax from individuals", the income declaration submits no later than April 30 the following reporting year. However, in those years when this date falls on the weekend, the deadline for submitting declarations is postponed to the next working day.

Mikhail Sokolov, Moscow: The working group decided that the first meeting of the State Duma will be opened by the oldest deputy - communist Yegor Ligachev, and there will be other oldest deputies - representatives of the factions - Oleg Sinko, Eduard Vorobyov, Zhores Alferov, Yuri Rodionov and Viktor Kulikov, and Viktor Kulikov will also take a meeting with him. It is funny that among six representatives of the factions there are one marshal and two generals.

Russian troops activated their actions in Grozny. The capital of Chechnya is subjected to intensive shelling from artillery and mortars, according to Radio Liberty correspondent, last night, Russian units made an unsuccessful attempt to take control of the Republican Hospital building on the southern outskirts of Grozny. Local battles also go in other areas of the city. Last day, Russian aviation struck the targets in the areas of the settlements of Vedeno and Itum-Kale.