The end of the logic of the final machines - Alexander Kostinsky continues a series of essays from the history of computer science. Kostinsky In past programs, we talked about the origin and initial steps of cybernetics. In the fifties and sixties, it was in Cybernetics, they concentrated, most efforts and hopes for solving system problems.

According to the staff of the group in the North Caucasus, the Russian troops took control of the southern Southern District of Chechnya - Sharoysky. Russian units occupied dominant heights and blocked the main roads. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent, according to the military information, the Chechen detachments based here are preparing for a breakthrough in the Tsumadinsky district of Dagestan and to the highland regions of Georgia.

Vladimir Baburin talks with Moscow psychologist Leonid Kitaev-and his own correspondent of Radio Liberty in the North Caucasus Oleg Kusov. Vladimir Baburin: The new operation of the Russian troops in Grozny almost coincided with the anniversary of the first operation - the first assault on Grozny, which also took place on New Year's days. Now with me in our Moscow studio, Moscow psychologist Leonid Kitaev-Smyk, who recently returned from his next business trip to Chechnya.

In Russia, the spread of the flu epidemic continues. The start of the epidemic in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Khabarovsk, Yekaterinburg and Kaliningrad was officially announced-the press service of the Department of State of Health of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation reported on Tuesday. In Moscow, the situation with the flu is still prosperous.

Today, the first scholarships of the memorial fund of Joseph Brodsky are declared. These are Russian poets Timur Kibirov, Sergey Stratanovsky and Vladimir Strogkov. In the last years of his life, Brodsky, who died in January of 96, enthusiastically worked on the creation of the Russian Academy in Rome, where Russian writers, and later artists, architects, musicians - for money collected from private sources, could spend several months in the capital of Italy.

"From a philosophical point of view, the tradition of atheism and agnosticism is somewhat small. It tends to harden in anticlerricism, which is covered with nails or soften into rationalist equanimity. It has a scatter between quite charming optimism and a rather small humanity. We can recall the calm irony of the" philosophical dictionary "of Voltaire, where the kingdom of heaven ...

About the murdered on Saturday in Belgrade Zhelko Razhnatovich, known as Arkan, the commander of the Serbian militants, accused of military crimes by the International Tribunal in The Hague, the "authority" of the criminal world, Alexander Batchan and Andrei Shary are talking. Alexander Batchan: Andrei, why do you think, why is such attention not only in Serbia, but also in the West, are attracted to the murder of Arkan?

Khasin Raduev, North Caucasus: In Grozny, according to eyewitnesses, oil refineries and wells are burning, and huge clouds of black smoke rise above the city. According to reports from the Chechen side, Russian units have completely taken control of part of the Staropromyslovsky district up to the village of Tashkala.

The leader of the Russian Hockey Championship - Dynamo Moscow suffered a second defeat in a row . In Nizhny Novgorod, the Dynamo lost to the rivals from the Torpedo - 1: 2. Dynamo has 59 points left. 57 became Magnitogorsk "Metallurg", who won the "Neftekhimik" - 5: 3. 53 points were scored by the Yaroslavl Torpedo, which defeated Lipetsk at home - 2: 1. 52 points from Ak Bars, which prevailed over Salavat Yulaev - 4: 3, and Novokuznetsk Metallurg, who lost 0: 1 in his site of Amur.

In Belgrade, the first round of negotiations on the fate of the Union Republic of Yugoslavia, which is a federation, which includes Serbia and Montenegro, endlessly ended in Belgrade. The President of Yugoslavia Voisislav Koshnitz and the appointed Prime Minister of Serbia Zoran Dvinzhich at a meeting with Montenegro President Milia Dzhukanovich brought arguments in favor of preserving the federation when weakening the role of central government.

Presenter Alexey Tsvetkov The end of finite state machine logic - Alexander Kostinsky continues a series of essays from the history of computer science. Kostinsky In previous programs we talked about the origins and initial steps of cybernetics. In the fifties and sixties, it was in cybernetics that most of the efforts and hopes for solving system problems were concentrated.

Sergei Yushenkov: Indeed, now in the State Duma there is an active discussion between faction leaders about who will get which committees; it is too early to draw conclusions, although, of course, there are various consultations on this issue.

Vladimir Baburin talks with Moscow psychologist Leonid Kitaev-Smyk and Radio Liberty’s own correspondent in the North Caucasus Oleg Kusov. Vladimir Baburin: The new operation of Russian troops in Grozny almost coincided with the anniversary of the first operation - the first assault on Grozny, which also took place on New Year's days. Now with me in our Moscow studio is Moscow psychologist Leonid Kitaev-Smyk, who recently returned from his latest business trip to Chechnya.

Hasin Raduev, North Caucasus: In Grozny, according to eyewitnesses, oil refineries and wells are burning, huge clubs of black smoke rise above the city. According to the Chechen side, the Russian units completely took control of the part of the Staropromyslovsky district until the village of Tashkal.

Employees of the University of Colorado and two more local medical centers completed the first cycle of the research program, which can lead to the creation of fundamentally new medicines against fatty. The experiments conducted by them made it possible to identify an previously unknown biochemical mechanism that controls the reproduction of fat cells during three -year studies.