The program is conducted by Efim Fishtein. It is attended by Radio Liberty editor Elena Kolomiychenko, Hungarian journalist Agnesh Gereben from Budapest, Oleg Panfilov, director of the Center for Extreme Journalism at the Union of Russian Journalists from Moscow.

The amount of Russian federal budget revenues in January amounted to 61.1 billion rubles or 16% more planned, the amount of expenses - 61.4 billion, almost 7% less than the plan. Thus, the deficit of the federal budget of Russia in January amounted to 300 million rubles or 0.1% of the volume of gross domestic product. In the structure of all budget revenues in January, the share of revenues from the Ministry of Taxes and Duties amounted to 62%, the State Customs Committee - 32%.

Oleg Kusov, Chechnya: The federal military has been called the Naursky and the Silkovsky districts of Chechnya for three months already liberated from Chechen armed groups. The leaders of the Russian government in Chechnya in their statements constantly emphasize the peaceful nature of the problems of these areas. According to them, a normal life is restored here, children go to school, local residents work, pensions are paid.

Radio Liberty correspondent Andrei Babitsky, detained in mid -January when leaving Grozny, is located in a filtration point at Chernokozovo station in the Naursky district of Chechnya. As the investigator of the Naursky district prosecutor’s office Yuri Chernyavsky told our correspondent - who is conducting the Babitsky case - official charges were not brought to the journalist. The period of detention without the charges expires on February 6.

One match was played yesterday in the Russian hockey super -league. Moscow Dynamo, having defeated the "Crystal" from Elektrostal - 2: 0, are now ahead of the Magnitogorsk Metallurg by 4 points. Siberians today meet with hockey players of the Samara Club of the Air Force. The second place in the Eastern Conference of the Toronto NHL gaining 69 points after the guest victory over Tampa Bay 5: 3. One of the goals of the winners on the account of Igor Korolev.

Ilya Dadashidze, Moscow: I’ll start with a quote from a resolution sent by the senior investigator for particularly important cases of the Main Directorate of the General Prosecutor’s Office, junior counselor of justice I.V. Tkachev to the Andrei Rublev Central Museum of Ancient Russian Culture and Art: “On January 16, 2000, while leaving the city of Grozny, A.M.

Savik Shuster, Grigory Yavlinsky, is talking to the leader of the Russian Party, the leader of the Yabloko party. Savik Shuster: As far as it is known, as the Western, especially, the American seal, Madlin Olbright, came to Moscow, so to speak, "to understand" to understand what kind of new Russia it is, what is expected, how Russia can behave, how predictable it is. Tomorrow will be a meeting of Mrs. Olbright with the acting Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In Tomsk, a two -year -old boy died from influenza - they reported on Wednesday in the center of the State -Epidemiological Supervision of the Tomsk Region. Despite all the efforts of the doctors of the child’s children's clinical hospital, it was not possible to save the child. Over the past days, about six and a half thousand people turned to the cities of the city with colds to medical institutions, half of which are children.

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Oleg Kusov, Chechnya: For three months now, the federal military has been calling the Naursky and Shelkovsky districts of Chechnya territories liberated from Chechen armed formations. The leaders of the Russian government in Chechnya in their statements constantly emphasize the peaceful nature of the problems in these areas. According to them, normal life is being restored here, children go to school, local residents work, and pensions are paid.

Alexander Yevtushenko, Chechnya, Naursky district: The Naur hospital, the only one in the entire district, is filled with sick and wounded. At the same time, there is an acute shortage of everything - specialists, equipment, medicines; the main and only specialist in all diseases is paramedic Sergei Leshchuk, who came to Chechnya as a volunteer from the town of Chekhovo near Moscow.

George Kobaladze, Tbilisi: Information about the possible treatment of Shamil Basayev in Georgia did not occur from scratch. The fact is that, even before the second Chechen war, the vice-president of Ichkeria Vahe Arsanov, in Tbilisi, was performed in the spine, and Arsanov contributed to the release of six Georgian hostages from Chechen captivity in the gratitude of Georgia.

In the last issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, new data is published that the night snoring is a symptom of predisposition to cardiological disorders. These statistics have confirmed this hypothesis against men. Now doctors from Boston revealed the same tendency among women. Dr. Istanpfer and his colleagues analyzed records on the state of health and lifestyle of 72 thousand middle -aged and elderly women.

Ilya Dadashidze, Moscow: I’ll start with a quote from a decision sent by a senior investigator in particularly important cases of the Main Directorate of the General Prosecutor's Office, Junior Advisor to Justice I.V. Tkachev at the Central Museum of Old Russian culture and art named after Andrei Rublev: “On January 16, 2000, when leaving the city of Grozny, Babitsky A.M.

The Radio Liberty correspondent Andrei Babitsky will be delivered to Moscow and released on a recognizance not to leave. As our correspondent was informed in the prosecutor's office of the Naursky district of Chechnya, the decision was made "at the very top" and the order was delivered by special communications.