Mumin Shakirov, Moscow: Just three months after the draft, Private Oleg Shorin was sent to the war in Chechnya. This violates the decree of the former President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, according to which soldiers who served in their parts for at least six months should serve in “hot spots”. Now Oleg Shorin is under the protection of the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers and sees a war on TV. The picture on the screen is strikingly different from reality.

Although the desire to take a nap among white day and is considered an almost indispensable attribute of old age, this habit is by no means harmless. This is the opinion of doctors from the University of Pitsburg, whose article appeared in the February issue of Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Dr. Ann Newman and her assistants came to this conclusion on the basis of the analysis of medical records of six thousand older people.

On Tuesday, the 31st convoy of the UN Supreme Commissioner for refugees with humanitarian aid arrived in Ingushetia , the press service of the Office said. 17 trucks delivered 15 tons of sunflower oil, 2200 mattresses and 5300 pairs of children's shoes. 1,400 beds, 3350 winter jackets and 100 thousand pieces of soap were also delivered. The total cost of humanitarian aid is 206 thousand dollars. With the same convoy, 5 thousand winter jackets from the Danish council for refugees were delivered.

The Radio Liberty correspondent in New York Yuri Zhigalkin is talking with Marshall Goldman - the co -director of the Center for Russian Research at Harvard University. Yuri Zhigalkin: Vladimir Putin joins the presidential campaign with an indisputable favorite. At the same time, much less is known about his ideas than about the plans of his leading rivals. Do you think Putin has workable considerations regarding what needs to be done to get the country out of the crisis?

32 days, relatives, friends and colleagues of the Radio Liberty correspondent Andrei Babitsky cannot receive reliable information from representatives of the Russian authorities about where the journalist is located. On Tuesday, IO of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin said that Babitsky was "alive and well." Putin added that he constantly maintains contact with the Prosecutor General and the special services, who are instructed to provide "life, health and freedom" to the journalist.

Hasin Raduev, North Caucasus: Today, from the early morning, Russian aviation resumed the bombing of the Mountains of Chechnya. Explosions of bombs were heard even in Ingushetia. For several hours there was a hum of flying attack aircraft and bombers for several hours. The basic attacks of aviation attacks are still the bases of Chechen detachments located in the Argun Gorge, as well as in the mountains of the Vedensky and Itumkalinsky districts.

The Radio Liberty correspondent in Moscow Elena Fanailova is talking with the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Oleg Mironov. Elena Fanailova: "The international and Russian resonance, which caused the Babitsky case, is due to the fact that the illegal actions of the authorities in relation to Andrei are an advance to freedom of speech, the only real conquest of Russian democracy," Oleg Mironov believes. Oleg Mironov: Everyone suffers from this.

Mikhail Sokolov, Moscow: Despite the resistance of the Communists, Vladimir Lukin from the Yabloko party and Boris Nemtsov from the ATP were elected by the deputy chairman of the State Duma, receiving 240 votes "for". Vladimir Lukin considers the event a landmark. Vladimir Lukin: The Communists do not have a control packet of votes in the Duma and do not even block. Really, if we save and increase this working majority that develops, then the Duma can be very constructive.

The program is conducted by Vladimir Dolin. It participates in it: Mikhail Fedotov - professor, doctor of legal sciences, one of the authors of the Federal Media Law, Fedor Kravchenko - lawyer of the Center for Law and Media, as well as a Radio Liberty correspondent in New York Yuri Zhigalkin, who talked with the deputy editor of the journal "US News and World Report" by Peter Kerry. Quotes are also given from the speeches of the assistant to the acting Russian President Sergei Yastrzhembsky.

Andrey Trukhan, Moscow: Mikhail Lesin critically spoke about the weakness of the state in the field of the media and called for a strict strengthening of these positions. In particular, he said that in order to strengthen the socio-political influence and create an effective state mechanism, it is necessary to build a rigid integrated structure that could compete in the field of the media with independent information holdings existing in the Russian Federation.

Oleg Kusov, North Caucasus: The command of the United Federal Group in the North Caucasus gave an approximate time frame for the completion of hostilities in Chechnya. According to the generals, the second Chechen military campaign could end in a month. The main military forces, if the operation goes according to the generals' plan, will be withdrawn from Chechnya.

Oleg Kusov, North Caucasus: The fact that the Russian military in the south of Chechnya does not enter into contact hostilities, you can find out, being in any of the military hospitals in which the wounded military are treated. The St. George Hospital since the beginning of the Chechen campaign remains one of the key military medical institutions in the south of Russia.

Mumin Shakirov, Moscow: Vladimir Yakovlev supports journalists advocating to clarify the situation with Andrei Babitsky. Vladimir Yakovlev: I am absolutely in solidarity with journalists here: in order to change one Russian person to others, probably, there should have been some too large arguments and facts. Nobody can show them for now.

In the RS since 1983, since 1995, I have edited and conducted the programs “Difference in Time” and “Documents of the past”. Since 2014 - a permanent author of the RS in Prague. tolz.dates@gmail.com

Radio Liberty columnist Alexander Batchan talks with Nick Danilov, an American journalist, professor at the School of Journalism at Northeastern University in Boston, and correspondent for US News and World Report magazine in Moscow during the Cold War. Alexander Batchan: The far from over incident with Andrei Babitsky reminded me of another story 15 years ago with the American journalist Nick Danilov, which ended with a happy ending. The son of a Russian emigrant who left St.