The program is hosted by Peter Weil. It involves the correspondent of Radio Liberty in Moscow, Vladimir Dolin, and the special correspondent of Radio Liberty in the North Caucasus, Andrei Babitsky, who is in Moscow for well-known reasons. Peter Weil: The Russian Information Center and the RIA Novosti Press Agency presented a joint publication "Chechnya - White Book" in Moscow. During its discussion, the topic of Russia's "civilizing" role in Chechnya arose.

Sergey Nanta, New Delhi: Is Pakistan involved in the Chechen conflict? Do Chechen militants train in Pakistan? These questions in Pakistan have recently been asked by many journalists. Especially after the visit of the former president of Chechnya Zelimkhan Yandarbiev. During his visit to Pakistan, Yandarbiev, with the help of the Islamist movement, Jamaat Al Islam, organized a noisy campaign in support of Chechnya, collecting, according to various estimates, from one to ten million dollars.

Aya Kuga, Belgrade: The interrogation of the former chief of the Yugoslav Customs Administration Mikhalya Kertes today in Belgrade began the investigation in the case of Milosevich and his associates. The judicial investigation is carried out in the case of abuse of official position due to major financial fraud.

Special authorized person Vladimir Kalamanov, President of Russia for Human Rights in Chechnya, criticized the actions of his colleague from the UN - Mary Robinson, who, returning from Chechnya, made claims against the Russian authorities. He accused the UN Supreme Commissioner of tendentious coverage of events in the North Caucasus.

Vladimir Dolin, Moscow : According to Shamil Basayev, 9 people from the Perm riot police are captured by the Chechen detachments under his command. Shamil Basayev proposed to exchange captured police officers for Colonel of the Russian Army Yuri Budanov, accused of raping and killing a Chechen girl.

Yuri Bagrov, Ingushetia : The military does not exclude the fact that the armed attack on the riot police column in the vicinity of the village of Gianni-Vedino occurred as a result of a radio interception from the Chechens. This was reported to me by sources in the radio intelligence unit. In their opinion, the Chechens knew by the tip of the movement of the first column and carefully prepared for battle.

Moscow "Dynamo" - winner of the Russian hockey champion title of 2000. On Sunday in Moscow, in the fifth match of the final series, Dynamo won the Kazan “Ak Bars” hockey players - 2: 0 and won the series with a score of 4: 1. The National Hockey League continues the stubborn struggle for the last two vouchers to the Stanley Cup in the Eastern Conference.

Smoking acts directly on the biological environment in which the embryo develops . This was proved by doctors from the Center for Human Genetics University and the Minnesota University oncological Center, whose article is printed in the April issue of Prenatal Diagnosis magazine. The analyzes carried out by them revealed one of the tobacco carcinogens in the amniotic fluid samples taken from women who continued to smoke in the fourth or fifth month of pregnancy.

Semyon Mirsky, Paris : Participants in the current session PACE know about the situation in the North Caucasus firsthand. In January, a delegation of the Assembly led to its chairman, British Lord Russell Johnston, went to the conflict area, and another delegation visited in March, headed by another British Lord - Lord Jadd.

Until April 6, the third festival of Italian cinema in recent years will last in the Moscow Museum of Cinema . The festival program includes tapes shot in 1998-1999. A special event is also planned: on April 6, Roberto Rosselini’s film “Francis, the Jester of God” will be shown. This film was restored by Mediaset, and the show will be pre -documented about the restoration technique. The famous colonnade of Bernini, covering the semicircle of the square in front of the cathedral of St.

The pace of inflation in Russia in March amounted to 0.6% , and since the beginning of 2000 - 4.1%, the first deputy prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov said today. The increase in the volume of the gross domestic product of Russia as a whole in 2000, according to him, will be more than 3%, which is provided for by the budget for the current year, and the exchange rate of the ruble is below the level of 32 rubles per dollar.

Semyon Mirsky, Strasbourg : Lord Russell-Johnston began his press conference by mentioning the activities of the International Committee against Torture, whose reports concerning the situation in Chechnya are followed by PACE, according to the Lord, with special attention.

Khasin Raduev, Ingushetia: In the area of ​​the village of Gianni-Vedeno, the search for missing Perm riot police continues. The operation involves units of the Airborne Forces, Internal Troops, riot police and special forces currently located in the Vedeno region. There is a continuous combing of the area around Gianni-Vedeno and Dyshni-Vedeno. It was not possible to detect the Chechen detachment that set up an ambush on a mountain road near Gianni-Vedeno on March 29.

Hasin Raduev, Ingushetia: In the area of the village of Dzhanni-Vedino, the search for missing Perm riot police continues. The operation involves the units of the Airborne Forces, internal troops, riot police and special forces, which are now in the Vedensky district. There is a continuous combing of the area around Gianni-Vedeno and Bryshni-Vedeno. It was not possible to detect a Chechen detachment, which on March 29 on a mountain road near Gianni-Vreyeno, failed.

Oleg Kusov. Ingushetia : Massive bombing of Chechen settlements led to massive deaths of civilians. Sanitary services are working today on the ruins of the village of Komsomolsky Urus-Martan district. To date, they have discovered 248 corpses of Chechens; corpses are found in basements, at the site of destroyed houses, and in reservoirs. The military claims that most of those killed were fighters from Chechen detachments.