Hasin Raduev, Ingushetia: GPP "Adler 20" on the Chechen-Ingush border. Today it works as usual. Buses from Chechnya stop a few tens of meters from the barrier. Saypudi Abuev, whom I met here, went to Grozny to see what happened to his house. Sharnically - a direct hit of the projectile. “You will have to build almost the whole house again,” he says. By the way, for the second time. Saypudi is already elderly. For 30 years he worked at the Grozny oil refining plant named after Lenin.

Marina Katys, Moscow: According to the most gloomy forecasts, in 2050, the population of the Russian Federation will be only 50 million people. Health Minister Yuri Shevchenko does not agree with such an assessment of the situation. He believes that at present there is no reason to talk about a demographic catastrophe, but they may appear if the state does not change its attitude to the protection of the reproductive health of the population.

President of Ingushetia Ruslan Aushev called on the Russian authorities to support the proposal of President Chechnya Aslan Maskhadov to peacefully settle the situation in the republic. Earlier, in an interview with the German Wave radio station, Maskadov announced his readiness to begin peace negotiations with Moscow without any preliminary conditions. He also condemned the actions of Shamil Basayev, who provoked a military conflict by attack on Dagestan in August last year.

Several tennis tournaments at once began on three continents . In the Marrokan city of Casablanca, the Grand Prix of King Hassan II is played. In the first circle, the Frenchman Sebastian Groszhan, sown by the fourth, easily won two sets from Dzhanluka Pozti from Italy. The fifth racket of the tournament Swiss Mark Rossa stopped due to an injury against Sergi Bruger from Spain. Both men and women compete in Portuguese .

Alexander Khinshtein, newspaper "Moskovsky Komsomolets". Host of the "Liberty Live" program Peter Weil: Today, April 11, the newspaper “Moskovsky Komsomolets” published an article by Alexander Khinshtein “The Silence of Rushailo”. It concerns our colleague and friend Andrei Babitsky. We consider it essential to provide an abbreviated version of this article.

Welcome to Chicago. No, not where you thought, not in the sparkling and wealthy American metropolis on the shores of Lake Michigan, with its famous economy school, universities, theaters and Nobel laureates. Chicago in question is the slumberry suburb of Abidjan, the capital of the West African state of the cat-D-Jewual. "Chicago, like all of Abidzhan - slums in the jungle growing to other areas: a chess pattern of corrugated zinc roofs and walls of cardboard and black plastic film.

The program is conducted by Efim Fishtein. It participates in it: Aya Kuga - Radio Liberty correspondent in Belgrade, Vlado Vurushich - Croatian journalist from Zagreb, and Balkans specialist, Radio Observer Freedom Andrei Sharry. Efim Fishtein: Last weekend, elections to local authorities were held in Bosnia - municipality and city councils.

Mikhail Sokolov, Moscow: The START-2 agreement will be ratified on Friday, April 14. The Kremlin wants this decision to look unanimous. In this regard, after a meeting of the Security Council, the last concession to the left fractions was made: on Thursday, parliamentary hearings are held with the participation of the leadership of the Ministry of Defense and the Foreign Ministry. This was announced by the chairman of the International Committee Dmitry Rogozin.

The American bank "Chase Manhattan" announced the purchase for 700 million dollars of the British investment bank "Fleming". The leadership of Fleming states that the merger with Chase Manhattel will allow the bank more successfully competing in the investment market. Both parties also note that the transaction will not lead to the dismissal of personnel.

Yuri Bagrov, North Caucasus: Recently, at the intersection of roads by Belgota - Shali - New Atagi, two helicopters almost point blank shot two cars. Eyewitnesses say that it was like hunting. Helicopters circled for a long time over the cars, went on a shaving flight, and then, probably, having played enough, destroyed them. As a result, three civilians who went to their home in the village of New Atagi died. Refugees leaving from Chechnya have recently been telling more and more often.

Alexander Khinshtein, newspaper "Moscow Komsomolets". Presenter of the program "Liberty Live" Peter Weil: On the year- April 11, an article by Alexander Hinstein "Silence of Rushailo" was published in the newspaper "Moscow Komsomolets". She concerns our colleague and friend Andrei Babitsky. We consider it significant to bring the abbreviated version of this article. “MK” continues to insist that Babitsky was captured by the “Field commander of Rushailo”.

The Expert Committee of the American Directorate for Control over food and medicines recommended allowing a new cure for impotence for use. The Uprima, produced by Tap Pharmaceuticals, increases the secretion of dopamine neurotransmitter, which gives the signal to the beginning of the erection. Vitamin C prevents the occurrence of gallstone disease in women. This is how doctors from the University of California at San Francisco, working under the leadership of Joel Simon.

Oleg Kusov, Ingushetia: Employees of the International Human Rights Human Rights Human Rights Humanities have information about the death of the civilian population in the Itumkalinsky district of Chechnya as a result of the actions of the Russian troops. Human rights activists conducted a survey of a large number of refugees from mountain Chechnya.

The program will open an outline of Alexander Kostinsky about PR and propaganda on the Internet. Kostinsky Recently, our life has become more complicated and diverse. It was replenished with real elections, freedom of speech, many new, often inaccessible, goods and services. Together with them, unusual concepts came - advertising, management, marketing, public relations. Perhaps the most mysterious of them is still the Public Relations or abbreviated - PR.

Hasin Raduev, Ingushetia: According to the Russian military, the Chechen detachments fired at several outposts of the Itumkalin border detachment last night in the Argun Gorge. None of the border guards were injured. In response, fire opened, including from mountain guns and mortars. This is perhaps the only area in the south of Chechnya, where shootings were marked.