Peter Weil is talking to Sergey Ivanenko. Peter Vile: Mr. Ivanenko, why did you and Sergey Kovalev come to Strasbourg, despite the refusal of the official delegation of the Russian Duma, go there to participate in the work of PACA? Sergey Ivanenko: I think that the refusal of the official delegation of the State Duma to come to Strasbourg is a logical continuation of the not completely thoughtful decision that most of the delegation made at the previous session in April.

Review of Russian analytical television programs. Anna Kachkayeva, Moscow: Sabantuy in Russia. President Putin said that until Saturday last Saturday, he did not know that the Tatar people had such a wonderful holiday, because in his childhood Sabantuy was called a disorder arranged upside down. On the screen, the holiday really reigned upside down. Some have fun, others are afraid, some say goodbye to their former power, others are torn to it.

The program is conducted by Elena Kolomiychenko. It participates in it: Alexander Chuddeev - Radio Liberty correspondent in Moscow, a specialist in China; Efim Barban - correspondent of the newspaper "Moscow News" in London; Semyon Mirsky - Radio Liberty correspondent in Paris. Elena Kolomiychenko: 58 people - immigrants from the southern provinces of China suffocated in the container of the Dutch truck. The dead were discovered a week ago when the truck arrived in the British city of DUVR.

The Russian national football championship was the third semi -finalist of the Holland national football championship . In Rotterdam, the home team crushed the players of Yugoslavia - 6: 1. Four times Patrick Klyuvert distinguished himself, leading a list of the best scorers with six goals. Two more goals were scored by Mark Overmars. Savo Miloshevich spent the losers of their fifth at the championship. In the second yesterday's match, the national teams of France and Spain came together.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. It is involved in Radio Liberty in Belgrade Ayia Kuga and Radio Liberty correspondent in New York, Yuri Zhigalkin, who talked with an employee of the Philadelphic Institute of Foreign Policy Michael Radu. Andrey Sharry: The Yugoslav authorities announced the beginning of the process related to the extradition of the former president of the country Slobodan Milosevich to the International Tribunal in The Hague.

Semyon Mirsky, Strasbourg: The arrest of the president of the Media-Most Holding Vladimir Gusinsky, as expected, caused an appropriate reaction from the Council of Europe, who decided to devote special hearing to the freedom of the media in Russia.

The Polish composer and conductor Krzyszhtof Penderetsky will perform in the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic on June 30. The Philharmonic Orchestra will be controlled by Yuri Temirkanov. The program includes Beethoven's seventh symphony and the second violin concert of Penderetsky Metamorphosis, which the author himself will be conducted.

The international research consortium Human Genome Project and the American company Celera Genomics on Monday announced in London and Washington about the practical completion of work to determine human hereditary information. The decoding of the nucleotide structure of 97 percent of human DNA will become the basis for compiling a full list of human genes and clarifying the biological role of each of them.

Oleg Kusov, North Caucasus: The situation in Chechnya on Sunday and Monday continued to be difficult. According to the headquarters of the United Federal Group, Russian troops did not enter into direct clashes with the enemy. Still attacks on the position of Chechen rebels were made from the air. Aviation struck the Chechen objects in the mountains adjacent to the Argun Gorge and Vedensky district. The assault aircraft last day made 12 sorties. War helicopters - 30.

The program is conducted by Peter Vile. The situation in Chechnya is commented by Andrei Babitsky, a special correspondent of Radio Liberty in the North Caucasus, located for well -known reasons in Moscow. The report of the Radio Liberty correspondent in the North Caucasus Hasin Raduev is given.

Over the past five years in Russia, the number of persons who use drugs has increased by more than three and a half times - these are the data of the UN Drug Control and Crime Control Office on Monday. If this trend is preserved, then by 2010 the number of drug addicts in Russia will exceed three million people. Over the past weekend, more than 50 large fires managed to extinguish the state forest guards.

Hasin Raduev, North Caucasus: The commander of the united group of federal troops in Chechnya, General Gennady Troshev, said that the Russian units are returning to their basic deployment areas in the republic. Nevertheless, according to Russian sources, during the day, aviation made more than 20 sorties and struck missile and bombing through the territory along the Argun gorge and in the southeast of the Vedensky district.

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"The secret was revealed and brought in disappointment ..." The host of the Liberty Live program, Peter Vile, is talking with the radio observer Radio Liberty Giovanni Benni, a specialist in religious issues. The report of the Radio Liberty correspondent in Rome Irina is worth it.

Mirche Adamchevsky , Skopier: Last night, in the capital of Macedonia, Skopje held violent protests, whose participants accused the authorities of inability to suppress the rebellion of the Macedonian Albanians. Protest shares arranged several thousand citizens and dozens of police reserve in front of the parliament. They lasted until 3 a.m. The protests began after the forces of the CFF began to export Albanian extremists from the village of Arachinovo.