Hasin Raduev, North Caucasus: In Chechnya, in the area of the settlements of Avtra and Sergeni-Yurt, the fifth day is a battle. As before, Russian troops block the forest at the junction of Vedensky, Shalinsky and Nozhai-Yurt districts. Russian artillery and volley installations are fired by this territory for the fourth day. To the south of Avtura, ground units began combing a shrub forest. According to eyewitnesses, additional army units are pulled here.

Semyon Mirsky, France: As a result of the US Brussels conference, the EU and Japan will provide Yugoslavia with emergency assistance in the amount of one billion $ 280 million. The World Bank experts estimated the size of the emergency packet necessary for the first stage of the reconstruction of the Yugoslav economy, one billion $ 250 million.

Hasin Raduev, North Caucasus: The intensity of fire according to the forest array between the villages of Avtura, Sergenen-Yurt and Nobieit slept. Only the outskirts of Bena’s farm and the village of TsA-Vedino are subjected to periodic shelling from artillery. Over this area, combat helicopters leading air intelligence are barracking, and ground units began combing the forest along the right bank of the Hulhulau River in the direction of the Eltin-Corte height.

Oleg Kusov, North Caucasus: It is quite obvious that the head of the Chechnya administration Akhmad Kadyrov decided to transfer refugee camps from Ingushetia to Chechnya without taking into account the opinions of refugees themselves. It is no secret that few of them agree to return to where the shelling continues daily and the landmines explode in the most unexpected places. Refugees do not exclude the fact that Kadyrov will try to fulfill the conceivable planned.

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Mikhail Sokolov, Tver region: Today in the Tver region there is a meeting of shareholders of the RAO UES of Russia. Members of the board of directors will be elected on it. The head of the Presidential Administration, chairman of the board of directors of RAO UES of Russia, Alexander Voloshin, in his speech at the meeting of shareholders, supported the company's restructuring plan in a careful form. According to him, he will be realized only taking into account the opinions of shareholders.

Part One Konstantin Simis: It is impossible not to admit that Vladimir Putin seriously intends to strengthen the vertical of power in relations between the center and the subjects of the federation - regions, edges, republics. It is impossible not to admit that this task is very, very relevant.

Vladimir Abarinov, Washington: An agreement on the management of weapons-grade plutonium will soon be signed by US Vice President Gore and Russian Prime Minister Kasyanov. The document provides for the conversion of plutonium, declared surplus for defense purposes, into forms unsuitable for the production of nuclear weapons. It will either be used as fuel in nuclear reactors or buried. Each side must dispose of 34 metric tons of plutonium.

The program is conducted by Elena Kolomiychenko. It participates in it: Radio Observer Freedom, a specialist in religious issues of Giovanni Bensi and Professor Alexander Tarakhovsky. Elena Kolomiychenko: On Monday, it was announced that scientists managed to decipher the human genetic code. That is, determine the order of nucleotides that make up DNA.

Aya Kuga , Belgrade: On Friday, the Yugoslav parliament postponed for an indefinite period the consideration of the law on the fight against terrorism. As Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Serbia told the deputies, in the coming days, new consultations will be held in the office of ministers and in party factions to finalize the bill. The adoption of the anti -terrorism law depends on the Serbian Radical Party of the ultra -rationalist Voislav Sheshel.

Vladimir Abarinov, Washington: The agreement on the treatment of weapons Plutonium in the near future will be signed by the US Vice President Mountain and Prime Minister of Russia Kasyanov. The document provides for the transformation of plutonium, declared excessive for defense purposes, into forms unsuitable for the production of nuclear weapons. It will either be used as fuel in nuclear reactors or buried. Each side must utilize 34 metric tons of plutonium.

In Chechnya, in the area of the village of Sergeni -Yurt, fierce battles continue between Russian troops and a large Chechen detachment, which, according to some reports, is commanded by the field commander Hattab. Additional Russian units are pulled into the area of hostilities. According to Russian media reports, the Chechen detachment today tried to break out of the environment. Both sides carry losses.

Presenter Sergey Seninsky - Pension reform in Russia: possible scenarios. - Bridge from Denmark to Sweden. - The Estonian government is privatizing the largest power plants. - Legislation and e-commerce. - Review of publications in the next issue of the British weekly The Economist. Sergey Seninsky: “In 10-15 years in Russia there will be two pensioners for every worker,” Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matvienko said in an interview last Thursday.

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Hasin Raduev, North Caucasus: The intensity of fire according to the forest array between the villages of Avtura, Sergenen-Yurt and Nobieit slept. Only the outskirts of Bena’s farm and the village of TsA-Vedino are subjected to periodic shelling from artillery. Over this area, combat helicopters leading air intelligence are barracking, and ground units began combing the forest along the right bank of the Hulhulau River in the direction of the Eltin-Corte height.