Interview with the head of the press service of the Media-Most holding Dmitry Ostalsky Radio Liberty. The tax inspectorate appealed to the Moscow Arbitration Court demanding to liquidate - for insolvency - a number of Media -Most holding companies, including NTV television and The lawsuit came on December 9, but this became known only today.

The tax inspectorate appealed to the Moscow Arbitration Court demanding to liquidate - for insolvency - a number of Media -Most holding companies, including NTV television and The lawsuit was on December 9th. The General Prosecutor's Office of Russia, as part of the Gusinsky case, is checking the financial relations of the holding with the Moscow government, Sberbank and Gazprom.

Teachers demanded payments for salary debts and announced the start of the strike. A month ago, they had already held a one -day protest rally, putting forward a demand - to chase all debts until December 15. The requirement is not fulfilled. Teachers have not been paid for five months.

Sergey Danilochkin, Washington: After the passions of the struggle for the presidential post, the new leader of the country - George Bush, settled in the United States, and his advisers set to work on the formation of the government. Their work is complicated by the fact that there is very little time left - about 5 weeks.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development became the first international financial institution to adopt Yugoslavia after the fall of the regime of Slobodan Milosevich. The decision will enter into force in January. Now the Yugoslav authorities will have to look for a donor to pay a membership fee of about $ 14 million to the bank. The leaders of Yugoslavia hope that by the end of this year the country will be accepted into the International Monetary Fund.

The UN conference on combating organized crime in Palermo ended on Friday by the signing of the final document. Representatives of 121 countries signed the Convention to combat transnational organized crime and promised to contribute to its rapid ratification. A number of countries where there are strict laws on the secret of bank deposits, will have to revise their rules towards greater openness, which will help in the fight against exciting money.

The ministers of the Fisheries of the EU countries have reached an agreement today, which provides for reducing quotas for the catch of fish - in order to maintain an environmental balance. Franz Fishler, a member of the EU Commission on Fisheries, said that the current reduction of quotas is the most radical in the history of the European Union. The norm of the Heck catch and cod is reduced by about 40 percent.

The UN Office for Refugees said that almost a billion dollars were needed to maintain its activities next year. About half of the funds will go to the aid of refugees in Africa countries and humanitarian operations in the Balkan countries. The UN Refugees Commission, which celebrated its fifty anniversary yesterday, counts, first of all, for voluntary donations, since the United Nations in its budget are only two percent.

Hasin Raduev, North Caucasus: In the Shalinsky district, the bodies of five out of eight killed Chechens are identified. They were discovered yesterday on the outskirts of the village of Hermenchuk. Today in the morning, the Shali-Argun highway is completely blocked, on the outskirts of the village of Hermenchuk, additional blocks are exposed, reinforced with armored vehicles. Yesterday morning, the bodies of eight men - Chechens were discovered not far from this settlement.

In Chechnya, all roads leading to the cities of Argun, Shali and Gudermes were blocked. In Grozny, the throughput regime is tightened - due to the recent attacks on Russian objects. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent, in all these cities the so -called "stripping" will be held in the near future. The headquarters of the United Group reports that over the past day the positions of internal troops were fired 16 times.

Marina Timasheva, Moscow: The Russian Abroad Library presented in Moscow an exhibition of gifts received from the American Committee "Books for Russia". At the same time, the researcher of the work of Marina Tsvetaeva Lev Mnukhin transferred the letter to the Fund of Marina Tsvetaeva Ariadne Berg as a gift. The exhibition presented the books presented to the fund: from publications of 1913 to the present day.

On the South Kuril Island, Shikotan with a population of two and a half thousand people of diesel fuel remained for 10 days of the power plant, the administration of the Yuzhno-Kurilsky district said. On the island of Kunashir, where there are 7800 inhabitants, there is also a lack of diesel fuel.

“Passion for letters on radio“ Freedom ”by the people, I feel, weakens, because life is gradually becoming tolerable,” our long -time listener from the Arkhangelsk region writes. “I have already received a pension of 950 rubles ... The neighbor checked the tops, and we got three crayfish.

The General Prosecutor's Office of Russia, as part of the Gusinsky case, is checking the credit and financial relations of the Media-Most holding with the Moscow government, Sberbank and Gazprom. Pavel Barkovsky did not exclude the deputy head of the Directorate for the Investigation of Particularly important cases that, after the end of the audit of Gusinsky, new accusations of fraud and theft will be charged.

The American businessman Edmond Pope arrived in Germany, where he will be examined by doctors after he spent 253 days in the Moscow FSB prison in Lefortovo. The White House welcomed the liberation of the East, recently sentenced in Moscow for espionage to 20 years in a maximum security colony. US President Bill Clinton, in a special statement, expressed satisfaction with the decision of Russian President Vladimir Putin to have pardoning the POUP suffering from cancer.