The Technical Director of the Czech guest -evidence, Yang Novak, appointed by the general director of Irji, retired. This is the first resignation in the Walking team, which ended up at the epicenter of a stormy scandal. The television journalists refuse to obey the petition, saying that - being closely connected with the civilian democratic party - he cannot be objective and will sacrifice the victim of the political conjuncture.

The court in Kaluga postponed until February 26 the hearing in the case of an employee of the Institute of the United States and Canada Igor Sutyagin, accused of espionage. Lawyer Anna Stavitskaya asked her to give her extra time to get acquainted with the case file. Stavitskaya - already the third lawyer Sutyagin. Sutyan was arrested on October 27 last year in Obninsk on suspicion of transferring the secretary to the foreign services - according to the FSB - information.

The situation in Chechnya remains tense. Over the past week, 172 shelling of the Chechen formations of Russian positions was recorded, including Grozny and Hankal - 87 times. In the end of the week, three Chechen and three Russian police officers, as well as four Russian troops were killed. It is also reported about losses among Chechen fighters.

What has changed? One of the most famous science fiction novels of the last century, which formed the basis of Stanley Kubrick’s film, was called “Cosmic Odyssey 2001”. The people of my generation remember how unusual meaning we burden this date, the master of the new millennium. The magic of numbers was masked by the simple fact that it is worth tolerate a little - and we will see ourselves with your own eyes. And now the time has come to supervise the fiction with reality.

The Chinese authorities allowed the BBC television organization to resume broadcasting on China. Transigns will be accepted in hotels and houses where foreigners live-it is on such conditions that they broadcast on the PRC of the CI-EN-EN and SIN-BIC television company. The Chinese authorities are strictly dosing the information that the population receives.

Presidents of Poland and Ukraine Alexander Kvasnevsky and Leonid Kuchma come today on a visit to Yugoslavia. Kvasinevsky and Kuchma will hold separate meetings with the President of Yugoslavia by Voislav Koshtunitsa, as well as jointly visit the Polish-Ukrainian contingent of the Ceyifor Peacekeeping Forces, located in Kosovo. It is expected that Leonid Kuchma will be familiar with the results of a medical examination of Ukrainian peacekeepers.

Hasin Raduev, North Caucasus: The imam of the mosque of the village of Hermenchuk in the Shali district of Chechnya Magomed Khasuev was killed this morning at about 7 hours on the threshold of his house. The attackers fired several shots from a pistol and a machine gun at him. According to the same scenario in Urus -Martan, the father and son of Ibrisov were killed today - the brother and nephew of the mufti of the region Umar Idrisov, who were shot down six months ago.

The question of the resignation of Irji Khodach was not included in the agenda of the Czech Republic and Television Council yesterday. Protesters starting on December 23, journalists demand the abolition of political censorship, introduced by a walker, and the resignation of both the walker himself and the current composition of the Radio and Television Council.

A collection of documents has been published in the United States, which, allegedly, are the transcript of the meetings of the Chinese Communist Party of the Politburo, at which a decision was made on the dispersal and execution of student demonstrations in Beijing on Tiananmen Square in the eighty -ninth year. These documents, already called the official Chinese representatives of the fake, draw an unexpected picture of the highest body of the Communist Party that was happening in those weeks.

The United States continues attempts to achieve peaceful settlement in the Middle East. Dennis Ross Special Messenger Ross flew to the region. He will again discuss with the leadership of Israel and Palestinian autonomy peaceful initiatives of American president Bill Clinton. Today, the next meeting of the leaders of Israeli and Palestinian security services is expected, who are trying to coordinate efforts to stop clashes in the Palestinian territories.

In Moscow today, Deputy Director of the Paris Commune of the Paris Commune Vyacheslav Antonyuk was killed. According to the metropolitan police, the 52-year-old entrepreneur was shot at the entrance of his house on Valova Street. Representatives of law enforcement agencies associate the murder with the professional activities of Antonyuk, who oversee the economy and finances of one of the most dynamically developing associations of Moscow.

Today the two -day visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Azerbaijan begins. In Baku, Putin will discuss with President Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev controversial problems associated with the extraction of Caspian oil, as well as the ways to settle the conflict in Nagorno -Karabakh. It is assumed that during the visit a joint document on the international status of the Caspian Sea will be signed.

In Chechnya, the imam of the village of Hermenchuk Magomed Khasuev was killed today. In the morning he was shot down near his house. Last night in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny as a result of shelling of a car with employees of the interior of the internal affairs, one policeman died and another was injured. Over the past week, Russian positions in Chechnya were fired at 172 times, including 87 times in Grozny and Hankal. More than 150 explosive devices were neutralized.

Half of the 145-million population of Russia may be in 10 years HIV-infected. This warning was made by the head of the Russian National AIDS Center Vadim Pokrovsky. According to him, if the current rate of expense of AIDS does not change, by the end of this year more than a million Russians will become carriers of HIV infection. According to official statistics, 80 thousand carriers of HIV infection were registered in Russia. According to Pokrovsky, there are already half a million of them.

Four Russian citizens (according to other sources, six) were found yesterday killed in the forest in the west of Algeria. According to information agencies, all those killed worked at the chemical fertilizer production plant and went to the forest for mushrooms. It is assumed that Russian experts could become victims of Islamic fundamentalists who have been fighting an armed struggle with Algerian authorities for 9 years.