Yuri Vachnadze spoke with the Georgian filmmaker George Schengea. The host of the program is Tengiz Gudava. Tengiz Gudava: Each people probably have surnames, families, dynasties, which, as if in a capsule reflect the specifics of the entire nation. Such famous surnames in Georgia belongs to the Shenglay family, one of the representatives of which is film director George Shenglay - today the guest of our program.

Yugoslavia will need international assistance to return millions of dollars to the country, allegedly exported by the former President Slobodan Miloshevich and his environment. This statement was made by the chairman of the Central Bank of Yugoslavia Dinkich, who is on a visit to Cyprus. It is believed that Miloshevich and his close associates illegally transferred money through bank accounts in Switzerland, China, South Africa and other countries.

In Chechnya, the next attempt was made on the head of the administration of the Nozha-Yurt district, Isita Gayrbekov. According to the Russian military, her house was fired from a grenade launcher. There are no victims. Last year there were several attempts to attempt on Gayrbekov. As a result of one of them, her brother died and a mother was injured. According to the FSB of Russia, the military conducted special operations in the Vedensky district and the district center Shali.

In the north of Macedonia, two civilians were injured as a result of armed clashes between security forces and Albanian rebels. According to the Macedonian radio, both victims - local Albanians - were wounded by crazy bullets. The battles go on the outskirts of the city of Tetovo - the second largest in Macedonia. Yesterday, one peaceful resident was killed there and 15 police officers were injured.

In Galifax in the north of England, a hitherto unknown score of Mozart was found - the arrangement of the oratorio of Handel "Judas McCave". The manuscript was discovered by the musicologist Rachel Caugill, sorting out the documents in the city council. According to Kaugill, the score was not written by Mozart’s hand, but her stylistic features practically exclude doubts about authorship. Four other Handel shifts belonging to Mozart are known.

The Russian passenger plane was captured, which made a flight from Istanbul to Moscow. On board the Tu-154 aircraft "Vnukovo Airlines" were over 160 passengers and 12 crew members. At the request of the hijackers, the plane landed in Medina in Saudi Arabia. The airliner was captured by two Chechens armed with knives. One of the passengers is seriously wounded. The hijackers demanded to put an end to the war in Chechnya. They also want the plane to fly to Afghanistan.

Arkady Dubnov, Astana - Moscow: This afternoon, the special representative of the Russian President in the Caspian Viktor Kalyuzhny returned from Astana to Moscow. Its next round of shuttle diplomacy was extremely relevant after two events related to the Caspian region: the Baku-Jahan’s accession to the Russian-Iranian Caspian Declaration in Moscow, promised recently by Kazakhstan.

The Minister of Defense of Macedonia Lyuben Paunovsky said on Wednesday that an ethnic conflict in his country could develop into a civil war, which will become a threat of stability in Europe. Paunovsky noted that the clashes between the Macedonian military and Albanian separatists who occurred on Wednesday were the most serious from the beginning of the conflict.

In the north of Macedonia, armed clashes between security forces and Albanian rebels have resumed today. There were reports of a shootout near the city of Tetovo, where the Albanians live mainly. Schools and most stores are closed in the city. Yesterday, in the vicinity of Tetovo - the second largest in the city of Macedonia - the most serious armed clashes in recently, as a result of which at least one peaceful resident was killed and 15 police officers were injured.

The Spanish court today begins the consideration of the request of the Russian prosecutor's office on the extradition of the head of the Media-Most holding Vladimir Gusinsky. The entrepreneur is in one of the prisons near Madrid. He was placed in custody on Monday - 72 hours before the start of the court hearings. Before that, Gusinsky was under house arrest in his house in southern Spain.

30 fishermen found themselves on the broken ice floe at the fort of Red Gorka in the Gulf of Finland. The incident was reported by two fishermen who were able to get to the shore on an inflatable boat. According to representatives of the emergency department of the Leningrad Region, the operation to save fishermen is complicated by fog, which does not allow the use of a helicopter. The vessel "Rus", sent to the aid of fishermen, could not approach the drifting ice floe because of the toros.

Leading Marina Katys Marina Katys: Says Radio Liberty. On the air, the Ecological Program "Forbidden Zone". The microphone has the author and presenter of the program Marina Katys. Each year in late February - early March, a St. John's wort is taking place in the so -called "throat" of the White Sea. For 10 days, people score with clubs to death tens of thousands of newborn cubs of the Greenland Seal.

The Russian passenger plane, captured during the Istanbul-Moscow flight, is still at the airport of the city of Medina in Saudi Arabia. The hijackers allowed the plane to leave the plane to twenty women and children. The Saudi authorities continue negotiations. At the time of departure from Istanbul, over 160 passengers and 12 crew members were located on board the Tu-154 aircraft aircraft. Most passengers are citizens of Russia, but about a third of passengers - from other countries.

In Chechnya, there are more than seven thousand hopeless adolescents and orphans who need the support of the state - these are the newly released data of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic. Last year, Chechen teenagers committed 14 crimes, 120 children were registered with the internal affairs bodies. In Kemerovo, a leak of 150 kilograms of chlorine occurred at the Khimprom chemical and industrial plant , the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry said.

In the Parliament of Georgia, it is supposed to start the collection of signatures under the claim in the Constitutional Court of the country to ban the activities of the Communist Party. This was stated on Wednesday by the chairman of the parliamentary committee on defense and security, Georgy Baramidze. In his opinion, the activities of the Communist Party of Georgia are anti -constitutional. To file a lawsuit in the Constitutional Court, 47 signatures of deputies are needed.