The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. Radio Liberty correspondents participate: in Tbilisi - George Kobaladze, in Moscow - Ivan Trefilov and who talked with the chairman of the Union of Traditionalists of Georgia Akakim Asatiani Andrei Sharogradsky; In Afghanistan - a special correspondent of Radio Liberty Andrei Babitsky. The program is also involved in Russian political analyst Andrei Piontkovsky. Interviews are given Radio Freedom of President Chechnya Aslan Maskhadov.

Today in the program: - The situation with freedom of speech in the North Caucasus. - How are the relations of journalists and authorities in Dagestan. - The story of the only opposition newspaper in Karachay-Cherkessia; - Stavropol television journalists are fighting for existence; - North Ossetia introduces censorship on television; Reporting of our correspondents from Makhachkala, Vladikavkaz, Cherkessk and Stavropol. Comments of radio correspondents Freedom Oleg Kusov and Khasin Raduev.

Russian air traffic controllers suspend the hunger strike announced the day before. According to trade unions, this is done so as not to damage the health of dispatchers and ensure flight safety. The trade unions called on the authorities to start negotiations to resolve controversial issues. Airproofers demand to increase the salary and oppose the adoption of a new Labor Code. Employees of 42 airports of the country took part in the protest rally.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Moscow, Ivan Trefilov and Russian political analyst Andrei Piontkovsky, participate. The presentation of an article from the American newspaper New York Times prepared by Ivan Vorontsov is given. Andrey Sharry: The State Duma of Russia supported on Thursday the position of Vladimir Putin on the fight against international terrorism.

The first vice speaker of the Ukrainian parliament, Viktor Medvedchuk, believes that representatives of the highest military leadership of Ukraine, guilty of the disaster of the Russian Tu-154 aircraft, must resign. The causes of the death of the airliner have not yet been named. According to one of the main versions, it was shot down by an anti -aircraft missile released during the exercises of the air defense forces of Ukraine.

The United States froze accounts in the amount of $ 24 million belonging to the Taliban movement in Afghanistan and the Al-Caida bin Laden’s Osama Laden. This was announced yesterday by US President George Bush. US Minister of Finance Paul O'NNILL told reporters that orders to block the accounts belonging to terrorists gave the government 62 countries and another 40 states are ready to follow this example.

Macedonia police announced today about the discovery of a large weapon warehouse in the north of the country - in the area where Albanian rebels operate. The police representative said that in the cache found in the village of Tanusha, near the border with Albania, there were machine guns, grenade launchers, anti -tank mines and other weapons and ammunition. Representatives of the NATO contingent in Macedonia do not comment on this message.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. Radio Liberty correspondents participate: in Sochi - Gennady Shlyakhov, in Tel Aviv - Victoria Munblit, and in Kyiv - Vladimir Ivakhnenko, as well as Russian political analyst Andrei Piontkovsky. Andrey Sharry: In Sochi, where the commission to investigate the reasons for the disaster of the Russian Tu -154 aircraft, the secretaries of the Security Councils of Russia and Ukraine - Vladimir Rushailo and Yevgeny Marchuk arrived on Thursday.

The leadership of the European Central Bank at today's meeting in Vienna is discussing the possibility of further lowering the interest rate in the so -called "Euro zone". In September, the rate was already reduced by half a percent - in order to neutralize the financial consequences of terrorist attacks in the United States.

Andrey Babitsky, Afghanistan: I will be brief, since there is little electricity in this country, and, apparently, like everything else, it will not appear soon. I call from someone else's phone, from Japanese colleagues. The most alarming news now come from Kabul, where, according to refugees, for the third morning, Taliban city services are picking up the streets ... people. The score is dead to dozens. Rockets fall into residential quarters every night.

French President Jacques Shirak called on the Taliban movement to free the French journalist Michel Paner, who recently detained Afghanistan. The Taliban has already stated that they suspect Payrara of espionage. According to the laws acting in Afghanistan, the journalist faces the death penalty. Together with Paner, two Pakistanis were detained.

Mikhail Sokolov, Moscow: The Russian Federation of Russia adopted on Wednesday the Land Code, previously approved by the State Duma. During the discussion of the project, about 200 people picked the building. The Land Code received the support of 103 members of the Federation Council. On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke out for the speedy approval of the document and the Prochrevskaya group of the Federation, which had about 90 votes in the ward, decided on jointly hard voting.

The units of the Georgian army were included in the Kodor Gorge in Abkhazia today-in the first time since 1994, when a truce in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict was enclosed. As the Ministry of Defense of Georgia stated, the army units must take under protection in the Georgian villages in the Gorge - in connection with the battles continuing in this area for more than a week.

The human rights organization "International Amnesty" fears that the authorities of China and a number of Central Asian states can take advantage of the campaign to combat terrorism to tighten the persecution of national minorities and dissenters.

Lev Roitman: My entry to this program lasts exactly one minute and ten seconds, therefore, without going into details, I will say that after September 11, the American media themselves noted some, if you want, the “patriotization” of their messages sometimes to the detriment of objectivity. Censorship attempts were also noted, which violated the balance of journalistic materials. “CNN” constantly held on the screen the title “War against Terror”, well, in war, as in war.