Mikhail Salenkov , Moscow: The organizers of the rally expect that about a thousand people will gather in Pushkinskaya Square against the war in Chechnya. The action will begin on February 1 on Saturday at 15.30. Its participants will pass from Triumphal Square along Tverskaya Street to Novopushkinsky Square, where a rally will take place.

Relations between Tbilisi and Moscow can least of all can be called friendly. At the same time, both Georgia and Russia are included in the Commonwealth of Independent States. At the recent Kiev summit of this Commonwealth, President Putin and Shevardnadze talked for two hours with each other, but, again, the least of all the circle of problems under discussion corresponded to the ideas about the problems that could arise between friendly states.

American astronomers discovered an unusual planet outside the solar system. This celestial body is located at a distance of five thousand light years from the Earth - much further than any other out of a hundred and more extra -mocking planets known to science. The newly open planet has only three and a half million kilometers from its star, due to which its duration only five hours exceeds the duration of the earth's days.

In Russia, about 7 thousand people still remain without heat-due to accidents in heat supply systems. The most difficult situation is preserved in the Coevro-Western region and in the Far East. Public utilities are not able to correct the situation, despite the fact that in most of Russia severe frosts were replaced by thaw.

I watched two Russian films that should be discussed. Firstly, the directors are very famous, elite: Alexey Sokurov and Kira Muratova. Sokurov’s film “Russian Ark” is going on now in New York, however, in just one cinema, but it has been going on for a long time, more than a month. He had a brilliant press. The second thing is the new film by Kira Muratova "Chekhov’s plots", which I saw on the video.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a resolution on Chechnya, which expresses concern that the Russian authorities may not have time to create the necessary conditions for holding a referendum under the Republic of the Republic. The document, however, does not call to postpone the vote. According to PACE, the Russian authorities should ensure security for the time of the referendum and make it possible to vote to Chechens who are outside the republic.

The lawyers of the former hostages and relatives of those who died at a terrorist attack in the theater center on Dubrovka today sent a complaint about the decision of the Tver Court of the capital, who refused to satisfy three claims last week. Currently, in the Tver court there are 58 claims of the victims. According to lawyer Igor Trunov, he is ready to submit to the court over 20 new statements.

On Saturday in Moscow and St. Petersburg, anti-war rallies will be held as part of the “Day against the War in Chechnya”. Among the initiators of the action are the Union of Right Forces, the Liberal Russia party, the Movement for Human Rights, the Public Center named after Academician Sakharov and other democratic and human rights parties and organizations. According to the organizers, about a thousand people will take part in the manifestation in Moscow of 1 February.

The leaders of Great Britain, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary, who are in support of the US position against Iraq, resolutely rejected the accusation of undermining the unity of the European Union. Their joint letter was published on Thursday by a number of European newspapers.

Musa Khasanov , North Caucasus: Another attack on the block of Russian troops was committed by a group of Chechen fighters last night in the center of Grozny. According to the employees of the Chechnya Ministry of Internal Affairs at the Blok Poston on Mahmud Esembaev Avenue, Chechen saboteurs fired four shots from the RPG-7 grenade launcher, as a result of which the officer died and three military personnel of the internal troops were injured.

Gosatomnadzor of Russia, the federal supervisory authority in the field of nuclear energy, did not extend the license for the activities of the plant No. 235 for the processing of the worked out nuclear fuel - the main production at the Mayak plant. The leadership of the Minatom pretends that nothing significant happened and after some time the state supervision supervision will still give out a license.

Two Palestinians were killed on Thursday in clashes in the city of Tulkarm on the western coast of Jordan. According to eyewitnesses, the shootout began when the Israeli troops stormed the building, where activists of Palestinian groups were hidden. Several of them were detained. The Israeli command has not yet commented on this information. Earlier on Thursday, Israeli troops, with the support of tanks, entered Hebron on the western coast of Jordan.

The United States conduct intensive diplomatic consultations - in order to convey to other countries their position on Iraq. Today, US President George Bush meets the Prime Minister of Italy Berlusconi, tomorrow will meet Bush with the closest US ally-Prime Minister of Great Britain Tony Blair. February February, US Secretary of State Colin Powell must submit to the UN Security Council declassified data on Iraq violations of his obligations to disarm.

The American media giant "Aol Tim-Uorner" said that his losses over the past year amounted to almost 100 millard dollars. This is the largest amount of losses in the history of American corporations. At the same time, Ted Turner, the founder of the CIN-EN channel, which is part of the Aol Tim-Uorner Corporation, and its vice-chairman, declared his resignation.

In Moscow, on February 15, regular inspections of foreigners of migration cards will begin on February 15, ”Viktor Cherkashin, deputy chief of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, said at a briefing. The lack of cards entails a fine - from 5 to 10 minimum wages. In the case of a repeated violation, a foreigner is threatened with expulsion from Russia.