The city authorities of Berlin intend to allocate 430 thousand euros for the construction of a protective wall for frogs. Construction has already begun in the eastern suburb of Berlin. Concrete walls and tunnel should provide frogs with a safe passage to ponds and ponds, bypassing motorways. Taxpayers have already protested, since the new "Berlin wall" is built at the moment when the city is in a financial crisis.

In Bosnia, the NATO troops began surgery to detain active supporters of the former leader of the Bosnian Serbs, joyfully Karadzhich. We are talking about persons providing financial assistance to Karajich, who is included in the Hague tribunal in the list of war criminals and is still hiding from justice by the operation takes place in the Serbian regions of Sarajevo and in the city of Pale, a former stronghold of the Bosnian Serbs. No more details are given in the message of peacekeepers.

Chechen refugees claim that the authorities are trying to force them to take part in the referendum on the draft Constitution of Chechnya, appointed on March 23. According to human rights activists, the migration service of Ingushetia, threatening to stop help, forces the inhabitants of the tent towns to go on voting day to polling stations in Chechnya. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent, a significant part of refugees opposes the referendum.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matvienko in the near future may be appointed representative of the president in the North-Western Federal District. According to the Interfax agency, Viktor Cherkessov leaves this post to lead the created federal drug control structure.

Dmitry Savitsky , Paris: In that distant era of kings and princes, she had no idea what cholesterol, or hypertension was. But, however, just in case, she was engaged in aerobics. Throughout Paris, like today, pools in Los Angeles, the pavilions that gave rise to tennis for playing the ball, Jeu de Paume were scattered, the most solid of which was the Louvre appendix and the dumb wall went to the royal square. After the last king was cut off on it, the area was called consent just in case.

- Russian cars and foreign manufacturers of components. AvtoVAZ plans to create in Togliatti "Industrial Park". - Place and time. In this heading today - the radio "Ukrainian" Zaporozhets. "To the 140th anniversary of the plant. - One week of the year. Panorama of economic news and events. - A review of the publications of the next issue of the British weekly "Economist". Sergey Seninsky: We will start with the panorama of some economic news and events of the last days - “One week of the year”.

Iraq is not disarmed and continues to deceive the world community, ”says US President George Bush. Speaking at a press conference in the White House, Bush called an unacceptable risk of refusal to use force in resolving the Iraqi crisis. The President emphasized that the United States makes recent attempts to resolve the situation with a diplomatic means. According to the president, the United States will offer the UN Security Council a new resolution on the Iraqi problem.

One of the leaders of the European Union Javier Solan assured the countries of Eastern Europe that their pro -American position on the issue of Iraq would not affect the prospects for joining the European Union. The position of the ten candidate countries in the EU on the Iraqi problem previously caused sharp criticism from France and Germany.

The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. Participation: Radio Liberty correspondent Tatyana Voltskaya, press secretary of the Committee on State Control, Use and Protection of History and Culture Monuments Irina Malyavkin, Director of the Museum Anna Akhmatova Nina Popova, Researcher at the Pushkin House Tatyana Benyatina, People's Artist of Russia Vera Karpova. Andrei Sharogradsky: On March 5, 37 years have been 37 years since the death of Anna Akhmatova.

The host of the St. Petersburg hour of the Liberty Live program Viktor Rezunkov: Today, on the eve of March 8, we will talk about women and their rights. No one can argue with the statement that men and women are given completely different chances for access, for example, to the world of politics. We will talk about this and much more today with the main feminist of Russia, chairman of the St. Petersburg Center for Gender Problems Olga Lipovskaya.

In Germany, the level of unemployment reached the highest mark with the Chancellor of Gerhard Schroeder - 4 million 700 thousand people. According to the data published yesterday, the number of Germans who lost their jobs increased by almost 100 thousand in February. The Minister of Economics Wolfgang Clement called the situation in the labor market "extremely serious." The management of the employment department believes that by the end of the year the number of unemployed will decrease.

British scientists first proved that timely immunotherapeutic treatment can stop spongy encephalopathy. The cause of this neurodegenerative disease is special proteins, which are called prions. Usually such proteins are quite harmless, but sometimes they change their structure and turn into the strongest neurotoxins. Employees of the London imperial college infected mice with that variety of pathogenic prions, which causes screening - one of the forms of spongy encephalopathy.

Svetozar Marovich was elected on Friday the president of the new state association of Serbia and Montenegro. The elections were held on Friday at a meeting of the Union Parliament. Marovich is a representative of the Democratic Party of Socialists that ruling in Montenegro. In the new union of the two republics that arose on the site of the Yugoslav Federation, the central authorities do not have great powers.

In Novosibirsk, the river station building is covered by fire. About a hundred people were evacuated from the building, where at the time of the fire passed. There is no data on the victims. According to firefighters, it will be possible to put out the fire no earlier than the morning of Saturday. The building is not subject to restoration.

The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. The Radio Liberty correspondent Dmitry execution takes part. Andrei Sharogradsky: On Thursday, the Supreme Economic Court of Belarus refused to satisfy the lawsuit of the St. Petersburg brewer company Baltika on declaring the largest beer manufacturer in Belarus Krinitsa. Baltika - the largest investor of Krinitsa - accused Belarusian partners of non -fulfilling the obligations under the contract.