The host of the St. Petersburg hour of the Liberty Live program Tatyana Valovich: a lot of housing and communal services reform at different levels. The other day in Moscow, the fourth All -Russian forum on the problems of housing and communal services was held. Does officials have an idea of how the reform should end and what should be its regulatory support. Here we will talk about this today with our guest, chairman of the association of associations of housing owners of St.

In Turkey, the head of the Justice and Development Party Receps Erdogan today officially took office as head of government. President Akhmet Nedzht Sezer approved the composition of the Cabinet of Ministers proposed by Erdogan. In the coming days, Erdogan will present his program to the parliament, after which a vote on the vote of confidence in the government will take place.

The State Duma of Russia adopted in the first reading the law “On currency regulation and currency control” - in the government edition. The new version of the law, according to the Deputy Minister of Finance Alexei Ulyukaev, is liberalized by foreign exchange operations. Among the innovations - precious metals and stones cease to be currency values. The norms of the mandatory sale of foreign exchange earnings are reduced from 50 percent-up to 30.

In the Leninsky district of Grozny last night, more than thirty agitation shields were destroyed, calling the population to take part in the referendum under the Chechnya Constitution. According to Interfax, the Secretary of the Republican Branch of United Russia Nikolai Paizulaev, the inscriptions of the BMS were left on the site of the shields, which have not yet been deciphered. The banners were also torn, strengthened between the power lines on the Staropromyslovskoye Shosse Grozny.

The Russian government today published a plan for the construction of a strategic oil pipeline - for oil export from Eastern Siberia to the countries of the Asia -Pacific region. According to Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, the oil pipeline will be laid from Lake Baikal (city of Angarsk) to the Pacific port Nakhodka. A separate branch of the oil pipeline will reach the Chinese city of Datsin. According to experts, oil exports in the oil pipeline will amount to 80 million tons per year.

The leaders of NATO and the European Union have signed an agreement in Athens today, guaranteeing security measures in the exchange of confidential information. The agreement is an important element of the contract concluded in December, thanks to which the European Union gained access to the plans and technical base of NATO. Now the European Union can independently conduct peacekeeping operations. At the end of March, European peacekeepers will arrive in Macedonia to replace NATO soldiers.

The program is conducted by Vladimir Baburin. Oleg Kusov and the leader of the Yabloko party, Grigory Yavlinsky, take part. Oleg Kusov: Residents of the Terrible and foothills of the republic do not hide that they expect complications of the situation on the eve of the referendum on March 23. Many of them intend to wait out this action in a more calm Ingushetia. Civilians are afraid of federal military, who openly threaten to use force if people try to disrupt the vote.

The United States rejected the proposal of a security council of Chile to give Iraq for another three weeks for a complete disarmament. Earlier this week, Washington rejected Chili’s proposal and six more council countries - to provide Baghdad to disarm six weeks. US President George Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the head of the Spanish government Jose Maria Asnar will meet on Sunday on the Azores (Portugal).

Vladimir Baburin: The man of the day of Radio Liberty on March 14th is a resident of the Israeli city of Haifa Irina Biryukova. Having lost his only son in a recent terrorist attack in Haifa, she transferred his internal organs to other victims as a result of the explosion of the bus and thus saved the lives of four people. Irina Biryukova is 43 years old. She was born in Russia. According to the religion of a Christian.

The US aircraft resumed reconnaissance flights in the immediate vicinity of the DPRK, interrupted after the North Korean fighters intercepted the American exploration aircraft on March 2. The US command reported that it would ensure the safety of such flights. Earlier, American reconnaissance aircraft flew without combat support.

A delegation of the Iraqi opposition Patriotic Union of Kurdistan arrived in Moscow. The program of the visit, which will last until March 18, consults on the situation in Iraq with representatives of the Russian Foreign Ministry and other officials.

In Serbia, 56 people were arrested on charges of involvement in the murder of the country's prime minister Zoran Dvinzhich. All of them are members of the criminal group, which, as the authorities believe, is behind the crime. Three main suspects are still on the wanted list, among them is the former commander of the police special forces Milorad Lukovich. The emergency regime introduced in Serbia will act before the capture of all those involved in the murder of Ginjich.

Editor and presenter Irina Lagunina LETTERS FROM FORESTRY INDUSTRY WORKERS TO MALENKOV. After Stalin's death on March 5, 1953, Georgy Malenkov became the head of the government. Soviet citizens pinned their hopes on him for improving their situation. In Malenkov's mail in 1953, a significant proportion consisted of letters from forest industry workers. "Complaint from Kargopolspetsles employees.

US President George Bush ordered to extend the sanctions against Iran - due to the extreme danger that the regime in Tehran presents, ”the White House announced on Thursday. The US President accuses Iran of supporting international terrorism, attempts to disrupt the peace process in the Middle East and take possession of weapons of mass defeat, the statement said.

Employees of the Kimmel Oncology Center at the University of Jones Hopkins are working on the creation of a blood test technique to evaluate the degree of predisposition to cancer of the colon. This test makes it possible to detect genetic markers, the presence of which indicates the danger of malignant degeneration of tissues of the lower intestines.