In Afghanistan, missiles were fired by a police post in the city of Spinbuldak in the southeast of the country. The policeman was killed. The attackers, apparently, disappeared into the territory of neighboring Pakistan. American and Afghan units comb the area in the vicinity of the city. The representative of the local authorities said that, most likely, the attack was made by the Taliban, the small groups of which are operating in the area.

One of the leaders of the European Union Javier Solan arrived in Moscow. On Wednesday, he will meet with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Igor Ivanov. According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the focus of the negotiations is the preparation of the Russia-Es summit on May 31 in St. Petersburg, the interaction in the fight against terrorism, the observance of human rights in the Baltic countries, the problems of EU expansion.

The program is conducted by Vladimir Baburin. The correspondent of Radio Liberty in New York Yuri Zhigalkin talked with the deputy director of the Center for Russian Research at Harvard University, Marshall Goldman. Vladimir Baburin: The US Congress postponed an indefinite time proposal to cancel the amendment of the Jackson-Vannik, which provides for trade restrictions against Russia. It was assumed that Congress would make this decision before the visit of President Bush to St.

In Russia, from today, quota began to act on the import of poultry meat. This year, the United States will be able to import into Russia no more than 553 and a half thousand tons, the European Union - no more than 140 thousand tons. According to the Ministry of Economic Development, over the past few years, the increased import of a bird negatively affected Russian poultry farming, since imported prices were lower than domestic.

Marina Efimova: In the list of applicants for Oscar for the best male role this year is the name of the 70 -year -old English actor Michael Kane - for the role of Fruler's journalist in the film "Quiet American". The Oscars will be presented on March 23, 9 days after the actor's birthday. Michael Kane lived in America for 8 years and played in dozens of American films.

The third candidate for the post of mayor of Norilsk - Leonid Freiman - announced the refusal to participate in the second round of elections on May 4. Yesterday, the Norilsk court abolished the registration of the leader of the first round, chairman of the Federation of Trade Unions of the Norilsk Nickel plant Valery Melnikov. After that, his main competitor refused to participate in the elections - the chairman of the Norilsk city council Sergey Shmakov.

In Budapest, two and a half kilometers of an electric cable, spent under one of the main bridges of the Hungarian capital - the Petofi bridge, disappeared. The police said that she had not yet been able to find the thieves or establish how they managed to cut the cable. According to the authorities, the cost of non -ferrous metals and alloys from which the cable is made is approximately one hundred thousand dollars.

The United States study North Korea’s proposals to resolve the crisis around its nuclear program. US Secretary of State Paulin Powell said yesterday that Pyongyang is ready to refuse to develop nuclear weapons and missile equipment in exchange for Washington's Corresponding Steps. Powell did not specify what exactly the measures of the American leadership are in question.

In Iraq, more than 100 museum exhibits were found, stolen by looters in Baghdad after the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime. According to the American command, the Iraqis began to return the loot. Someone brought back a chest, full of manuscripts and parchments, someone-a broken figurine of the Assyrian king dated by the 9th century BC. A certain person first returned 46 stolen museum exhibits, then brought another 8, and then a vase, whose age is 7 thousand years.

The Savelovsky court of Moscow once again refused to release from the former deputy director of Aeroflot Nikolai Glushkov, who accused of thefts through fraud. Glushkov’s lawyer, who declared that his client is seriously ill, intends to appeal this decision in the Moscow City Court. Nikolai Glushkov was arrested in 2000. The accusation of large theft and fraud was brought to him by other leaders of Aeroflot, as well as in absentia - Boris Berezovsky.

India today conducted a missile testing that can carry a nuclear charge and hit the targets in Pakistan. The government of India stated that tests - the second this month - are carried out as part of a regular arms development program. Yesterday, the first telephone conversation of the Indian Prime Minister Bikhari Vajpai and his Pakistani colleague Zafarullah Khan Jamali took place yesterday.

According to the Al -Juzira channel, American military personnel fired at the group of Iraqis, participants in the demonstration of protest against the US military presence in Iraq. 12 people were killed, several more were injured. The incident occurred yesterday late in the city of Falluja to the west of Baghdad. According to correspondents, the soldiers opened fire when one of the demonstrators threw a stone at them.

The host of the St. Petersburg hour of the Liberty Live program Tatyana Valovich: May 1 traditionally remains in Russia in the afternoon, when trade unions can and want to recall their existence, and once again declare their requirements. Under what slogans does the Federation of Trade Unions of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region intend to speak this year? Here we will talk about this and much more with the chairman of the Federation Harry Lysyuk.

During the Anti -Saddam operation in Iraq, the anti -American emotions of Russians took the character of an epidemic. The popular Russian writer and a long time American citizen Eduard Topol had spent all this time in Russia, he is now in our Moscow studio, and in the Prague studio with me no less popular writer in Russia and also a longtime American citizen Peter Vile.

The parliament of the Palestinian autonomy approved today the new government led by Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent, Abbas, speaking at a meeting of the parliament, condemned terrorism, called on all extremist organizations to stop terrorist activities and spoke out for the peaceful settlement of the Middle East conflict.