The host of the St. Petersburg hour of the Liberty Live program Tatyana Valovich: today we are visiting the Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Health, Head of the planning and economic department Marina Gracheva. Marina Ilyinichna, before we touch on such a complex and sick topic as financing urban healthcare, I want to offer you and our listeners to listen to a report, which will give an offer about which budget for St. Petersburg is drawn up in 2004. It is today that the deputies of the St.

The main problem in Chechnya is the disappearance of people, ”said Lyudmila Alekseeva, leader of the human rights organization, Moscow Helsinki Group. Today, the group introduced a report on the situation with human rights in Chechnya. “The situation in the region was actually mothballed - civilians die and disappear,” Alekseeva noted at a press conference in Moscow.

The program is conducted by Vladimir Baburin. Radio Liberty Victoria Munblit and Yuri Zhigalkin take part. Vladimir Baburin: On Monday and last night, Israeli troops struck missile strikes on the gas sector. Such was the answer to the murder of the three Israeli military near the Jewish settlement of the OFRA on the western bank of the Jordan River, as well as for undermining the American diplomatic motorcade in the gas sector.

In the Grozny district of Chechnya, as a result of the explosion of a landmine on the Tolstoy-Yurt highway, two military personnel of the 48th brigade of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs were wounded. In Grozny, the car was shot - four people were injured, including a police officer. On the eastern outskirts of the Chechen capital, a radio -controlled explosive device was neutralized, which was reported by a local resident.

The World Bank plans to allocate from 3 to 5 billion dollars for five years to restore Iraq. Bank President James Wolfenson said that he supports the American creation plan - under the auspices of the UN and the World Bank - special funds, which will accumulate the international financial assistance of Iraq. The decision to create such funds should be approved by the International Conference on the Restoration of Iraq, which will open on Thursday in Madrid.

The man who jumped into the Niagara waterfall yesterday and survived after falling from a 50-meter height, a large cash fine is waiting. According to the Canadian police, Kirk Jones - the first who survived such a fall almost without injuries and injuries - will be fined up to 10 thousand dollars for violation of public order. The police found that Jones’s act was deliberate, but was not a suicide attempt.

Natalya Golitsyna , London: “The mysterious death of Alexander the Great,” is the name of the English television television program, prepared on the basis of the investigation conducted by the former employee of the Scotland-fair of the circumstances of the death of the great commander, who died under mysterious circumstances 23 centuries ago. It is possible that the death of Alexander occurred as a result of poisoning.

A strong explosion occurred in the postal and gagge wagon of the passenger train "Nazran - Moscow", which was following the territory of Ingushetia. There are no victims. In the wagon at the time of the explosion, the capacity of which was about 5 kilograms in the TNT equivalent, there were two drives. According to Interfax, the train consisted of 14 wagons with civilian passengers and eight more, which followed the fighters of the Kemerovo riot police.

Evgeny Bovkun , Bonn: The House of Lands of the German Parliament - Bundesrat - ordered the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany to take measures to protect large circus animals. The performances of trained elephants, bears and monkeys in German circuses will now be prohibited.

US Secretary of Defense Donald Ramsfeld again wonders if everything was done by the American government to win the global war with terrorism. In the American press, the Ramsfeld report on Wednesday, the United States has both successes and failures in the fight against terrorists. The head of the Pentagon appeals to senior employees of the Ministry with a request to discuss the results of the activities of anti -terrorism coalitions in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In Baghdad today there was an explosion on the path of the American military motorcade. According to the command, two military personnel were easily injured. Yesterday in the Iraqi capital, the military dispersed a large anti -American demonstration. Its participants expressed dissatisfaction with disrespect for local customs, shown, in their opinion, by the American military.

In Iraq, attacks on American troops became more frequent. As the commander of the US forces in Iraq said at a press conference in Baghdad, General Ricardo Sanchez, recently up to 35 attacks have been committed on average in a week. Today in the tunnel in the center of the Iraqi capital, a home -made bomb exploded during the passage of a military assembly. Two American troops are easily injured. Another bomb exploded on the path of a motorcade in the city of El Falluja. Details are still unknown.

France and Germany do not intend to allocate funds to restore Iraq in excess of the help that will come from the European Union. Foreign Minister of France Dominic de Wilpen again imposed this issue with a demand for the speedy transfer of power into the hands of the Iraqi people. The German government member Hidemaria Viechorek-Zul noted that the post-war arrangement of Iraq should not be carried out by reducing assistance to other poorest countries.

"All people are born free and equal in their dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and should act in relation to each other in the spirit of the brotherhood." Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Kristina Gorelik: Our program today has been dedicated to the anniversary of the hostage seizure in the theater center on Dubrovka. Tragic events.

The expansion of the European Union is fraught with an exacerbation of the drug problem, ”the EU leaders say. The special statement of the leadership of the European Union at the same time notes that with the accession of ten more countries there are new opportunities for cooperation in the fight against illegal drug trafficking and diseases that are directly related to drug use. In this regard, an increase in the number of HIV-infected people in Latvia and Estonia is especially noted.