In the mountains in the south of Bosnia from the air, fragments of the President of Macedonia were found. Yesterday, eight people died in a plane crash, together with President Boris Trikovsky. The cause of the tragedy is still unknown. A three -day mourning has been declared in Macedonia. The president’s duties are performed by the speaker of the Parliament Lyubcho Yordanovsky.

Vladimir Abarinov , Washington: at the request of the Yamaika government on Thursday, an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council was convened to discuss the situation in Haiti, where the rebels are ready to attack the capital and overthrow the legally elected President Jean-Burn Aristide. The situation in Haiti was heated to the limit.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. The radio observer Freedom Marina Timasheva is involved. Andrei Sharry: The guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor visited Moscow to serve as a live advertisement for the ambitious project of the Production Company "Tsetum". On March 15, the selection of performers for the musical "We Will Rock You", based on the compositions of the legendary rock band Queen, begins.

The host of the program "Topic" Andrey Sharry: the man of the day of Radio Liberty February 27 is American financier Warren Buffet. According to the results of the annual study of the influential magazine "Forbes", publishing the lists of the richest people in the world, Buffett is recognized as a businessman, whose condition is growing most dynamic. Warren Buffete is 73 years old, he was born and lives in the state of Nebraska.

In Macedonia, a three -day mourning has been declared in connection with the death of President Boris Trekovsky. In the south of Bosnia, the International Police and NATO peacekeepers today continue to search for the place of falling an airplane, on board of which there was Trikovsky and another 8 people. The leaders of European countries and the United States expressed their condolences to the leadership and people of Macedonia.

The Russian Supreme Court refused to consider the complaint of presidential candidate Ivan Rybkin about the decision of the Central Election Commission, which forbade him to participate in the election debate on television. The refusal is motivated by the fact that at first the case should be considered the district court. Ivan Rybkin is in London. He claims that before the presidential election will not return to Russia - out of fear for his life.

The member countries of the Eurasian Economic Community agreed to create the Customs Union by 2006. The agreement was reached at a meeting in Alma-Ata, which was held by the heads of government of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

Efim Fishtein , Prague: On Friday February 27, the head of the Japanese sect Aum Sinrika, Seko Asahara, was sentenced to death. On his conscience - an attack on the Tokyo metro neuro -paralytic gas "Zarin", during which 12 people died and 5 and a half thousand were injured. Seko Asahara believed in the end of the world, rushed his parish and, finally, waited. This will be his personal, individual end of the world.

The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. The Radio Liberty correspondent Evgeny Nazareta, who is talking with political scientist Vadim Dubichev, takes part. Andrei Sharogradsky: In the city of Kataysk, the Kurgan region, an initiative group of citizens was created who advocate the accession of the Kataysky district to the Sverdlovsk region. The idea of uniting the Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk and Kurgan regions has repeatedly sounded from the lips of the Sverdlovsk governor Edward Rossel.

Three Russian diplomats were sent from Lithuania, ”the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed. According to the head of the Ministry of Antanas Valionas, diplomats tried to influence the process of privatizing the state property of Lithuania and receive information about the impeachment of the country's President Rolandadas Paxas. The names of diplomats are not called.

The Moscow City Court today will announce the verdict in the case of riots in the Yasenevsky market in the spring of 2002. The verdict will be carried out on the basis of a jury verdict, which on February 19 found guilty of three of the five defendants. The charge requires punishment in the form of 5 years in prison. Two years ago, on April 21, 50 skinheads beat several merchants in the Yasenevsky market, defeated dozens of shopping tents. One person was wounded.

Forbes magazine published an annual list of the richest people in the world. It is headed by one of the founders of the Microsoft Corporation Bill Gates, whose condition is estimated at 46 billion 600 million dollars. For the first time, the British writer Joan Rowling (author of the books about Harry Potter), who earned his first billion. Russian oil magnates Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev fell into an additional list of billionaires who are in places of imprisonment.

Viktor Rezunkov: The hunger strike of prisoners in investigative insulators and colonies of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region is an unprecedented in scale - the theme of our today's program. According to some reports, up to 5 thousand prisoners took part in the hunger strike, which lasted two days, from February 24 to February 25. We will talk about what they demanded, about what to be prisoners in Russia. Today in the St.

In Jerusalem there were clashes between the Palestinians and the Israeli police. Palestinians - after Friday prayer in the Al -Aksa mosque on the temple grief - began to be thrown by stones of Jews, who prayed against the wall of crying, and police officers. The police used tear gas and batons to disperse the crowd.

New defaults in Russia? .. How are new defaults likely in Russia? It turns out that it is quite likely, although - and not in the coming months. The assumption that the closest audit of the Russian economy for sustainability will be the fall of world oil prices was already common. "The default would be useful to Russia, we even wait for it to check the new mechanisms for regulating the financial market ...".