Scandals of the week 24.05.2001 (2001)

Visiting the program Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

Discussion of the passions that took place in the Duma around the law on parties.

Anatoly Bykov continues to be in the jail "Lefortovo" (an accusation of organizing a contract killing).

The court rejected the petition to change the measure of restraint.

Attorney Henry Padva continues to assert that his client was illegally arrested.

The situation is commented on by the wife of the accused Marina Bykova, prosecutor Sergei Lapin, entrepreneur Pavel Struganov, chairman of the Krasnoyarsk legislative Alexander Ouss, members of the GLC Ivan Nelzin and Raisa Karmazina, State Duma deputy Vladislav Demin.

Aeroflot flight attendants are on strike because of a reduction in salaries.

In their opinion, working conditions today do not allow ensuring the safety of flights at the proper level.

The general situation in the company is told by the flight attendant service chief Vladimir Makrinsky, the president of the flight attendant union Vladimir Mamonov, member of the council of aviation experts Viktor Kleshenkov, flight attendants Mikhail Budtsov and Vladimir Dichkovsky, flight attendants and passengers of Aeroflot.

The Ministry of Communications wants to introduce a time-based payment for telephone calls.

The State Duma rejected the relevant bill.

Disabled people, pensioners and Internet users are still in a panic.

Fragments of the interview: blind poet Vladimir Bakhtiyarov, Deputy Minister of Communications Yuriy Pavlenko, State Duma deputy Petr Shelishch, Deputy Chairman of the All-Russian society of disabled people Alexander Klepikov, blind programmer Irina Zarubina, Internet user Ilya Budraitskis.

The film "Russian rebellion" when shown on NTV was reduced by 14 minutes, cutting important episodes and integrating 24 minutes of advertising.

Director A. A. Proshkin asked for clarifications to the leadership of NTV, then wrote an open letter to the newspaper "Izvestia".

The investigation of the incident is reported by the director Alexander Proshkin, the representative of the association of advertising agencies of Russia Vladimir Evstafiev, the representative of the press service of NTV Oleg Sapozhnikov, the head of the NTV-Profit Igor Tolstunov.

Grandmother and grandfather stole a grandson from their parents and took them to Kiev to a sect.

The boy Pasha remembers the life in the sect.

The father of the child, Vladislav Bartels and the friend of the family Maxim Novikov, tell how they searched and returned Pashu home with the help of former colleagues in Afghanistan.