theme №1 06.04.1999 (1999)

Program Topic: Political Crisis of Power.

Guests in the studio: Andranik Migranyan, Vice President of the Reforma Foundation.

Vyacheslav Nikonov, President of the Politics Foundation, Doctor of Historical Sciences.

Genrikh Borovik, writer and international journalist.

Main issues discussed in the studio: 1. What is your opinion on the story of the resignation of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation? 2. On the confrontation between the branches of government. 3. Now is probably the most acute political crisis since 1991. 4. Corruption in the highest echelons of power.

On the resignation of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, a story about the removal of Yuri Skuratov from office and a number of high-profile criminal cases initiated by the Prosecutor General's Office. 5. On the personnel fever in power.

On the appointment of Nikolai Bordyuzha as head of the Presidential Administration.

A story about the appointment of Vladimir Putin as Secretary of the Security Council. 6. On the resignation of Boris Berezovsky and the future of the CIS. A story about the resignation of B. Berezovsky and the appointment of Yuri Yarov as the executive secretary of the CIS. 7. Your assessment of the economic situation in the country today.

About Yevgeny Primakov's visit to the USA. 8. About the inability of the CPRF to fight for power today. 9. What will happen if Russia does not receive financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund. 10. A story about the visit of the head of the IMF Michel Convesus to Moscow.

Story.

The bombing of Yugoslavia by NATO armed forces.

About the negotiations between Y. Primakov and S. Milosevic. 12. About US policy towards Russia. 13. Will Y. Primakov return to Moscow in the event of a NATO strike on Yugoslavia? (the program was recorded on March 23, 1999, and on March 24 the US carried out the bombing).

The story of how Y. Primakov turned the plane back to Moscow because he learned during the flight that NATO would not reverse its decision to use force against Yugoslavia. 14. What is your forecast for the dollar exchange rate in the coming days?