here and now №97 03/03/1999 (1999)

The theme of the day is the demands of the Kurdish Workers' Party to release their leader Abdullah Ocalan.

A selection of excerpts from news reports: riots in the streets of European cities.

The guests of the program are Murabi Shamoyev, a member of the Kurdistan Parliament, Alexei Filatov, a member of the State Duma Committee on Geopolitics, Alexei Arbatov, a member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation (a teleconference with the "Russia" studio).

MD Shamoyev on the struggle of Kurds to the rights of nationalities living in the territories of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria.

Discussion of Western policy in the Middle East.

Fragment of the interview with the personal driver A. Ojalan about his life in the Moscow region.

A. Filatov on the stay of A.Ojalan in Russia.

Russia's interests in solving the Kurdish issue.

The connection of guerrilla activities of Kurds with the laying of an oil pipeline through Turkey.

MD Shamoyev refutes information about the attacks on the part of the Kurds.