And 92 percent of them are drug addicts.

We must do everything to keep them warm and give them a chance to wait out the cold spell in heated premises.

Deaths of wild fowl continue to occur, although less intensively. In Russia, we intend to keep the current situation within the existing framework, and will try to reduce the affected area through culling all domestic birds until wild fowl leave the country.

It is a normal reaction of a person to such occurrences. A structure for providing psychological aid to the citizens should be created in Chechnya.

An analysis of bird migration routes has shown that in autumn 2005...the H5N1 virus may be spread from Western Siberia to the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea.

We need the situation in the approaches to our borders to be monitored.

We expect the outbreak in a week or two. School vacation will end soon. Along with this inevitable for physicians factor, the season of flue outbreak will come.

Our country, which holds the G8 presidency in 2006, will make its contribution to global efforts to combat bird flu.

There's a particular problem -- chasing fishermen from the ice. The passion for fishing is no less than for drugs.