New appointments at an Extraordinary Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in connection with the death of Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko.
Featured in the program: Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich (General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU); Gromyko, Andrei Andreevich (Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR)
Series description: A program of Channel One, broadcasted since February 10, 1986. It surveys the information from the passed part of the day, including sport news and weather forecast. Broadcasted several times a day with the interval 2-3 hours. Until October 14, 1990, the program was called "News." Before 1991 the program was produced by the Studio of information programs of the Central Television, and from 1991 - by the newly crated Information Tevevision Agency. In 1986-1994 the program's timing was from 6 to 21 minutes. From October 1991, evening broadcasts were anchored by Tatiana Komarova, Sergei Medvedev, Irina Mishina, and Pavel Kasparov, and the night broadcasts were anchored by Mikhail Osokin and Dmitrii Kiselev. From February 1992 to September 1993 Sergei Dorenko was the anchorman of the evening issue instead of Pavel Kasparov.