February 25, 2010, 09:20 Fedor Lukyanov START trap Fedor Lukyanov Editor-in-Chief of the magazine “Russia in Global Affairs” When, just over a year ago, the American administration, through Vice President Biden, announced its intention to press the “reset button” in relations with Russia, it almost went without saying that it should begin with negotiations on the reduction of strategic offensive weapons. The premises for such a conclusion seemed obvious.

February 25, 2010, 15:10 News In the Nizhny Novgorod region, children under 18 years of age were banned from going to restaurants On February 25, the Legislative Assembly of the Nizhny Novgorod Region adopted in the second reading the draft law ''On restricting the presence of children in public places in the Nizhny Novgorod Region,'' Regnum reports . The law, in particular, completely prohibits the presence of minors (under 18 years of age) in restaurants and bars.

February 25, 2010, 15:49 News In St. Petersburg, a woman saved children by throwing them out of the fourth floor window of a house A St. Petersburg woman, saving her children, threw them out of a burning apartment on the fourth floor of an apartment building. Today at 12.34, the duty station “01” in St. Petersburg received a message about a fire in an apartment in a nine-story building on Malaya Balkanskaya Street. “Firefighters arrived at the scene of the call within a few minutes,” the St.

Taking aspirin as a preventative against heart attack and stroke is fraught with side effects, the Wall Street Journal newspaper cites data from a study by a group of scientists from the University of North Carolina, which was conducted under the auspices of the National Institutes of Health. Regular preventive use of aspirin, actively recommended by doctors, causes severe forms of peptic ulcer, accompanied by internal bleeding, and can even cause bleeding in the brain.

The standard bearer of the Russian team at the closing ceremony of the XXI Winter Olympic Games, which will be held on February 28, will be speed skater Ivan Skobrev, who won silver and bronze medals in Vancouver. The president of the Russian Skating Union Aleksey Kravtsov reported this to the All Sport agency.

February 25, 2010, 10:30 Cars Honda began selling the CR-Z hybrid in Japan Honda Motor Company has begun sales of a sports car with a hybrid engine, the CR-Z, in Japan, reports the Associated Press . This is a two-door hatchback with fuel consumption of approximately 4 liters per 100 km, which is less than the Insight hybrid. The cost of the car in Japan is approximately $25,300. Sales of the model in Europe and the USA will begin in the middle of this year.

February 25, 2010, 15:40 Cars The vice president of Lukoil was at the meeting Anatoly Barkov, vice president of Lukoil, was injured in a head-on collision in Moscow. Nikolay Kudryavtsev The Mercedes of Lukoil vice-president Anatoly Barkov was rammed by an oncoming car in the center of the capital. Barkov was wounded, the woman driving the second car died. Later, her passenger, Honored Doctor of Russia Vera Sidelnikova, died in the hospital.

As a result of an armed attack in the center of Moscow, about 25 million rubles were stolen. As ITAR-TASS reports, citing a law enforcement source, the robbery took place on the Third Transport Ring. “The Lexus driver was driving slowly in traffic and was about to turn onto Bolshaya Filevskaya Street when unknown people ran up to his car, broke the glass and took away his bag with money at gunpoint,” the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.

February 25, 2010, 00:52 News Pavlyuchenko's double brought Tottenham to the quarter finals of the FA Cup On Wednesday, the rematch of the 1/8 finals of the FA Cup between Tottenham and Bolton took place. Tottenham won with a score of 4:0. Goals: Pavlyuchenko, 23, 88; Jaaskelainen, 35-auth; O'Brien, 47-auth. The Russian Tottenham striker played the entire match for his club and scored two goals. The first match between these teams ended in a draw - 1:1.

February 25, 2010, 12:59 News Hypermarket in Dubai evacuated due to crack in aquarium In Dubai, part of a hypermarket was evacuated due to a leaking aquarium, the local police press service reported. “The problems arose because the aquarium had a small crack and began to leak,” police said. The aquarium at the Dubai Mall hypermarket reaches almost 33 meters in length and more than eight meters in height. According to eyewitnesses, dozens of rescue vehicles are on duty at the shopping center.

February 25, 2010, 16:42 Cars NLV Solar will present a new version of Quant in Geneva The well-known manufacturer of solar-powered vehicles, the Dutch company NLV Solar, will show the concept of a new generation of Quant electric vehicle at the Geneva Motor Show, writes WorldCarFans . The previous version of the electric solar car was created jointly with the Swedish Koenigsegg. The new Quant is a four-seater with upward-opening doors.

February 25, 2010, 11:01 Culture Azoh'n'vei, sholom aleichem, Gopnik! "A Serious Man" is released Yaroslav Zabaluev “A Serious Man” is released in theaters - probably the best film of the Coen brothers, a hilarious parable disguised as anti-Jewish satire.

Farewell to the famous film director Vladimir Motyl, who directed the cult film “White Sun of the Desert,” will take place at noon on Tuesday at the Moscow House of Cinema. After the civil funeral service, he will be buried at the Vostryakovskoye cemetery. V. Motyl died on the night of February 22 at the 83rd year of his life in Moscow. He made his first film, “Children of the Pamir,” in 1963 at a Tajik film studio.

February 25, 2010, 17:13 News A resident of Kazakhstan who smuggled 500 kg of drugs into Russia was sentenced to 16 years. The Tuymazinsky District Court in Bashkiria on Wednesday sentenced a Kazakhstan resident to 16 years in prison for smuggling and attempting to sell more than 500 kilograms of drugs.

February 25, 2010, 18:48 Sports Uralochka-NTMK reached the semi-finals of the EKB Cup On Thursday, the return match of the 1/2 finals of the EKB Women's Volleyball Cup took place, in which Ekaterinburg's Uralochka-NTMK met with the Romanian club Constanta 2004 on the home floor and won with a score of 3-1 (25:17, 25:20, 27:29, 25:21). The first match was also won by Uralochka-NTMK (3-1).