The United States and Russia began exchanging information on nuclear capabilities, as provided for in the agreement on the reduction of strategic offensive arms. “We have started mutual monitoring and exchange of information. In fact, the first exchange of information... must take place after 45 days from the date of entry into force of the agreement. This is expected to happen tomorrow.

Up to 10 thousand protesters gathered in Kyiv near the building of the Cabinet of Ministers. They demand increased wages for teachers. Some of them are located in Mariinsky Park, opposite the government . On the second attempt, the protesters managed to block traffic on the street. Grushevsky - the first time they were prevented from doing this by law enforcement officers.

Yesterday was a very difficult day for federal television channels. Two sources and two components of Russian realpolitik, Medvedev and Putin, spoke in the opposite way on the bombing of Libya. The first sharply condemned the dictator Gaddafi, the second - the “incomplete and flawed” UN Security Council resolution .

President Dmitry Medvedev said that during the reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the recertification of heads of internal affairs bodies, about 50 senior employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs may lose their positions, although based on the results of the recertification of 179 candidates, 145 were proposed for appointment (that is, only 34 generals did not pass certification). This data was reported by RIA Novosti.

The leader of the Cuban revolution, Fidel Castro , in an article published in the local press, said that he has not acted as first secretary of the Communist Party since the end of July 2006, when for health reasons he was forced to resign from all his posts, RIA Novosti reports .

March 22, 2011, 11:32 AM Opinions Door to the Underworld The last argument of sovereignty is the nuclear bomb. That's why Gaddafi is being bombed, and Kim Jong Il is being let down Sergei Chernyakhovsky Until now, nuclear weapons have not rapidly spread because the powers that possess them recognized the principles of national sovereignty and gave guarantees of its observance to other countries.

In connection with the accident at the Japanese nuclear power plant, the United Russia party is organizing additional monitoring of background radiation in the Russian Far East. This was announced by the chairman of the party's Supreme Council Boris Gryzlov .

At the end of 2010, the Akado group of companies increased revenue by 19% - to 10.56 billion rubles, the company's press service reported. From the preliminary financial statements according to Akado international standards, it follows that EBITDA in 2010 increased by 64% - to 3.65 billion rubles, and EBITDA margin increased to 34.6%. “A year ago, we announced that the growth rate of the holding’s revenue would remain at the level of 15–18% ...

22 March 2011, 13:37 Sport Deputy Minister of Sports: certain decisions on biathlon will be announced in April Deputy Minister of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy of the Russian Federation Yuri Nagornykh spoke about the state of affairs in winter sports in preparation for the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. “There is progressive movement forward in figure skating, short track speed skating, ski jumping, snowboarding, luge, bobsleigh, skeleton,” Nagornykh told RG .

The project of Rosneft and the American Chevron, which last summer agreed to jointly develop Shatsky Val, is under threat, writes Kommersant . The state-owned company and the American Chevron cannot agree on the details of the agreement. At the same time, preliminary seismic data cast doubt on the commercial prospects of the project as such. The parties will make a final decision on March 26 at negotiations in Moscow.

The former commander of the Sarajevo-Romagna Corps of the Republika Srpska Army in Bosnia, General Dragomir Milosevic, convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), was brought to Estonia on Tuesday, where he will serve a 29-year sentence in Tartu prison, the Estonian Ministry of Justice said . The court found Dragomir Milosevic guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

March 22, 2011, 20:04 Politics Anti-extremist robot Extremism on the Internet will be found automatically Vladislav Novy , Elizaveta Surnacheva Roskomnadzor is tired of manually monitoring the Internet and orders a special program for 15 million rubles to search for extremist publications and deliberately false information about government officials. Most likely, the software package will be created on the basis of already existing programs for monitoring the media, the expert believes.

Gleb Cherkasov When not everything is possible Gleb Cherkasov Deputy editor-in-chief of the Kommersant newspaper These people probably wouldn't like being listed separated by commas. They occupied different positions and belonged to different political camps. The fact that one of them is given credit is considered by supporters of the second to be a monstrous crime.

Members of the initiative group, who organized the collection of signatures among young scientists for a letter against Federal Law No. 94 on public procurement, took part yesterday in a discussion in the State Duma, organized by the Committee on Science and High Technologies.

Sport Goalkeeper Krivoruchko can continue his career in a foreign championship Former Lokomotiv goalkeeper Alexander Krivoruchko can continue his career in a foreign championship. According to SE , at the moment the goalkeeper has offers from both first division clubs and Europe. Earlier it was reported that Krivoruchko did not suit Ural, with whom he was at a training camp in Turkey.