In the struggle for the right to chew Snus, the inhabitants of the Alanda are ready for everything in a decade that has passed since the day the residents of the Baltic Aland Archipelago voted for joining the EU, they had to undergo a lot of to endure from the European Union, and now the Alandsky archipelago, a unique autonomous education in Finland, intends to teach the lesson of democracy, which Brussels will not soon forget. For centuries, the inhabitants of the Alanda hunted migratory birds.

15:46 // 16.02.2006 The Olympic champion in a sprint at a distance of 7.5 km was the French biathletist Florens Baverle-Robher. Its result is 22 minutes 31.4 seconds and not a single miss. “Silver” went to Anna Karin Olofsson from Sweden (1 mistake, lag behind the winner of 2.4 seconds). The third place was taken by Ukrainian Lilia Efremova (+6.6 seconds, not a single miss).

In Volgograd, the newspaper "City News" is closed. The publication published a caricature, which government agencies were regarded as the insulting feelings of believers.

In the next two years, the company's revenue from weapons exports can reach $ 6 billion after the Federal Service for Military Technical Cooperation (FSVTS) on the results of activities in 2005 also reported the largest domestic weapons export, Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Rosoboronexport" (ROE). Yesterday, the company reported about the next height - 5.2 billion dollars. Roe helped out this amount last year on the supply of military products.

In Vladivostok, foreign students are recommended not to leave the hostels not to leave the streets alone and in the dark, not to visit night clubs and mass discos, not to leave the limits of the student town without emergency - such simple rules are now asked to adhere to foreigners studying in Vladivostok. According to the city authorities, this will help to avoid possible conflicts with local skinheads, and just drunk citizens.

Olga Pyleva, biathlonist from Krasnoyarsk, is convicted of the use of grown drugs. Both of her doping tests gave a positive result. Pyleva will now lose "silver", won in a 15 km race. She also faces a two -year disqualification. The Little Medal will be crossed by the third place by the German Martin of the Tlags, and the finished fourth Russian Albina Akhatov will become a bronze medalist.

18:17 // 16.02.2006 The liquidation of the National Bolshevik Party (NBP) was appealed by the party in the Strasbourg Court, said the press secretary of the NBP Alexander Averin. "Representatives of the NBP, including Eduard Limonov, Sergey Fomchenkov, Alexander Averin, Alexei Volynets and Andrei Dmitriev, appealed to the European Court of Human Rights to liquidate the Interregional Public Organization" National -Bolshevik Party, "said Averin.

The "spy scandal" with the embassy of Great Britain and domestic human rights defenders is not exhausted, despite the intervention of Vladimir Putin. Lawyers of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) file a lawsuit against the leaders of two television channels, journalist Arkady Mamontov and the head of the State Duma Committee on Security Vladimir Vasiliev. Lawyers are sure that the television people and the deputy caused damage to the honor and dignity of their clients.

Nur-Pashi Kulaev said the last word at yesterday's meeting of the Supreme Court of North Ossetia, which was the last before the verdict, Nur-Pashi Kulaev spoke with the last word and said that he was not guilty of the death of children in the Beslan school.

Twenty thousand oncological patients are not covered by national projects who came up with the World Cups for children with cancer (it took place the other day), neither doctors, nor children, nor parents know. This date in the calendar is rather a reminder of those for whom the phrase “life is struggle” is not just words. For whom every day has been - another little victory.

Throughout the history of world literature, there are not many poets who have become classics in life. Even fewer poets who, in our henchind time, manage to be aware of the events that are taking place and reflect them in their poems - sometimes sad, sometimes ironic. And it is quite incredible that one person combines these two rare qualities.

15:30 // 16.02.2006 In the Moscow City Court, the consideration of the murder of the editor -in -chief of the Russian version of Forbes Paul Khlebnikov was postponed until February 20 due to the threat of the explosion of the court building. "The meeting was announced in the meeting. The bailiff went to the process and announced that a message was received about the threat of an explosion," RIA Novosti said lawyer Ruslan Koblev, representing the interests of one of the accused.

Experts are perplexed about the excitement of one cashier in a loud whisper says the other: “Listen, they threw off salt there. You don't need? " - "Need, postpone more!" This is not an excerpt from the film about the Soviet past, but a real dialogue, overheard of the newspaper correspondent yesterday in one of the Moscow stores. Salt panic, arising in the Tula region, spread to Oryol and Kursk, spread to Vologda, Voronezh and Nizhny Novgorod. Now the salt boom got to Moscow.

09:28 // 16.02.2006 In Japan, it is announced to create the world's first projection TV, in which laser rays are used as a light source, ITAR-TASS reports. The electrical company Mitsubishi Electric claims that in terms of image quality it exceeds liquid crystalline and plasma analogues. In the current models of projection TVs, mercury lamps emit light in red, green and blue ranges.

14:48 // 16.02.2006 The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the conviction in the case of the murder of the State Duma deputy Galina Starovoitova. Thus, the court refused to satisfy the cassation complaints of Vitaly Akishin, the direct executor of the murder, sentenced to 23.5 years in prison, and the organizer of the crime of Yuri Kolchin, convicted of 20 years of imprisonment, Interfax reports. Source: gzt.ru