The deputies examined the next impassable bill deputies of the State Duma began the struggle for voting votes. Almost every week, extremely ambiguous legislative initiatives are entered in the lower house of parliament. The deputies then propose replacing milk "for harmfulness" with monetary compensation, then packed pornographic magazines in opaque cellophane, or to ban teenagers under 16 years of age to go to discos and to nightclubs unaccompanied by parents.

In the NHL, the struggle for places in the playoffs and points is continuing the main character in the latest matches of the regular championship of the National Hockey League, the Detroit Red Wings club became. More precisely, a couple of his leaders - Russian Pavel Datsyuk and Swede Henrik Zetterberg. Both in the new year gained magnificent shape and do not get tired of stably ensure their club positive results, and emotions are not tired of the fans. This is especially true for Zetterberg.

Liberal ministers were removed from any reforms changes in the staff of the Cabinet of Ministers only on Thursday, and yesterday it became known what responsibilities would be assigned to the deputy prime ministers. Sergei Naryshkin, the only newcomer in the company of deputy Mikhail Fradkov, told reporters that the distribution of duties between the deputy representatives of the government will be approved by Fradkov in the near future, but its general concept is already known.

Condoliza Rice is dealing with the Iraqi and Palestinian civil strife, US Secretary of State Kondoliza Rice went on the next diplomatic tour of the Middle East. On Saturday, she paid an unexpected visit to Baghdad and was convinced that the Iraqi crisis was only deepening. The next day, the Secretary of State was already in Jerusalem, where difficult negotiations continue to overcome another crisis - a political split in Palestinian autonomy.

21:44 // 02/18/2007 Six people - two children and four adults - suffered during the explosion in the McDonald's restaurant in the center of St. Petersburg, ITAR -TASS reports. The Main Directorate of the Russian Emergencies Ministry for St. Petersburg specified that a partial collapse of the suspension ceiling occurred during the explosion. Four people received shells, one - burns and another - cut wounds. According to unofficial data, there is a German citizen among the victims.

Russian defense enterprises began a show of weapons at the UAE in Abu Dhabi yesterday opened the VIII International Exhibition of Ground Weapons, Air Defense and Weapons for the IDEX-2007 Navy. 862 firms from 50 countries take part in its work, including 43 Russian enterprises under the flag of Rosoboronexport.

11:49 // 02/18/2007 On Saturday, the last day of the year of the year on the eastern calendar, in the lobby of the Mendeleevskaya metro station, the opening of the world's first monument dedicated to the humane attitude towards homeless animals - "sympathy" took place. The memorial is a dog that lies on a pedestal and scratches his ear with his hind paw, RIA Novosti reports.

The shareholders continue to be quite actively investing in despite the fact that the cold, which hit the cold in February, seemed to froze the Russian stock market, the shareholders of investment funds continue to be quite actively investing in the PIFs. According to Svetlana Dorofeeva, General Director of the Basis-Invest UK, last week continued the trends in only February. “Legal entities continue to record their annual profits, and citizens bring money,” she says.

15:18 // 18.02.2007 In 2007, the implementation of the gasification program of Russia will be carried out in 58 regions of the country, said the first deputy prime minister of the Government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, commenting on the implementation of the Federal Gasification Program of Russia. “This year I must bring gas to the houses of 13 million people every tenth resident of the country.

Sergei Shoigu launched the Red Rooster meeting of the government last week not on Thursday, as usual, but on Friday. Formal reason - a business trip Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov to Turkmenistan. Although usually, when the head of the Cabinet of Ministers is departed, he is replaced by First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. But now the first deputies of Fradkov are already two. Apparently, therefore, the presence of the head of government at the meeting became mandatory.

There are no threats for the poultry farms of the region and their products, the main veterinarian of the Moscow Region is assured by cases of poultry disease by bird flu in four areas of the Moscow region. On the eve of the case of the livestock, the birds were recorded on a private courtyard in the Taldomsky district. The bird market in Moscow was closed after the death of the birds purchased there on farmsteads in the Moscow region.

Berlin bears will go to China and Argentina at the prestigious international film festival again won the Chinese film - this time in Berlin, and just a few months ago this happened in Venice. At the same time, no one will undertake to name the winning the main prize with either a revelation or a masterpiece.

13:10 // 02/18/2007 The bird market in Moscow was closed after the death of the birds purchased there on farmsteads in the Moscow region. “If the presence of infection on it (market) is confirmed, then it will be closed at least one month in relation to the trade of the bird,” Nikolai Vlasov, head of the Obetralkhoznadzor Obetrol Department, told RIA Novosti. According to him, the whole dead bird was bought in the bird market, which is located on the 16th MKAD.

Russian Buddhists celebrate the New Year on the Lunar Calendar New Year - the year of the fire boar on the eastern calendar is met by residents of Buryatia. At the same time, Sagaalgan begins - the holiday of the White month - one of the favorite holidays of the Buryats and other Mongolian -speaking peoples. New Year - the year of fire boar on the eastern calendar is met by residents of Buryatia.

The Stavropol Prosecutor's Office does not connect the murder of Andrei Khanin with his social activities in the city of Novoaleksandrovsk of the Stavropol Territory today will be the funeral of the chieftain of the Nizhnekuban department of the Terek Cossack army (TKV) Andrei Khanin, who died last Saturday after the attempt committed on him. Cossacks and law enforcement officers are preparing to prevent unlawful actions during mourning events. The attempt occurred in the evening of February 13.