I went to a country where in Soviet times there was not a gram of vulgarity. She arrived in the European province, where satiety was elevated to the rank of national idea. “Live fat and peacefully” - so, after a short pause, the deputy of the Estonian parliament was characterized by the aspiration of fellow citizens. It was said without any irony. "We so wanted to live, now it has become possible." While they live poorer, they will soon become richer, good prospects, integration, investment ...

Art critic Sergei Popov - in an interview with the newspaper, the Auction House Sotheby`s held in London an auction of art objects from Russia. His results surpassed the most optimistic forecasts of specialists: the work of Evgeny Chubarov, Vladimir Weisberg, Eric Bulatov, Oleg Vasiliev, Mikhail Schwarzman, Lidia Masterkova, Evgenia Rukhnina, Maxim Kantor and Viktor Pivovarova were sold at record high prices.

15:20 // 20.02.2007 Russian banks can soon receive the rights to refuse the client to open and use the account if suspicions of his law abstract arise. "Federal legislation should be supplemented by such norms that will allow to put an additional barrier to use the banking system for criminal purposes," said Alexander Buksman, the first deputy prosecutor general of the Russian Federation, speaking at the hearings in the State Duma.

15:54 // 20.02.2007 The prosecutor's office of the Prioksky district of Nizhny Novgorod, on the fact of the collapse of the roof of the Kopeyka store on the street 40 years on October, opened a criminal case, the regional prosecutor's office said. The case was initiated under Art. 216 h. 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violation of safety rules for construction work, which entailed by negligence of the death of a person), RIA Novosti reports.

The MECTR refused to reduce the bunch of land plots under state -owned enterprises under non -entrusted enterprises is practically unavailable for redemption, the chairman of the State Duma committee, Victor Pleskachika, said yesterday. According to the deputy, according to the draft law on the redemption of land under enterprises, the second reading of which will pass during the spring session, for plots belonging to state plants and factories, you will have to pay 100% of the cadastral value.

The transaction will take place until the end of March, the Swedish concern Volvo intends to buy a Nissan Diesel Motor for $ 1.1 billion (7.5 billion kroons) - a division of the Japanese automotive company that specializes in the production of trucks and pickups. In order to make an expensive purchase, Volvo will have to take a loan of 7 billion Swedish crowns. Volvo today occupies the second place in the world in terms of the number of trucks produced and owns 19% of Nissan Diesel shares.

15:02 // 20.02.2007 The Moscow Hockey Club of the Wings of the Soviets may soon cease to exist. The most popular team, which in the 70s won the Championship of the Soviet Union, is unlikely to be able to raise money for payments to hockey players, reports Echo of Moscow . On the eve of the Wings of the Soviets, CSKA lost with a score of 3: 8.

It is better to create a business with relatives with one of the consequences of globalization and the active development of international financial markets was the depersonalization of capital. Promotions change their owners with frantic speed, companies attract resources from the outside, and investors invest money, focusing on the prospects of the future company, and not on its traditions. Nevertheless, the Swiss bank Credit Suisse in his recent study came to an unexpected conclusion.

13:08 // 20.02.2007 In the Prioksky district of Nizhny Novgorod on the street 40 years of October, the roof of the store collapsed, two people were under the rubble. “The personalities of the victims have already been identified - this is Alexei Frolov and Viktor Volov,” RIA Novosti told the information department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry.

22:08 // 20.02.2007 Eight foci of poultry disease have already been recorded in the suburbs. According to the State Veterinary Service of the Moscow Region, yesterday the case of chickens was registered on a private courtyard in the city of Ramenskoye, in the village of Solodovo, Volokolamsk district and in the village of Yershovsky cottages located in the Odintsovo district. Yesterday, veterinary services destroyed the dead birds and began disinfecting the premises.

09:40 // 20.02.2007 Boris Stukalov was appointed head coach of the Russian youth team in football. In the past three years, he worked with clubs such as the Tula Arsenal, Tomsk Tom and Vladikavkazskaya Alania. Officially, Stukalov will be presented to the football community on February 27 - at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Russian Football Union, reports Echo of Moscow . Earlier, the mentor of the youth team was Alexander Borodyuk.

Visa in Belgium and Holland will be issued by a private company yesterday in Moscow began the joint visa center of Belgium and the Netherlands. With it, you can get a visa in just three days, but you will have to overpay for the document 900 rubles. In April, a similar center will work in St. Petersburg. The press release of the embassies says that in connection with the increasing flow of visa queries, it was decided to start using the services of a private partner.

Frenkel's case brought prosecutors in the Central Bank of the discussion of banking supervision at yesterday's parliamentary hearings from the very beginning was expected to be increased. Interest in the topic was fueled by the public polemic of the accused of organizing the murder of the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank Andrei Kozlov Alexei Frenkel and the Chairman of the Central Bank Sergey Ignatiev, dedicated to the practice of banking supervision carried out by the Central Bank.

At the disposal of the Gazeta there was a dossier of the International Tribunal on the disgraced Serbian general, the fighters of the NATO special forces yesterday at the dawn of Sasha and Sonya Karadzhich, the children are pleased with Karadzhich, the leader of the Bosnian Serbs during the Bosnian war (1992-1995), which has been wanted for 12 years. The wanted person was not found. Bosnian journalists advise looking for him in Russia. Moscow refutes such statements.

The geothermal power plant shook the Swiss Basel Environmentally friendly power station the object of close attention of the Swiss prosecutor’s office after a series of earthquakes in Basel.