The skaters Maria Petrova and Alexei Tikhonov refused to go out on the ice at the World Cup in Tokyo Figure Skating yesterday the first set of medals was played. As expected, Russian skaters did not get into the prize three. For the third time, the Chinese duet of the veterans of Xue Shen and Hongbo Zhao, with a significant margin of more young compatriots, Qin Pan and Jian Tong, became the world champions in skiing of sports steam.

Physical exercises can replace nicotine patch by moderate physical education classes, for example, hiking, significantly weaken the symptoms of the "breaking", which are experienced by people who decide to abandon smoking. “If we found a cure for a similar action, it would immediately be released to help people abandon a bad habit,” says Adrian Taylor, a professor of health psychology from the University of exeter.

The head of the Ministry of Justice returns the lost position by the representative of Russia in the European time on human rights, the prostate of the Minister of Justice Vladimir Ustinov, an employee of the Prosecutor General of Veronika Milinchuk, was appointed yesterday.

During the Operation Pure Street, more than 200 mafiosi of the Italian police were detained in Naples, we managed to deliver a sensitive blow to the mafia - one of the notorious "national symbols" of Italy. In Naples, which is considered the capital of one of the largest criminal Camorra syndicates, an operation called “Clean Street” took place. As a result of the grandiose raid, at least 200 people from the two largest mafia clans of Italy were detained.

13:02 // 21.03.2007 The first vice-president of Rosneft NK Nikolai Borisenko left his post in connection with the transition to another job, the company said. The press service of Rosneft did not specify the new place of work of Borisenko, adding that personnel changes have occurred since March 21. Borisenko has been working in the company since 1998, Interfax reports.

21:26 // 21.03.2007 The pilots of the two MiG-29 fighters encountered in the air during scheduled flights in the area of the Millerovo Aviation Carnison (Rostov Region of the Russian Federation) did everything so that the cars did not fall to the village of Degtevo, said the head of the Miller district, Vladimir Gorshkolepov. According to him, no damage to people or civil buildings has been caused.

The rules for mentioning conventional units are entrusted to develop the State Duma on the President yesterday at the plenary meeting, did not accept in the third "duty" reading the Law on amendments to some legislative acts of the Russian Federation in terms of establishing requirements for indicating value indicators. " Instead, the deputies returned the bill to the second reading, quickly made amendments and also quickly adopted it in both the second and third readings.

The editor -in -chief of the Russian Forbes was obliged to pay 109 thousand rubles in the suit of Inteko, the Chertanovsky court of Moscow decided to satisfy the claim of the Intaco company, to recover 106.5 thousand rubles from the editor -in -chief of Forbes magazine as material losses for the dissemination of information defaming business reputation, as well as 2 thousand 655 rubles as legal costs.

The Belarusian delegation evaporated on the way to Gazprom the expected negotiations with the participation of Gazprom on the creation of a Russian-Belarusian joint venture (SP) on the basis of Beltransgaz OJSC did not take place yesterday. This important event for Russian-Belarusian relations was previously prononized. A few days on the website of the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus hung a message: "The delegation of Belarus will hold negotiations on March 21 in Moscow with Gazprom OJSC.

The Minister of Finance of Great Britain introduced the new budget of the country yesterday, the Minister of Finance of Great Britain Gordon Brown presented the country's budget for 2007-2008 the financial year. It is no secret that Brown is the successor of the current British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and will also replace him as the leader of the ruling Labor Party.

By 2010, the budget expenditures will catch up with the revenues of the Ministry of Finance prepared the first budget design for the upcoming three -year -old. Yesterday, at an expanded meeting of the College of the Ministry of Finance, they were published by Minister Alexei Kudrin. The three -year budget of Kudrin will be innovative. In it, the cutting price of the stabund is replaced by an oil and gas transfer.

Russia can be accepted into the "Club of Moral Supervisor States" Russia has become a permanent observer in the agency for nuclear energy (AYEE) organization of economic cooperation and development (OECD). The head of Rostekhnadzor Konstantin Pulikovsky on behalf of the Russian government and general director Ayae Luis Echavarri signed a joint declaration of cooperation in the field of peaceful use of atomic energy yesterday in Moscow.

A traditional concert dedicated to the birthday of the great pianist Svyatoslav Richter was held in the large hall of the conservatory. In previous years, the participants of such programs were primarily the musicians of the Richter Circle: Natalia Gutman, Elizabeth Leon, Eliso Virsaladze, Peter Shreyer, a quartet named after Borodin and others.

The Constitutional Court of Russia weakened the ban on referendums unexpectedly and for the second time in a row of Russia's authorities made concessions of the opposition. Yesterday, the Communist Party won in the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation a long -standing lawsuit against one of the norms of the Law “On Referendum”, which actually deprived of the point of conducting plebiscites in the country.

Yatsenyuk, Kinakh, Popova and Yatsubu Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved the First Deputy Secretariat of President Arseniy Yatsenyuk the country's foreign minister. Two more key ministers - the economy (they became Anatoly Kina) and the housing and communal services (Oleg Popov) were also appointed. 426 deputies out of 432 who participated in the meeting voted for the candidacy of Yatsenyuk, which President Viktor Yushchenko, who participated in the meeting, voted.