Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili fully used the unofficial status of his visit to Ukraine. According to Kommersant-Ukraine , in addition to meeting with his Ukrainian colleague Viktor Yushchenko, the leader of Georgia realized a rather extensive "cultural program" of his stay in Kiev. According to the publication, on Wednesday evening, Saakashvili visited a television show, and at night he walked for a long time in Khreshchatyk, after which late in one of the night clubs.

Next year, the amount of social benefits for medical services will be increased by 51 rubles and amount to 531 rubles. The decision to change the standard of financial costs in the form of providing drugs of citizens was adopted on Friday the State Duma of the Russian Federation. Recall that this year this standard is 480 rubles per person.

Sergey Fesikov. Photo yarsport.ru The athlete, who was ahead of the great Michael Felps, the world record holder at a distance of 100 m with a complex Sergey Fesikov told GZT .ru about unknown malaise in Singapore, experimental preparation for the European Championship and that the Russian team will not damage the abolition of overalls. Felps at a distance. Photo by ar From the first starts of the season, the swimmers became clear that a new champion appeared in the Russian team.

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The Palestinian movement "Fath" is going to begin the third intifada against Israel. This was stated by senior sources in the leadership of the movement. The new intifada, directed against Israeli settlements on the western bank of the Jordan River, will be exclusively peaceful. Fath is preparing for the third intifada against Israel. About this writes Haaretz with reference to the Hadith Anas Arab newspaper, which goes out in Nazareth.

Photo (C) RIA-News In Moscow, the funeral of the lawyer Hermitage Capital Sergey Magnitsky was held. His relatives and lawyers who doubt the official cause of death could not achieve an independent examination The Preobrazhenskaya Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office of Moscow refused the mother and lawyers of the Hermitage Capital investment fund to Sergey Magnitsky in a second forensic medical examination to establish the causes of his death.

The Committee on Physical Education and Sports can verify the circumstances of the defeat of the Russian national team in a match with the Slovenians. According to the State Duma, the inexpressive game of Russian football players could not be accidental. Football experts, in turn, call similar assumptions “nonsense”. Anton Belyakov deputy, deputy of the Just Russia, insists on the need to check the circumstances of the defeat of the Russian national team in a match with the Slovenians.

The football television component of the NTV Plus Canal Vasily Utkin said in his blog that he owns information that the Russian national football team will have a new head coach. He will replace the current mentor of the Russian team Hus Hiddinka. “The Russian national team, according to my information, will have a new head coach,” Utkin said on his blog . - I won’t say anything else yet. I can't. And this was not worth saying, but I did not promise to hide it, so let it be as it will.

In the event that the money is not returned, then other biathletes of the Russian national team Olga Medvedtseva, Olga Zaitseva, Svetlana Sleptsova and Anna Bulygina will not be allowed to participate in the World Cup. “According to IBU anti -doping rules, if at least one member of the relay team finds guilty of violating the anti -doping rules, all the results of the relay are canceled, and the prize money is returned,” the IBU executive director Martin Kitienmister “All Sport” .

Photo by ITAR-TASS Vladimir Putin advised Viktor Yushchenko not to wear a tie during dinner with Mikhail Saakashvili, because he inadvertently could “break” it. This statement was made as part of the commentary on the visit of the leader of Georgia to Ukraine. The Russian prime minister advised Yushchenko to have dinner with Saakashvili without ties.

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Dmitry Medvedev criticized the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the traffic police for delaying with the execution of his instructions to ensure road safety. Photo: Vladimir Afanasyev/Gazeta The first World Traffic Safety Conference has gathered more than 70 countries and specialists in this area of 150 countries in Moscow on Thursday in Moscow. The conference participants voiced terrible statistics: every minute in the world 12 people die in an accident.

In Moscow, a criminal case has been instituted against a 38-year-old unemployed resident of the capital, who broke his nose to a policeman. The incident occurred on Wednesday evening in one of the institutions on the trade union street. The cafe administrator called an outfit to calm the violent drunken visitor who cursed loudly. But as soon as the detainee was taken out of the cafe, he jumped to the policeman, struck his head in his face and rushed off.

The Mozilla Foundation Foundation has not yet been going to create an operating system based on its Firefox browser by analogy with how Google based on the Browser creates a Chrome OS, which will enter the market at the end of 2010. “We are focused on making the web correct platform, regardless of the operating system used.

The largest Rusal creditor Vnesheconombank (VEB) can redeem almost a third of the planned primary public placement of shares ( IPO ) of an aluminum giant. But it does not intend to pay excess. The possibility of acquiring the Rusal shares was considered on Thursday at a meeting of the VEB supervisory board, press secretary of Vladimir Putin, heading the Bank's supervisory board, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters. He did not specify the parameters of a possible purchase, citing confidentiality.