284 2 minutes. ... Tennis WTA tournament in Antwerp (Belgium). Prize fund - $600 thousand. First round. Dinara Safina --Virginie Razzano (France) 6:4, 4:6 6:3. Iveta Benesova (Czech Republic) - Maria Vento-Kabchi (Venezuela) 6:3, 6:2. Katarina Srebotnik (Slovenia) - Francesca Schiavone (Italy, 8) 6:4, 6:2. Klara Kukalova (Czech Republic) - Lucy Safarova (Czech Republic) 6:2, 6:4. Ana Ivanovic (Serbia and Montenegro) - Roberta Vinci (Italy) 6:3, 6:3.

In January 2006, the next stage of transition of the largest international payment systems Visa and MasterCard to new, more secure chip technologies was completed. Now the systems do not bear responsibility for a number of risks associated with fraud using regular, magnetic bank cards. In this regard, Ukrainian banks were faced with the need to choose a new development path for their plastic projects.

Ukrainian publisher received political refugee status costs of democracy Yesterday it became known that the Lithuanian government recognized the general director of the Taki Spravy publishing house, Alexander Danilov, as a political refugee. This is not the first time Mr. Danilov finds himself in this situation: in 2002, he already received political asylum in Lithuania.

Yesterday, Sevilla head coach Juan Ramos, after inspecting the lawn of the Lokomotiv stadium in Cherkizovo, said that his team would not play on a frozen field in Moscow. “It is potentially traumatic for the players not only of our team, but also for the Lokomotiv players,” he explained. According to him, the Spaniards will insist on holding the first match of the 1/16 finals of the UEFA Cup on a neutral field.

By promoting Evgeny Grigoriev to Saratov regional prosecutor 21 2 minutes. ... Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Vladimir Ustinov submitted for approval to the Saratov Regional Duma the candidacy of a successor to the former regional prosecutor Anatoly Bondar, who was transferred to work in the Far Eastern Federal District. The choice of the Prosecutor General fell on the first deputy of Anatoly Bondar - Evgeny Grigoriev.

The victims' lawyer stated in the debate terrorist case The Supreme Court of North Ossetia yesterday continued the debate between the parties in the case of the Beslan terrorist Nurpashi Kulaev. Representatives of the victims' interests agreed with the prosecutor's office that the criminal deserves the death penalty, but once again stated that it was unfair to try Kulaev alone.

Kyiv, February 15 (BOGDAN Kommersant-LOZOVSKY). Today, the leadership of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine (FTU) supported the proposal of people's deputies to dismiss Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Affairs Vyacheslav Kirilenko, who is accused of exceeding his powers and unlawful interference in the work of the Social Insurance Fund in the event of temporary disability (SFUT).

The year 2005 was summed up in the Nizhny Novgorod region 14 3 min. ... Yesterday, the territorial body of the Federal State Statistics Service for the Nizhny Novgorod Region (Nizhegorodstat) reported on the results of the socio-economic development of the region in 2005. As it turned out, last year the Nizhny Novgorod region produced the most trucks in the region, inflation in the region decreased by almost 12%, and financiers received the highest salaries.

268 3 min. ... As Kommersant learned, the Cheboksary city administration approved the construction project in the city center of the largest multifunctional trade, exhibition and sports and entertainment complex in the city center with a total area of ​​over 95 thousand square meters. m. The shopping center will be located on the territory of the first production site of the Cheboksary Electrical Apparatus Plant (ChEAZ OJSC), which is the customer and investor of the project.

Leader of the Union of Right Forces on the political tactics of “nashism” OPPOSITION OPINION The background “I decide who is a Jew and who is not,” said the second man of the Third Reich, Hermann Goering. I remembered this famous phrase when last week the Kremlin Nashi movement rallied in front of the administration building of the Perm region, demanding the resignation of the region's governor, Oleg Chirkunov, whom their masters decided to appoint as an “interim” fascist.

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44 2 minutes. ... Yesterday, the Chairman of the Committee for Foreign Economic Cooperation and Tourism of the Novosibirsk Regional Administration, Dmitry Mikitchenko, announced that the regional authorities are ready to allocate funds to rescue three Novosibirsk residents who have been held in the Philippines for a month because of the debts of the Serp and K travel agency to the local company Blue Horizons T&T.

27 2 minutes. ... Yesterday, the Committee on Agrarian Policy, Natural Resources and Land Relations of the Novosibirsk Regional Council considered a bill proposed by the regional administration on licensing the retail sale of alcoholic beverages. The authorities intend to significantly increase license fees and increase the size of the authorized capital of trading companies.

On February 15, the only concert in Russia by the famous German violinist Anna-Sophie Mutter will take place in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory in honor of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. As the organizers of the evening told an ITAR-TASS correspondent, “in Moscow, Anna-Sophie Mutter will perform five sonatas by Mozart, one of her favorite composers.” Together with Mrs.

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