The day of the Lord’s Settage is celebrated by Orthodox Christians. This holiday in the Christian Church was established in memory of how the baby Jesus was brought to the Jerusalem Temple on the fortieth day after birth, so that, as usual, "put before the Lord." According to the Jewish custom, every male infant should have been devoted to serving God.

The Bureau of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) introduced the president of the Lukoil oil company Vagit Alekperov, General Director of Gazprominvestholding Alisher Usmanov, president of Kuzbassrazerezugol Andrei Bokarev.

The building of the Press publishing house, where a strong fire occurred on Monday, will most likely be demolished and re -built. This was announced by the manager of the affairs of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kozhin at a meeting with the chief editors of 7 newspapers located in the press. “Unfortunately, the building is most likely not to be restored, with a probability of 95% we can say that it will be dismantled and built again,” ITAR-TASS spokesman Viktor Khrekov said.

Speaking today at the "government hour" in the State Duma, Herman Gref said that the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Industry and Trade intend to start negotiations with oil companies to maintain an increase in oil prices. Speaking about the moratorium on the increase in gas prices, which was introduced at the end of last year, Gref said that this was the decision of the companies themselves, ITAR-TASS reports.

To any media that has published materials that insult the religious feelings of believers, measures provided for by law will be applied, up to deprivation of registration. This warning was made by the Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with the Legislation in the field of mass communications and the protection of cultural heritage.

In the city of Usinsk in the Komi Republic on Monday, at about 15 o’clock in the evening school there was a brutal murder. As the investigation established, the 11th grade student killed a ninth grader with a knife. On the body of the deceased, experts later counted 4 stab wounds. Putting a knife next to him, the killer remained to wait for the police arrival. The victim was urgently delivered to the operating room.

The Moscow District Military Court today sentenced to 7 years in prison, the head of the Mosvozentorg, Colonel Saidimed Ramazanov. The court found him guilty of attempting to receive a bribe of about 460 thousand rubles. Ramazanov will serve the punishment in a maximum security colony. In addition, the court decided to deprive the colonel of the military rank and recover from him a fine of 40 thousand rubles. By sentence, the crime committed by the defendant is serious.

The Iranian authorities handed over the Russian side to the official notice of intention to send their delegation to Moscow on February 20 for negotiations on the suggestion of Russia on the creation of a joint venture to enrich Uranus. This was reported by the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Iran.

According to the results of a survey conducted by the surgeons of the London Center for the Andrology of St. Petra, only 30% of all male patients, were satisfied with the results of plastic surgery to increase the size of the penis. Such operations have gained immense popularity in recent decades. In the United States alone, from 1991 to 1998, about 10,000 men made a penis to increase the penis.

The conflict around the Orthodox Cathedral of St. Nicholas in the French city of Nice arose between representatives of the Russian authorities and local believers led by Rector Jean Gan. The parish is in the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople . According to the Le Monde newspaper, this temple is considered a historical monument.

Another resident of Indonesia, the 19th in a row over the past 8 months, died of "bird flu". This was reported on Tuesday by the Ministry of Health of the country. Three members of his family are hospitalized with similar symptoms. According to reports from Jakarta, the authorities announced on Tuesday about the beginning of the mass face of poultry in five provinces.

As it became known today, the government will in the near future introduce a modified bill on a tax amnesty to the State Duma, Sergey Shatalov, Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, told reporters. Such a decision was made on Tuesday at a meeting with the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev with the participation of Shatalov.

Kyrgyzstan is going to increase the payment for the deployment of the American military base at the Manas airport by 100 times, the country's president Kurmanbek Bakiev said. "Until today, the rental fee amounted to somewhere with a small million dollars. According to our new calculations, they will pay $ 207 million," Bakiev said in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper, published on Wednesday. “We took these figures not from the ceiling.

President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, expressed dissatisfaction with the work of the government, which made a high level of inflation in January. “I’m not even going to hide these problems before the elections that affect people's mood every day, it hits people every day,” Lukashenko said on Wednesday, having heard the government report on the results of the socio -economic development of Belarus in 2005.

The replacement of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, now concluded, and Vladimir Kogan, who became an official of Rosstroy, should elect members of the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) on Wednesday. Among the candidates in the Bureau of the Board are 11 famous businessmen, including heads of state -owned companies. The greatest chances of President Lukoil Vagit Alekperov and general director of Gazprominvestholding Alisher Usmanov, the newspaper Vedomosti writes.