The Embassy of the Russian Federation in Tbilisi since February 21 stopped the registration of visas for Georgian citizens as a response on the operation of the Georgian side that impedes the receipt of entry visas by Russian military personnel.

100-ruble bills with propaganda slogans directed against the United Russia party appeared in Krasnoyarsk, Echo of Moscow reports. Getting a pension at the bank, the inhabitants of Krasnoyarsk discovered on the banknotes the stamped inscriptions of "Great Putin - Glory!" And "The Sickle, unite!" United Russia "is waiting for you!". At the same time, the bank refused to exchange these bills, claiming that he would accept them for payment and considers them legal means of payment.

At the Olympics in Turin, a men's biathlon relay race 4x7.5 km took place. In this discipline, the “gold” was won by the German national team, the second result was shown by the Russian team in Ivan Cherezov, Sergey Chepikov, Pavel Rostovtsev and Nikolai Kruglov, and the “bronze” went to the French. The first starting number belonged to the Russian team, from which Ivan Cherezov ran at the initial stage. Unfortunately, he allowed three misses already at the first fire line.

According to the observations of sociologists, British are increasingly preferring to marry men younger than themselves. If in 1963 only 15% of married women were in an “unequal marriage”, then in 2003 this figure increased to 26%. These data were obtained during the last study conducted by order of the British government.

France Prime Minister Dominic de Wilpen believes that the Russian proposal of Tehran about the enrichment of uranium on its territory along with enhanced inspections may be options for solutions to the Iranian atomic problem. "The Russians discovered the first way, offering to organize the enrichment of Uranus on their territory. And enhanced inspections could be a second decision," the head of the French government said in Paris.

The Iranian newspaper published a caricature of the president of Ahmadi Nezhad, which was the first similar case over more than 25 years. In the figure posted on the last page of the Etemad Melli reformist newspaper, the president of Iran is depicted surrounded by chickens, in boxing gloves, beating along the “pear”, which is visible, the nuclear emblem is visible, reports Scotsman.com .

Oil prices rose sharply in New York on Tuesday due to fears about reducing the supply of raw materials from Nigeria, as well as the lack of a result in negotiations in Moscow in relation to Iran's nuclear program. The price of March WTI oil futures during trading in the electronic system of the New York Model Exchange (NYMEX) in the morning increased by 2.7% to $ 61.5 per barrel, Bloomberg said. This is the sharpest jump in prices in the last month.

In the United States, awards were awarded at the Visual effects of Aurora Awards Film & Video Competition . Warner Bros., DreamWorks, and Discovery Networks take part in the Aurora contest. For Russian producers of Kinopodes, 2006 began with another major international victory. The SL-Studio studio sent 3 scenes from two films to the jury of the contest, which will be shown on Russian television in the near future.

AvtoVAZ OJSC will resumes the supply of components to the main conveyor of the GM-Autsovaz joint venture, which was forced to stop the Chevrolet Niva assembly from February 9. According to Kommersant , GM-Autsovaz, he agreed to purchase assembly sets from a vase at higher prices. As a result, the cost of the products of the joint venture, which is already experiencing sales problems, should rise at least 13%. Officially, the increase in prices for components does not talk.

Russian skiers Natalya Matveeva and Pavel Korostelev, who were previously removed from the competition due to the high level of hemoglobin in the blood, after repeated samples are allowed to participate in the Olympics. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the relevant statement of the International Federation of Sports (FIS) .

A resident of a small town on the Volga Khvalynsk Alexander Glukhov worked for about 12 years as a cook at the first persons of the Soviet state in Barvikha. After dismissal from public service in 1989, he returned to his homeland to work in a small cafe in Khvalynsk and help with elderly parents. He believes that this prestigious work was accidentally.

The prosecutor's office of the Admiralty district of St. Petersburg opened a criminal case against a woman who brutally treated her 12-year-old son.

Palestinian leaders, who are expected to arrive in the capital of Russia in early March , were not able to agree on a single meeting at the highest level. Russian President Vladimir Putin, through third parties, handed over to the acting The Prime Minister of Israel Ehudu Olmert is a message that he personally will not meet in Moscow with the leaders of the Hamas party. In question and negotiations with other high -ranking persons of the Russian Federation.

The garbage dump under Rio de Janeiro turned out to be an underground cemetery on which the remains of the dead were buried, Globo Brazilian television company reports. The discovery was made by tractor drivers raking up mountains of garbage. Under a bunch of grocery and industrial waste, they found mountains of decomposed human bodies - at least a hundred. The remains were in garbage bags. The duck Gramasho in the suburbs of Duke-di-Kashias is located about 30 kilometers from the center of Rio.

The Australian pop star Kylie Minogue is preparing to marry his friend, French actor Olivier Martinez. This was written by the Australian journal New Idea with reference to the words of the mother Olivier Martinez, reports Smh.com.au. Presumably, the wedding should take place in April in Australia, or rather, on the French island, 61 km to the southeast of Melbourne, in the Gulf of Western Port, where the minouge has its own country house.