The speech of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin at the Munich Conference on Security Policy caused an ambiguous reaction of the forum participants, but almost all of them paid tribute to the Russian leader for his openness and marginal frankness, ITAR-TASS notes. Commenting on Putin’s speech, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates called her “very frank”.

At the Biathlon World Cup in Italy, women had a 12, 5 km race from the mass start. The first three places were taken by the representatives of Germany, who were very little like by our Natalya Guseva and Ekaterina Yuryeva. The hope for another pleasant surprise in the day ( earlier men won the relay ) appeared after it became obvious that with the shooting of our ladies everything is in order.

The Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation invites Russian teachers to take part in improving the criteria for conducting a single state examination in literature. Andrei Fursenko announced this today, communicating with teachers at secondary school number 37 of the city of Cherepovets.

The military aircraft made an emergency landing in Irkutsk, RIA Novosti reported on Saturday in the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies. "The incident occurred on the eve during the planned flights of a separate transport squadron of long -range aviation of the Air Force and Air Defense of Russia. The right engine failed at the AN -30 aircraft," the agency’s interlocutor explained. It was decided to land the plane at the Irkutsk airfield.

Russian biathletes confidently won the baton on the World Cup in the Italian town of Antholz-Anterselva. Ivan Cherezov, Maxim Chudov, Dmitry Yaroshenko and Nikolai Kruglov showed themselves perfectly when shooting, spending only one additional cartridge on four.

In Iran, an ultra-modern unmanned reconnaissance aircraft was created. "Iranian experts created a new unmanned reconnaissance aircraft capable of flying up to 700 kilometers," the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Revolutionary Revolutionary (Xirir) corps of the Islamic Revolution (KSIR) Iran Rakhim Safavi said on Saturday. According to him, the main functions of the aircraft are the collection of intelligence data and photographing enemy objects.

The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine is waiting for the official response of the Russian Foreign Ministry to the note, transferred on February 6 in connection with the ban on entering Russia to the deputy of the Parliament of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, comments of the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine say. This comment was a response to the commentary of the Department of Information and Press of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation of February 9.

In the south of Afghanistan, a truck transporting a police detachment was ambushed by militants of the Taliban movement - four Afghan policemen were killed, three more police representatives were injured, AP agency reports. The attack occurred on the highway in the district of Panjvai of the Province of Kandahar, said the head of the police of Kandahar Afmatulla Alizai. Three wounded are in serious condition, he said.

The clashes of the Palestinians with the Israeli police in the area of ​​the Al-Aaksa Mosque in Jerusalem can lead to an exacerbation of the Palestinian-Israeli confrontation, said Mikhail Kaminin, official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry. "In Moscow, they are preoccupied with such a development of events.

The increase in prices for products and goods of everyday demand is most noticeable for the poor in the population and the elderly, sociologists indicate. According to the VTsIOM survey, over the past year, according to a quarter (24%) of respondents, the prices of products and goods of wide demand increased by 5-10%. The relative majority, 40%, notes a 15-20 percent increase in prices. Another quarter of the respondents (25%) fixes the increase in prices by 25% or more.

Exactly 170 years ago, Russia suffered an irreparable loss: on February 10, 1837 in St. Petersburg, in his last apartment in Moika, 12 after the tragic duel, Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin died. Since then, this mournful date has become the day of the memory of the great poet. By tradition, they will remember the Russian genius today throughout the country, especially in places where he lived and created, and, of course, in Moscow - the poet’s hometown.

Italian law enforcement agencies continue to investigate the events that occurred last Friday in the city of Katania, where a policeman was killed as a result of clashes of fans. Some sources distributed information that during the interrogation, a 17-year-old teenager admitted to the murder of inspector Filippo Rachiti, in the car of which, recall, a home-made bomb was thrown.

The image of the Just Russia party among fellow citizens has not yet formed, sociologists testify. So, today more than half of Russians (55%) relate to this party "indifferently", and another 21% found it at all to express their attitude towards it. In total, a quarter of the survey participants, which in early February conducted the Public Opinion Foundation, has formed a certain attitude to the new party: 18% had a positive one, and 6% has a negative one.

At a press conference in Wales, dedicated to the upcoming match of the WBO champion in the second middle weight of Joe Kalzag and the American Piter Manfredo, the former world champion in the five weight categories of Ray Sugar, Leonard made an unexpected statement that Manfredo will help in preparations for the upcoming battle with the champion.

The Chile team reduced the lag behind the Russian team in the 1/8 finals of the Davis Cup for tennis. On Saturday, a pair meeting was held, in which Fernando Gonzalez and Nicholas Mass was opposed by Marat Safin and Igor Andreev. The game turned out to be stubborn and equal, but at key points the owners of the court acted more successfully, they won - 7: 6 (7: 3), 6: 3, 6: 4.