On Wednesday, the next working day began at the assessment commission of the International Olympic Committee unusually early - the delegation went to the mountains to meet future Olympic objects, when it was not very dawn on the street.

In Chelyabinsk, as a result of a drunken fight, the young man fell into intensive care, and his acquaintance - in a temporary detention center. According to the correspondent of the "New Region" in the Department of Internal Affairs of Chelyabinsk, yesterday in the intensive care unit of the city hospital No. 3 with a diagnosis: a penetrating wound of the chest on the left, pneumothorax, a stab wound of the left forearm, a 20-year-old Chelyabinets was delivered.

The Mother Law Foundation sent proposals to the President of Russia on amendments to the legislation on the social protection of families of dead soldiers. The president promised to support such amendments at his recent press conference. According to human rights activists, 3 thousand people die annually in the Russian army, and in many cases the parents of the dead soldiers do not receive any help from the state at all. The newspaper "New Izvestia" writes about this on Wednesday.

The Middle Eastern Quartet of intermediaries (USA, Russia, the UN) at the level of foreign ministers is going to Wednesday in Berlin to hear the information of US Secretary of State Condolizes Rice on her recent trip to the Middle East and discuss ways to activate the peaceful process in the Middle East in the light of contacts between the leadership of Palestine and Israel. It is not ruled out that in Berlin, issues related to Iran’s nuclear program will also be addressed.

In an interview with the newspaper Neatkariga , published on Wednesday, Latvia, President of Latvia, condemned those who are trying to organize the next march on March 16 in memory of the Latvian Legion of Waffen SS, RIA Novosti reports.

The Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation in 2007 will allocate 120 billion rubles for the maintenance of Russian roads, Yevgeny Moskvichev, Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation, said on Tuesday. At the same time, he noted that in 2006 the corresponding article in the budget provided for only 42 billion rubles, RIA Novosti reports.

As experts predicted, the place of the head of the Federal Tax Service went to Mikhail Mokratsov, who held the post of deputy head of the Federal Tax Service Anatoly Serdyukov, who, as a result of unexpected personnel permutations in the government, took the place of Sergei Ivanov as Minister of Defense. Mikhail Mokratsov was born in 1961. He graduated from the Leningrad Financial and Economic Institute with a degree in Economist.

The new president of the Russian Academy of Cinematographic Arts "Nick" was elected People's Artist of the USSR Alexei Batalov. The name of the new head of this creative organization was announced on Wednesday at a solemn meeting in Moscow by the artistic director and founder of the film award Julius Gusman. Alexey Batalov replaced Eldar Ryazanov in this post, who held an honorary position for six years (two deadlines).

The Moscow City Court today recognized the lawful detention of the ex-Senator from Bashkiria Igor Izmestiev. Thus, a complaint of defense was rejected, which asked to “cancel the decision of the Basmanny Court and appoint an amusement measure of restraint, not related to deprivation of liberty,” ITAR-TASS reports.

Russia lures the investors investing in real estate, from neighboring countries - partly thanks to the growing demand for retail premises. This conclusion makes The Wall Street Journal , evaluating the Russian real estate market.

Israeli diamonder Lev Levaev expands the geography of Russian construction projects: his Africa Israel Investments, together with the Perm company Prospekt, plan to invest about $ 400 million in the construction of elite housing in Perm, reports Vedomosti . Africa Israel Investments and its Danya Cebus subsidiary are going to invest $ 200 million in the construction of residential and commercial real estate in Perm, Reuters said yesterday with reference to the official disclosure of companies.

The Norwegian government allocated $ 1 million for the construction of a boarding school in Beslan. This was announced on Wednesday by ITAR-TASS Norway Ambassador to Russia Ovind Nordsletten at a press conference on the prospects of Russian-Norwegian interstate cooperation. This project is funded by Norway and Greece and aims to assist the children of the Russian city of Beslan, who suffered in September 2004 as a result of the attack of terrorists .

The applicants came to the Chechnya to win the Mrs. World contest. As Interfax reports with reference to the head of the presidential apparatus and the government of the Republic Abdul-Kakhira Israilov, all the girls are the winners of the Mrs. 2007 national beauty contests. In total, 16 came to Chechnya. In particular, in Chechnya, Mrs. World-2006, Russians Sofia Arzhakovskaya , Mrs. America Dayan Tucker, Mrs. Germany Nicole Karp, Mrs. India Selin Shila Lopez are met.

German managers of the world in professional boxing, Russians, Natalya Ragozina, began negotiations on her fighting with American Leila Ali, the daughter of the famous Mohammed Ali. As the manager of Natalia Ragozina Ulf Steinfort said in an interview with Bild, negotiations will go about this fight in Moscow in September. In her last battle, last Saturday in the German city of Magdeburg, Muscovite knocked out Jacharia Ernandez from the Dominican Republic.

Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych said that the possible placement of elements of the American missile defense system (Pro) in Poland and the Czech Republic puts Ukraine in a "difficult situation". According to Yanukovych, the government is studying the possible degree of threat that the presence of elements of American about the borders of Ukraine can represent. Meanwhile, experts are in alarm: Ukraine, in fact, will turn out to be “between two lights,” writes Kommersant .