In the Lomonosovsky district of the Leningrad region, a village with 570 houses will be built by 2010. According to the publication "Business Petersburg" , the investor of the project is the company "Mezhregiongaz", a subsidiary of Gazprom. The investment volume will be at least $150 million. A plot of 300 hectares has already been transferred to the category of settlement land. The village is designed for 3 thousand people. It will become one of the largest in the Leningrad region.

In April, the government will discuss the bill on trade. It includes the proposal of the MEMAR on "the application of the practice of agreements of manufacturers and sellers." The range of methods of intervention in pricing is determined: voluntary freezing, fixing numbers on the price tags or limiting trading margins.

Ukraine will eventually hold a referendum on the issue of joining NATO, President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko said on Wednesday. “We must understand that this issue concerns each of us,” he said. The change of position occurred the day after the negotiations in the Kremlin, following which Putin shocked the public threats to target nuclear missiles in the event of the country's entry into the alliance.

The cause of the fire at the Ural Mining University in Yekaterinburg was a short circuit in the wiring. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Sverdlovsk region. “During the liquidation of the fire, 295 people were evacuated, 5 people were saved by firefighters. There are no victims,” the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies noted.

The film director and actor Joseph Faines "Spirit" received the Cinema for Peace Award as part of the Berlin Film Festival, RWS spokesman said, which produced the picture. “This short film Faines, known primarily as an actor, shot in Russia the main characters in it are Russians,” she said. The tape takes place in post -war Russia. The protagonist Alexei, who tragically lost his wife and son, cannot come to terms with their death.

The passenger of the Moscow metro died on Wednesday under a train at the Turgenevskaya station of the Kaluga-Riga line. The incident led to a short failure in the movement of trains. "From 16:20 to 16:35 there was a disconnection of the contact rail to extract the body of a fallen man from the tracks," the press service of the capital's subway told Interfax . They clarified that the incident occurred on the routes of Turgenevskaya station towards the Kitay-Gorod station.

Weather conditions did not allow a 15-ciometer female individual race on Wednesday at the Biathlon World Championship in Estertsund. The reason for this was a strong squeezed wind with gusts of up to 20 m/s. At an emergency meeting, the tournament organizing committee decided that the race starts on Thursday, February 14, at 14:00 local time (16:00 Moscow time). At the end of the biathlete competitions, men who are measured in an individual race are scheduled for 20 km.

Guatemala from Wednesday removes the moratorium on the execution of death sentences, which has been operating since 2002. At the same time, Guatemal parliamentarians approved the bill, according to which the country's president has the right to have mercy on death, Interfax reports. Now in Guatemala there are 34 criminals who are sentenced to death. Now the authorities will have to decide their future.

Russian men to a greater extent than women are ready to admit themselves in love and are going to congratulate their second half on Valentine's Day, the studies of sociologists show. During the survey they held, it turned out that today more than half of Russians consider themselves lovers.

By the end of 2008, Mininformslavs plans to develop the concept of the “Communication in every house” program. As part of the program, it is planned to provide Internet access for all households in Russia. This is written on Wednesday by the newspaper "RBC Daily" . First of all, the program is focused on those regions where there is no infrastructure for Internet access. The program is the second stage in the development of the project to provide universal communication services (UUS).

Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badavi dismissed the country's parliament and called for general elections ahead of schedule, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Reuters . In a joint statement by Abdullah Ahmad Badavi and his deputy Mohammad Najib Abdul Razaka, it is noted that the Prime Minister turned to King Malaysia with a proposal to dissolve the parliament and received consent.

It was not possible to find any traces of the action "I did not vote" in Ingushetia, said the head of the CEC of Russia Vladimir Churov. “Not a single state body, nor in the Prosecutor General, or the CEC has no legal document related to this action,” ITAR -TASS quoted the head of the Central Election Commission.

In the Italian city of Kuattro Castelllo, a traditional, 22nd in a row, the ceremony of presenting basketball Oscars-a special award of a fiba, named after the famous Italian arbitrator Pietro Reveverbury, took place. For the first time in the latest Russian history of this honorary prize, domestic basketball was awarded.

The members of the Hollywood scriptwriters guild spoke out for the cessation of the strike lasting more than three months. These are the results of the vocational school published by the trade union in New York and Los Angeles voting , ITAR-TASS reports. About 12 thousand members of the Guild on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States recognized the draft contract with Hollywood film studios, which was developed by the parties during closed consultations.

Senator-Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Senator John McCain became the absolute winners of the next stage of "primaries", who took place on Tuesday in the states of Virginia and Maryland, as well as in the capital of the United States Washington. Both won convincing victories in all three rounds.