In the coming days, Kyrgyzstan will close the US air base located in the republic, a senior official in Bishkek told AFP. "The presidential decree, annuling an agreement with the United States, has already been prepared. In the coming days, it will be published in the media of Kyrgyzstan," the Kyrgyz official told the agency on the terms of anonymity.

Lomonosov Moscow State University for the first time took fifth place in the ranking of leading universities in the world according to the Russian Independent Agency, Rebtor Viktor Sadovnichy, rector of the University. According to the academic rating of the world universities (Shanghai rating), Moscow State University takes 70th place in the world. Other universities in Russia are not included in a hundred best universities in the world.

The Brazilian midfielder of the Moscow Spartak Santos Mozart is ready to negotiate with the series of Series A Torino for the transition from the Russian club. “I am satisfied with the fact that I spent in Russia. However,“ Spartak ”made it clear to me that it wasn’t against me to sell me,” Mozart said Tuttosport with the Italian newspaper. “Teams from Greece and Turkey came out to me, but I would like to return to Serie A, where I played for Regina.

Six people died on Saturday during the shelling of the Israeli tanks of the school operating under the patronage of the UN Humanitarian organization RELIEF and Works Agency in the north of the GAZ sector, Reuters reported. A woman and a child died from the first breaks that fell into the school building. Then, fragments of other explosions were struck by four more people trying to escape from shelling, Palestinian medical servants told the agency.

Bernie Ecclestone is not going to renounce the idea of ​​replacing the point system without a fight. The 78-year-old Briton continues to insist that the championship title should go to the pilot who will win the largest number of the Grand Prix during the championship. "You can forget about the word" medals. "But I think that the pilot who wins the largest number of races and should become the champion.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev considers it wrong to talk about concessions on gas prices for Kyiv and offers a quick transition to European prices. He announced this at a press conference following the results of an international conference in the Kremlin on the issue of ensuring the delivery of Russian gas to consumers in Europe.

The European Commission stated on Friday that she was starting a trial against Microsoft Corp, reports the British television and radio broadcasting corporation of the Air Force . According to the European Commission, the American computer support giant violates the antimonopoly rules of the European Union, tying two of its products to each other - the Internet Explorer web browser and the Windows operational system.

Multiple world champion and winner of the Olympic Games Norwegian Ole-Einar Bjurndalen confidently won the sprint race 10 kilometers in the fifth stage of the World Cup in German Rupolding.

The head coach of Argentina’s national team Diego Maradona is unhappy that, according to the rules for the elections of the best player in the world established by FIFA, he could not vote for Lionel Messi. “I don’t understand why I should vote for someone else when I know that Lionel Messi is the best in the world,” Maradona reports Sportbox.ru . “It seems to me that the rules prohibiting to vote for my compatriot are idiotic.

The police officers of Kyrgyzstan today for the illegal storage of weapons detained one of the leaders of the Kyrgyz opposition, the head of the Ata-Meken party ("Fatherland") Omurbek Teebaev. According to ITAR-TASS in the office of the Ata-Meken party, this happened in the Kara-Buurinsky district of the Talas region, where Tekebaev intended to take part in the conference of the opposition forces.

The Hemetsky magazine Der Spiegel changes the form of his participation in the Royal Castle Royal Castle Project and will no longer allocate money to search for the amber room. According to Interfax, the director of the Kaliningrad Regional Historical and Art Museum Sergei Yakimov, the Der Spiegel editors have funded archaeological excavations for the search for the amber room since 2001.

Russia is ready to move on to the European price of gas transit through Ukraine, subject to the transition to the European formula of price, said Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at a meeting with the chief editors of leading German media. "We are ready to immediately switch to a civilized calculation system - they pay us European prices according to the European formula, and we will pay the European standard for transit prices," Putin said.

The elected US President Obama hopes that his daughters will "grow in a world in which nothing will limit" their dreams. He wrote about this today in an open letter to 10-year-old Malia and 7-year-old Sasha. "In my youth, I thought that life is spinning around me, about how I would lay my way in this world, I will become successful and get what I want. But then you appeared with your curiosity, mischief and those smiles that fill my heart and light my day.

The rally in Klaiped on Saturday ended without incidents. “About 2 thousand people gathered for a rally, expressing their will, miraculously parted,” the representative of the Police Department at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Lithuania Daunorahorahiyut told Interfax . At the same time, Daunorahorayut said that, according to the Klaiped Police, 32 people were delivered to the police commissariats, 14 of them were drunken. Seven more detainees went to the rally, armed with stones.

About 200 local residents on the outskirts of the village of Rostovansky, Kursk district of the Stavropol Territory, last Friday protested against the masses of pigs, a source in law enforcement agencies said on Saturday .