The President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov sent the entire government of the country to study at the Academy of Public Administration, ITAR-TASS reports. “All members of the Cabinet of Ministers should improve their qualifications at the academy,” said the head of Turkmenistan, speaking at a government meeting. “Whoever does not pass the final exams will be dismissed,” Berdimuhamedov warned. The report from the meeting was shown on national television.

The Mariinsky Opera and Ballet Theater from St. Petersburg on Friday begins short tour on the stage of the famous London Cultural Center "Barbican". During the weekend, the opera troupe of the Mariinsky Theater, under the direction of the well -known British public, Maestro Valery Gergiev, will present three operas - the “Peak Lady” Peter Tchaikovsky, “Demon” by Anton Rubinstein and “Karamazov brothers” Alexander Smelykov, RIA Novosti reports.

Moscow approved the draft agreement on visa-free trips of citizens of the two countries to Argentina and Russia pre-worked out with Buenos Aires. According to the document, Russians and Argentines with current passports will be able to enter, leave, follow transit and stay in both states. The stay - up to 90 days for each period lasting 180 days starting from the date of the first entry.

The Australian Police Victoria arrested the many children Arthur Philip Freeman, who dropped his 4-year-old daughter from the bridge during the morning hour of the peak. The tragedy broke through the eyes of other children of a ruthless killer, as well as drivers standing in traffic, who helped to detain the criminal.

The press service of the head of the Altai Republic, Alexander Berdnikov, refutes the information that is actively exaggerating in the media and the Internet about his resignation in connection with the Mi-171 helicopter disaster , in which 7 people, including high-ranking officials, including the envoy of the President of the Russian Federation.

National Bolsheviks, detained the day before in St. Petersburg for the leader of the city "Limonovites" Andrei Dmitriev. "All three were taken to the 4th judicial site of the magistrate court of the Admiralty district, now they are listening to the case of one of our activists," Lemonovets said. The participants of the action were charged with the articles of the Administrative Code 20.1 (petty hooliganism) and 19.3 (disobedience to law enforcement officers), reports.ru reports.

The Swiss police discovered a large hemp plantation using the popular Google Earth computer program using Earth satellite pictures, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the AP agency. The plantation itself with an area of ​​7.5 thousand square meters was located in the northeast of the canton of Turgau and was surrounded from all sides by corn fields.

In Kuzbass, due to the ongoing thirty-degree frosts on Friday, classes of primary school students were canceled. According to the press secretary of the Kemerovo Hydrometeorological Center Natalya Poluektova, taking into account low temperature, it was decided to cancel classes on Friday among students of grades 1-4, Interfax reports.

The Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel made the initiative to create the International Council for Economics under the UN following the example of the Security Council of this international organization. She believes that this is necessary in a crisis and in order to prevent its repetitions in the future.

In Dagestan, police officers detained two gang participants, Interfax reports with reference to a source in the republic’s law enforcement agencies. According to the source, one of them, a local resident of Tataev, was detained in Khasavyurt when inspection of the VAZ-21099 car. He was seized: manual grenade F-1, a store without cartridges and a cell phone.

The Jewish Heritage Museum in New York performed 13 works of the famous German composer of Jewish origin Felix Mendelsson, who were never previously performed. The concert took place as part of the Mendelssohn: Lost Treasure and Inhibition of Wagner, reports The New York Times . In total, the initiator of the program, the researcher Stevens Somari managed to find about 270 musical works that have never been fulfilled publicly since Mendelssohn in 1847.

The world stands on the threshold of the revolution in medicine: soon the "Tomorrow Tables", created on the basis of stem cells, will appear. This was announced by the General Director of the Biotechnology Company Geron Corporation Thomas Okarma. According to him, already in the near future, such pharmacological agents will be carried out in a massive manner, stored in a frozen state and sold in pharmacies. Stem cells will be used to treat paralysis.

Moscow entrepreneur Boris Belinsky, who suffered in the helicopter disaster in Mountain Altai, hearing from the doctors of the 1st city hospital Barnaul that he needs amputation of the legs, flew by the Falcon 2000 aircraft to treat Austria, the Kommersant newspaper writes. Initially, Boris Belinsky was planned to be transported by the Cessna 560 Tirol Air business class aircraft.

The Karelia Legislative Assembly decided to rename one of the islands of the Valaam archipelago in Lake Ladoga to the island of Patriarch Alexy II . According to ITAR-TASS, deputy Viktor Stepanov, the initiative to rename the island belongs to the board of trustees of the Valaam Spaso-Preobrazhensky male Stavropigial Monastery, which was subordinate directly to the deceased Patriarch.

The chief judge of special tuli on the basis of the US Navy in Guantanamo (Cuba) refused to fulfill the request of Barack Obama about the suspension of the hearing in the Saudis case, accused of organizing the undermining of the American destroyer Cole in the Aden port in October 2000. According to Judge James Paul, the decision he made was difficult, but necessary. According to him, according to the law, only he can decide on the suspension of proceedings.