Russian President Dmitry Medvedev held on Thursday an expanded meeting of the College of the Federal Security Service of Russia, during which the main results of the operational and service activities of the FSB bodies in 2009 and priority tasks for 2010 were considered. The main tasks of the FSB - the fight against terrorism and the plunder of the budget, Medvedev pointed out.

The Supreme Court sent a document to the judges of the Russian regions regarding all citizens' citizens, and first of all, drivers who violate the traffic rules. The country's chief court allowed to attract in absentia in absentia in the cases agreed by law. About this writes "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" . It is no secret that many drivers come up with all kinds of tricks in order to manage not to pay a fine.

In London, on Thursday, an international conference on Afghanistan was opened, whose participants discuss the ways to strengthen the positions of local authorities, the fight against corruption, integration of former supporters of the Taliban movement into the peaceful life of the Taliban movement, as well as a schedule for transferring security controls in the country to Afghan military.

In 2009, Russia sold military products through Rosoboronexport in the amount of $ 7.4 billion, Anatoly Isaikin, General Director of Rosoboronexport, told RIA Novosti . In the future, the country intends to increase the export of weapons and is even ready to supply weapons to Iraq and Afghanistan, he said. “On the eve of Rosoboronexport, a meeting of the collegium took place,” he said. “We summed up the results in 2009, outlined plans for 2010, talked about problems.

In Chester, North West England, a Heart of Africa biodome is planned to be built at the local zoo. The attraction under a 40-meter dome will recreate the climatic conditions of the Black Continent, writes "Square Meter" . On an area of ​​16 thousand square meters, many African animals will live in their natural climate. But in addition to this, British zoologists plan to breed new species of animals there.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin instructed the Federal Financial Markets Service together with the Bank of Russia to stop violations in the financial market. At a working meeting with the head of the FSFR, Vladimir Milovidov, Putin mentioned that the law entered into force, which introduces criminal liability for financial violations. "The sanctions are large - up to seven years of imprisonment.

The world media, commenting on the work of the World Economic Forum in Davos, write about a huge abyss that shares the players of the financial market and regulators who seek to create new frames for him. Sarkozy talks about the unconditional support of Obama’s strict proposals, Soros warns against haste, financiers would prefer self -regulation, reports inopressa.ru "Confrontation of financiers and regulators" - this is how Le Temps comment is entitled.

The Twitter network is working on technology, which will block attempts by governments of a number of countries to censor blogger posts or not give access to the social network at all. To completely abandon the Iranian and Chinese markets, as Google has recently threatened to do , Twitter is not going to do.

The chairman of the Supreme Council of United Russia, the State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov believes that the Academy of Sciences interferes with innovation. More precisely, he put it like this: "Many initiatives meet obstacles on their way in the form of the Academy of Sciences and Bureaucracy." He probably did not mean the "Academy of Bureaucracy", but the phrase came out of the speaker who was disobeying and offended for academicians.

On Thursday, in the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the official wire ceremony of the Russian Olympic team at the XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, which will be held from February 12 to 28. By 12 o’clock the Olympians began to gather at the temple, Life Sports reports. One of the first to the temple drove up the teams on Short Treku, Kerling and Women's Hockey.

Three people were killed and nine more were hospitalized as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning in house number 7a in the Grebeshkovsky slope in Nizhny Novgorod on January 28. Currently, the state of hospitalized victims of doctors does not cause concern, the city hall said.

In Ingushetia, a special operation to detain the NVF participant was completed in the village of Troitskaya Sunzhesky District of the Republic on the eve of about 19:00 Moscow time. According to ITAR-TASS, citing the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia, initially the 20-year-old Yusup Musolgov, who was hiding in a private house on the Krasin Street, opened fire on law enforcement officials and wounded one policeman. The fire was opened on it.

The Senate of Nigeria demanded from the President of the country Umar Ya'adua to transfer power to Vice President Goodlacu Jonathan. The head of state must take such a step, since for more than two months it is absent in the country, being a cure in Saudi Arabia after a heart attack, ITAR-TASS reports.

United Russia does not plan to share the interest in the March elections with the opposition: the regional parties of the party is given the task - to overcome the bar of 60%. The Kremlin demanded that United Russia collect these percentages using a minimum of administrative levers. And now the party is betting on competition between its own candidates, writes Independent Gazeta .

Moscow ratings for a week from 11 to 17 January The series "School", which started on a review week on Channel One, excited public opinion, causing an avalanche of contradictory reviews. Some deputies of the State Duma demanded this "Pasquilus for School Education" to prohibit immediately. Their colleagues, on the contrary, violently defended the "school", urging not to turn a blind eye to existing problems.