The French side will allocate about a billion dollars for the program for the use of Russian Space missiles Soyuz for launching satellites from the Cosmodrome Kuru (French Guiana), said the head of the French company Arian Espas, Jean-Iv Le Gall. "We have already ordered 14 Soyuz launch vehicles of the Russian Federation. About $ 1 billion will cost this contract," he said on Tuesday, speaking in Paris at the Russian-French business forum.

There were a lot of sexually attractive athletes in Vancouver. “Winter Olympiads are much more sensual than summer ... Sports are more risky and therefore more sexy,” Guardian correspondent Stephen Murch is convinced. Favorites, in his opinion, are easy to determine.

A new stage comes in the fight against corruption in Russia: special units will appear in each ministry and the department that will take care of the cleaning of the bureaucratic apparatus from corrupt officials, and will also look after how officials observe prohibitions, restrictions and instructions.

Forward of the Russian national team and Washington, Alexander Ovechkin, commented on the game of the 1/4 finals of the Olympiad , in which his team lost 3: 7. “Each game against Canada is something special for everyone. We lost, and in all respects. I don’t know what happened then. You yourself saw how they moved, how we played, but we couldn’t do anything at all. It was a very unpleasant situation for us and our country,” the striker quotes the striker “Washington Post” .

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during his state visit to France met with representatives of the intelligentsia of the two countries and the Russian community of France, ITAR-TASS reports. He is convinced that the holding of the Year of Russia in France and the Year of France in Russia (the cross -year of Russia and France) will give a new impetus to the development of friendly relations of the two countries. He stated this on Tuesday at the Paris City Hall.

The prosecutor of the city of Berdsk demands the mayor to dismiss his deputy Evgeny Martyanov, since he does not correspond to his position. The reason for such a decision was that the diploma, allegedly received by Martianov in 2004, turned out to be a fake. Based on this document, he worked for five years in the city hall, supervising the housing and communal services.

The St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko youth movement summed up the results of the next, second in a row, the Golden Yershik contest for the most ridiculous expenses from the city budget. The main prize went to the management of the neuropsychiatric boarding school N9, which ordered clothes for its patients totaling more than 6.5 million rubles.

The department is looking for tax incentives for innovation on the instructions of President Dmitry Medvedev. The Ministry of Finance has already determined the list of the messages to which he is ready to go in the conditions of a budget deficit. In particular, since 2011, the base rate of insurance payments to social funds has increased from 26% to 34%.

The solemn intronization of the Serbian Patriarch Irenaeus with the participation of representatives of the local Orthodox churches, which was supposed to take place on April 25 in Kosovo in the Pecha Patriarchate, is postponed until the fall, the Serbian Orthodox Church (SKC), which was widespread on the eve of the SPC), said. The first intronization of Patriarch Irenaeus took place in Belgrade on January 23, a day after his election.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych instructed the government led by Yulia Tymoshenko, to prepare his visit to Russia scheduled for March 5, RIA Novosti reports ..

The operational headquarters of Ingushetia decided to introduce the regime of a counter -terrorist operation (LC) in the territory of the Nazran district of the republic, reports Interfax with reference to the Federal Security Service of the Republic. They clarified that the decision to introduce the regime who was made at 5:00 Moscow time on Tuesday in connection with the existing operational information on the finding of a group of militants in this area trying to commit a terrorist act.

The decision of the court of the city of Saratov, who awarded the opponent of United Russia to pay the party 300 thousand rubles of moral damage, looks unprecedented, human rights activists said. After all, the subject of consideration in the court was the content of the non -public letter of the Russian citizen to President Dmitry Medvedev, filed by him in the order of which the Russians usually complain to the authorities.

In Moscow, Russian-American negotiations resumed about the ban on the import of chlorinated chronicles from the United States. According to the "Independent Gazeta" , referring to sources close to negotiations, the Russian side discusses the conditions for the cancellation of the ban and providing American manufacturers of the so -called transition period.

The press secretary of the US President Robert Gibbs is in no hurry to fulfill the conditions of the “hockey” betting, lost to his Canadian colleague-the official representative of the Prime Minister of this country Dimitri Sudas.

The ICEA was sued the Icelandic millionaire. The plaintiffs are the owners of the Elite New York Hotel Gramercy Park Hotel, in which the apartments were rented by businessman Yon Asgair Johanson and his wife, writes Prian.ru . In the lawsuit filed by Paramount Realty Group in the Manhattan court, it is argued that Johanson and his wife agreed to make repairs in the rented apartments, but this did not happen to the deadline prescribed in the contract.