The validity of environmental standards Euro-3 and Euro-4 for cars produced in Russia has been extended for one year, until December 31, 2013 and 2016, respectively, a government decree on this was published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta, RIA Novosti reports.

The protection of the authors of the reconstruction project of the Moscow Cathedral Mosque intends to seek a ban on its implementation in connection with copyright violations. As the lawyer of the architects of Dagir Khasavi, the interfax-religion portal, said on February 1, the consideration of the claim of the authors of the project in the Meshchansky District Court is scheduled for February 10.

The press found out some details of the meeting of US President Barack Obama and the Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili in Washington, about which the head of Georgia spoke as "extremely productive" , although he spoke quite unknownly. According to eyewitnesses, after negotiations in the White House, Saakashvili shone with joy, and, apparently, this feeling was genuine and, possibly, was explained by the fact that in Washington the President of Georgia was not accepted for several years.

The results of the development of prototypes of the basic components of the national software platform do not have state status of secrecy, but the Ministry of Communications warned their developer about the inadmissibility of the publication of these results. According to CNews.ru , it became known from the publication of the letter of the director of the Department of the State Policy in the field of IT Ministry of Communications Igor Milashevsky.

Philip Kirkorov, who at the end of last year bought in honor of his daughter a luxurious mansion for $ 4.5 million on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean in Miami, the housewarming noted the other day. According to Life News , in a chic mansion to an impromptu party, the Russian pop-king gathered his loved ones a few hours after arriving from Los Angeles.

The Ministry of Regional Development of Russia prepared amendments to the Law "On the Housing and Public Utilities Foundation", which provides for the refusal of the practice of providing new housing at the expense of the fund's funds to immigrants from emergency houses, it is proposed to leave the possibility of either social or commercial hiring.

The administration of St. Petersburg did not manage to prepare the draft target program "Restore the Historical Center of St. Petersburg", to which ex-governor Valentina Matvienko and its successor Georgy Poltavchenko asked 300 billion rubles from the federal budget. Smolny intends to apply to the Government of the Russian Federation with a request to transfer the deadlines allocated to this, Kommersant writes.

Former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romnie, by a significant margin, leads among applicants for candidates for the president of the United States from the Republican Party for those who held on Tuesday, January 31, primary elections (primaries) in Florida. Although the counting of the votes has not yet been completed, the American media unanimously surrender Romny’s victory. According to the results of the counting of 60% of the ballots, he gained 48% of the vote.

The head of the Finnish company Rovio Entertainment Michael Hed said that it should not always be treated unambiguously negative about piracy, reports Securitylab . According to him, it is useless to directly pursue the pirates. The exception should only be cases when abuse of a brand or under the guise of licensed products is sold products that can harm users.

A vessel with a cargo from Russia sank off the coast of Turkey. According to local television, the disaster occurred in the Black Sea near the coast of the city of Songuldak due to difficult weather conditions. Of the 12 crew members, only two were saved, they were taken to a local hospital. The fate of the other ten people is not yet known, ITAR-TASS reports.

The coaching headquarters of the Russian hockey national team called the final composition to participate in the third stage of the Europeanchockeyur, which will be held in Sweden from February 9 to 12. According to the press service of the Russian Hockey Federation (FCH), in the final list the head coach of Zinetula Bilyaletdinov left 24 players: 3 goalkeepers, 8 defenders and 13 attackers.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill celebrated the third anniversary of intronization today. He sees his main mission in defending the interests of the Church and the people before God.

Gazprom reduced gas supply to Europe due to serious cold weather in Russia, Interfax reports. So, according to the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline, according to which gas from Russia through Belarus and Poland enters Germany, gas supplies decreased by 10%, and Italy was cut by about 8%. The European Commission said that European companies have enough reserves in underground storage facilities to make up for the lack of Russian natural gas.

The chairman of the Moscow City Court Olga Egorova, who on January 30 rejected the supervisory complaint about the sentence to former Yukos leaders in the second criminal case, explained its decision in response to the lawyers Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev, published on the website of the Moscow City Court ( text in the .pdf format).

Russian prime minister and chief presidential candidate Vladimir Putin on Wednesday forced to take one -day vacation to meet future observers in the March 4 elections. These are activists of the Union of Russian Lawyers, who expressed a desire to evaluate the work of the election commission from a legal point of view. The meeting was not without the most acute topics of the last time, including the prospects of the second round of elections.