The government revised the consumer basket of Russians for 2013. Recommendations were approved by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. According to the press service of the government, the volumes of meat and meat products, fish, milk, eggs, vegetables and fruits have been increased. At the same time, the volumes of bread, potatoes, and various fats are reduced. Medvedev also signed new rules for determining the cost of living.

The composer of the avant-garde Grigory Dorokhov died in Moscow at the age of 28. He died of a stroke in the intensive care of the 15th clinical hospital of Moscow on the night of February 2. Dorokhov’s works were performed in Australia, Argentina, Great Britain, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, France and other countries, while the composer took an active part in protest promotions in his homeland, noted the Grani.ru .

The Russian male hockey team gathered at the base in Novogorsk to prepare for the third stage of Eurotour, which will be held on February 6-10 in St. Petersburg and Malmo. The head coach of the team of Zinetula Bilyaletdinov decided on a list of 23 players who will be declared to participate in the tournament. The application for Swedish games did not include 10 hockey players from expanded composition, including forwards Nikolai Zherdev, Alexei Tereshchenko and Alexander Svitov.

In the Republic of Tatarstan, the police extends a guidance on a criminal who abducted a young child. The photobot of the attacker in various hats is published on the official website of the regional police. The search for the criminal and the eight -year -old Vasilisa Galitsyna stolen by him began on Saturday, at about 20:00, when the girl’s parents turned to the city of Naberezhnye Chelny.

Bill Gates told the host of the American satirical talk show Colrt report to Steve Kolbert that the late Apple and his eternal competitor Steve Jobs was “cooler and agile,” CNews.ru reports. The Kolbert, having intended to “bring Gates to clean water,” asked: “Everyone and then they say that Steve Jobs was a cool guy, a cool guy. Is it not annoying you that many people think so?”, To which Gates was in order. He was always cooler than me.

British doctors have undergone a successful surgical operation to reconstruct the skull and restore hearing a 15-year-old Pakistani girl Malale Yusufzai. She was seriously wounded by the Taliban in Pakistan in revenge for protecting women's rights.

The World Car of the Year (WCOTY) contest, whose winners will be called at the New York Motor Show on March 28, announced a list of finalists. The prize is under the jurisdiction of the non -profit association, controlled by the committee of famous automobile journalists. The title of "World Car of the Year" will soon begin to dispute ten ordinary and ten sports models, as well as five environmentally friendly cars.

A small ranch in Montana with the uncomplicated name Ranch for Kids ("Ranch for Children"), where last summer, under the threat of weapons, Pavel Astakhov, the lifting of Russian children, was prohibited to enter the new American family to adapt to a new American family. So the mistress of the ranch, who showed great favor than to Russian officials, described her activity to journalists: they tormented children for years, and then suddenly became worried.

The first from the moment the US Secretary of State took office, John Kerry spent on Sunday, telephone conversations with foreign leaders. According to the press service of the State Department, he talked with the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, the head of the Palestinian National Administration (PNA) by Mahmoud Abbas, as well as Foreign Ministers of Japan and South Korea.

The leadership of the London football club Chelsea began negotiations on the return of the head coach of the Portuguese Jose Mourinho, says the British newspaper The Daily Mail . According to the publication, negotiations are at the initial stage, but representatives of the parties got in touch and the owner of Chelsea Roman Abramovich is personally interested in returning to Mourinho to the team.

The decision of the TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak to marry the hereditary actor Maxim Vitorgan was not as unexpected for her loved ones as for third -party observers and journalists. The bride’s mother, ex-senator Lyudmila Narusova, admitted that they were preparing for the event in advance, and refuted rumors about the possible presence of circumstances that made lovers be combined as soon as possible. “They made such a decision themselves, this is their holiday.

The Perovsky District Court of Moscow sentenced the 33-year-old resident of the capital to 3.5 years in prison for posting erotic photographs of his former bride on the Internet. Mikhail Balitsky could not forgive her lover that she had abandoned him. After the pictures fell into the network, a girl who worked as a primary school teacher, fleeing from shame and ridicule, was forced to go abroad.

The outstanding composer Oscar Feltzman will be buried on February 6 at the Novodevichy cemetery. Farewell to him will begin on the same day at 11:00 in the house of composers. About this, according to ITAR-TASS, said People's Artist of the USSR Joseph Kobzon. Earlier, Kobzon said that Felzman, who died on the night of Saturday to Sunday at the Semashko Central Design Bureau, will not allocate a place in the Novodevichy cemetery.

In Russia, the contracts for the supply of Brazil are not yet preparing air defense funds, Interfax said with reference to structures related to the export of Russian weapons. Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of Brazil published on its website a press release about the results of the visit to Russia by the delegation of the Brazilian military, led by the head of the United General Staff, General Jose Carlos de Nardi.

The American magazine Consumer Reports has published a list of automobile brands with the best reputation among car owners. Toyota, Ford and Honda are leading in it. At the same time, the Toyota division is also the title of the worst - in the list of outsiders "leads" Scion. In order to compile a rating, experts of the publication interviewed several thousand Americans throughout the country.