Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov criticized ministries and departments for pulling the development of strategies for the development of industries. Speaking today during the government’s meeting, the prime minister said that the delay in the formation of industry strategies leads to the fact that the government has not yet finalized and has not adopted the medium-term program for the socio-economic development of Russia for 2005-2008, RBC reports.

The leader of the coalition “Patriots of Russia” Gennady Semigin called on Thursday a press conference to announce that Mikhail Kasyanov could lead the right opposition, the newspaper reports. “Kasyanov can become a political figure that will be able to unite the entire right flank,” said Semigin, who was excluded last year from the Communist Party “for violations of the charter and activities causing damage to the party”.

The dog of Vladimir Putin Labrador Koni became famous throughout the country, many times becoming the heroine of various media historians - from the distribution of puppies to rape with village male. The Moscow Komsomolets continues to disclose the theme of dogs in the Putin family, devoting a separate article to the dwarf poodle of Lyudmila Putin Tos.

Romania will take part in the creation of the new Iraqi armed forces, RBC reports. Specialists from this country will prepare at least 27 officers for the National Guard of Iraq. According to the press secretary of the Ministry of Defense of Iraq, Lieutenant General Geladin Nezira, the Iraqis trained by the Romanian specialists will protect the UN building in Baghdad. Preparation will be held at a military university in Bucharest.

According to the results of the summit in Bratislava, the presidents of Russia and the United States gave more than twenty specific instructions to the relevant ministries, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Russian journalists.

US President George Bush said in Bratislav that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed that Iran and North Korea should not have nuclear weapons, Gazeta.ru reports. Earlier, presidents agreed to intensify cooperation in the field of nuclear security .

Yesterday, during the day, four people died in the Moscow Metro, two of them committed suicide. According to the press service of the Moscow prosecutor’s office, at 20:35 at the Pushkinskaya metro station, a man born in 1950, by negligence, fell under the arrival train. He died from injuries, RIA Novosti reports. In addition, at the stations "Mendeleevskaya", "Kitay-Gorod" and "Kurskaya" three more passengers fell on the rails.

The head of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies, Sergei Shoigu and the Minister of Emergency Situations of Ukraine, David Zhenya, discussed on Thursday the prospects for cooperation of the ministries of the two countries in the field of prevention and elimination of disasters and natural disasters, RIA Novosti reports. “We worked quite tightly with our colleagues (from Ukraine), especially during the humanitarian operation in the Balkans.

Taiwan President Chen Shuyyan admitted on Thursday that he does not exclude the possibility of reuniting the island with the mainland of China, reports RIA Novotsi with reference to AP. "We do not exclude the possibility of any model of relations that develop on the basis of goodwill," the joint declaration adopted on Thursday, following the results of the meeting of the Taiwanese leader with the chairman of the opposition first folk party James Sun, said.

The Vladimir Regional Court will consider the cassation appeal of the protection of the veterinarian Olga Tanaeva, convicted of storage of ketamin, RIA Novosti reports. "We ask the court to cancel the accusatory sentence of the district court and stop the criminal prosecution against my client for lack of corpus delicti. My client is not a salesman, as it was presented," said Evgeny Chernousov, representing Tanaeva's interests.

The presidents of Russia and the USA consider the International Space Station (ISS) and projects related to the study of the moon, the priority areas of cooperation between the two countries in space, RIA Novosti reports.

In St. Petersburg in the temple of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in the Novodevichy Monastery on Thursday, a memorial service for State Duma deputy Kirill Ragozin will be served, RIA Novosti reports. He will be buried in the Novodevichy cemetery. Ragozin died on January 29. Closing on the snowmobile on the ice of the Gulf of Finland in the Leningrad region, he fell into wormwood. Search and rescue work, in which rescuers and divers were involved, began on the same day.

At least ten people died and 25 were injured as a result of the explosion of a mined car in the city of Tikrit in the north of Iraq, the newspaper reports. ru , citing Reuters. As the representative of the local police later said, captain Khusam Mousseif, the suicide bomber tried to ram the gates of the police station on the car, after which the car exploded.

In the city of Santa-Monica in the United States, the first virus is recorded, which is distributed through the mobile network, writes Gazeta.ru . According to the experts of the antivirus company F-Secure, the Cabir virus was found in two cell phones in one of the retail stores. According to experts, these two devices can now “infect” any phones that will be used near the store. “These two phones can infect anyone who passes by,” said F-Secure Vice President.

On February 23, at about 11 p.m. Moscow time in the Okinsky district of Buryatia, an earthquake of 7 points on the Richter scale occurred. The epicenter of tremors is located about 90 kilometers northwest of the village of Kyren. In the villages of the Okinsky and Tunkinsky districts of Buryatia, shocks of about 4 points were observed.