The Foreign Minister of the sixth states of the Kosovo contact group, including Russia, the USA, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and France, will gather today in London to discuss the political status of the Serbian Territory, RIA Novosti reports. Six ministers will meet with the specialized Supervisor of UN Secretary General Marty Akhtisaari, former president of Finland, who in the past participated in the process of Kosovo settlement.

The head of the group German advertising agency Jung Von Matt Jin Remes von Matta was forced to publicly apologize to the Germany’s Internet community, the Guardian newspaper reports. Jin Rremi von Matt has been heading the national PR action "Du Bist Deutschland" ("You are Germany").

Polit.ru publishes the full text of the transcript (published by the official website of the President of the Russian Federation ) of the annual press conference of Vladimir Putin for Russian and foreign correspondents held on January 31, 2006 in the round hall of the 14th Corps of the Kremlin. Last year, Putin answered the questions of journalists for three hours and three minutes, this was three and a half hours.

An angel Denoka performed on the new scene of the Bolshoi Theater. Angel Denoka is the embodied ideal of North German beauty. A tall, flexible blonde carries the restrained significance that has been glowing in the faces of the northern cold Madonnas for centuries, and at the same time the hidden anxiety that is characteristic of the movie heroes of the end of the last century. The mixture of two extremes gives rise to what turned the den into the brand of high demand in the global opera market.

The Government of Ukraine today at an extraordinary meeting approved the charter of a joint venture between the company "Neftegaz Ukraine and Rosukrenergo, the chairman of the board of" Neftegaz of Ukraine "Alexei Ivchenko told reporters. According to him, now these documents have been taken to the country's antimonopoly committee. Ivchenko does not know if the committee will have time to make the necessary decisions by February 1 - the deadline for creating the joint venture.

Answering the question “Whether the events in Chelyabinsk will not have to accelerate the transfer of the army to the contract basis,” Putin said: “That terrible case in Chelyabinsk is in the field of view of the Ministry of Defense and the Russian Government. It is not just regrettable, it is terrible what happened.” "The Russian army is part of our society.

Polish director Andrzej Vaida will receive a "golden bear" for contribution to the cinema at the Berlin International Film Festival , which will open on February 9, 2006. Also, "the Golden Bear will be awarded to the English actor Ian Mackellen, according to Lenta.ru. In 1986, Andrzei Vaidu was already awarded at Berlinal: then he received a silver bear. During his career, he was nominated for the main prize of this festival five times, but did not receive a single bonus.

The phrase of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov about the crime in Chelyabinsk, which shook the whole country and caused many responses abroad, that “according to his information, there is nothing exceptional there,” will become the same catchphrase as the remark “dampen in toilet." In fact, this phrase very accurately showed the attitude of government officials to the problem of the army in general and barracks crime in particular, to mitigate what was simply called “hazing.” Over the past

Vneshotorgbank bought a 98 percent stake in the Ukrainian bank "Mriya". This is stated in the message of the press service of the first bank posted on its official website.

“We are considering any mention or report on Iran at the UN Security Council as the end of diplomacy,” said Ali Larijani, the secretary of the National Council of the National Security of Iran and the chief representative of this country in negotiations with European states. His words were quoted by Iranian television channels, RIA Novosti reports.

The world's largest financial and energy companies interrupt ties with Iran, fearing the introduction of international sanctions against Teregrane, according to the American publication The Wall Street Journal. According to the publication, in recent weeks it became known about the termination of the Iran of UBS AG banks from Switzerland and ABN Amro Holding NV from the Netherlands. The American Halliburton did the same a year ago.

Today, amendments to the Tax Code of the Russian Federation, reducing the procedure for the registration of real estate transmission by inheritance, will come into force, RIA Novosti reports.

Iran on Tuesday stated that it would prohibit the conduct of inspections without warning at its nuclear facilities, as well as renew the enrichment of uranium in case Iranian dossier is submitted to the UN Security Council. The day before, five permanent members of the UN Security Council came to this decision, writes Gazeta.ru .

Yesterday, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Yuri Lutsenko denied the potential for the removal of the leader of the Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovych from participating in the impending parliamentary elections. Thus, the Ukrainian authorities, who tried last week to question the right of Yanukovych to be elected, reached the exact opposite result.

Today, one hundred convicts with a special flight were delivered to Khabarovsk from Magadan, where a general regime colony remained due to severe frosts without heating, Gazeta.Ru reports. The acting head of the Office of the Penitentiary of the Far Eastern Federal District, Vladimir Raguzin, explained that some of the convicts were distributed to the Magadan pre -trial detention center, and those who did not have enough places in the isolator were sent to the southern regions of the Far East.