The United States wants to build a pro -Russian Academy of Sciences and RLS in Eastern Europe, the journalist of the Rossiy newspaper reminded Vladimir Putin to Vladimir Putin. And he wondered if this was a response to restore the military power of Russia. Or a reaction to the strengthening of Russia's position in the arms market. “The sanctions continue to be imposed, everything is imposed and impose,” Putin answered. According to the president, this is a manifestation of unfair competition.

On January 29, the main keeper was replaced by the State Hermitage. By order of the director of Mikhail Piotrovsky, the chief keeper and deputy director Tatyana Zagrebin was transferred to the position of keeper of the restoration and preservative center "Old Village" (RHC). At the same time, her place was taken by Svetlana Adaksina. The museum will inform about the direction of activity of Adaksina 100 days after the start of work.

“How serious is the threat of corruption of power?”, Asked Vladimir Putin correspondent of “arguments and facts”. A lot of “corruption affairs, the journalist noted, which suggest that the situation is deplorable. Vladimir Putin traditionally remarked that "the more open economy, the fewer loafs for corruption." “We will also strengthen civil society institutions,” the president said “I could say the whip and catchy that people would like,” Putin said.

"Combat mood!" - Vladimir Putin answered the corresponding question. The President of Russia also has a bad mood, but in these cases he consults with his dog Horses. One of the journalists at a press conference said that foreign colleagues do not trust the Russian president and suggest that during Putin so large-scale meetings with the press, the president peeps into a certain device mounted in the table cover.

The US presidential administration George Bush introduced rigid censorship for scientists of government scientific centers studying the climate of the planet, reports Lenta.ru . As the Union of Concerned Scientists stated in contacting Congress, any mention of global warming is removed from the work of specialists.

Gennady Zyuganov is ready to participate in the presidential election. He stated this on the air of the Echo of Moscow . Zyuganov twice participated in the elections of the federal president. In the first round of elections, 96 Zyuganov received 31.96% of the vote and took second place after President Yeltsin. In the second round, he gained 40.41% of the vote, lagging behind Yeltsin at 13 with a small percent.

Anton Zlatopolsky, general director of the Rossiya TV channel, told the Vedomosti newspaper about the financial achievements of the state television and radio broadcasting. In 2005, as Zlatopolsky emphasized, the amount of financing by the VGTRK amounted to $ 300.1 million, and in 2006 - $ 320.8 million. Moreover, these funds are not used to finance the Russia channel.

Answering the question of the Iranian journalist, Vladimir Putin said that “we are going to work with Iranian partners,” and showed the hope that this would help the “Iranian side to make those decisions that would remove any suspicions of the world community from Iran’s nuclear program.” The president noted that Russia is cooperating with Iran in the field of a peaceful atom and intending to continue this program.

The ex-prime minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi apologized to his wife Veronika for the words that he said at dinner after presenting television awards, RIA Novosti reports. According to Veronica, her husband flirted with a young show-brown and told her that he would marry her if he had not been married. As Italian television reported on Wednesday, the ex-prime minister wrote a letter to his wife with an apology and handed it to the media.

Turkey should confirm the ownership of the ancient exhibits of gold and silver discovered this week in Russia, RIA Novosti reports. The unique objects of Byzantine art of the V-XII centuries were offered for purchase in the Hermitage and museums of the Moscow Kremlin. However, experts suggested that they could be stolen from the Turkish museum. Now Rososhranchulture sent a letter to the Ministry of Culture of Turkey.

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez ordered a monument to the fighter for the liberation of South America Simon Bolivar, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Globu newspaper. The project of the monument was created by the Brazilian architect Oscar Nimeyer, who is 100 years old this year. According to the architect, the monument seems to him as a 100-meter tilted stele from reinforced concrete in the middle of the water pool.

Yellow-orange snow, which fell the day before in the Omsk region, is not radioactive. This is evidenced by the first tests that the EMERCOM specialists who flew to the place of emergency, reports Echo of Moscow . However, they still cannot determine the cause of the appearance of painted precipitation, which have a pronounced rotten smell. According to some sources, up to 27 thousand inhabitants of the Omsk region, according to some sources, got into the zone of the natural anomaly .

If the presidential elections took place on the nearly Sunday, most of the Russians surveyed (33%) would cast their votes for D. Medvedev. In second place in the number of votes would be S. Ivanov (21%). As for the choice of the party, the majority of those who answered (49%) would prefer “United Russia”, and the second place would be given to the Communist Party (19%).

Vladimir Putin said that Sochi has every chance of becoming the venue for the 2014 Olympics. According to him, a huge investment project is now being developed: investments planned in the region are estimated at about 314 billion rubles. According to the president, the project will be implemented in any case, regardless of the Olympics. The main thing is that the project will be carried out for Russian citizens, so that the Russians have their own recreation areas and their resorts.

Answering the question about the system of psychological assistance to the population, President Putin stated that, of course, in Russia this service was weak, but the government will take the necessary measures for its development. At the same time, the president noted that Russia is not among countries where the problem of depression and suicide is so extremely extremely.