At the request of the Foreign Minister of Abkhazia, Sergei Shamba, Sukhumi is ready to resume the negotiation process from Tbilisi if Georgia withdrew troops from the Kodor gorge until April 2007, RIA Novosti reports. This requirement was indicated in the resolution of the UN Security Council. The next SB meeting is scheduled for April this year.

Residents of the central avenues and Tbilisi streets were banned from drying linen on balconies, reports Radio Echo of Moscow . The corresponding law the day before entered into force. Violators face a fine of 500 Lari - this is $ 285, the relapse is fraught with the triple of this amount. Poor residents of the center are planned to be provided with dryers.

According to the glory of the deputy assistant to the US Secretary of State for Central and South Asia, Richard Baucher, the United States is ready to support and help implement the program of the new president of Turkmenistan Kurbankuli Berdymuhammedov . First of all, this will affect the “field of education, healthcare, the development of democratic institutions, the fight against drug smuggling,” the Bucker said at a meeting with the new president.

On February 15, Vladimir Putin appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov as First Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the defense-industrial complex and “part of the civilian sector of the economy.” Morality was not long in coming: “As a result, First Deputy Prime Ministers Dmitry Medvedev and Sergei Ivanov received equal opportunities to be promoted as potential successors to the president,” Kommersant reported, for example.

The former agent of the American border service Michael Jilland, who allowed the bribe to cross the border with Mexico, was sentenced to five years in prison, reports Reuters . Last year, Gilland pleaded guilty that for two years he sent encoded messages to two accomplices about which section of the border he was currently located. For two years, Gilland missed hundreds of Mexicans and earned $ 120 thousand on this. Jilland served on the Mexican border for 16 years.

The State Duma today adopted a protocol order from a group of deputies who acted with the initiative aimed at restoring order in pricing for medicines. In their speech, Anatoly Aksakov and colleagues drew attention to constantly incoming complaints about the high cost of drugs, especially from the elderly, as well as the information that the prices of medicines for their manufacturers and prices in retail trade are different.

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London Mayor Ken Livingston, player of the Chelsea football club Frank Lamard and football player of the Olympic team of China Wang Dalley lit the lights of the Chinese New Year in London, RIA Novosti reports. The lighting of traditional Chinese lanterns over the Oxford-Sercus Square marked the official start of the China in London 2007 festival. The main event of the festival will be "Shanghai Week" dedicated to the life and culture of this largest city in China.

Moscow deputies took up arms at the MGTS. They demand to reduce new tariffs, bringing them at least to the level of St. Petersburg, reports Echo of Moscow. Deputies believe that the subscription fee for those who have chosen the timely tariff has no justifications, and the fee for an unlimited tariff in Moscow is higher than in the Moscow region. The main requirement of deputies is to reduce the tariff for unlimited use.

According to Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, the appointment of the head of the government apparatus, Sergei Naryshkin, Deputy Prime Minister, was aimed at the same purposes as the appointment of Ivanov . We are talking about "diversification of the economy and its formation as competitive in the world," RIA Novosti reports. “These are the links of one chain,” Fradkov said about his appointments.

The temporarily acting President Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov made his first official statement in this position. Kadyrov said that “permutations in the leadership of the republic are a huge responsibility to the Almighty and Chechen people,” the press service of the government of the republic reports. Ramzan Kadyrov is sure that Chechnya “will soon become an example of powerful and rapid economic growth. For this, she has all the possibilities.

The Federal Agency for Atomic Energy and RAO UES of Russia generally agreed on their proposals for the placement of generating capacities in the general scheme until 2020, which will be considered by the Government of the Russian Federation, the Rosatom press service reports.

Valery Yaremenko On the night of February 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin returned to Moscow from a trip to the countries of the Middle East. During his three -day tour, he visited Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan. “I am very pleased with the result,” the president said about the results of the completed tour. “We not only fixed positive trends, but also outlined further steps.” Putin divided the results of the trip into two categories.

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At the meeting, the Government of the Russian Federation will consider a number of important issues The concept of actions in the labor market for 2007-2010 will consider the Government of the Russian Federation on Friday at a meeting. The head of the Ministry of Health and Social Development Mikhail Zurabov will make a report on this issue.