In the Kaliningrad region, a victory was invalid in the elections of deputies of the former National Bolsheviks and activist of another Russia Denis Osad, who was ahead of a competitor from United Russia, Gazeta.Ru reports.

Despite the financial crisis, foreign investors have an interest in the construction of facilities for the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, says Viktor Kolodyazhny, president of the Olimpstroy state corporation. “We have investors today for the construction of a freestyle center, a snowboard park, a ski center, for the construction of a biathlon complex and the construction of springboard,” Kolodyazhny said.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev instructed the Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko to control so that in the regions of the school they would not be disconnected from the Internet, according to the website of the Ministry of Communications of Russia. After two years of paying for traffic for connecting the Internet to schools, expenses for these purposes should switch to a regional level, ”said Fursenko at a meeting in the Kremlin dedicated to new research projects.

The head coach of the Russian national team HUS Hiddink, after winning the qualifying match martyr Mira-2010 over Finland (3: 0), said that the team had the spirit of winners. “I am extremely pleased with the result,” Chiddinka quotes Sportbox.ru . - Neither I nor the team like to lose, all the more I did not want to do this twice in a row. I am very pleased that my players have changed the mentality, the spirit of the winners appeared. We played very well in defense throughout the match.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said on Wednesday to reporters that the behavior of the Russian delegation in Geneva reminded him of the years of the Cold War. Modern Russian diplomacy is no different from the Soviet one, ”Saakashvili said, commenting on the beginning of international consultations around the crisis in the Caucasus.

The militant killed by the Americans in Iraq was the second person in the Al-Qaeda International Terrorist Organization. According to official information, he was recruiting foreign militants and led operations in the north of the country. On Wednesday, representatives of the American Armed Forces said that he was terrorist training in Afghanistan.

The main task of financiers nowadays is to save their investments. This is no less of concern to the governments of all states - both economically leading and developing raw materials. Attention is drawn to countries with large financial reserves, especially if these reserves are denominated in US dollars and placed in US government securities. In this regard, the approach of the PRC as a country with more than 1.8 trillion is interesting. US dollars as its reserves.

Sir Roderik Line, the author of Artriding Russia, REWIRING The WEST (“Reading Russia, re -equipping the West” - “Polit.ru”) - not only a lot of knowledge of Russia, but also understands it well. I think it is not necessary to explain that this is not the same thing. When what is happening in the country is considered in a wide context - geographical and historical - a lot appears in a different light and, most importantly, becomes much clearer.

The Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, together with the expert club of the world political economy and the editorial board of the journal Russia in Global Policy, as well as with the rector of the State University - "Higher School of Economics" hold a round table for experts and media representatives on the "World Crisis. What to do to Russia? " .

The RTS index in the morning on Thursday collapsed below 740 points. Thus, one of the main Russian stock indicators updated the three -year mininum, rising to the level of the summer of 2005. By 11:45 Moscow time, the RTS index value amounted to 738.16 points (-6.44%). All this happens against the background of the next collapse of world stock platforms and oil.

In negotiations with the Russian side, the National Council of Ukraine on television and radio broadcasting will focus on compliance with the norms of Ukrainian legislation and on accelerating the procedure for adapting Russian programs to the norms of our legislation.

Due to the financial crisis, the Russian authorities can become more aggressive and thereby try to distract public opinion from criticism of the economic situation. This was stated in an interview with Financial Times, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili (full translation at Inopressa.ru ). “Putin now knows the economy, but he loves foreign policy adventures, such as Georgian,” says Saakashvili.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia may soon initiate the next cases against the five largest Russian oil companies. This is due to the fact that they do not reduce the prices of oil products in the domestic market, despite a significant drop in world prices. This was announced to reporters by the head of the FAS Igor Artemyev.

In 2008, almost 10 million square meters will be commissioned in Russia. m less housing than planned, writes “ Independent Gazeta ”. The government is trying to develop various options for supporting the construction industry. In this regard, yesterday the First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov held a closed meeting at which the ways to overcome the crisis in construction were considered.

Norwegian Telenor has banned the Chinese manufacturer of telecommunications and ZTE software to participate in tenders within six months “due to violation of the Ethics Code,” the Vedomosti writes. “We temporarily, until March 3, 2009, excluded ZTE from among the participants in tenders,” the representative of the holding Dag Melgaard told the publication.