From today, Egypt decided to close the border crossing of Rafach on the border with the gas sector, reports Newsru.co.il . Border guards said that exceptions are made only for the Palestinians who underwent treatment in Egypt after the Operation "cast lead", as well as for foreign delegations visiting the Gaza sector. The authorities refuse to open a checkpoint in Rafiakh due to the lack of European observers and representatives of the Palestinian administration there.

On March 1, residents of 9 regions of Russia will choose parliaments. Voting will be held in the Arkhangelsk, Bryansk, Vladimir and Volgograd regions, in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug and 4 republics: Khakassia, Karachay-Cherkessia, Kabardino-Balkaria and Tatarstan. This is not to say that the elections will bring us something unexpected, but something interesting can already be seen. Two election campaigns are already overshadowed by a scandal.

The parliament of Kyrgyzstan this month will consider the closure of the military base in the Bishkek Airport Manas used by American troops to support military operations in Afghanistan. This is the only American military base in Central Asia. It will be about "denunciation" - a unilateral termination of the contract with Washington. The decision to close the base was transferred to the country's parliament after it has received the support of the government.

“The problem is ... inadequacy of testing knowledge in humanitarian disciplines in the examination format that is proposed today,” notes Alexei Peskov , professor of the philological faculty of the MSU of the Moscow State University, in his article dedicated to the exam in humanitarian disciplines. He emphasizes that "the point is not exactly who makes up the tasks - ministerial experts or free tutors, but in the very installation for formalizing humanitarian knowledge ...".

In China, a campaign is deployed, designed to streamline the situation with the spread of pornographic and obscene video products through mobile phones, the Sinhua agency reports. 5 departments of China, including the Ministry of Public Security, recently sent a joint circular with a decision from the present until the second decade of April this year to expand the struggle with pornographic videos on mobile phones.

The Ministry of Economic Development expects a program to support entrepreneurship to create 300-400 thousand new jobs by the end of 2009. This year, 10.5 billion rubles were allocated for the program, the VEB program for financing small and medium -sized businesses was increased from 9 billion to 30 billion rubles.

The economic rise of some branches of the Russian economy can be expected in mid -2009. About this in an interview with Vesti Assistant Assistant President Arkady Dvorkovich. “We believe that, of course, we will have several months of the difficult economic period, but after that we have every chance to start the rise one of the first to start the rise. And already in the middle of the year, the rise in some sectors of the economy will begin, ”he said.

On the Yakovlevsky mine in the Belgorod Region on Thursday morning, the rocks collapsed, one person was under the rubble, and Vesti reports. Information about the incident on the mine received at 05:02 Moscow time. The collapse of rocks occurred at a depth of 600 meters. At this time, 15 people were in the mine. 14 managed to get out. Currently, rescuers are working at the scene.

It is possible to overcome the crisis only by solving strategic problems, according to the co -chair of the Political Action Club “November 4”, director of the Institute of Public Design, Chairman of the Commission of the OP of the Russian Federation on the economic development and support of entrepreneurship Valery Fadeev. Why, in your opinion, the global financial crisis hit the Russian economy so painfully?

On February 4, 2009, the working group began to develop the basis of full -scale strategic cooperation between the Russian State Corporation Rosatu and the German concern Siemens. The agreement on this was reached on February 3, at an expanded meeting of the board of the concern, first held in Moscow. According to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Rosatom is ready to move on to a full -scale partnership with the German company Siemens.

According to the "Electrochemical Plant" (Krasnoyarsk Territory), it completes the commissioning of the first industrial installation in Russia for the processing of uranium hexaffeoride. Based on the French technology of converting uranium hexaftoride, the W-EHZ installation will process the dining HEXEN HENNA (OGFU) in uranium oxide, which is much more secure in storage of a chemical form, which is easy to preserve and convenient during transportation. “Industrial waste exists.

In Kargolim (Goa, India), at the age of 46, writer Yegor Radov died. Egor Radov was born in 1962. He graduated from the Literary Institute. Maxim Gorky. The debut novel " Zmeesos " (1989), published in 1992, created him a reputation as one of the bright postmodernists of the 1990s.

The command of the Moscow Military District denied the information that at night there was a fire on the territory of the capital's commandant’s office, as a result of which a soldier died. This was stated by the assistant to the commander of the MVO troops, Vesti reports. According to the assistant commander, the fire occurred next to the Moscow military commandant, and not on its territory.

In Morocco, under the weight of the fallen snow, the house collapsed, there are the dead, they report “Vesti”. The incident occurred in a mountainous area 180 km from the city of Marrakesh. A few days ago there were an unprecedented snowfall. As a result of the crash of the house, six children died. The mother of dead children - four girls and two boys - was injured.

Oksana Sargsyan It seems that it is no longer relevant to write on this topic, the passions seem to have already calmed down ... But maybe precisely because they are calmed down and it makes sense to return to this story. After all, the discussion of the Belyaev-Gintovta Nominee was a popular work, which went beyond the boundaries of the autonomy of art (and those who did not express their position within the autonomy remained).