The Somali government plans to create special navigable corridors at which merchant vessels will be able to move with minimal risk, RBC reports. According to the ambassador Somali Mohamed Mohamud Handule, the government is actively involved in the settlement of the problem of piracy in Somali’s waters and intends to create corridors to solve this issue, according to which merchant vessels will run from point A to point B, accompanied by military ships of other countries.

Economic instability leads to an revision of public moods in Europe. Last week, the data of the sociological survey “Relations towards Jews in Europe”, carried out by order of the American antidiffamation league (ADL) in the seven European countries, were published.

The concept of Stimmung (“mood”) was first used in 1776 by Johann Goethe to describe a state of comprehensive harmony that only an artist can truly feel in everyday life, put into textual form and convey to the reader in its entirety the sensations. Despite the age of the definition, it has not lost its relevance today, remaining the main component of the understanding and perception of any literary work by the reader.

The New York Post is accused of racism for a caricature of Obama in the image of a chimpanzee, writes The Guardian (full translation on Inopressa ). In general, the caricature is connected with a recent case in Connecticut, where the police shot a hand chimpanzees, who attacked a friend of the owner. The problem is in the signature to the drawing.

Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov refused to acquire the Leopold mansion on the French Riviera for € 500 million, the correspondent of The Times (full translation on Inopressa.ru ) writes. According to the author of the article by Charles Bremner, in Nice, real estate prices fell significantly, so the deal was unprofitable.

Dear colleagues! We invite you to take part in the Public Lectures Polit.ru project. On Thursday, February 26, the performance of the doctor of art history, head of the department, will be held The ancient Russian art of the State Institute of Art of Art, a specialist in the field of protection and restoration of monuments of fine art and architecture of Lev Lifshitsa.

The congress of the Moscow Union of Artists filed an open letter to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. The letter sets out a request to prevent the destruction of the Moscow House of the Sculptor's Public Cultural Center. As noted in the letter, on February 4, sculptors were expelled from the Moscow house of the sculptor. As the authors of the letter recall, the mansion in Spasonalivkovsky Lane, d.

The process in a new criminal case against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev will begin in Moscow on March 3. On this day, preliminary hearings are planned in the Khamovniki court of the capital, the Echo of Moscow reports. Today, the same court decided that Khodorkovsky and Lebedev should be transferred to Moscow to participate in the process. It also became known that the new case against Khodorkovsky and Lebedev will be considered by the judge alone.

A criminal case has been instituted against the head of the Investigative Department of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Krasnogorsk Municipal District of the Moscow Region and the investigator of this investigative department. They are suspected of receiving a bribe, the press service of the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation reports.

The process of rapprochement of Belarus and Europe will continue, since both Minsk and the European Union are interested in this, and Russia is unlikely to be inhibited by Belarusia towards Europe, said the director of the Russian Research Program in the regional context of the Finnish Institute of International Relations Arkady Moshes.

The Lenin mausoleum on Red Square closes from February 16 to April 16 for planned preventive work. Typically, the mausoleum is closed every one and a half years at the request of the specialists of the Center for Biomedical Technologies of the All -Russian Institute of Medicine and Aromatic Plants (VILAR), which conduct biochemical work to preserve Lenin's embalmed body, Lenta.ru notes.

In relation to the deputy head of the department of state land, forest control and supervision of the city of Moscow and the Moscow Region of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision and the Chief Inspector of this Office, a criminal case has been instituted, the press service of the Investigative Committee under the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation.

Sergey Markedonov In early February 2009, the largest North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan survived a new detective and political history. This time, the focus of attention of the media was an incident with personnel movements in the structures of the Republican Office of the Federal Tax Service (Federal Tax Service). The beginning of the current history can be considered last year's resignation of Nazim Apaev with the post of head of the Federal Tax Service of Dagestan.

The new film of the first channel 'mold' can be considered as a significant step forward. If you forget about the slurred storyline, smoothly flowing into a number of mistakes, the density density decreased so much that the film turned out, compared to completely shameful 'secrets of water', almost scientific and popular. At the same time, in it in a hidden form there is a powerful pathogenic agent.

The centenary of the Shanghai Agreement to regulate the problem of drugs is celebrated on February 25-26. This was reported by the director of the State Scientific Center for Social and Judicial Psychiatry. Serbsky Tatyana Dmitrieva at the parliamentary hearings on Thursday “On the causes and consequences of“ Afghan drug trafficking ”for Russia, legislative and other measures to protect the society from drug aggression,” our parliamentary correspondent Lev Fainberg reports.