In Vietnam, the captain and senior mechanic of the vessel were arrested, as a result of the crash of which 12 people were killed, including two Russian tourists. The arrested are accused of violating security rules, which entailed grave consequences, reports Radio "Freedom" . The tragedy occurred early in the morning of February 17 in the Halong Bay in the north of Vietnam - the ship suddenly sank after a night parking. According to the investigation, this happened due to the leak in the bottom.

Polit.ru represents the next program “Neutral territory. Position 201 ”with Anna Kuznetsova. Talks Leonid Kostyukov. Moscow, Cafe " Neutral Territory " Leonid Kostyukov : Good afternoon, today we are visiting Anna Kuznetsova, the head of the reviews of the magazine "Banner" and, as usual in our Moscow, a person who writes poetry, prose, and criticism himself. Anna, good afternoon! Anna Kuznetsova: Hello. Leonid Kostyukov : Anna, the first question is: there is, conditionally, art.

The investigation in the case of the underground gambling business in Pushkino near Moscow was official accusations to the entrepreneur Ivan Nazarov, ITAR-TASS reports from the words of lawyer Ekaterina Pavlovskaya. According to her, Nazarov is charged with “fraud committed by an organized group or on a particularly large scale” (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

The Moscow authorities begin the reconstruction of the Warsaw and Kashirsky highway and the organizations there for the movement of public transport. This was announced today at a meeting on transport issues by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, ITAR-TASS reports. “Today it is necessary to consider preparatory work in detail in order to give for the design and further construction and reconstruction of these highways,” said Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin at a meeting.

Victor Vekselberg turned out to be a participant in the resale of the Ministry of Regional Development of the building on Krasnaya Presnya, who previously owned by the Hungarian trading representative. This is written by " Vedomosti ". The building on Krasnaya Presnya Street in Moscow with an area of ​​more than 17 thousand square meters, in 2009 it was bought by the Ministry of Regulations for 3.5 billion rubles from Renova Innovation Technologies LLC.

Sergey Storchak will soon go to work at the Ministry of Finance. This was announced by Minister Alexei Kudrin. According to him, at present Sergey Storchak is on vacation, RBC reports. Alexey Kudrin noted that the Ministry of Finance determines what exactly Storchak will do, but in any case, it will concern international issues. Recall, the Investigative Committee of Russia on January 31, 2011.

The Minister of Economics and Energy of Bulgaria Triycho Traikov proposed to the Japanese Toshiba Corporation to certify American nuclear fuel in the Bulgarian supervisory authorities so that it could be used at Kozlodui NPP. Currently, the Russian company TVEL is supplied to the fuel at Kozlodui nuclear power plant, the supply contract is valid until 2020. The Belene NPP project provides for the choice of fuel supplier based on the results of the tender.

On February 22, 2011, a scientific and practical conference “Sociological methods in modern research practice” will be held in the tower. This year it will be held for the fifth time. The conference is traditionally dedicated to the memory of the first dean of the Faculty of Sociology of the Higher School, Professor Shaninka Alexander Krystanovsky . This was reported on the website of the Faculty of Sociology of the NIU-SEE.

Before the opening of the book fair in Jerusalem, Glory Kochetkov and Andrei Levkin arrived in Haifa to transfer to Inna the Lisnyanskaya signal copy of the book “Distributed Windows”, the OGA publishing house. Inna Lvovna turned to future readers, talking about how the book developed, and also read several poems from it, and inscribed her daughter Elena Makarova. This book will be presented on February 22 at 13:00 at the National Stand of Russia ( a program of events of a book fair here).

Over the past year, Russia's relations with the West have reached a new level: a contract for a reduction in nuclear weapons has been signed with the United States, negotiations on the supply of warships began with France, and the European Union was proposed to sign an agreement on joint measures to overcome the crisis. With the new policy of reconciliation, Moscow lies the hopes of economic and, above all, technological modernization.

Police, who will replace the policemen from March 1, will carry their uniform until the beginning of 2012, RIA Novosti reports from the words of the Deputy Minister of the Interior Sergey Bulavin. “Do not be embarrassed that police officers will walk in the form of a police. We assume to change the form so that it answers the new image, ”Bulavin said. Earlier, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliev stated that the design of a new form will be developed just by 2012.

Vladimir Nardin In the German city of Koenigsee, a historical event was held for Russian Bobslei. For the first time in the history of the world championships in this type of sport, gold athletes went to gold. Alexander Zubkov and Alexei Voevoda won competitions among the crews-two and were located on the highest step of the podium. The result of Zubkov and governors - 3.20.72.

Return to publications Poems for occasion Projects archive An IBM computer named Watson won three special editions of the American television quiz show Jeopardy (the Russian equivalent is “Own Game”), the BBC reports. One of those who was beaten by artificial intelligence was the Jeopardy record holder, who had previously won 74 victories in a row.

Medvedev demanded to punish the casino guilty of the roofing of Moscow Region, but promised and dismiss the security forces who put pressure on the investigation through the media. The president acted as an arbiter of security forces. It was believed that this role is more than Vladimir Putin. It seems that Medvedev is right.

The first and last president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev during a press conference in ITAR-TASS said that the leader in politics should remain in power of no more than two terms. “Two terms, no more,” said Gorbachev. The question concerned politicians who have been governing the Central Asian republics for decades. So, the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev recently announced the early elections of the head of state, at which his candidacy has already been exhibited.