The European Union countries intend to prepare a list of possible sanctions against Libya due to cruel suppression of anti-government demonstrations in this country, Reuters reported today. A source of the agency in European diplomatic circles stated that the governments of European countries approved the "agreed statement on the adoption of further measures." “In the diplomatic language, this means sanctions,” the diplomat added.

New York mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday put his signature under the project prohibiting smoking in parks and on the beaches of the metropolis. The new rules will enter into force on May 23 of this year, 90 days after the signing of the bill. The document adopted by the Legislative Assembly of the city on February 2 will allow New York annex to Chicago and San Francisco, where the fight against passive smoking has long been going on.

Masha Fedorenko Why in Moscow the feudal system is still flourishing, how Grigory Revzin relate to the Archnadzor how to solve the problems of the capital and how many of them, and where, damn it, to escape from this city-all this was Masha Fedorenko and other listeners from the first-person conversation. On the evening of February 22, a group of persons gathered in the Polytechnic lecture at the Lecture of Polytechnic to understand how to continue to live without Luzhkov.

Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said that about a thousand people died as a result of riots in Libya. “We do not know the exact number of victims, but we believe that the information about thousands of dead is reliable,” the minister said. Minister Frattini also noted that according to the Italian Embassy in Tripoli, the eastern part of Libya - Kirenaika - is not controlled by Caddafi supporters. Italy is the closest to Libya the country of the European Union.

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Libya, General Abdul Fatam, Unis Al-Abidi announced the withdrawal from the government of Muamar Gaddafi and called on the army to go over to the opposition forces, the Al Jazeera channel reports. The general, who is the second person in the government, announced his decision in the record that appeared on the air of the channel on Tuesday evening. Where exactly the former head of the power department is located now.

From January 1, 2012, the government will increase the military pensions by one and a half times, Vladimir Putin said today at a meeting with veteran organizations of the Kaliningrad region. According to the head of the regional council of veterans Boris Kosenkov, “today 80% of military service veterans receive a pension within 7-8 thousand rubles, and the pension of the junior command staff-4-5.5 thousand rubles,” while the average retirement pension is 8.5 thousand rubles.

The evacuation of Russians from Libya has been completed, the fourth aircraft of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies covered in Moscow, on board the operational group of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, covered with unrest of the African country. Citizens of states are also evacuated whose governments turned to Moscow for help. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the representative of the information department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry.

Dedicated to AR. To leave the house, carefully locked the door (a couple of months ago they robbed the castle with a simple plastic card), and head right, along a long street, bypassing the sweet institution of cute, full of hopes of the girls who are ashamed of sewing cute aprons, handbags, blouses, past the Caribbean, where the Kariban people are always crowded (mainly).

The European Union officially notified Ukraine of the suspension of gratuitous budgetary assistance to state authorities in connection with the Verkhovna Rada of changes to the state procurement procedure, writes Kommersant-Ukraine . Due to the decision of the European Union, a tranche of 31 million euros is already frozen. In Brussels, it is noted that the sanctions against Kyiv will not end there. Rada adopted amendments to the law on public procurement on January 11.

The program was announced as follows: February 22, 19.30, a round table on the problems of modern literature and its interaction with current events. Actors: Moderator - Linor Goralik ; Speakers (according to the alphabet) - Nikolai Alexandrov , Dmitry Buck , Etgar Keret (Israel, good prose writer), Lyudmila Ulitskaya . In this place I stop the gag, then there will be only a pure (but abbreviated) text from Newsmakers (incorrectly recorded - on my conscience).

In the first match of the 1/8 finals of the Champions League, London Chelsea, visiting the Danish “Copenhagen” with a score of 2: 0. The victory of the English club brought accurate strikes performed by Nikolai Anelka, who distinguished himself in the 17th and 53rd minutes. In another game day match - between the French “Lyon” and the Spanish “Real”, the audience also witnessed two goals, which, however, took place at different gates.

Editors of the world as a smile of Andrey IT economy for business: create or adapt Culture Cultural modernization and development of cities What can one governor do in Russia?

Tatyana Malkina : Hello. Today we have another meeting in the framework of the cycle of public lectures, first-person conversations organized by the oldest Russian Internet publication Polit.ru. If someone was present at some previous meetings, you are probably surprised, because we usually have several more interlocutors on the stage. But today we decided to experiment. Our guest, solo, without an ensemble, which, probably probably, should not be particularly not to be particularly represented.

Former head of the US Presidential Administration Barack Obama Ram Emanuel won the Chicago mayor’s election in the first round. He scored more than half of the votes of voters. The closest rival of Emanuel could not gain even 25% of the vote. As Reuters notes, candidates during the election race mainly criticized Rama Emalus. They even wanted to withdraw him from the elections, because the last year he lived not in Chicago, but in Washington.

Italian naval forces reported that off the shores of Malta, a ship allegedly owned by the Libya Fleet, reports Al Jazeera with reference to an informed source among the Italian military. According to these data, the ship goes under the launched flag. In Malta, information about the detection of the Libyan ship is not confirmed. Malta is the European state closest to Libya. Earlier, fighter pilots fled to Malta, who were given an order to shell the rebellious cities.