Recently, in the framework of the press tour held by the Ministry of Defense, a group of bloggers, including the Polit.ru correspondent, thanks to the protection of the online press club of the Ministry of Defense , went to Vatutinki near Moscow, where the 449th separate salute division of the Western Military District is located. On the day of the defender of the Fatherland, February 23, exactly at 21-00 in Moscow a salute will begin.

In the center of the capital of Argentina, a railway disaster occurred, as a result of which at least 40 people were killed, more than 550 were injured. It is reported by BBC . The incident occurred at 8:32 Local time (15:32 in Moscow) in the morning rush hour at the ONSE station in the center of Buenos Aires. A suburban train of nine wagons, in which about a thousand people were located, could not slow down and crashed into a dead end emphasis at a speed of about 25 km/h.

Almost a week has passed since the beginning of the vote For candidates for the Polit.ru Prize For 2011. The vote first went, as in "Cinema is not for everyone" or as at the time when the Internet was small and everyone was visible in it. Scientists rushed forward - Gelfand , Oganov and the " initiative group of young scientists." They were a little a little ahead - Dr. Lisa . Accordingly, at that time, there were not so many.

The head of the Moscow Helsinki group Lyudmila Alekseeva opposed the idea of ​​Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin to criminal off for insulting religious feelings. “Any church, including the Russian Orthodox, must appeal to the good feelings of people and mercy, and not to tighten the punishment,” Lyudmila Alekseeva said to Interfax on Wednesday. At the same time, Alekseeva condemned the action of the Pussy Riot group in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. “It is very embarrassing and not good.

The Ministry of Transport began liberalizing the air transportation market. However, its beginning was marked by a scandal. The transport strategy until 2030, adopted by the Ministry of Transport in 2008, involves the liberalization of the air transportation market. This course was supported by the adoption of a strategy, and experts and air carriers. However, the first steps in the liberalization of the market were ambiguous.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, February 22, proposed to create free annual training courses for universities for the citizens who have served in the army. According to the prime minister, having graduated from such courses, who served conscripts could go to good universities “in fact without exams”, Interfax reports. Putin is sure that such a measure will help the survivors and increase the prestige of the army.

On February 22, the Russian -speaking hashtag of the project “For the first time for love” was reached in the second place among the world trends of the Twitter network - #the first. The advertising concept “ The first time for love” was developed by the creative bureau “Aldus Adv” in order to attract the youth audience to participate in the elections of the President of the Russian Federation. Aldus ADV specializes in viral marketing.

Four Bulgarian composers sued Philip Kirkorov, saying that he had violated their copyright. This was written by RIA Novosti with reference to the Bulgarian newspaper Diary. For such an offense, under local laws, the singer can face up to eight years in prison, as well as a fine of 5.1 to 25.5 thousand euros.

Prokhorov promises to begin the creation of a new mass right batch from his supporters. For all the ephemerality of “supporters of Prokhorov”, in principle, he would probably have this kind of project. There are only questions: is such a party needed and why right now? Or is it just a tactical course of Prokhorov’s campaign? Even before the completion of the presidential campaign, her direct participant Mikhail Prokhorov suddenly announced that he was creating a new party.

Good evening! I thank those present for coming. The topic of today's lecture is stated as "hungry export." This problem, while having independent scientific value, is at the same time directly related to the problem of the well-being of the Russian population in the late 19th - early 20th centuries. and – no less important – with our ideas about this well-being.

The Russian Orthodox Church proposes to introduce a criminal punishment for insulting religious feelings. This was reported by the Echo of Moscow radio station. The head of the synodal department of the relationship between the Church and Society Vsevolod Chaplin said that the current norm of the law is too soft. He recalled that so far only administrative responsibility is provided for insulting religious feelings, and the maximum that threatens violators is a fine of up to a thousand rubles.

The editor-in-chief of the newspaper Dmitry Muratov said that the New Gazeta will continue to go out, despite the fact that its funding is suspended due to the lack of money on the personal account of businessman Alexander Lebedev, from which the funds were transferred . The manifesto of the newspaper has been published from high pressure, the sticking ears blush, ”ending with the words:“ The editors will defend its publisher by all legal ways. The editors will protect its colleagues.

In Moscow, an investigation into a criminal case of an accident on Leninsky Prospekt was completed with the participation of the Vice President of Lukoil Anatoly Barkov, which died two people, Interfax reports. Earlier, on February 9, the investigation refused to lawyer Sergei Alexandrin, the husband of one of the women who died in an accident, Olga Alexandrina, in conducting a new examination in this case for unreasonableness.

From February 16 to February 18, under the motto of “Time of Strategic Initiatives”, the IX Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum was held in the capital of Eastern Siberia. Fate abandoned me to the Asian readings of this forum, which was conducted by the famous methodologist, adviser to the General Director of Rosatom, Peter Shchedrovitsky. I’ll start with the general provisions, which, one way or another, sounded in the speeches of the speakers of this event.

Naftogaz of Ukraine denied Gazprom's statements about the unauthorized selection of transit gas. “Since the beginning of 2012, Naftogaz has not selected a single cubic meter of natural gas from transit volumes that were transported by Gazprom to European countries,” the Novaya statement said, as RIA Novosti reports. The company states that the daily gas consumption of Ukraine, according to the contract, is not fixed, but the quarterly volumes of gas consumption are determined.