Lev Roitman: Winged axiom: it is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick, does not yet give reason to draw a conclusion that in society he is certainly more patients than in a prosperous one. The whole thing is probably how social public healthcare is set, and this is the problem and task of the state, its medical organization. If today in Russia, especially children and adolescents, are sick more often than 10 years ago, there is reason to blame the state.

About 14 thousand workers from almost 400 educational institutions continue strikes, demanding timely and decent payment for their work. The salary debt to teachers in the Krasnodar Territory, North Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkaria and the Kaliningrad Region has already been fully repaid. In the Kurgan, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl regions and St. Petersburg, the authorities decided to increase salaries to employees of education.

Researchers from the University of Alabam determined the primary source of the human immunodeficiency virus. The microbiologist Beatrice Khan and her colleagues came to the conclusion that the biological carrier of the predecessor of the AIDS pathogen for thousands was a chimpanzees population living in the tropical forests of the equatorial zone of West Africa.

Leading Lev Roitman Lev Roitman: Winged axiom: it is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick, does not yet give reason to draw a conclusion that in society he is certainly more patients than in a prosperous one. The whole thing is probably how social public healthcare is set, and this is the problem and task of the state, its medical organization. If today in Russia, especially children and adolescents, are sick more often than 10 years ago, there is reason to blame the state.

The death sentences in Russia cannot be sentenced to change in law, ”the Constitutional Court decided today. According to the court’s decision, legislators must immediately make changes to the law that would provide the right to the defendants, for whose crimes the highest penalty is provided for, for consideration of their case in court with the participation of jurors.

Football. In Barcelona, a solemn evening was held, dedicated to the presentation of prizes to the best players of 1998 according to FIFA. As well as in another traditional referendum, which is held by the France Football weekly, the first place in the FIFA survey was taken by the world champion French Zinedine Zidan, the second - Brazilian Ronaldo, and the third - Croatian Davor Shuker.

150 autographs are displayed at the Pushkin State Museum. All autographs are associated with the name of the poet: drafts of poems, drawings, letters to Pushkin from Benkendorf, the pages of the Diary of Olenina, the Volkonskaya album, the Metric Book of the Church of the Epiphany in Elokhov for 1799 with the birth of Pushkin and much more. On February 10, the 125th anniversary of the birth of Vsevolod Meyerhold will turn.

Russian President Yeltsin sent a letter to the Federation Council with a proposal - to dismiss Yuri Skuratov from the post of general prosecutor. Skuratov, who gave yesterday a request about the resignation "for health reasons" was hospitalized. The Federation Council - as reported in the apparatus of the chairman of the upper house of Stroyev - can consider the issue of Skuratov only at a plenary meeting. The nearest plenary session is scheduled for February 17th.

The German Corporation "STINNES" , one of the largest transport companies in Europe, announced the upcoming purchase of the Swedish transport company "BTL", the newspaper Feinshel Timz said today. The planned transaction, which is estimated at $ 423 million, can lead to the formation of not only the largest transport company in Europe, but also the 2nd in the world of the company in terms of sea cargo transportation and the 4th in the world in terms of cargo transportation.