Editor -in -chief of the newspaper "Business Week" Egor Klopenko Victor Rezunkov: Yesterday, March 2, in a secret of secrecy in St. Petersburg, the first congress of entrepreneurs of small and medium -sized businesses was held. Relations of the authorities and business in St. Petersburg today are the character of the most severe protracted crisis. Does this crisis are purely economic in nature, or is it a political question already? Why did the authorities try to disrupt the congress?

Vladimir Ryzhkov Vladimir Baburin: At the end of February and the beginning of March, a large number of anniversaries and anniversaries of different historical events were curious, curious among themselves, and I think that even very seriously influenced the creation of today's order in Russia, and perhaps the world order. 60 years ago, Winston Churchill made his famous speech in Fulton, which for many years Soviet historians called only “the beginning of the Cold War”.

The Prosecutor General believes that Boris Berezovsky is involved in an attempt to violent seizure of power The General Prosecutor's Office of Russia made a new attempt to achieve from the British authorities the extradition of disgraced businessman Boris Berezovsky. The corresponding request has already been sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the United Kingdom. In Russia, a new criminal case has been instituted against Berezovsky, this time he is accused of attempt by a coup.

The Russian government approved a bill proving to tighten the sentence for delaying the payment of salaries. According to the document, the head of the organization who does not pay for more than two months a salary, a pension or scholarship is punishable by deprivation of liberty for up to two years or a fine of up to 120 thousand rubles. He is also losing the right to occupy leadership positions within five years.

The Institute of National Memory of Poland received a letter from the main military prosecutor's office of Russia, in which she refuses to recognize Polish officers who were shot in Katyn, victims of Stalinist repressions.

In Vienna, representatives of the EU and Iran are discussing the crisis around the Iranian nuclear program. European diplomats, before the meeting, announced the intention to again call Tehran to stop the work on the enrichment of Uranus, which cause the concern of the international community. Negotiations are held on the eve of the meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which can refer the issue to the UN Security Council.

The finalists of the Literary British Prize awarded by foreign writers were the Hungarian prose writers Magda Sabo and Imre Kertz, Pole Pavel Hulle, Croats Dubravka Ugreshich, Norwegian Anna Born and a Frenchman of Moroccan origin Tahar Ben Jellun. The prize was established by the British Council for Culture. Critics note the success of Eastern European writers. The laureate will be announced in early May. He will divide 10,000 pounds together with a translator.

The British Museum for the first time organizes the exhibition "Treasures of World Cultures" in China. At the exhibition, which will open on March 18 in the New Pekingsky metropolitan museum, more than 270 works of the art of five continents are presented. Among the exhibits of the picture of the artists of the Renaissance, the so -called “Rosettic stone” found in Egypt and allowed scientists to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs, prehistoric African artifacts and other exhibits.

The upper house of the Russian parliament approved the new version of the Law “On Advertising”, which provides, in particular, the reduction of its volume in television programs. According to the new rules, the general advertising time on the daily air should be reduced by 2008 from the current 25 percent to 15. The requirements for so are tightened called "umbrella brands", when alcoholic beverages are advertised under the guise of mineral water.

The Barnaul court was a lawsuit from Rosbrazculture demanding to close the Altai Information Internet Agency Bankfax. On the agency’s website under the material dedicated to the so -called “caricature scandal”, an anonymous comment has appeared with insulting reviews about the prophet Mohammed. Later, the editorial office shot the comment. The prosecutor's office of the Altai Territory opened a criminal case under an article on inciting interethnic razor.

The man of the day Andrei Sharogradsky : Man of the Day of Radio Liberty March 3 - Kentaro Toyama, the project manager for the development of software that helps illiterate people in India find a job. Kentaro Toyama was born in Japan. As a child, he moved to live in the USA. In 1998 he graduated from Yale University. In the same year, he became an employee of Microsoft. Now the research department of the Microsoft branch in India is headed.

Dutch physicists have learned to make gold conductors with a thickness of one atom. This is 500 times less than the thinnest conductors used in industry. As a substrate, scientists used a silicon crystal, on the surface of which the finest grooves were made. To clean the crystal of pollution, it was baked at a temperature of 900 degrees Celsius. Then the crystal was exposed to gold vapor. As a result, gold atoms spontaneously stacked in grooves, forming chains up to 150 atoms long.

The delegation of the Palestinian group Hamas arrived in Moscow. Representatives of the organization, led by one of its leaders in Khaled Mashaal, are found today with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov. According to Lavrov, Russia intends to seek from Hamas recognition of Israel and abandoning violence.

Negotiations in Vienna between representatives of the EU and Iran ended to no avail. This was one of the last attempts to resolve the crisis on the eve of the meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which was scheduled for March 6, which can refer the Iranian issue for consideration by the UN Security Council. The International Community is trying to achieve from Tehran to freeze the enrichment of uranium.

The head of Karelia approved the current head of the region Sergey Katanandov. For his candidacy, proposed on February 23, President Vladimir Putin, unanimously voted by deputies of the Karelia Legislative Assembly.