The head of the Central Command of the US Armed Forces, General David Petreus, said that extremists will try to disrupt the parliamentary elections in Iraq, scheduled for March 7. He said that to prevent violence in Iraq, the required amount of security forces is located. Petreus emphasized that over the past two and a half years, the security situation in Iraq has stabilized. The number of militants' attacks decreased by more than ten times.

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Veronika Bode: Today we are discussing the investigation conducted by the Levada Center together with the Kiev International Institute of Sociology. It is devoted to the attitude of Russians to Ukraine and Ukrainians to Russia. Alexei Levinson, head of the department of sociocultural research of the Levada Center, participate in the program. By phone from Kiev , Vladimir Paniotto, director of the Kiev International Institute of Sociology, takes part in the program.

In Afghanistan, the security service banned direct television and radio broadcasts from the attacks of militants. According to the authorities, such reports can help extremists coordinate their actions. Special services, introducing a ban, refer to one of the articles of the National Security Law.

In the city of TAZ in the south of Yemen, 18 people died today as a result of an explosion in a warehouse of explosives. According to incoming messages, dozens of people are injured. Three buildings located next to the scene were completely destroyed. The causes of the explosion are still unknown.

Irina Lagunina: The American National Association of Auto -DISTRES analyzed the situation in the car market and came to the conclusion that sales of cars in the United States will grow this year compared to last year. However, last year's performance have been recognized as low in the last three decades. Economists consider this trend a sign of revitalization of the economic situation. But will they change, and if so, how much, the preferences of motorists when buying a new car?

2010 began with significant dates. 10 years ago, Vladimir Putin began to fulfill the duties of the President of the Russian Federation. 10 years have passed since the death of the first mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak . And another date - exactly 10 years since Marina Salier, a former People’s Deputy of Russia, a deputy of the St. Petersburg City Council, moved to the deaf village of the Pskov region. Since then, she never met reporters.

Seven days a week at exactly 12 o’clock - about what happened today and what else should happen. The day is in full swing, we follow the events.

Dmitry Medvedev and Nicolas Sarkozy The visit of Dmitry Medvedv to France began with a meeting in the Champs Elysees with Nicolas Sarkozy, and the main result of the first day can be considered the signing of the protocol agreement by the French company Gaza de France Suez about its entry into the North Stream project. Today, the presidents of Russia and France will open the Holy Rus' exhibition in the Louvre.

During the visit of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, a number of bilateral agreements were signed in France. According to one of them, the French company GDF Suez will take part in the implementation of the Northern Stream project - a gas pipeline, according to which Russian gas will go to Germany along the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Speaking on Tuesday in Paris, the Russian president called on French investors to help Russia in the modernization of the economy.

The Supreme Court of Ingushetia softened the sentence to the convicted person for the murder of the owner of the opposition site "Ingushetia.ru" Magomed Evloev. It is reported that the court changed the punishment from two years of colony-settlement to two years of restriction of freedom. The convicted person - the former security chief of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia Ibrahim Evloev - was previously found guilty of murder by negligence.

From the point of view of the author, in the Soviet Union, the communist perspective collapsed back in 1927 as a result of the approval of the authoritarian state (the Soviet poster "Russian and Chinese - friends forever") The Left Italian Publishing House Manifestolibri has released the monumental work of "History of Communism: from utopia to Soviet thermidor" (Luigi Cortesi, Storia del Comunismo.