Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed today the Law on the Police, which will enter into force on March 1. Earlier, the law was approved by both chambers of the Russian parliament. The document was developed at the initiative of the president and was discussed on the Internet. The opposition protested against the adoption of the law, according to which the rights of police officers are excessively expanded.

"Pearl Warrant Officer" - in the case. On February 9, a trial of a policeman will begin in St. Petersburg, who gained sad fame to his cruel attitude to opposition demonstrators.

The volume of bank deposits of Russian citizens - both ruble and foreign exchange - in 2010 increased by 31.2%, amounting to 9 trillion 818 billion rubles in terms, the materials of the Central Bank said. For the current exchange rate, this is more than 334 billion dollars. The increase in private deposits in Russian banks last year has become maximum in the last three years.

The explosion in the vicinity of the Afghan city of Kandahar was committed by a bomber-teenage. According to the local police, among the dead there are American soldiers and Afghans. The number of victims and victims is specified. The suicide bomber has driven an explosive device in the building of customs, near the group of American military and Afghan officials.

Beasts and their representations in Russian culture: the works of the Lausanne Symposium of 2007 / edited by Leonid Geller and Anastasia Vinogradova de la Fortel. - St. Petersburg: Baltic Seasons, 2010. - 366 p. Any discussion about animals in the context of any culture is, of course, a continuous anthropology. Even if we are talking about animals as such, especially - if not.

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In the south of Afghanistan, in the city of Kandahar, a suicide bomber made an explosion. The number of victims is specified. According to the authorities, among the dead are the American military and their Afghan translator. The explosion occurred near the city customs. Other details have not yet been reported. Kandahar is considered a stronghold of the Taliban. Earlier on Monday, the head of the district administration in the eastern in the province of the host was killed.

In the capital of Senegal Dakar, the World Social Forum was opened - an alternative to the World Economic Forum in Davos. The “manifestation of neocolonialism” was called the participants in the buying of land in Africa by large corporations and governments of foreign states. According to the speakers, the new "fight for Africa" exacerbates the global food crisis, destroying small farms.

Alexander Genis: Boris Mikhailovich Paramonov will continue the anniversary part of our “American hour”. Boris Paramonov: To the anniversary of the 40th President of the United States, the release of his book about his father is the son of President Ronald Reagan Jr. It is called "my father for a hundred years." In New York Times, an extensive review of the full-time literary critic of the newspaper Michiko Kakutani is placed.

In Tokyo, representatives of one of the Japanese ultra -right organizations abused the Russian flag near the Russian Embassy. According to RIA Novosti, activists of one of the groups came to the Russian diplomatic mission with a torn and painted Russian flag, which they dragged on the ground. Today in Japan, which considers four islands of the South Kuril ridge, they celebrate the "Day of the Northern Territories". So in Japan they call part of the Kuril Islands to which it claims.

Julian Essange In the UK today there will be court hearings, which will consider the extent of the founder of the WikiLeaks site Julian Essange in Sweden, where he is accused of sexual crimes. Essange refutes the charges against him. At the two-day hearings that will be held in the Belmarsh Magistratian Court in the southeast of London, Essange’s lawyers will try to convince Judge Riddle Judge to refuse Sweden in his extradition.

The current chairman of the OSCE, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Audronius Azubalis expressed doubts about the ability of the Ukrainian authorities to guarantee freedom of speech in the country. Azubalis, who is in Ukraine on a three -day visit, said this at a press conference in Kyiv - after a meeting with the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Konstantin Grishchenko.

Sergey Lavrov The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the statements of Japanese officials about the trips of Russian leaders to the Kuril Islands "undeveloped". So Lavrov commented on the statement of Japanese Prime Minister Natoto Cano, who called the trip of President Dmitry Medvedev to the island of Kunashir in November last year, "impermissible rudeness".