Members of the Public Chamber of Russia proposed to significantly reduce the number of cars of officials with special signals. According to the deputy secretary of the Public Chamber, Mikhail Ostrovsky, according to the law, only 962 cars can be equipped with the so -called "flashing lights", but only in Moscow such cars are about 3 and a half thousand.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to call the name of the new special representative of the United States in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the coming days - instead of Richard Holbruck recently died. According to the newspaper Washington Post, they will become a retired career diplomat Mark Grossman, who has worked in the US State Department for thirty years. Clinton may announce a new appointment on February 18 at a meeting of the Asian Society of New York.

Vaclav Gavel Irina Lagunina: The former president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Gavel, is preparing to release at the beginning of the next month the first feature film in his life. A new turn in the career of the playwright and the former dissident who led Czechoslovakia to the "velvet revolution" in 1989, when the country's communist regime was overthrown.

In the Stavropol Territory, as a result of the emergency landing of the Mi-28 military helicopter, two pilots were injured. According to regional law enforcement agencies, the helicopter landed in the Budyonnovsky district near the village of Praskovier. According to preliminary data, the cause of the accident could be a malfunction in the helicopter engine.

Fragment of the monument to Lenin in Dresden The Russian embassy in Berlin dismantled a giant copper bas -relief in the form of the head of Vladimir Lenin from the outer wall of one of its buildings. Since Soviet times, the bas -relief decorated the brick wall of the pool on Berenstrasse Street, which is part of the complex of embassy buildings of the USSR, and then the Russian Federation in Berlin.

Large -scale operation of security forces on the northern cocaze. Again, Doku Umarov. Who is friends and who are in enemies: a new concept of state security of Georgia. Azerbaijan: A quarter of the amount of fines on the roads - to the salary of police officers. Will they be less fine?

The volume of industrial production in Russia in January decreased by 10.9% to the level of December, but in the annual calculus - that is, to the level of January 2010 - it increased by 6.7%, the materials of the Federal Statistics Service said. In general, in 2010, as reported earlier, the volume of industrial production in Russia increased by 8.2%.

In the capital of Yemen Sanya, during the anti-government shares on Monday, employees of the BBC broadcasting corporation were attacked. As the BBC statement states, as a result of the attack, the correspondent of Abdullah Gorab received the injury, the operator of the group Mohammed Omran was beaten and robbed. The attackers disappeared when the police intervened. The BBC Corporation condemned the attack, calling it intentional, and intends to protest the Yemenic authorities.

According to the World Bank, the growth of world food prices since June last year led to the impoverishment of 44 million inhabitants of developing countries. Bank President Robert Zelelik described this trend as dangerous and noted that the data was published on the eve of the meeting of finance ministers and heads of central banks of the 20th countries of the 20th countries. The forum opens on February 19 in Paris.

Tehran, clashes of demonstrators with the Iranian police Western countries have supported the right of the Iranian opposition to hold protests after opposition demonstrations were dispersed at once in several cities of Iran. In the clashes, one person died, dozens were injured, many manifestants detained, and the authorities placed opposition leaders under house arrest.

Police took part in Cairo in the strike The US government is considering the request of the new Egypt authorities to freeze bank assets of the main assistants to the resigned of President Hosni Mubarak. Earlier it was reported that the same issue in Brussels will be discussed today by the Ministers of Finance of the EU countries. On Monday, the Higher Military Council of Egypt called on the population to stop demonstrations and strikes.

"Wele Day" in Moscow on February 12 The coordinator of the Russian opposition movement "Left Front" Sergey Udaltsov was sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest and announces a hunger strike from Tuesday. As Udaltsov himself told Interfax himself yesterday, he protests against the decision of the justice of the peace who found him guilty of disobedience to police officers.