The stocks of shares on Wall Street were soared to the highest level over three years against the backdrop of unexpectedly optimistic data on the fall of unemployment. The head of the Federal Reserve System Ben Bernanke, only two weeks ago, promised to resort to new financial stimulation measures, took his words back. Analysts also abruptly change their neutral forecasts to positive ones. What's happening?

I came to the Pushkin mountains with Evgeny Onegin. I prefer to consume lunch and books where they grew up, and rarely go on a road without the escort of local authors. In the south, I read Faulkner, in the north - Nansen, in the west - the strap of Gart, in the east - Kavabata, in Vermont - Solzhenitsyn, in the village - "Evgeny Onegin", for I will decide that Pushkin opened this page of Russian history, becoming the first village man in it.

Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Russia Valery Zorkin Russian President Dmitry Medvedev submitted to the Federation Council the candidacy of Valery Zorkin to the post of chairman of the Constitutional Court. According to some reports, this issue will be considered at a meeting of the upper house of the Russian parliament on February 22. Zorkin will have the fifth presidential term in the Constitutional Court. His current powers in this post expire on February 20.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called on the police to counter corruption to more closely interact with public structures and respond to journalistic investigations. Speaking today at the expanded college of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow, the president also proposed to create a division of crimes on the Internet within the department.

For almost three decades, the Berlin wall was a symbol of the separation of Europe Activation of the civil movement "For honest elections!" Forces political experts to seek parallels between what has been happening in the last months in Russia and the events of the late 1980s. Radio Liberty represents a series of conversations with experts about the practice of civil protest in the countries of Central and Southeast Europe.

The Spanish police reported the arrest of three accused of involvement in the murder of the Prime Minister of Serbia Zoran Dvinjich. Among the detainees on Thursday in the restaurant of the city of Valencia - Vladimir Milsavlievich, sentenced in absentia to 35 years in prison in Serbia in Serbia in the case of the death of Ginjich. According to the investigation, all three arrested in Spain were members of the Serbian militarized group "Tiger Arkan", dissolved in 1996.

The leader of the opposition, ex-candidate in the president of South Ossetia Alla Dzhioeva Information about the state of the leader of the opposition, the ex-candidate of the president of the self-proclaimed Republic of South Ossetia Alla Dzhioeva, who fell into intensive care after the assault on the law enforcement agencies of her election headquarters, remains contradictory. As reported on Friday morning in the republican hospital, she came into consciousness.

Mikhail Sukhodolsky, 6 May 2012 The resignation of Mikhail Sukhodolsky from the post of head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region is associated with the results of an official inspection in the St. Petersburg police, said the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Valery Gribakin. Earlier, the relevant presidential decree was reported - without clarification of the reasons for the resignation.

The Supreme Court of Pakistan rejected the appeal of the head of the Yusuf government by Gilani, who will be charged with disrespect for justice. Among the accusations that the Prime Minister are refused to resume a long-standing criminal case against the current President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari. The head of state is suspected of involvement in corruption. On February 13, Gilani was invited to court.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky during the announcement of the sentence of the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow, December 30, 2010. Vladimir Putin is afraid of real political competition and does not want to offend the security forces, and therefore allows even his own progressive proposals to be lusting. This conclusion is coming to Mikhail Khodorkovsky , who was serving his second term, whose letter was published by the New Gazeta .

Youth movements "Our" and "Steel" at a rally in support of "United Russia" in December 2011, held after the parliamentary elections In a number of media outlets there were publications that the United Russia thought about the “rebranding” of EP, up to the change of the name or liquidation of the party, the RIA Novosti agency reports.

The site of the Healthcare Organization of the Andrei Shkov Foundation is blocked, which posted information about the replacement therapy . The site presented the results of international studies that prove the effectiveness of HIV, AIDS and tuberculosis with a methadone. This is a drug used for replacement therapy, which is used to socialize drug addicts.

China sends its representative to Iran for negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program. On February 12 and 13, a visit to Iran will visit the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of China Ma ZhaoSyu. The Chinese leadership emphasizes that the only true way to solve all the controversial issues regarding the scientific developments of Tehran Beijing considers "dialogue and cooperation".