How long will Putin stay the President of Russia? Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who won the election of the President of the Russian Federation on March 5, believes that in the last election campaign, for all the stiffness there was no "mud". “In my opinion, nevertheless, this election campaign was devoid of“ dirt ”, as it happened in previous times,” V. Putin said on Monday at a meeting with three presidential candidates who gained fewer votes.

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Inflation in Russia in February amounted to 0.4%, and since the beginning of the year - 0.9%, the Federal Statistics Service said. For comparison, last year, for the same periods, consumer prices in the country amounted to 0.8% and 3.2% - mainly in connection with the January indexation of tariffs for housing and communal services, which has been transferred to July this year. At the same time, inflation in Russia in February in the annual calculus (that is, by February 2011) amounted to 3.7%.

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The Iranian human rights activist and lawyer Abdulfatta Soltani was sentenced to 18 years in prison - his wife reported to our radio station. She noted that the court also forbade her husband to engage in lawyer practice for 20 years. The human rights activist learned about the sentence on Sunday and announced his intention to appeal this court decision.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny, detained by the police on Monday after a rally on Pushkinskaya Square, is charged with a violation of the mass action, he is in a fine of a fine, - Peter Shkumatov, the coordinator of the Blue Vederers Society, told Interfax. Another representative of the opposition, the coordinator of the Left Front, Sergei Udaltsov, said that he and another 20 activists were delivered to the Alekseevskoye police department.

Cycling. Multi -day race Paris - Nice, France The second stage. Manta La Zholier - Orlean 1. Tom Bonen (Belgium) 2. Jose Hoacin Rohas Gil (Spain) 3. John Degencolb (Germany) In the overall standings, Bradley Wiggins (Great Britain) leads

In Kyrgyzstan, the opposition forces won the elections of the local authorities on Sunday. Voting was held in the regional centers of Osha, Karakol, the city of Tokmak of the Chui region and 13 rural districts. In Osh, the second largest city in the republic, about 47 percent of voters voted for the opposition party "People's Unity".

Head of the EU Commission on Expansion Stefan Fuul Belarus did not send its delegation to today's meeting of foreign ministers of countries - participants in the EU program Eastern partnership. This information was confirmed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic.

The United States expressed optimism about the reports of the decision of the Supreme Court of Iran to cancel the death sentence to American Amir Mirza Hekmati, accused of espionage. “If the information is confirmed, this will become good news for us,” the American leadership noted. The death sentence of Hekmati, a native of the United States with Iranian roots, was issued in January by the Iranian revolutionary court.

The Central Election Commission of Russia processed 100 percent of the electoral protocols in the presidential election on March 4. According to the latest data, Vladimir Putin has 63.6 percent of votes, Gennady Zyuganov has 17.18 percent. Mikhail Prokhorov gained 7.98 percent of the vote, Vladimir Zhirinovsky - 6.22, Sergey Mironov - 3.86 percent. The data has not changed significantly in comparison with the previously announced.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a list of instructions - following the meeting of the meeting on February 20 with party leaders who have not passed state registration. This was reported by "Interfax" with reference to the Kremlin press service. Medvedev instructed the General Prosecutor's Office by April 1, 2012 to conduct an analysis of the “legality and validity of the convictions of the court” in relation to 32 Russian citizens.

Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu In Washington, on Monday, negotiations began between US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, in the center of which issues related to the Iranian nuclear program. Obama called the “solid” commitment of the United States to ensure the security of Israel and said that the United States would always feel Israeli support. Netanyahu, in turn, noted that Israel must remain the master of his fate.

Alexander Genis: For those whom the political passions of this turbulent winter were left without strength, there is a worthy comfort - the flight from reality into the invented world of art, especially the television, where the elegant, sentimental, romantic, historical escapism of the British series “Downton Abbey '' enjoys frantic success.

On Monday, Pakistan successfully completed the tests of the near-radius of the HATF-II ballistic missile, capable of carrying nuclear and ordinary warheads at a distance of 180 kilometers. This was announced by the representative of the country's military department athar Abbas. A day earlier, neighboring India tested the Brahmos supersonic cruise missile, which is capable of delivering nuclear weapons to a distance of up to 290 kilometers.