Georgia is capable of supplying half a bottle of wine for each able -bodied Russian per year exports of Georgian wine to the Russian market over the past seven months amounted to 20 million bottles. This is twice as much as predicted: deliveries from Georgia now make up almost 5.5% of all wine imports to Russia. Data on the sale of Georgian wines in the Russian market after the removal of the embargo introduced by Moscow in 2006 last year exceeded all the expectations of Tbilisi.

Well, citizens! As expected, the election commission of the city of Chelyabinsk repeatedly refused to register the initiative group to hold a local referendum in Chelyabinsk for the return of direct elections of the head of the city. This time they refused correctly, not looking for incorrectly set commas and referring not to any procedural moments, but to Article 16 of the FZ-131, in which issues of local importance are clearly listed.

The Turkish media reported on Friday to prevent an attempt by the aircraft by a citizen of Ukraine, who demanded to direct the plane towards Sochi, where the Winter Olympic Games began. The CNN Turk television company reported that the man was trying to go to the cockpit with a detonator. The pilot was able to turn on the alarm, and the F-16 of the Turkish Air Force went on an interception, forcing the aircraft to land in Istanbul.

Perevez Musharraf The former President of Pakistan Peresa Musharraf today is expected to be charged in the case of state treason. However, it is not yet clear whether Musharraf will appear before the court. Earlier, Musharraf refused to attend judicial hearings several times, referring to health problems. A month ago, he complained about heart pain when he was heading for a court session. Lawyers of the 70-year-old ex-president are asking him to allow him to go abroad for treatment.

What are the games in Sochi-2014 in history? The political scientist, vice -rector of the Russian Economic University named after Plekhanova, member of the Public Chamber Sergei Markov and co -author of the report "Sochi and the Olympics", leader of the Democratic Choice party Vladimir Milov.

Russian opera singer Anna Netrebko will perform the Olympic anthem at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Sochi. This was announced on Friday at a press conference by the chief creative director and author of the discovery ceremony, Konstantin Ernst.

In the center of Kyiv, several hundred protesters will picket the building of the Ukrainian Security Service. According to Interfax, the protesters demand that the department leadership deal with the separatist statements of the Supreme Council of Crimea, the abductions of people, as well as with politically motivated persecution of oppositionists. Activists hold in their hands the state flags of Ukraine, as well as the flags of the parties "Fatherland", "Blow", "Freedom".

Evgeny Roizman The mayor of Yekaterinburg, Yevgeny Roizman, resigned to the post of president of the city without drugs. According to Roizman himself Interfax-Ural, this decision is connected with the start of work as the head of the city administration and was made "in order to avoid any pickup." At the same time, the mayor emphasized that he would continue to take an active part in the activities of the fund: "I am the founder of the fund, I will never be able to leave it in my life. ...

General Director of the Rain TV channel Natalya Sindeeva The Moscow authorities said that they would not allow the opposition and civil activists of disagreed festivities on Saturday in the center of the capital. The representative of the Moscow City Hall Alexei Mayorov told Interfax that there were no applications for such events. According to him, all measures will be taken so that the order is not violated by anyone.

The US transport security department temporarily banned the transport of any liquids, gels and aerosols in manual luggage on flights between the United States and Russia. The ban on Thursday was reported on Thursday Delta Airlines. The company’s website also says that passengers flying to Russia from the United States will have to personally register on a flight with a representative of the airline and will not be able to do this on the Internet or using mobile devices.

Not everyone can receive a passport of an Olympic fan. The appearance of such a document is violated by the right of citizens to freedom of movement On pre -Olympic days on blogs, stories began to appear more and more often about how Russians who wanted to get to the Olympics in Sochi and even spend on visiting sports competitions, they could not do this. They were refused to receive the so -called fan passport, which was called "Fan Ausweis" on the Web.

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The Center for Modern Music at the Moscow State Conservatory named after P. I. Tchaikovsky on February 8 is represented by a concert of the Stolno Quartet Studio of New Music String Prayers. The musicians of the Quartet will perform essays interesting not only to experts, but also to listeners who are little familiar with modern music.

Vladimir Milov vs. Sergei Markov: Olympics or sawing? What Olympic Games in Sochi 2014 will go down in history? The political significance of the Olympic Games is debated: The leader of the Democratic Choice party, president of the Institute of Energy Policy Vladimir Milov - co -author of the report "Sochi and Olympics" and a member of the Public Chamber, a former deputy of the State Duma from the party "United Russia", a confidant of V.V.