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.

48 claims for the Rain TV channel filed blocks to the courts of different regions of St. Petersburg. They argue that they are offended by the question asked by viewers on the eve of the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the lifting of the blockade of Leningrad: "Was it necessary to pass the city in order to save hundreds of thousands of lives?" One of the plaintiffs requires compensation for moral damage in the amount of 50 million rubles.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. ...

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Perevez Musharraf The former President of Pakistan Perevez Musharraf today was unable to attend the court hearing in the case of treason initiated against him. Musharraf’s lawyers asked to postpone the court and promised that he could participate at the hearing on February 18. Earlier it was reported that the special court of Pakistan today would bring to Musharraf official charges of suspension of the constitution and the introduction of a state of emergency in the country in November 2007.

In St. Petersburg, a picket of activists of "Solidarity" was held, February 7, 2014 Two actions were prepared by St. Petersburg opposition to the opening of the Olympics. One of them - the action of the St. Petersburg branch of the Solidarity movement - was successful, the other was disrupted. This was reported by the Radio Liberty correspondent in St. Petersburg Tatyana Voltskaya. Eight activists of Solidarity stood in single pickets on Nevsky Prospekt.

In the village of Chagoda, Vologda Oblast today, one person died during an explosion at a gas supply station. According to the Ministry of Emergencies, his body was found under the rubble. Previously, he was considered missing. Two more were injured, they are hospitalized. As a result of the explosion, the building of the gas supply station was completely burned. The fire is extinguished, neighboring buildings were not injured.