Residents of European Russia, Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands will see a penumbral lunar eclipse on Monday, which began at 12.37 GMT (15.37 Moscow time) and ends at 19.40 Moscow time. Data on the eclipse are given on the website of the US National Aerospace Agency (NASA), RIA Novosti reports. During a penumbral eclipse, the Moon passes through the Earth's penumbra.

Georgia's new prime minister, Nika Gilauri, fired government chief Kakha Bendukidze, an influential reformer who played a key role in attracting foreign investment to Georgia. After the Rose Revolution, Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili convinced the well-known Russian businessman Bendukidze to move to civil service in his native Tbilisi.

One major Moscow banker always has two papers on his desk: a voluntary resignation letter and an article about Victor Bukato. Both - in case The flattery will suddenly come with non-trivial - and unacceptable - proposals. You have to say "no". First, an article about Bukato will be used: they say, read what all this threatens.

Olga Marovkina, a 34-year-old housewife from Moscow, first thought about selling her her mink coat. In mid-January, her husband, a businessman, told Olga that it was time to save money: the crisis hit the wallet harder than they expected. First of all, Yevgeny reduced unnecessary - as it seemed to him - expenses: he fired all the servants. Began to save about 80,000 rubles. per month. For a week, Olga sat with the children, washed dishes, cleaned the apartment and cooked food.

Any day now, an American delegation was supposed to fly to Kyrgyzstan and offer financial assistance as a token of gratitude for the fact that their air base remains at the Bishkek airport. Three weeks ago, General David Petraeus, in talks with the country's leadership, recalled that the new president, Barack Obama, would focus on Afghanistan and deploy another 30,000 troops there.

The 51st Grammy Awards took place in Los Angeles at the Staples Center. A few hours before the start of the broadcast, the bulk of the awards were handed out. In total, awards are given in 110 categories. In the category "Best Album of the Year" the award was received by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss for the disc "Raising Sand", RIA Novosti reports. The Grammy Awards were established by the US Recording Industry Association in 1958.

Esther Dyson, a 57-year-old millionaire from New York, sat in the middle of a snow-covered forest near Moscow and dried wet work gloves over a fire. Over her head was what looked like an Indian wigwam, pine logs covered with a strong parachute cloth. Located a stone's throw away, behind a fence, the Foreign Ministry's boarding house with a bathhouse, barbecues and bowling alley seemed to be completely ignored by the American.

A resident of the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz, Marisela Carvajal is only 22 years old, but she is a cautious player. Dressed in a washed-out white T-shirt and frayed black stretch pants, she stuffs the tokens into the slot machine. Having won, she immediately exchanges tokens for money. "That's enough for today," she firmly declares and leaves the Eldorado casino. Marisela is very happy: she earned $9.

Last week, football agent Denis Lahter pulled off the biggest transfer of his 16-year career: he hired his client Andrei Arshavin at London's Arsenal. Lachter does not talk about commissions, but usually with such transactions they are about 10%. It took 9 months to settle all the details of the contract, but the agent does not regret the time spent: now, Lahter is proud, he knows so much about Arshavin and Zenit that he can easily write a bestseller.

Alexander Prishchepov, a specialist in the installation of plastic windows, came to Moscow from Obninsk in 2005 and got a job as a courier at the investment company Troika Dialog. Two years later, Prishchepov took a course in playing on the stock exchange worth approximately 1,500 rubles and got a job as a fund manager at Maxwell Capital Investment Company. There, the new specialist was immediately entrusted with three mutual funds, into which trusting investors contributed 500 million rubles.