The twenty-first regular summit of the Arab League (LAS) opened on Monday in the Qatari capital Doha with the participation of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who flew to the Qatari capital, despite a recent warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for his arrest. On March 4, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for al-Bashir, accusing him of crimes against civilians in the Sudanese province of Darfur.

The government is unable to cope with the crisis. It's much easier for you to do this. Construction sites and car factories are standing still, and only bad news comes in uninterrupted. Last week it became known that in the first two months of this year, production in Russia fell by 8%. In February, the last engine that supported the economy went haywire - consumer demand began to fall. Deputy Prime Minister Kudrin warns that the worst is yet to come.

The crisis is not an aunt. The world is moving towards genetically modified foods First, a barely noticeable coating appears at the base of young corn leaves. This means that the cereal, which provides Africa with more than 50% of its dietary calories, is infected with MSV. This virus is transmitted from plant to plant by the bite of an African leafhopper. The crop can be completely destroyed. “You go out into the field and you want to cry,” says South African biologist Jennifer Thomson.

Budget hunger in the regions remains one of the main problems for the government. It is already clear to everyone that in the forefront of the economic decline are powerful and wealthy regions that used to feed the federal budget themselves. They have different problems, and the government needs to decide who and in what sequence to give money. told Newsweek correspondent Daria Guseva in an interview .

Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadayev, who was assassinated last weekend, died on Monday in a hospital in Dubai, a close relative of the deceased told RIA Novosti by phone from Yamadayev's native village Gudermes. "Sulim died from his injuries on Monday in a hospital in Dubai," he said. Earlier, the Consul General of the Russian Federation in Dubai said that he did not yet have information that a native of Chechnya killed in the UAE was Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadayev.

Teenagers are now taken on excursions to the court. So they can see what crime and punishment are In a small room, brand new desks and long student benches stand in rows. Large windows without curtains, in front of the benches - a huge table turned towards them. “What a beautiful boy,” a girl’s whisper is heard. - The eyes are blue-blue! The girl sighs in delight. “Children, silence in the hall,” the woman at the table says sternly.

The YUKOS case has become the most massive trial in the history of modern Russia The largest river shipping company in Russia and Europe, Volgotanker, was created by the People's Commissar of Water Transport of the USSR Nikolai Yezhov in 1938. After 70 years, the company was declared bankrupt, and the sale of its assets has been going on for more than a year. "Volgotanker" survived the transition from socialism to capitalism, withstood privatization and changes of owners.

The 2009 World Figure Skating Championship, which was one of the last shows of strength on the world stage on the eve of the Olympics in Vancouver, brought Russia two medals - gold and bronze. With the help of the dance duo Oksana Domnina/Maxim Shabalin, the national team interrupted the golden "drought" of the world championships, which lasted for three years.

An extraordinary congress of the Union of Cinematographers (UK) is taking place in Moscow, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. The All-Russian Extraordinary Congress of the RF IC is taking place in Moscow's Gostiny Dvor on 30 and 31 March. Minister of Culture Alexander Avdeev is present at the congress.

Former Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, and now opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, on Monday received a candidate certificate for the post of mayor of Sochi, where the Winter Olympic Games will be held in 2014, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. The City Electoral Committee registered the former Deputy Prime Minister as a candidate for the post of Mayor of Sochi on Saturday. Nemtsov became the second candidate for the post of mayor.

Brazilian football team Figueirense coach Roberto Fernandez forces players to wear pink women's dresses. Thus, he punishes insufficiently diligent football players: dresses are a kind of penalty form. The innovation has already been experienced by midfielder Jairo, who played in training in his wife's nightgown. The coach said that the measure helped: already in the evening in the match, which became victorious for Figueirense, Jairo looked better than in previous meetings.

Last Thursday Aeroflot's board of directors dismissed the company's CEO Valery Okulov. Boris Yeltsin's son-in-law has been in charge of the company since 1997. Rumors about Okulov's resignation appeared immediately after Yeltsin's death in April 2007, but then the top manager managed to stay in his chair. On June 15, 2007, the Board of Directors of Aeroflot extended the powers of the CEO until June 17, 2010.

The "Big Two" - the US and China - may become more influential than the "Big Twenty". The question is whether China has ambitions to become a superpower As Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao recently told the world, he is "a little concerned." It is not China that worries him, but the United States. “We have lent the US huge sums of money, so we are of course worried,” the prime minister said in early March. We are talking about $ 2 trillion that the Chinese have invested in US government bonds.

At the emergency congress of the Union of Cinematographers, pressing issues of cinema will not be discussed. But they will have time to quarrel properly The cinematographer is a family specialty. Director Herman Jr. tells Newsweek that he will never join the Union of Cinematographers (UK) if Nikita Mikhalkov is its chairman, because Mikhalkov once insulted his father, director German Sr., a member of the USSR UC. Director Bondarchuk Jr.

The authorities of the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro decided to fence off the favelas (slums), where about 1.5 million people live, from the neighboring prestigious areas with a concrete wall. Favelas are the poorest areas of Brazilian cities, which lack developed infrastructure, sewerage, a high crime rate, and most of the inhabitants live in them illegally.