NHL All-Star Game took place in Minnesota Russians Ilya Kovalchuk and Pavel Datsyuk did not really surprise the overseas audience at the NHL All-Star Game. The former managed to hit the goal of the Western Conference team only once, and the Detroit striker did not score any goals at all. Meanwhile, the hockey players had something to fight for: the best player in the show match was promised a luxurious Dodge.

The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (MEDT) yesterday made a proposal to create a single state body for supervision of financial markets on the basis of the Federal Securities Commission. At the same time, as the press service of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade reported, German Gref’s department plans to exclude banking supervision functions from the powers of the mega-regulator, leaving them to the Central Bank.

Army merchants did not pay taxes The Accounts Chamber has again revealed financial irregularities in the Russian military department. This time in the area of ​​activities permitted by law. The Ministry of Defense is allowed to earn money, for example, from the launches of commercial satellites, including foreign ones, and from the sale of military property released during the reform process. These two articles are essentially a Klondike for the military.

Vladimir Putin urged scientists to take care of themselves The most important of all sciences for the current Russian government is the defense industry. Vladimir Putin hinted at this quite transparently yesterday during his speech at a meeting of the Presidential Council on Science and High Technologies.

The British will learn from the Americans "zero tolerance" Yesterday, UK authorities announced the start of a large-scale reform of law enforcement agencies. The core of the reforms will be the creation of a nationwide Agency for Particularly Dangerous Organized Crime (SERIOUS). The British equivalent of the American FBI will operate first in England and Wales, and then throughout the kingdom.

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Group of Russian Forces in Transcaucasia, Colonel Sergei Dubrovin, denied information disseminated by the Georgian side about an unexpected mass replacement of personnel at the 12th and 62nd Russian military bases in Batumi and Akhalkalaki.

But 7TV is not leaving big-time sports yet Channel 7TV will not radically change its focus and will remain predominantly sports. This was stated by the new general director of the television company, Ruben Oganesov, who was introduced to the workforce yesterday. Thus, Mr. Oganesov, who previously headed the Muz-TV channel, denied assumptions that the decimeter 7TV had finally capitulated in a tough fight with the meter channel “Sport” and the subscription channels “NTV Plus”.

February 10 is the day of memory of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. According to tradition, on the day of the poet’s death, at his grave in the Svyatogorsk Monastery, now part of the Mikhailovskoye Museum-Reserve, in the Pskov region, the monks of the monastery will serve a lithium, and museum staff and local residents will lay flowers.

An exhibition of the famous Russian graphic artist is open at the Tretyakov Gallery Which Goncharov can you guess at the count of “one”? That's right - the same author of "Oblomov", Ivan Goncharov. How about the count of two? That’s right: the former chief director of the Mayakovsky Theater for many years, Andrey Goncharov.

The post of Prime Minister of the Government of Georgia, restored after a nine-year break by the country's parliament, will be occupied by 41-year-old Zurab Zhvania, who has held the post of State Minister for the last 2.5 months. Zhvania's candidacy was presented yesterday for parliamentary approval by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.

No evidence was found in the Moscow metro explosion case Representatives of the FSB and the Moscow prosecutor's office confidently announced yesterday that the only main version of the tragedy that occurred in the Moscow metro on the morning of February 6 is a terrorist attack committed by a suicide bomber.

Yesterday Muscovites went down to the subway with flowers After the tragedy at the Avtozavodskaya station, more than half of Muscovites are afraid to go down to the metro. And other city public transport no longer inspires confidence in the capital’s residents. These are the results of an express survey by the ROMIR-Monitoring research center, conducted without delay. 59% of respondents said that they were afraid not only to travel on public transport, but also to live in Moscow in general.

Kerry criticizes Bush for Iraq 'masquerade' The US election race is heating up. Last Sunday, televised debates broke out in the United States between the two main presidential candidates, although the first of three officially scheduled televised debates is not scheduled for September 30th. First, Republican President George W. Bush gave an hour-long interview to NBC television in the Oval Office of the White House.

In the German city of Armstadt, at a traditional high jump tournament to music, Russian Anna Chicherova showed the best result of the season in the world - 2.04 m. Let us recall that a week ago the world indoor record holder won the international athletics competition “Russian Winter”, breaking the bar at a height of 1.99. Russian Igor Pavlov, who won the international Flanders Meeting tournament in Ghent, also performed to match his national team colleague.

The third "Triumph of Jazz" brought surprises There were organizational and musical surprises, good and bad. Firstly, according to the director of the Triumph Foundation Igor Shabdurasulov and the ideological inspirer Igor Butman, this is not the third festival, but the fourth. (The first, it turns out, took place four years ago without any fanfare within the walls of the Cinema House.