Russian intelligence officers will stay at home Qatari Emir Hamad Al Thani presented Russia with a royal gift. Yesterday evening, two Russians, accused in February of this year of involvement in the murder of the leader of the Chechen separatists Zelimkhan Yandarbiev, returned to Moscow on a plane of the state company "Russia" from Doha.

UN seeks new paths to peace in Sudan Yesterday, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan admitted that the UN urgently needs to “fundamentally reconsider its approach” to the situation in the Sudanese province of Darfur, because the current one “is frankly not working.” The head of the US mission to the UN, John Danforth, said that the agreements signed through international mediation appear to be “worthless.” As a result of the interethnic conflict between Arab nomads and African farmers, about 70

El Al airline lost the state as a controlling shareholder The state's stake in Israel's national airline El Al, formed more than 50 years ago, has shrunk significantly. On Thursday it became known that the Israeli State Companies Authority gave official permission to the Knafaim holding to increase its stake in El Al. Thus, the state lost a controlling stake in the airline. The owners of Knafaim are businessmen Izy Borowitz and Avshalom Nuriel.

The Russian Air Force is buying planes again The Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Production Association (KNAAPO) yesterday handed over seven modernized Su-27SM aircraft to the Russian Air Force (pictured) . Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force, Army General Vladimir Mikhailov, speaking on this occasion at the aircraft plant, emphasized that in this way the domestic fighter aviation received a new combat vehicle for the first time in the post-Soviet period.

A quarter of a century ago, Soviet troops entered Afghanistan The key operation of the initial period of the ten-year Afghan epic was the capture of the palace of the Afghan leader Amin, who was trying to pursue a pro-American policy. Despite the fact that several books have been written about that operation, and some operational documents have been published, even after 25 years many questions remain.

Georgy Yartsev retained his position and has already decided on the composition of the team Head coach of the Russian national team Georgy Yartsev remains at his post. This decision was made by the bureau of the executive committee of the Russian Football Union, having heard the report of the national team coach yesterday.

Without the lockout, the number one draft pick, Alexander Ovechkin, would have scored more than one goal in the NHL. Therefore, perhaps, it is worth saying a special thank you to the opposing sides overseas for the fact that one of the most gifted young players is currently playing not for the local Washington, but for his native Dynamo. True, Ovechkin is now in the USA, where the World Youth Championship starts tomorrow.

Political scientist Joseph Diskin voiced a new version of public-private partnership Over the past year, the economy has been stumbling at every turn. It is already clear that neither high oil prices nor other factors will be able to ensure economic growth next year even at the current level. At the same time, no one is removing the task of doubling GDP.

President Today he will hold a meeting of the State Council, at which issues of administrative reform will be considered. Government By its resolution, it established the amount of cash payments to calculate the volume of allocations necessary for the travel of military personnel serving under conscription .

Real Madrid and Barcelona have swapped roles in a year Last season, the Spanish Championship standings before the Christmas and New Year holidays were confidently headed by Real, while Barcelona eked out a miserable existence in the middle. Now the situation has changed dramatically, and Barça, only occasionally slowing down, is rushing at full speed towards its first championship in five years, while the “royal” club occupies a place that is completely inappropriate for it.

The Constitutional Court invited cooperators to take care of the future on their own Employees of gardening and gardening and garage-construction cooperatives must take care of the funded component of their pension themselves, transferring a portion of their income to the pension funds of their choice.

Argentine Themis took on another ex-president Former Argentine President, 74-year-old Carlos Menem has returned to his homeland. He flew in from Chile, where he lived with his young wife, 39-year-old TV presenter and former Miss Universe Cecilia Bolocco, and one-year-old son Maximo Saul. Carlos Menem was missing in Argentina for nine months as a fugitive.

“Golden Eagle” did not include the rental record holder of the year in the main nominations The shortlist for the Golden Eagle Award has been announced - the award ceremony itself will take place at Mosfilm on January 29 and will be shown on ORT on the same day. Let us recall that, unlike another Russian professional cinematographic award (the older one, “Nika”), “Eagle” has a more complex system for identifying laureates.

Neumeier's famous ballet was shown at the Bolshoi Theater Half the troupe is sneezing, the other half is coughing. There is flu in Moscow. Two premieres (Sergei Filin and Yuri Klevtsov) are injured, two more (Dmitry Belogolovtsev and Andrei Uvarov) have such a fever that they are out of rehearsals for several weeks.

The exhibition “Bubble. Comics in contemporary art" Although Russian (and even more so Soviet) children did not learn to read from comics, there is no escape from globalization. Anyone who uses the subway, notices outdoor advertising and sometimes opens newspapers can notice this. The foreign way of expressing one’s thoughts and feelings with the help of bright pictures with words in bubbles has conquered the domestic advertising space and is impudently interfering with high art.