American politicians often lose consciousness and fall. In 2001, the current US President George W. Bush, lying on the couch, watched American football on TV, crunched on salted pretzels, choked, lost consciousness and fell to the floor, crushing his face. Soon, while walking, he fell, tripping over his own dog. Then he lost his balance and fell while riding a scooter. And last year I fell several times while mountain biking on a ranch in Crawford, Texas.

Forecast for the coming days The confrontation between the Mediterranean cyclones and the Siberian anticyclone ends in favor of the anticyclone. Atmospheric pressure will rise, snowfalls will subside, and a moderate southeast wind will begin to draw in even colder air from Siberia. Frosts will begin to intensify, reaching -20°C in the central regions as early as Thursday. It will get almost as cold in the northwestern regions.

The monarch imprisoned the prime minister and ministers so as not to interfere Nepal's King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (pictured) yesterday dismissed the government led by Sher Bahadur Deuba. The 58-year-old monarch declared a state of emergency in the country and assumed full executive power.

The Rosneft party plays to the public The head of the Federal Energy Agency, Sergei Oganesyan, told reporters yesterday that Rosneft should remain an independent company with Yuganskneftegaz in its composition, and not merge into Gazprom. Thus, he began a public discussion with his current direct boss, Minister of Industry and Energy Viktor Khristenko, and demonstrated full support for his former leader, Rosneft President Sergei Bogdanchikov.

OSCE briefed on Moscow's reform proposals Yesterday in Moscow the problems of reforming the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) were discussed. Negotiations with the Russian side were conducted by Dimitri Rupel, head of the Foreign Ministry of Slovenia, which took over the chairmanship of the organization on January 1, 2005.

As the Foreign Ministry told Vremya Novostey yesterday, Mikhail Leonidovich Bogdanov was appointed Russian Ambassador to Egypt by decree of President Vladimir Putin. For the last three years, he served as director of the Middle East and North Africa Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry. Mikhail Bogdanov was born on March 2, 1952, graduated from MGIMO, worked in Yemen, Lebanon, and Syria. From 1997 to 2002 he was ambassador to Israel.

Political parties have not yet been able to score points on monetization of benefits Neither the participation of opposition political parties in the mass protests of pensioners and benefit recipients in January, nor the promises of a vote of no confidence in the government, nor even the hunger strikes of individual dissatisfied party leaders helped the parties increase their electoral ratings. This is evidenced by sociological surveys conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation.

Rosneft will pay for Yuganskneftegaz for five years 42 days after the sale of Yuganskneftegaz at auction, government representatives told where Rosneft got the money. Yesterday, the head of the Federal Energy Agency, Sergei Oganesyan, said at a press conference that the deal was financed by Russian banks. And at another briefing, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said that Vnesheconombank raised $6 billion from a group of Chinese banks to finance the purchase.

There is a possibility of forming the main core of Chinese migrants in Russia from among students. The high cost of education in China and its low quality have accustomed the Chinese to the idea of ​​the desirability of educating young people outside the country. The flow of Chinese students going to study in other countries is increasing every year. However, in 2003, only one out of 12 Chinese who went abroad to study chose Russia.

The world demographic forecast for the next fifty years allows us to talk about two most important trends for European countries: a decrease in the size of the indigenous population and its noticeable aging. The process of population aging, expressed in an increase in the proportion of elderly people, is caused by a decrease in the total fertility rate and an increase in life expectancy: it is observed almost everywhere.

I am often asked the question why we didn’t have migration before, but now we have it. With the help of migration, people solve their own problems (study, look for a better job, a more comfortable place to live, etc.), and society ensures the development of cities, the development of new areas, the functioning of the army and other needs. In other words, migration is a normal attribute of social life. Migration is as natural to him as breathing is to humans.

The Russian national volleyball team will be headed by Serbian Zoran Gajic For the first time in the history of Russian sports, a national team in an Olympic game event was led by a foreign specialist. Yesterday, at the presidium of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation (VFV), the new head coach of the country's men's team was approved - Serbian Zoran Gajic. He replaced Gennady Shipulin in this post, whom, ironically, this season he assisted at Lokomotiv-Belogorye Belgorod.

Moscow and Riga switched to the language of public diplomacy Yesterday, the Russian Foreign Ministry decided to take an unusual step in diplomatic practice by publishing draft political declarations on the foundations of Russia's relations with Latvia and Estonia. The projects were submitted in early December, but there was no response from either Riga or Tallinn.

Mosgaz scares officials with the dilapidation of its highways In the next year or two, Moscow will begin to be rocked by explosions that have nothing to do with terrorist attacks. At least, this is exactly the gloomy prospect that Mikhail Popovich, general director of the State Unitary Enterprise Mosgaz, painted when speaking at yesterday’s meeting of the capital’s government.

Russia's economic successes are becoming increasingly modest The results of last year, despite the “pause of growth” in the second half of the year, are considered “quite successful” by the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, which is responsible for this very growth. This is exactly the definition that was given yesterday at a press conference by the head of the macroeconomic development department of the Ministry of Economic Development, Andrei Klepach. Citing Rosstat, Mr.