The US called on Europeans to unite Yesterday, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke at the National Institute of Political Studies in Paris, known as Science Po. The security measures were exceptional. At 16.30 the doors of the institute were closed to the public. At 5 p.m., the speech began, which had been called a landmark speech the day before.

Andrei Illarionov diagnosed the Russian economy Yesterday, Presidential Adviser on Economic Affairs Andrei Illarionov dedicated his latest press conference to one of the fundamental democratic freedoms - freedom of speech. True, at first it seemed that this wonderful achievement of democracy was mainly suffering from oppression in Great Britain. But then Mr. Illarionov moved on to problems that were closer to those present. As a result, Mr.

Ten years ago, the Commonwealth Joint Air Defense System was created On February 10, 1995, the heads of ten states - Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine - signed an Agreement on the creation of a Joint Air Defense System (USA) of the CIS member states.

They will be sent to orange Ukraine and pink Georgia Washington stops allocating funds to support economic reforms in Russia. The reason is given in the 2006 Foreign Policy Budget Request posted on the US Department of State website.

The government proposes to create a complaints department in the Federal Tax Service Yesterday, new proposals were received from those involved in the tax reform currently being rewritten to clarify the fiscal system. Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov, at a meeting with the president, proposed creating special “complaint units” to consider claims against tax authorities and streamlining the procedure for pre-trial consideration of disputes between payers and tax authorities.

Yuri Bashmet played Karmanov, Martynov, Ledenev and Brahms The mere fact that Bashmet, with his orchestra “New Russia” and pianist Alexei Lyubimov, played the fresh opus of the young fashionable author Pavel Karmanov “Spring in January”, and even the premiere of the authoritative post-avant-garde player and favorite of the unorthodox public Vladimir Martynov, became an absolute sensation. In this significant situation, the music itself did not need to be sensational.

CLUBS Vital Information (USA). Legendary jazz quartet consisting of Steve Smith (drums), Tom Coster (keyboards), Frank Gambale (guitar) and Baron Browne (bass). All musicians have a very impressive track record of working with the greatest stars of jazz and other styles. A few years ago, the ensemble updated its sound quite a bit, adding modern styles such as free jazz, R&B, roots jazz styles: New Orleans, blues, etc. The team comes to Moscow with a new program Show 'Em Where You Live.

Yuri Luzhkov separated signs from advertising Capital entrepreneurs seem to be in for an unexpected gift from the Moscow authorities. At yesterday's meeting of the city government, Yuri Luzhkov instructed his subordinates to relieve small businesses of the need to pay advertising tax for their signs and navigators.

Kavazashvili does not envy himself or Abramovich Yesterday the first official candidate for the post of president of the Russian Football Union was registered. It was the famous former goalkeeper of Spartak and Torpedo Anzor Kavazashvili, who was nominated by the All-Russian Football Association. “Yes, I entered this fight, but I will not envy myself or anyone else who will become president of the RFU,” Anzor Kavazashvili told Vremya Novostei yesterday.

Saakashvili is looking for a replacement for Zurab Zhvania Yesterday, five FBI experts arrived in Tbilisi and joined the investigation into the latest Georgian events. On February 3, 41-year-old Zurab Zhvania, Prime Minister of Georgia, and 25-year-old Raul Yusupov, vice-governor of Kvemo Kartli, died. On February 1, a terrorist attack in Gori claimed the lives of three policemen.

RAO UES is going to introduce liability insurance for its executives The financial director of RAO UES of Russia, Dmitry Zhurba, told Interfax yesterday that the energy holding intends to insure its top managers and members of the board of directors against attacks from minority shareholders. In this regard, Mr. Zhurba said, a corresponding issue has been prepared for consideration at the next meeting of the board of directors of RAO on February 25.

Tatyana Bek wrote and lived independently and freely - despite both cordial reader responses, friendly conversations, and malicious slander.

One of the missing relatives of Aslan Maskhadov was found by the police One of Aslan Maskhadov’s relatives, who was recently added to the list of allegedly abducted by unknown persons in December last year, was recently found alive in Chechnya.

The Duma will not dismiss the Fradkov government Today the State Duma will consider the issue of no confidence in the government. The initiators of the vote of no confidence are the parliamentary factions of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and Rodina. The basis for dissatisfaction with the cabinet of ministers was the all-Russian protests against the replacement of in-kind benefits with compensation. Last week, the initiators collected 100 signatures in support of the vote.

The creator of Dolly the sheep was allowed to experiment with human embryos One of the creators of the famous Dolly the sheep - the first large mammal to be cloned - will now officially work on human embryo reproduction. Professor at the University of Roslyn from Edinburgh, Ian Wilmut, who took the brunt of the cloning opponents in the 90s of the last century, is now again preparing to receive a portion of blows from the conservative part of society.