New rules for the provision of Internet services require decryption The government, trying to establish clear rules of the game in the Internet services market, seems to have again shown haste, fraught with panic among clients of provider companies and large players.

Russia wants to defend its skies without Ukraine's help The time is not far off when Ukraine will be knocked out, probably, the last lever of at least some real influence on Russia. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sergei Ivanov recently said that the Russian military department will be able to abandon the Dnepr radar stations of the missile attack warning system (SPRN), installed back in the USSR in Sevastopol and Mukachevo (Transcarpathia).

Iran is not alone in its nuclear ambitions Today, Iran's nuclear developments are in the spotlight of the whole world, but it should be taken into account that the long-term activities of the IAEA did not prevent the creation of atomic weapons in Israel, India, Pakistan, South Africa and North Korea. A number of other countries, ignoring the IAEA, have moved or are moving in this dangerous direction: Brazil, Algeria, Indonesia, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Syria.

Gazprom recruited candidates for independent directors The Gazprom Board of Directors yesterday approved a list of candidates for the new composition of this body, a record number of names. There are 11 government proteges vying for 11 seats, 9 people were nominated by Gazprom, and 6 more were proposed by minority shareholders. The main surprise of the list is the presence in it of four candidates from Gazprom management, who could potentially fill the niche of independent directors.

Human rights activists were unable to stay in Lubyanka for long The open confrontation between Russian human rights activists and intelligence services, which began with television accusations that non-governmental organizations received money from the hands of British spies, yesterday almost turned into hand-to-hand combat.

Far Eastern doctors undertreat patients in order to get a “presidential” raise In the Far East, rural outpatient clinics and clinics have introduced a planned system of medical care, forgotten since Soviet times. Now doctors and nurses of the Jewish Autonomous Region, in order to receive a full salary, must meet the standards: cure a certain number of patients.

The Vremya publishing house published lectures by Artemy Troitsky In the said publishing house there are fiction series, non-fiction series, modern fairy tales and poetry, rock poetry and Solzhenitsyn, and even a book on medical topics. But even they did not have such a work, because the small volume “I will introduce you to the world... Pop” is a work that is still indeterminate in genre.

Today at the Bolshoi Theater is the premiere of “Cinderella” For the first time, the old fairy tale was retold in a major ballet by Rostislav Zakharov - it was in 1945, and incredible hopes for a better future, circling over the country in a victorious year, animated the creation of the tiresome founder of the drama ballet. In 1946, the performance appeared at the Mariinsky Theater, in a measured version by Konstantin Sergeev.

2H Company. "Psychosurgeons" ("Bullfinches") Russian rap is raising its head and becoming so good and original that it’s as if it’s no longer Russian, but downright real. Several releases of the “conversational genre” that appeared this year confirm that the trend is developing and going in different directions. To the maxim of my colleague, professional brawler Nikolai Fandeev, “our pop is much better than our rock,” we can now add that our rap is better than all our pop-rock combined.

Belarus' relations with European countries will depend on how freely and fairly the presidential elections on March 19 are held. The head of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly delegation for Belarus, Uta Zapf, announced this yesterday at a press conference in Minsk. She said that the democratic nature of the campaign would be assessed by 400 short-term and 14 long-term observers from the OSCE. “It seems to me that the Belarusian authorities are interested in holding fair elections,” Ms.

Georgia pays Iran twice as much for gas as Russia Iranian Deputy Oil Minister Mohammad Hadi Nejad Hosseinian revealed one of the main trade secrets of the Georgian government in recent days. As the official told the Islamic Republic of Iran news agency IRNA, according to the short-term contract, Tbilisi will receive 30 million cubic meters of gas within 30 days.

There is less Russian gold Russian miners yesterday at the Zoloto-2006 exhibition announced a reduction in production for the first time in the last four years. According to the head of the Union of Gold Miners Valery Braiko, last year the total production of gold in Russia, including secondary and by-products, decreased by 3.5%, to 168.032 tons, and mining - by 4.3%, to 152.026 tons.

Chronicle of sporting events Hockey. NHL. Regular season. "Islanders" -- "Washington" -- 5:3 -- Kvasha "A" (2+0), Yashin "A" (0+1) , "Atlanta" -- "Buffalo" -- 2:5 - - Kalinin "B" (0+1) , "Montreal" - "Carolina" - 2:8, "Tampa" - "Toronto" - 3:2 (B), "Phoenix" - "Vancouver" - - 4:7, “Colorado” – “Minnesota” – 3:2. Alexander Ovechkin, having been injured in Washington's last match, was unable to take the ice against the Islanders.

Hunting season for old people in the “land of the golden age” January of this year will be remembered for a long time in Turkmenistan. Thanks to him, this month, named after the Turkmen helmsman Turkmenbashi, became the last in the lives of many old men and women. They fainted, had a heart attack, they died right in post offices, banks and social security services when they found out that their pension had been taken away, some completely, some partially.

Non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is one of the priorities of the upcoming G8 summit in St. Petersburg this year, where Russia currently presides. Anatoly ANTONOV, director of the department for security and disarmament issues at the Russian Foreign Ministry, told Vremya Novostei special correspondent Katerina LABETSKAYA about this.