After the first race of the Olympic program, the President of the Russian Biathlon Union, Alexander TIKHONOV, radiated calm. A little unlucky, but that's sport. Fortunately, the multiple Olympic champion has something to suggest to our biathletes. Vremya Novostei special correspondent Vladimir STETSKO was convinced of this. — Alexander Vasilievich, what are your impressions of our guys’ performance? - Of course, I would like better results, but biathlon is such a sport...

Vice-President of the INDEM Foundation, Doctor of Legal Sciences Mikhail KRASNOV believes that Muslims who were offended by Danish cartoonists could achieve punishment for the offenders of the prophet in a purely legal field. First of all, I would like to transfer the problem under discussion exclusively to the legal plane, separating everything that concerns politics, including the reaction of the Islamic world to the published cartoons.

The “golden pause” in resolving the Karabakh conflict turned out to be empty Expectations for a breakthrough in resolving the Karabakh conflict from a two-day meeting at the end of the week between the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia in the medieval castle of Rambouillet near Paris were in vain. Ilham Aliyev and Robert Kocharyan failed to reach an agreement on a draft future settlement.

The TV channel "Russia Today" does not have enough English edition Russia has not limited itself to organizing television broadcasting in English, and now Arabic is being added to the English version of Russia Today. According to Vremya Novostei, the new Arabic-language TV channel will be officially announced this week. It will most likely be called “Rusia al-yaum”, which in translation also means “Russia today”.

Russians began to more actively correspond with the Federal Tax Service Communication with tax officials, it seems, is beginning, if not to give Russians pleasure, then at least to become a habit. Over the past year, the central office of the Federal Tax Service received a third more requests from citizens than before.

Islamic demonstrations sweep across Europe European Muslims seem to have used this past weekend to add their voices to the general roar of indignation that has risen across Islamic states, which have reached the news of the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

American veteran finds out Russia's position Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has threatened to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which his country joined in February 1970.

Russian luger brought silver Albert Demchenko did what was expected of him - he won silver at the Olympic Games. They hoped for this medal, but, fearing to scare away their luck, they did not talk about it in advance. Still, Demchenko had very serious rivals. Germans Georg Hackl, David Möller, American Tony Benschoof, Italian Armin Zoggeler.

CLUBS Anatoly Gerasimov (saxophone) and DJ Yazykov . “Chinese pilot Zhao Da” , 22.00. DJs Elka, Fedot, Director, Pornosuperstar. House. "Cult" , 21.00. Yuliy Kim (vocals, guitar). “The Wood Grouse’s Nest” , 19.00. Harry Gordon. Presentation of the book “Bird Rights”. “OGI Project” , 19.00. CONCERTS Anniversary evening of Alexander Tchaikovsky.

British Muslim protests are becoming more peaceful The Muslim demonstration in London this Saturday was anything but peaceful. No one chanted “Death to Denmark” anymore, no one appeared dressed as a suicide bomber and demanded that the heads of the cartoonists who dared to draw the Prophet Muhammad be cut off.

Sergei Chepikov was 0.8 seconds short of a medal The biathlon program of the Olympic Games opened with an individual race in the mountainous town of Cesana San Sicario on Saturday. Russian Sergei Chepikov fell just a moment short of the bronze medal, losing only 0.8 seconds to Norwegian Halvard Hannewold. The winner was the German Michael Greis, who found an almost perfect balance between racing and shooting. “I really want to watch the Olympics.

On the second day of the Olympics, Russia won medals of all merits The first gold medal of the Russian team at the White Olympics in Turin was brought by 23-year-old skier from Khanty-Mansiysk Evgeniy Dementyev. His victory in the men's duathlon (15 + 15 km race) was a real sensation.

Totmyanina and Marinin are in the lead after the short program The figure skating tournament started with competitions between sports pairs in the Olympic Turin. After the short program, two-time world champions Russians Tatyana Totmyanina and Maxim Marinin are in the lead. The Chinese Dan Jang - Hao Jang are almost four points behind them, and another Russian pair - Maria Petrova and Alexey Tikhonov - closes the top three.

Yesterday, Polish President Lech Kaczynski unexpectedly spoke at length about the possibility of a meeting with Vladimir Putin. He did this at the Warsaw airport immediately after returning from the USA. The reason was two things. Firstly, people in Warsaw are surprised that the Russian president spoke of Poland “with great respect” when answering a question from a Polish journalist at a press conference in the Kremlin at the end of January.

The Prime Minister wants to take business out from under the state machine Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov set a milestone for the Cabinet of Ministers when it will have to answer for everything. “Clarity should come in 2006. In 2007 - complete clarity! Because in the 2008 elections, voters will already be asking us,” he addressed his subordinates, who took part in a meeting of the Council on Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship last Friday.