Unconfirmed gas reserves found in Turkmenistan Turkmen authorities continue preparations for the visit of Gazprom Chairman of the Board Alexey Miller to Ashgabat, which is scheduled for next Saturday. Last week, the country's President Saparmurat Niyazov said that in the fall he wants to receive $100 for every thousand cubic meters of gas exported (currently Gazprom pays $65).

Steven Spielberg's new film "Munich" is on Moscow screens The film is preceded by credits: “The film is inspired by real events.” Feel the difference - it is not based on a real story, but only “inspired by it.” That is, this is not a documentary drama, but a reflection in artistic form. Real events - in 1972, during the Olympics, members of the Palestinian group “Black September” took Israeli athletes hostage and shot them during the assault.

The Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court yesterday found Omri Sharon (pictured) guilty of violating the law on political parties and making false statements. The 41-year-old son of the Israeli Prime Minister was sentenced to nine months in prison and another nine months probation. He will also have to pay a fine of 300 thousand shekels (about 64 thousand dollars).

E.ON Ruhrgas independently liberalizes the gas market in Germany The largest German gas company E.ON Ruhrgas, which is prohibited by the country's antimonopoly authorities from concluding long-term gas supply contracts with consumers, has itself demonstrated a desire to increase competition in the domestic market.

The situation around Iran is heating up, although there remains hope that the Iranians will show flexibility at the talks in Moscow early next week. “Vremya Novostei” talks about Iran’s nuclear program with the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, former US Deputy Secretary of Energy for Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and National Security Rose GETTEMÜLLER. -- The UN Security Council received detailed information about Iran's nuclear program last week.

For the first time at the Olympic Games, team sprint competitions were held among men and women. Russian skiers did not please their fans. Having easily reached the final, Olga Moskalenko-Rocheva and Alena Sidko were unable to maintain the pace proposed by their rivals from Sweden, Canada and Finland. But in men's competitions we had the right to count on medals of any merit. The result was “bronze”. It was won by the 2005 world champion in individual sprint Vasily ROCHEV and Ivan ALYPOV.

Moscow agricultural holdings require the patronage of United Russia The capital authorities decided to begin the implementation of national programs with the highest priority direction for Moscow - with the rise of agriculture. “This is about food security!

The Chinese couple was given silver for their will to win Russian sports couple Tatyana Totmyanina and Maxim Marinin brought the Russian team the first “gold” in figure skating competitions. Silver and bronze medalists were two Chinese duets Dan Jang - Hao Jang and Xu Shen - Hongbo Zhao. The competition between sports pairs, in which, frankly speaking, no sensations were expected - the advantage of the Russians was too great - became one of the most dramatic in the history of the last Olympics.

Watch from February 16 on Moscow screens “Bloodrain” (USA - Germany, 2005, Uwe Boll).

The standard-bearer of the Russian national team, Dmitry Dorofeev, winning silver at a distance of 500 m, brought Russian speed skaters an Olympic medal - the first after a twelve-year break. The last time our runners achieved success was at the 1994 Games in Lillehammer, when Svetlana Bazhanova and Alexander Golubev won gold in the 3000 and 500 m, respectively. And Sergei Klevchenya, now, by the way, Dorofeev’s coach, was second in the same “five hundred” .

The state is coming up with ways to combat hazing The outburst of public emotions associated with the manifestation of so-called hazing in the army finally resulted in a joint meeting of two State Duma committees - on defense and security. The initiator of the hearings was the “military” committee, which invited the rest of the security forces.

The United States is unhappy with the conclusions of UN experts on Guantanamo Bay The White House reacted sharply to excerpts from a draft report of an expert group of the UN Commission on Human Rights on the situation of Guantanamo Bay prisoners, published by the Los Angeles Times. Although the full document will not be made public until the end of this week, President George W. Bush has already conveyed his concerns to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

Norwegians are returning seafood to Russia Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Norway Jonas Gahr Støre began his four-day working visit to Russia from Murmansk, where he held negotiations with the Governor of the Murmansk Region Yuri Evdokimov. Today in St. Petersburg the minister will meet with the Governor of the Leningrad Region Valentina Matvienko. On Thursday in Moscow, the Norwegian guest will hold talks with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

Finnish Nokia and Japanese Sanyo will enter a new market together The successful cooperation of two high-tech representatives - Sony and Ericsson - in the production of mobile phones has prompted competitors to create a new Scandinavian-Japanese alliance. Yesterday, the business publication Nihon Keizai reported that the undisputed world leader in the production of mobile communications equipment, Finnish Nokia Oy, is ready to enter into a similar alliance with Sanyo Electric Co.

50 years after the 20th Congress of the CPSU, Russia is solving the same problems On Tuesday, writers and political scientists, living witnesses of the 20th Congress of the CPSU, gathered in Moscow for an anniversary scientific and practical conference to discuss its political and historical consequences.