South Korean corporation Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. decided to significantly strengthen its memory chip business. Yesterday, company representatives announced that it is ready to spend $635.1 million on the development of the chip industry and the production of flat screens. Of this, $400 million will go to the development of DRAM memory chips and flash chips at the company's local factories.

The registration of the press organ of the Volgograd administration was canceled Certificate of registration of the Volgograd newspaper " Gorodskie Vesti", which published a drawing depicting Jesus, Muhammad, Moses and Buddha on February 9, was canceled yesterday. The Nizhnevolzhsky territorial department of Rosokhrankultura satisfied the application of the founder of the newspaper Gorodskie Vesti, MUP Volgograd-Inform, to close the publication.

Bosco demands a million dollars from the Olympic Committee A crack has appeared in the relationship between the Russian Olympic Committee and its general sponsor, Bosco, which cannot be covered with any adhesive bandage. Yesterday it became known that representatives of “Bosco” presented a claim to ROC for $1 million. The amount is not final - if at the Olympics in Turin some points of the contract between ROC and Bosco continue to be violated, it may increase.

Valery Zorkin hopes to remain in the chair of the Constitutional Court chairman Today, members of the Constitutional Court will have to choose their leader for the next three years. It can be assumed with a high degree of probability that they will choose the current chairman of the country’s highest court, Valery Zorkin, who during his previous term gave no reason to reproach himself for disloyalty to the Kremlin.

The rapid growth of the car lending market will continue in 2006 due to the development of the retail banking network in the province, says Ekaterina DEMYGINA, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Soyuz Bank. -- Did 2005 live up to the expectations of banks that relied on car loans? — Of course, throughout the year we observed a significant increase in car lending volumes. We expect that in the coming years this market will not slow down and will continue its further active development.

34 skiers became victims of the route Speed ​​skaters, hockey players and figure skaters enjoy the most comfortable conditions at the Olympics. They perform under a roof and are protected from any vagaries of weather. Ski jumpers, biathletes, alpine skiers and bobsledders are most dependent on the elements. Some of them have already been badly damaged by strong winds and snow.

Major British film awards presented The British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) were presented in London for the fifty-fourth time. In the main nominations, the layout was not much different from the recently awarded Golden Globes and the upcoming Oscar nominations.

NBA All-Star Game took place in Houston The program of the orange ball celebration was crowned by the All-Star Game. The East team won 122:120, and the MVP title went to Cleveland forward LeBron James. America forgot about the Olympics for three days. Viewer interest in the basketball show turned out to be much higher than in the broadcasts from Turin. There is no doubt that basketball in North America is more popular than skiing, biathlon and figure skating.

Austrian biathletes expelled from national team The scandal with the Austrian Olympians, which broke out on Sunday night, received an unexpected continuation. Two Austrian biathletes, Wolfgang Perner and Wolfgang Rottman, voluntarily left the Austrian team and left Turin. Today both were supposed to participate in the biathlon relay race. After negotiations with the fugitives, the leaders of the National Olympic Committee decided to exclude the biathletes from the team.

Alexander Bubnov, one of the most famous animation directors of the new, post-Soviet era, became famous in the mid-nineties, having shot the paradoxical and very funny film “Bluebeard’s Last Wife” in Kyiv. Fate threw him a lot: he shot original films in Kyiv at the Borisfen studio, advertising in Moscow at the Pilot studio, worked as a series artist in France for three years, then returned.

Other interlocutors are selected for movement leaders Russian President Vladimir Putin will not personally meet with the leaders of the radical Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS). The movement won parliamentary elections in Palestine on January 25, and shortly thereafter the Russian president invited its leaders to Moscow. This gave rise to speculation that Vladimir Putin would personally receive Khaled Mashaal (pictured) , head of the Hamas Politburo.

Sobriety territories began to be created in Yakutia Sixty Yakut villages and cities declared themselves a territory of sobriety. The heads of administrations of twenty-seven localities generally banned the sale of alcoholic beverages in village stores and consumer cooperative outlets.

Rublevskoye Highway saved from communal flood The main Russian special highway, the famous Rublevskoye Highway, along which most state leaders, including President Putin himself, travel to and from work every day, experienced a real communal disaster on Monday night. Due to a break in the cold water supply pipe at the very beginning of the road, at the intersection with Kutuzovsky Prospekt, a real lake was formed, the depth of which in some places reached two meters.

Criminal authorities want to take control of the Sverdlovsk colonies Criminal authorities are testing the strength of the administration of the Sverdlovsk colonies. This conclusion was reached by employees of the Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) for the Sverdlovsk Region in connection with several incidents that have occurred recently in local penitentiary institutions. The loudest of them was recorded on February 9 in Yekaterinburg colony No. 2.

Today the Russian President arrives in Baku. One of the purposes of the visit is the opening of the Year of Russia in Azerbaijan. In the afternoon, Presidents Vladimir Putin and Ilham Aliyev will make speeches at the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Concert Complex, and will also inspect the exposition of the National Exhibition of Russia.