Iran is required to stop all work with uranium Today, Deputy Secretary General of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Hosseini-Tash arrives in Moscow. His talks on the Iranian nuclear issue are scheduled for tomorrow. Mr. Hosseini-Tash already visited the Russian capital last week, but that visit did not bring any real results.

“We will not make any difference between the leader of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and members of the Islamic radical group Hamas. Abbas must not become a fig leaf for Hamas,” Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said at a meeting with US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Walsh. This categorical statement was supported by Ms. Livni’s comrades in the Kadima party - acting. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz.

The Supreme Court heard evidence of the approaching apocalypse The Apocalypse and the coming coming of the Antichrist became the subject of serious discussion yesterday in the Supreme Court of Russia. Representatives of the Chelyabinsk Orthodox-patriotic movement “For the right to live without codes and chips” declared on behalf of all Orthodox citizens of the country that the Russian passport of the 1997 model is unacceptable as it offends religious feelings.

The southern part of Sakhalin experienced a whole range of disasters over the past 24 hours. On the night of February 27, due to an accident on the main pipeline, almost the entire regional center was left without heat and hot water. Utilities promised to eliminate the consequences of the emergency on the night of February 28. Due to the powerful cyclone that covered Sakhalin on February 27, the air temperature outside is kept at zero.

Georgia is preparing a lawsuit against Russia for $15 billion Georgia may demand compensation from Russia for damages from the military conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia and the subsequent activities of the Russians in these territories not controlled by Tbilisi. “In total we are talking about at least $15 billion,” Georgian parliament member Shota Malashkhia told Vremya Novostey.

The third automaker comes to St. Petersburg St. Petersburg appears to be turning into the center of the Russian auto industry. Ford Focus has been assembled near St. Petersburg since 2002, and next year Toyota will open assembly shops (only Renault is assembled in Moscow for now; Volkswagen is going to start assembling in the near future). And yesterday Interfax reported that Nissan had finally chosen a site for the construction of a plant in St. Petersburg.

Vladimir Putin is expected in Budapest and Prague President Vladimir Putin's trip to Central and Eastern Europe begins today. First, the Russian leader will pay an official visit to Hungary, and tomorrow he will go to the Czech Republic.

Leko and company set off from Mexico to Spain The first round of the “Morelia – Linares” chess super tournament has ended. The grandmasters, having traveled from Mexico to Spain, will continue to fight in the second round. And according to the results of the first half of the competition, Hungarian Peter Leko is in the lead - five points out of seven possible.

One of the four federal national projects “Education”, launched at the beginning of this year, showed that neither officials nor society are fully prepared for its implementation. Decades of chronic underfunding of education have led to the fact that the leaders of most universities today cannot even figure out how to use the hundreds of millions of rubles allocated by the state as part of the national project.

The Duma majority agreed to discuss with competitors only within the walls of parliament The State Duma rejected in the first reading and withdrew from further consideration the bill of Dmitry Rogozin, Sergei Glazyev and other members of the Rodina faction, who proposed banning a political party from participating in television debates during the election campaign.

Brazilians are entering the regional transportation market The Brazilian aircraft manufacturing company Embraer has initiated the certification procedure in Russia for the Embraer-120 regional aircraft it produces. The procedure was started in the interests of the Moscow airline Atlant-Soyuz, which intends to purchase a batch of Embraer-120 to organize regular air services between the Russian capital and the centers of neighboring regions.

Regional organizations of the NBP are trying to remove Eduard Limonov There was a split in the National Bolshevik Party. During the February holidays, NBP activists from thirteen regions of Russia held an emergency interregional conference of the party and removed the leader of the organization, writer Eduard Limonov, from his post. Preparations for the event took place in the strictest secrecy.

Rosnedra is creating a commission that duplicates the functions of the Ministry of Natural Resources Within the Ministry of Natural Resources, a conflict appears to have broken out between the central apparatus and the Subsoil Use Agency (Rosnedra). The head of the latter, Anatoly Ledovskikh, announced yesterday that in a week the department will have a commission that will make decisions on the early termination of subsoil use rights.

Vladimir Mirzoev directed the film “Signs of Love” Vladimir Mirzoev is well known as a theater director. Having made a name for himself in Moscow in the eighties, he emigrated to Canada, but upon returning in the mid-nineties, he confidently took his place on the capital’s stage. This place turned out to be to the side and isolated, but attention was always paid to it.

On the European territory of Russia, the arrival of spring is delayed. The reason is the cold Arctic air coming through Scandinavia, which keeps the average daily temperature three to five degrees below the climate norm. In the next 24 hours, the onset of cold weather in the central regions of Russia will continue - in the rear of the cyclone passing through the southeast of the central region, the temperature will drop at night to -8...-13°C, and during the day -5...-10°C.