Ukrainian authorities blame Tymoshenko for everything On the eve of the parliamentary elections scheduled for March 26, the Ukrainian government yesterday summed up the economic results of 2005. The reporting meeting was attended by President Viktor Yushchenko and Rada Speaker Vladimir Lytvyn.

Russia and Iran have not yet agreed on uranium Yesterday's negotiations in Moscow between the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) of Iran Ali Larijani and his Russian counterpart Igor Ivanov were unsuccessful.

After the “color revolutions” in Ukraine and Georgia, experts talk about the possibility of repeating such a scenario in Belarus, where parliamentary elections will be held on March 19. But a well-known expert on “color revolutions”, President of the American Association of Slavic Studies, Professor at Cornell University Valerie BANS, considers this unlikely.

The Belarusian opposition takes to the streets On the eve of the presidential elections on March 19, the situation in Belarus is heating up. KGB head Stepan Sukhorenko said yesterday that the opposition intended to declare the elections rigged. For this purpose, fake exit crawl protocols were prepared. They were seized during a search in the unregistered organization “Partnership”.

Former top manager of the company Mikhail Abyzov seeks to manage RAO UES For minority shareholders of RAO UES of Russia, the deadline for nominating candidates to the energy holding's board of directors expired yesterday. The full list of candidates will be officially published today. However, it was already known yesterday that the list of candidates differs little from last year.

Ensemble Opus posth. and the Shadow Theater performed a Russian opera of the 18th century Tatyana Grindenko with her ensemble, Ilya Epelbaum and Maya Krasnopolskaya with their theater are amazing people. Everything they do looks very fragile on the outside, but their work seems to be surrounded by some kind of protective field. They can do anything. Nothing absurd or harmful can happen to them, they have such an organic structure.

Andrey Kostin explained why he needs banks in Angola and Vietnam Having subsidiary banks in every CIS country, as well as a network of credit institutions in Western Europe, seemed insufficient to Vneshtorgbank President Andrei Kostin. By the end of this year, VTB will open subsidiaries in Angola and Vietnam, as Mr. Kostin announced yesterday at a press conference. Expanding its presence in countries far from Russia, VTB does not intend to acquire banks within the country. At least this year.

Exhibition in honor of the 250th anniversary of the Russian theater at the Pushkin Literary Museum The fact that theater in Pushkin’s era was both a mirror of the world, and the most important of the arts, and a kind of code, the key to understanding life, will be understood not only by an adult, but even by a toddler. Lectures by Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman are broadcast by the media with enviable regularity.

In the north-west and in the center of the European territory of Russia, a cold air mass remains; the air temperature has been three to six degrees below the climate norm for several days now. In the next 24 hours, winter will make itself felt again in the central regions of Russia; a powerful Mediterranean cyclone will bring snowfalls, blizzards and gusty winds. On March 3, the influence of the cyclone will continue and snowfalls will continue.

The state promises not to change the rules on the market without consultation with the media community The persecution by regional officials and prosecutors of publications that risked taking part in the pan-European “cartoon scandal” seems to have put the federal government in an awkward position. From which government officials in charge of the information sphere tried to get out yesterday by explaining their position at an intersectoral conference on media, book publishing and printing.

CLUBS Cab (USA). Fusion quartet consisting of Tony Macalpine (guitar), Steve Weingart (keyboards), Bunny Brunel (bass) and Virgil Donati (drums). The quartet consists of extremely diverse musicians. Tony Macalpine is a living legend of progressive metal, and is well known in jazz circles. Virgil Donati is a virtuoso drummer who amazes with incredible tempos and brilliant technique.

Athletes from 140 countries will come to Moscow for the Winter World Championships At the end of next week, the 11th World Indoor Athletics Championships will be held at the capital's Olimpiyskiy sports complex. For the first time, the Russian capital will host international athletics competitions of this rank.

The Caucasus is taught to earn and spend The State Duma Commission on Problems of the North Caucasus held a visiting meeting in Rostov-on-Don dedicated to improving inter-budgetary relations between the constituent entities of the Southern Federal District. The meeting was attended by representatives of the administration of the Rostov region and the Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the Southern Federal District Dmitry Kozak.

The state does not know how to implement the law on price indexation in housing and communal services The head of the Federal Tariff Service (FTS) Sergei Novikov yesterday publicly promised journalists that this year there will be no more indexation of tariffs for housing and communal services. “We are not planning large-scale revisions, well, maybe there may be an adjustment in one or two regions,” he said.

Hockey. NHL. Regular season. "Islanders" -- "Montreal" -- 3:5 -- Yashin "A" (0+1), Perezhogin "M" (1+0), Kovalev "M" (0+2), "Tampa Bay" -- "Florida" -- 2:8, "Toronto" -- "Washington" -- 3:5 -- Ovechkin "B" (1+0), "Calgary" -- "Vancouver" -- 1:2, “Colorado” – “Minnesota” – 4:2, “San Jose” – “Detroit” – 5:1 – Datsyuk “D” (0+1). After a 15-day break due to the hockey tournament of the XX Winter Olympics in Turin, the regular season in the overseas league resumed.