In Sweden, the minister paid for the persecution of cartoonists Swedish Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds ( pictured ) submitted her resignation yesterday. Prime Minister and leader of the Swedish Social Democrats, Göran Persson, immediately granted the request. Deputy Prime Minister Bosse Ringholm will act as head of the Swedish Foreign Ministry.

The North Atlantic cyclone will not leave the northern half of European Russia in the next two days. Because of it, there is light snow in places in the northwestern regions, cold at night: -8...-13°C, and cool during the day: -1...-7°C. In the center of Russia, the temperature in the morning will drop to -9...-14°C, and on Wednesday afternoon it will be 0...-5°C, on Thursday +2...-3°C.

Two people were killed and one was wounded as a result of a riot caused by a resident of the working-class village of Privokzalny (Sverdlovsk region). According to the prosecutor's office, on Monday at about 8 o'clock in the evening, a local 23-year-old unemployed man was walking along Tsentralnaya Street with an unregistered hunting rifle in his hands and, for no apparent reason, shot a 41-year-old woman he met in the face. He then entered the store, where he shot a customer in the back.

Europe's elite clubs begin to play in court Has there been a scandal in world football for a long time? Have you heard about the G-14 group for a long time? Has it been a long time since anyone challenged FIFA? And then it happened. The World Football Authority is being sued for exploiting the labor of football players. No more, no less.

Why Belarusians voted for Alexander Lukashenko again No one doubted that Alexander Lukashenko would win the elections in Belarus. However, the events of the last weeks of the election campaign gave it some dynamism, and several key issues came up on the agenda.

A representative of the old elite became the speaker of the Nizhny Novgorod parliament Yesterday the first meeting of the new legislative assembly of the Nizhny Novgorod region took place. As expected, the leader of the Nizhny Novgorod regional branch of the United Russia party, Evgeny Lyulin, became the chairman of the regional parliament.

James Conlon shot Britten's War Requiem The works of Benjamin Britten, who stands outside the main trends of music of the 20th century, fit more and more firmly into the standard repertoire of world concert life. But for Moscow, the War Requiem (perhaps the most direct opus of the great English composer in its appeal to humanity) is still a rarity.

The only consumer of the Okhinskaya CHPP refused a non-controlling stake in the power plant Minority shareholders of RAO UES of Russia have not yet managed to block a significant additional issue of shares of the Sakhalin Okha Thermal Power Plant.

Liv Gret Poiret announced her retirement Tomorrow the final, ninth stage of the Biathlon World Cup begins in Holmenkollen. On the eve of this event, the owner of the track, the famous shooting skier Liv Gret Poiret, announced that she was going to end her career. Thus, for the 31-year-old Norwegian, the upcoming races will be the last official starts in her sports career.

VEB will take on the risks of Chinese investors As part of Vladimir Putin's visit to China, Vnesheconombank (VEB), the State Development Bank of China and the government of Chechnya entered into a trilateral cooperation agreement yesterday. According to the document, banks will have to provide financial support for investment projects in Chechnya in the field of housing construction, infrastructure, mechanical engineering, manufacturing and oil refining industries.

Nord-Ost hostages passed all Russian authorities Spectators of the musical “Nord-Ost” who suffered from terrorists failed to achieve changes in the principles of compensation for moral damage in Russia through the Constitutional Court. The court did not even begin to consider in detail the complaint of the victims’ lawyer Igor Trunov, who challenged the provision of Article 17 of the Law “On the Fight against Terrorism” in the highest court.

Roman Suslov revives the group “Polite Refusal” “I feel like a vegetable/on this farm,” sang the once iconic punk band UK Subs. These lines have nothing to do with our interlocutor. For Roman Suslov, life on a farm is an exciting job and a useful pastime. He knows everything about horses and current agricultural conditions. He knows how to live by farming, bankrupt collective farms and breed ponies for sale.

Discussion of monetization reached the highest judicial level The almost inaudible echo of last year’s protests of thousands of Russians dissatisfied with the monetization of benefits has finally reached the Constitutional Court. The peak of street indignation and sharp criticism of the heads of regions and municipalities against the notorious Federal Law No. 122 has long passed, but the conflict, which has entered a “quiet” stage, has reached the highest judicial level.

32-year-old Russian Lidiya Grigorieva won the prestigious Los Angeles Marathon, earning a total of $135 thousand. She finished with a course record of 2 hours 25 minutes. 10 sec. In addition to winning the women's competition, for which the Russian woman received 35 thousand, she also achieved success in the so-called “battle of the sexes”, hitting the “jackpot” - a check for 100 thousand dollars.

The European Commission has approved a deal to sell the rights to conduct Formula 1 auto racing. The investment group CVC Capital Partners, as planned, will be able to buy 48% of Formula 1 shares from the German Bayerische Landesbank and another 25% from the holding company owned by the commercial director of Formula 1, Briton Bernie Ecclestone.