CLUBS Soul Bop Band (USA) consisting of: Randy Brecker (trumpet), Bill Evans (saxophone), Hiram Bullock (guitar), Dave Kukowski (piano), Rodney Holmes (drums); French singer Anne Ducrot ; big band of Igor Butman ; International Jazz Quartet (USA-Russia) consisting of: Mikhail Rabinovich (bassoon), Alex Rostotsky (bass guitar), Arkady Figlin (piano); trio of Daniil Kramer (USA-Russia) consisting of: Daniil Kramer (piano), Oleg Butman (drums), Richie Goods (bass).

Moscow is trying to legitimize the forced seizure of land for the needs of the city The Moscow authorities are openly trying to insure themselves against long-term land disputes with the owners of plots or houses located in the areas required by the mayor's office for development.

"A Just Russia" proposes to punish for coercion to join parties Deputies of the A Just Russia faction yesterday submitted to the State Duma a bill establishing administrative liability for coercion to join a political party. The authors of the document propose to set a fine for citizens in the amount of 5 to 10 minimum wages, and for officials - from 20 to 30 minimum wages.

The Supreme Court found elements of a crime in his past The Supreme Court (SC) yesterday confirmed the decision of its lower court made in mid-January that there were signs of a crime in the actions of Senator Andrei Vavilov . Now this decision has come into force, and bringing the senator to criminal liability is a matter of a few days.

North Korea is ready to shut down its main nuclear reactor Pyongyang agreed to suspend its nuclear program in exchange for foreign assistance - this is the result of the six-party talks on the DPRK nuclear issue that ended yesterday in Beijing. The appearance of a document on Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament agreed upon by all parties - the two Koreas, China, the United States, Russia and Japan - was welcome news.

Georgia will defend the rights of deportees in Strasbourg Yesterday, Georgia finally decided to appeal to the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights to protect its citizens expelled from Russia . In the Georgian parliament, at the final meeting of the temporary commission to protect the rights of deportees, the Minister of Justice and the Georgian consul in Russia were heard. On Friday, the Georgian parliament will adopt a corresponding resolution on this issue.

Yesterday, the best libero of the men's Champions League of last season and the 2006 World Championship, Alexey Verbov, arrived from Moscow to the location of the seven-time national champion Belgorod Lokomotiv-Belogorye. For the first time since the World Cup ended in early December, he begins training with his team. The forced downtime was caused by a serious injury to the volleyball player.

The court returned the licenses for two areas in the Barents Sea to the Sintez group The Sintez group, believed to be controlled by the senator from Chuvashia Leonid Lebedev , managed to defeat Rosnedra, which deprived it of licenses for the geological study of the Admiralteyskaya and Pakhtusovskaya areas in the Barents Sea. The Moscow Arbitration Court yesterday declared the corresponding order of the department invalid.

Concluding his trip to Arab countries , Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke in Amman with a group of Russian journalists, among whom was a Vremya Novostey columnist. The president returned to his speech on February 10 at a security conference in Munich, which the West hastened to call “confrontational.” According to Vladimir Putin, he did not say anything new then.

The Minister of Regional Development explained what his ministry does Yesterday, Minister of Regional Development Vladimir Yakovlev, the head of the most criticized department in Russia, not counting, perhaps, the Ministry of Health and Social Development, reported to journalists on the state of housing and communal services , the reform of which the department oversees, and on the rest of the work of the ministry.

An examination in Denmark confirmed the exact location of the sunken legend Yesterday, on the anniversary of the death of the legendary steamship Chelyuskin in the Arctic in 1934, an exhibition opened in Moscow, which presented not only the personal belongings of the expedition members and archival documents, but also the results of the latest research at the bottom of the Chukchi Sea, where in the summer of 2006- In fact, the search for the sunken legend was completed.

A new emergency occurred in the Russian army. On Tuesday morning, the prosecutor's office of the Volga-Ural Military District announced the death of a conscript soldier in the Asbest airborne military unit (Sverdlovsk region) Evgeniy Malakhov. The military remained silent about the incident for four days. As the press service of the prosecutor's office of the Volga-Ural Military District told Vremya Novostey, 22-year-old Malakhov was found dead on the morning of February 9 at his post.

Watch from February 15 on Moscow screens "Ghost Rider" (USA, 2007, Mark Steven Johnson). A film adaptation of a comic book by Marvel (the same one that gave us the opportunity to enjoy “Spider-Man”, “X-Men” and “The Incredible Hulk”) about a motorcycle racer (Nicolas Cage) who sold his soul to the devil and, according to the terms of the contract, must carry out all sorts of dark assignments under disguise of the Ghost Rider.

Filming of a detective story about the life of lyceum students has been completed The shooting period of the film “1814” has been completed - a historical detective story about serial murders in Tsarskoe Selo, the main characters of which are lyceum students and Pushkin himself. The news of such a spectacle provokes a sour expression. Everything seems vulgar beforehand.

Yesterday, Taiwanese prosecutors brought corruption charges against opposition Kuomintang Party Chairman Ma Ying-jeou. The investigation has been ongoing since November 2006. The 55-year-old politician is considered the main contender for the presidency in the 2008 elections. However, his reputation with voters could be seriously damaged by allegations of misuse of special funds during his tenure as mayor of Taipei, which Ma held from 1998 to 2006.