Late yesterday evening, former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer was summoned to the Bundestag for a meeting of the committee on the activities of the Federal Intelligence Service. He was required to testify in the case of the German Turk Murat Kurnaz. The Bremen native was "wrongly" kidnapped by CIA agents in Pakistan after the September 11, 2001 attacks and spent nearly four-and-a-half years in a camp at Guantanamo Bay.

Mikhail Kasyanov testified in the case of Senator Vavilov Former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov , who now heads the Russian People's Democratic Union , visited the Prosecutor General's Office yesterday morning. He was summoned there for questioning as a witness in the recently “reanimated” case of ten years ago regarding the theft of $231 million allocated at one time to MAPO MiG for the production of fighter aircraft for delivery to India .

Today in Moscow there will be another round of negotiations on the functioning of the Black Sea Fleet and its presence on the territory of Ukraine. Russia will be represented by Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin; on the Ukrainian side, the delegation will be headed by acting. Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Ohryzko. The other day the Rada rejected Mr.

“I remember that moment when the black and gray thicket, pressing against the door, flooded the Duma in a continuous, rushing stream... Soldiers, workers, students, intellectuals, just people... They occupied the confused Tauride Palace with living viscous human jam, sealed up hall after hall, room after room, room after room... It wasn't the bread, of course.

The company introduces new tariffs for ruble transfers The international money transfer system Western Union is reducing tariffs for transfers within Russia, as well as ruble transfers from Russia to Belarus and Tajikistan. Bankers have no doubt that the reaction of the world's second largest player in this market - MoneyGram - will follow immediately.

Premiere at the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya Ostrovsky is the third in the capital in a month - after “Snuffbox” and “Satyricon”, one of the classic’s plays was taken by the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya. Director Roman Samgin (a student of Mark Zakharov, who had already staged “Adrienne Lecouvreur”, “Slavic Follies” and “Der Rosenkavalier” in this theater and was hoped by the local acting people for the role of chief director) chose “Warm Heart”.

The cold Arctic anticyclone is gradually losing ground. So frosts are expected to weaken in the western and central regions. Atlantic cyclones will attack from the west. In the south, the anticyclone holds its position, and very cold weather remains there. In the northwest, in the Atlantic cyclone, snow, at night -7...-12оС, during the day 0...-5оС. And in the Central Federal District, a noticeable weakening of frosts is expected.

It was in vain that I complained at the end of last year about the shortage of novels - our magazines provided the future Booker jury with a wide range of works. Nowadays there is complete order with “large forms”. At least in terms of quantity. “October” (No. 2) began publishing “Rare Earths” by Vasily Aksenov , “New World” (No.

Evgeniy Popov won the World Cup in fours The international bobsleigh and skeleton season has ended in Königssee, Germany. Its main results for Russian athletes are impressive. Four-man bobsleigh pilot Evgeniy Popov won the World Cup, winning three stages this winter (Park City, Lake Placid and Winterberg), and also finishing second three more times (Calgary, Eagles, Cesana-Pariol).

Lukashenko's subordinates offer him to sell Belarus Belarus, faced with Russia’s reluctance to subsidize its economy, began to actively consider the issue of attracting foreign investment to the country . Last week, she asked for $1.5 billion in debt from Russia , and yesterday she agreed with the Austrian Raiffeisenbank (which owns the Belarusian Priorbank) to raise a loan of up to 1 billion euros.

Among books on political topics, those in which the very concept of politics becomes an application of the author's reflection are of particular interest. Today we present three such books written by professional philosophers. They seem connected to each other by invisible threads - thematic overlap, breadth of approach and non-academic presentation. And of course, intellectual brilliance. A philosophical thriller about how Lenin's cause lives on Boris Groys. "Communist Postscript".

United Aviation Corporation has prepared its first annual financial plan Yesterday the second meeting of the board of directors of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) was chaired by First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov. The participants decided how best to organize the work of a huge holding company to modernize the aviation industry. This refers to both structural modernization and radical renewal of an outdated production base.

Today in Brussels, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili will hold meetings with NATO leadership. Tbilisi is counting on the successful progress of its application for NATO membership, because in early February, Alliance Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer first admitted the possibility of Georgia's integration into the Alliance in 2009. How will Georgia's possible entry into NATO affect relations with Russia?

The President ordered ministers to take care of beneficiaries The escalating election year is pushing Russian leaders to urgently clean up the stains left by unpopular reforms of recent years. Yesterday, the head of state, at a meeting with members of the cabinet, recalled the excesses of the monetization of benefits and clearly made it clear that he did not want a repetition of the events of early 2005, when outrage over the reform united both pensioners and regional officials.

Yesterday was the only day off at the World Ski Championships. Taking advantage of the pause, Vremya Novostey correspondent Olga ERMOLINA spoke with the captain of the Russian ski team Vasily ROCHEV, who won silver in the team sprint in Sapporo. — After the race, you said that “we are all robots and we need to be mercilessly exploited.” Do you really think so? - If we have been preparing for the World Cup all year, then why sit in front of the TV.