The famous glass that belonged to former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze and became a symbol of the change of power during the Rose Revolution of 2003 may be sold. This glass with a silver coaster is in the possession of the editor-in-chief of the Tbilisi newspaper Georgian Times, Georgiy Kapanadze, who decided to sell it. On November 22, 2003, revolutionaries led by current President Mikheil Saakashvili broke into the parliament building.

The President of Kyrgyzstan signed another fundamental law Yesterday, the President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiyev (pictured) signed a new version of the country's constitution , adopted by the Jogorku Kenesh (Kyrgyz parliament) on December 30 last year.

“Russian President Putin will take part in the 43rd International Security Conference. This will be one of the most representative conferences held in Munich,” said Boeing Deutschland President Horst Teltschik, who has been organizing such events with the assistance of , including the financial, press and information office of the German government. The conference "Global Crises - Global Responses" will be held in Munich from 9 to 11 February.

The National Court of Justice of Spain has begun to consider the request for the extradition to Argentina of the ex-president of this country, 75-year-old Isabel Peron. She was recently arrested at a villa near Madrid, but after interrogation she was “temporarily released.” The judicial authorities took into account the “state of health and age of the detainee” and “the absence of a risk of her fleeing from justice,” but ordered her to report to the police every 15 days.

Libya made an offer to the European Union and the United States that is difficult to refuse: to exchange for the terrorist the Bulgarian nurses sentenced in December 2006 by a Libyan court to death on charges of infecting 426 children with AIDS. The terrorist is 53-year-old Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, who is serving a life sentence in Greenock Prison in Scotland.

Recently, two important events took place in Moscow and Washington that may affect the nature of the relations emerging between the new, post-Niyazov leadership of Turkmenistan, on the one hand, and the Kremlin and the White House, on the other. Vladimir Putin met with members of the Council for Promotion of Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights under the President of Russia. This is only Putin's third meeting with the council he created more than four years ago.

Vladimir Putin has calculated the price of Belarusian sovereignty Vladimir Putin yesterday, at a traditional meeting with members of the government, thanked the Cabinet of Ministers for the persistence shown in the Russian-Belarusian negotiations on oil transit. He called the result of these negotiations a compromise acceptable to both sides. Thus, Putin actually ignored the Sunday escapades of his Belarusian colleague .

Saddam's brother was beheaded during a hanging The execution pipeline in Iraq runs without long interruptions. Yesterday in Baghdad, associates of ex-president Saddam Hussein, who were sentenced to death along with him on November 5, were executed . Saddam's loyal associates outlived the ousted president by only 16 days.

In Iraq, where there is a civil war, a dictator is executed. And yesterday his comrades were executed too . Nevertheless, the execution of former President Saddam Hussein on December 30 will go down in history not as an act of triumph of justice, but as another example of human barbarity. After all, even tyrants condemned to death have the right to have their executioners treat the last minutes of their lives with respect.

Saddam Hussein's associates, Barzan al-Tikriti and Awad al-Bandar, were executed in Baghdad yesterday morning . Vremya Novostei columnist Elena SUPONINA talks about Iraqi executions with a participant in the Baghdad trial, Saddam's international lawyer, former Minister of Justice of the Arab state of Qatar, Mr. Najib AN-NUAYMI. - Mr.