US Air Force in the service of Afghan drug lords The growth of drug production in Afghanistan is as much an ongoing concern of the world community as global warming. Everyone talks about it, but no one knows any radical means of combating these universal human scourges. At the end of October, an international conference on combating the drug threat was held in Kabul.

Tens of thousands of criminal cases are annually initiated and submitted to the courts by a special secret unit of the Investigative Committee (IC) under the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Its employees monitor compliance with the law at closed military and industrial facilities of special strategic importance for the state. These include the Baikonur complex, which, although located on the territory of Kazakhstan, nevertheless falls under the jurisdiction of Russia.

The base club of the German national team emerges from the crisis The German Bundesliga has become a little closer to Russia since Sunday. After the draw for the qualifying round of the World Championship, which determined the bronze medalist of the last World Cup as the Russians' opponent, there is now special interest in the German championship.

Premier of La Scala Roberto Bolle danced at the Bolshoi For both Roberto Bolle and Svetlana Zakharova, this “Giselle” is not a debut, although Bolle danced for the first time in Yuri Grigorovich’s version, and ballet dancers like to count the number of versions of the same performance in which they performed on different stages.

“Sotsialka” in Runet became a hit of the 2007 season The so-called social networks gave rise to the special term “Web 2.0”. They are advertised on radio and television, they are discussed in trolleybuses and restaurants. Some people explain the phenomenal success of “social” Runet projects by the mythical participation of the FSB in them. In reality, everything is simpler.

For the Russian team, the easy life at the World Cup is over The Russian men's team continues its victorious march in the World Cup. The next defeated opponent was the outsider of the competition Egypt - 3:0 (25:19, 25:18, 25:19).

CLUBS Ash. Igor Nadezhdin, pianist and organizer of the group, lived in Israel for a long time, where the idea was born to assemble a team playing brazil jazz. The repertoire of song arrangements by A.-K. Jobima, Brazilian classics, as well as songs of his own composition in Portuguese. Forte , 21.00. CONCERTS Mikhail Mordvinov (piano) plays works by Schubert, Liszt, Scriabin. Mansion of Prince Golitsyn , 19.00.

Russian athletes took third place in Norway Last weekend, several stages of the Winter Sports World Cup took place. Russian athletes won several awards, the most significant of which was the bronze medal for Russian skiers in the men's relay. In Beitoshtolen, Norway, the Russian quartet of Vasily Rochev, Nikolai Pankratov, Alexander Legkov and Evgeniy Dementyev finished behind the two Norwegian “fours”.

Following the results of the parliamentary elections held in Croatia on Sunday, the ruling Croatian Democratic Community (HDZ) retained the majority of seats. “Croatian voters have shown that they trust the HDZ and the policies we have pursued over the past four years,” Prime Minister Ivo Sanader said before the final results were tallied.

The prosecutor demanded 12 years in prison for the academician for the illegal export of Russian space technology The Moscow City Court yesterday refused to change the preventive measure in the form of arrest for academician of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics Igor Reshetin, accused of committing a number of serious crimes - illegal export of technology, smuggling, theft by embezzlement and money laundering.

Nuclear experts and the Minister of War went to the DPRK Today in Pyongyang, for the first time in seven years, the heads of the military departments of North and South Korea - Kim Il Chol and Kim Jang Soo, arriving from the South on a special flight, will meet.

Chronicle of sporting events Football. Spanish Championship. 13th round. Barcelona - Recreativo - 3:0, Sevilla - Mallorca - 1:2, Murcia - Real Madrid - 1:1, Villarreal - Almeria -- 1:1, Atlético -- Valladolid -- 4:3, Levante -- Betis -- 4:3, Osasuna -- Espanyol -- 1:2, Athletic " - Deportivo - 2:1, Racing - Valencia - 1:0, Zaragoza - Getafe - 1:1. Leading: Real Madrid - 29, Villarreal - 28, Barcelona - 27. In the 13th round, Villarreal played a draw for the first time in this championship.

Last year's government decision on fuel supplies to power plants will not be implemented. This week marks a year since the electric power “monument” appeared in Russia - the second power unit of the North-Western Thermal Power Plant in St. Petersburg , which remains idle to this day due to lack of gas. The head of RAO UES of Russia, Anatoly Chubais, failed to solve the gas supply problem within a year, although he repeatedly turned to Vladimir Putin and negotiated with Gazprom. Mr.

Bush and Rice want to create a new state in time Today, an international conference on the Middle East will begin at the Naval Academy of the American city of Annapolis, 50 kilometers from Washington. Even at the preparation stage, the forum became an event that will go down in the history of the Middle East settlement, regardless of the quality of the results achieved.

The California-based Autodesk company, which specializes in software for automating the design of cars and other engineering systems, announces its participation in the project to create a car that last month set a new speed record in the NASCAR racing series - 392 kilometers per hour.