The Russian Foreign Ministry accused London of “deliberate provocation” The conflict between the Russian authorities and the representatives of the British Council (BC) in our country, which began last year , continued yesterday. On Monday, the British Ambassador to the Russian Federation, Sir Anthony Brenton, was summoned to Smolensk Square.

The Georgian opposition predicts for Mikheil Saakashvili the fate of former President and ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Eduard Shevardnadze: early political retirement. In the fall of 2003, Shevardnadze, who raised Saakashvili, Nino Burjanadze, Zurab Zhvania and other prominent representatives of the new generation of Georgian politicians, received an unexpected blow from them and was forced as a result of the “Rose Revolution” to leave the post of head of Georgia.

The Taiwanese are tired of squabbles and separatism In the Taiwanese parliamentary elections, the opposition Kuomintang party inflicted a crushing defeat on the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) . According to the results of Saturday's vote, the Kuomintang party received 72% - they have 81 seats out of 113. In the previous parliamentary elections in 2004, the Kuomintang party and its allies gained 46.7%, the DPP - 35.7%.

For Hillary Clinton and Rudolph Giuliani, the start is not the main thing The main theme of the beginning of the year in the United States is the party meetings (caucuses) and primaries (primaries) in the Republican and Democratic parties, taking place in various states to select candidates for the presidential election in November. Today, following the caucuses in Iowa (the peculiarity of this state is that there are no primaries there. - Ed.

Mikheil Saakashvili is trying to come to an agreement with the opposition and invites Vladimir Putin to the inauguration A pre-revolutionary situation is again emerging in Georgia. Today a new wave of protests begins, demanding a second round of presidential elections. About 80 thousand people took part in the rally that took place on Sunday in Tbilisi.

Tzipi Livni will speak in Moscow about the visit of the US President US President George W. Bush's eight-day tour of the Middle East will end tomorrow in Egypt. Yesterday he arrived in Saudi Arabia for two days, and from January 9 he visited Israel (including the Palestinian Authority), Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.

The Prime Minister of Ukraine visited her mother and gave money to the people Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko visited Dnepropetrovsk, where she (then Grigyan by her father, who later left the family; Tymoshenko is her husband’s surname) was born in November 1960, spent her childhood, student and first working years.