On the eve of the start of the dance marathon in Rio, senior police officers resigned The world's most famous carnival, officially starting today in Rio de Janeiro, may also go down in history as the most scandalous. The colorful celebrations, which are expected to be attended by up to 700 thousand residents of the country and about 200 thousand foreign tourists, should end with a grand parade on February 9.

Scholars and politicians in any debate enthusiastically agree that a developed middle class must be a key factor in the sustainability of Russia's democratic prospects. Everyone agrees that in reality it is small and weak in our country and that little is being done to change this situation. In general, during the transition period, the Russian middle class, in essence, “lost the fight for attention” to both large property and poverty.

The agreement on fixing prices for socially important products has been extended until May 1 A new agreement on stabilizing prices for socially important products was signed yesterday at the Ministry of Agriculture by manufacturers and large chain operators. The list of goods for which prices will be frozen has not changed. Only the price fixation level has been revised. Until today, prices were fixed at the level of October 15, 2007.

On the seventieth birthday of Alexander Chudakov Philologists rarely become “cult” figures, and this is probably right, because their business is not self-presentation, but service to others, comprehension and interpretation of the writer’s word, personality, and destiny.

Next week there will be a game celebration in Moscow A press conference was held in Moscow dedicated to the upcoming second Super League All-Star Game in the history of Russian men's volleyball on February 5, in which a team made up of home-grown players will face a team of foreign players. The holiday is dedicated to the 85th anniversary of Russian volleyball. The first such show took place at the end of December 2005 in the capital's universal gym "Druzhba" in Luzhniki.

Gazprom receives Kovykta without licensing obligations Rosnedra decided not to wait for the completion of the deal between Gazprom and TNK-BP for the Kovyktinskoye field . The head of the Federal Agency for Subsoil Use, Anatoly Ledovskikh, said yesterday that his agency has made changes to the license agreement with the company RUSIA Petroleum, which is developing this giant gas condensate field in the Irkutsk region.

The new head of the Georgian Foreign Ministry is going to Moscow Yesterday, the Georgian parliament unanimously approved the new government formed after the presidential elections. The cabinet must implement Mikheil Saakashvili’s election promise for the next five years: “United Georgia without poverty.” The post of prime minister was retained by 37-year-old Vladimir Gurgenidze; until November last year he was a successful banker.

The Constitutional Court obliged legislators to review the procedure for allocating housing to the servants of Themis Yesterday, the Constitutional Court recognized the provision of the law on the monetization of benefits as inconsistent with the Constitution, which, among other things, changed the procedure for providing judges with housing.

Polish customs officers returned to work Yesterday afternoon, residents of many Polish cities breathed a sigh of relief. HGV drivers have announced they will abandon a road blockade they had intended to impose in response to a week-long strike by customs officers on Poland's eastern border . This border is the border of the European Union, and since December 21, 2007, also the Schengen zone.

The weather in the near future will be influenced by the Atlantic cyclone, the center of which is moving along the Scandinavian countries; it will bring windy weather with precipitation and fog. In Moscow and the Moscow region on February 1, cloudy, with clearings, light precipitation, conditions for sleet, ice, icicles, temperature at night -1...-3оС, in the region 0...-5оС, wind, 3--8 m/ With. During the day -1...+1оС, in the region -3...+2оС.

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Profit of Russian Standard will decrease by more than a quarter The abolition of most commissions on consumer loans at the end of last year and the international liquidity crisis were the main reasons for the drop in the net profit of Russian Standard Bank by a third at the end of 2007. The chairman of the board of the credit institution, Dmitry Levin, spoke about the decline in the indicator yesterday.

Boeing published market forecast The American aircraft manufacturing corporation Boeing has released its annual forecast for the development of the global air transportation market . In Moscow yesterday it was presented to the public by Randy Tinseth, vice president of marketing for Boeing's civil aircraft division. According to Mr. Tinseth and the company’s specialists, the global industry is expecting stable growth and a radical renewal of the aircraft fleet.

At least seven people were killed and more than 20 injured in two explosions that rocked the Afghan capital and Lashkar Gah, the capital of the southern Helmand province, yesterday. In the center of Kabul, a suicide bomber tried to attack a bus carrying Afghan army soldiers, but the explosive device detonated prematurely. A passenger in a passing taxi died on the spot, and at least four people were injured. In another suicide attack in Lashkar Gah, the deputy governor of Helmand province, Mr.

When appointing to a military position, waist circumference will be taken into account Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov decided to correct the slightly blurred figures of generals and colonels of the military department.