The new Russian Cup went to Khimki Khimki broke CSKA's three-year hegemony in the Russian Cup. The Moscow region team, led by Lithuanian Kestutis Kemzura, defeated the “red-blues” with a score of 85:67 in the final match on the floor of the Kazan “Basket Hall”. At the decisive meeting, many spectator seats were empty. Local fans significantly lost interest in the tournament after their beloved UNICS lost to CSKA (50:51) in the last seconds of the semi-finals.

And will try to join South Stream The French gas monopolist Gaz de France, which has been negotiating for more than a year to join the Nabucco pipeline project, received an official refusal from the participants of the international consortium.

NATO discusses Afghanistan and Russia's future policy Tomorrow the 44th International Munich Security Conference will begin with a gala dinner at the Bavarian Dvor Hotel. Its current slogan is formulated in an extraordinary way: “A world in chaos - altered balances of power, lack of strategies?” The main speaker at the dinner, as Vremya Novostei learned from the conference organizers, will be Boris Tadich.

The first matches of the 2008 Davis Cup will take place today At the Small Sports Arena of Luzhniki in the 1/8 finals of the Davis Cup, the Russian team meets Serbian tennis players. After the draw that took place the day before, the roles of the players were distributed as follows. In the first singles match, Mikhail Youzhny will face Novak Djokovic. Following them will be Nikolay Davydenko and Viktor Troitsky.

Bulgarian fog has quarreled Russian officials The chief state sanitary doctor of Russia, who also heads Rospotrebnadzor, Gennady Onishchenko, yesterday sharply criticized the Ministry of Transport for the way the department solved the problem of Russian tourists who were “stuck” in Bulgaria at the end of last week due to thick fog. Mr. Onishchenko allowed himself to go beyond this particular story.

The capital's traffic inspectors will be freed from temptation by being equipped with video monitoring equipment By July 1, when the last “portion” of amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses comes into force, the capital’s traffic inspectorate promises to be fully armed. And actively issue fines for violations recorded by street video and photo surveillance systems .

Preparations for the informal summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) have begun in Moscow. It is scheduled for February 22. The discussion about the future of the CIS will be continued by the foreign ministers meeting in Moscow in March. What are the specifics of Russian diplomacy and how does it differ from Soviet diplomacy?

The government cannot learn how to use the investment fund Critics of the idea of ​​direct public investment (the current Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin especially succeeded in this in his time) may feel like prophets. Yesterday at a government meeting, the obvious became clear: the government has not yet learned how to manage an investment fund, specially created for direct government investments in particularly significant projects.

The Ministry of Health and Social Development is preparing its priorities until 2020 Russian healthcare must develop according to a single meaningful scenario over the course of 12 years. Moreover, in preparing the concept for the development of the medical sector until 2020, officials intend to involve representatives of the academic community, as well as heads of leading clinics.

OSCE refuses to monitor the presidential elections in Russia Attempts by the Chairman of the Central Election Commission, Vladimir Churov, to prevent a scandal surrounding the issue of the work of international observers in the March 2 presidential elections failed. Yesterday, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) announced that an observation mission would not be deployed . This happened on the fourth day of difficult negotiations that were conducted between Mr.

Eirunion risks being unincorporated The founding meeting of Eirunion OJSC, scheduled for today, may end in vain due to disagreements between Rosimushchestvo and the private shareholders of the aviation alliance of the same name regarding the valuation of assets intended for transfer to the new OJSC. An anonymous source close to private shareholders told RIA Novosti yesterday.

The year 2008 began with the global financial crisis and optimistic statements by Russian officials about Russia's ability to survive this crisis without major consequences. Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor, Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nikolai SHMELEV told Vremya Novostei correspondent Vera SITNINA about the prospects for Russia and the margin of its economic strength.

First Monday, February 11 5 . 00, 9 . 00, 12.00, 15.00, 18.00, 23.30 News 5 . 05, 7.15 Good morning 7 . 05 Russian presidential elections 2008 9 . 20 Malakhov + 10 . 20 Fashionable verdict 11 . 20 Test purchase 12 . 20 "DEATHING FORCE". Series 13 . 20 Detectives 14 . 00 Other news 14 . 30 I want to know 15 . 20 “Secrets of the Royal Family. Death of Princess Diana." Doc. movie 16 . 10 "FIRE OF LOVE". Series 17 . 00 Federal Judge 18 . 20 Wait for me 19 . 10 "NEXT". Series(S) 20 .

An oil house on Vernadsky Avenue is being bought by a certain company "Intercession" RAO UES of Russia has decided on the buyer of its building - a 23-story business center with a total area of ​​47.5 thousand square meters. m with parking for 400 spaces next to the Prospekt Vernadskogo metro station. This building is also known as the Oil House - in 1995 it was built with funds from Siberian oil companies.

On Monday, a meeting of the Council on State Policy in the Field of Culture was held at the Federation Council. The senators invited famous filmmakers as experts: Karen Shakhnazarov, Sergei Solovyov, Vadim Abdrashitov, Stanislav Govorukhin, Vasily Lanovoy, Vladimir Naumov, as well as the Minister of Culture Alexander Sidorov and the head of Roskultura Mikhail Shvydkoy.