Russia and Belarus will discuss the constitution of the union state after the presidential elections in Russia on March 2. The head of the Russian diplomatic mission in Belarus, Alexander Surikov, announced this yesterday: “The main task is to create further opportunities for the adoption of a constitutional act. The elections in Russia will end, and we will return to these conversations and actions.” Russia and Belarus have been discussing a draft constitutional act for several years.

Chronicle of sporting events Rugby. Six Nations Cup. 2nd round. Wales - Scotland - 30:15, France - Ireland - 26:21, Italy - England - 19:23. After the second round of the main continental tournament for national teams, France and Wales are in the lead, with two victories each. Traditionally, Six Nations Cup matches cause frenzied spectator excitement.

The President and Prime Minister were almost killed in East Timor East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta (pictured) is currently in Australia, where he was taken with three bullet wounds after an assassination attempt by rebel ex-national army personnel.

Russian army: revival or degradation Against the backdrop of talk about a new round of the arms race and army reform, the report prepared by a group of experts from the Institute of National Strategy looks interesting. The study, entitled “The Crisis of the Russian Army,” critically assesses the state of the Russian army and military-industrial complex.

St. Petersburg human rights activists are trying to persuade authorities to open information St. Petersburg human rights activists continue to fight for the most open access to information from federal and regional government bodies.

The channel "Culture" began showing a new series of programs about the theater of Anatoly Smelyansky On February 11, the Kultura TV channel begins showing a new series of programs filmed at the AB-TV studio about the theater of Anatoly Smelyansky, theater historian, professor, rector of the Moscow Art Theater School. This cycle is called “Through Action”, the author again takes Stanislavsky’s term, as in the previous cycle “Proposed Circumstances”, for which he received a “TEFI” three years ago.

"Montana" on Russian screens One noble Russian bandit (artist Oleg Taktarov), in the nineties, like many noble people, was engaged in robbery, during the next raid on a bank he covered a woman with himself, for which he paid: he did not have time to escape from the scene of the crime and went to prison for eight years.

Viktor Yushchenko's visit will show who is in command in Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko did everything to spoil the Kremlin and Gazprom’s celebrations of the 15th anniversary of the creation of the Russian gas monopolist. A busy program was already planned in Moscow yesterday. First Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Gazprom Dmitry Medvedev opened the Volokolamskaya compressor station in the Moscow region in the morning.

Yuri Bashmet won a Grammy Yuri Bashmet and his ensemble “Moscow Soloists”, nominated for a Grammy this year with the album Stravinsky: Apollo, Concerto In D; Prokofiev: 20 Visions Fugitives finally received a prestigious American award.

Hugo Chavez again promises to leave the United States without its oil Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has vowed on his weekly TV show Alo, Presidente to cut off oil supplies to the United States unless the Bush administration forces ExxonMobil to drop its legal battle over its Orinoco Basin assets nationalized last year.

Jordanians want peaceful atoms from Russia and more weapons on credit Arab countries, one after another, are showing interest in Russian developments in peaceful nuclear energy . Following Egypt and the Emirates, Jordan announced its desire to cooperate in this area. “Our country has launched its own nuclear energy program, and Russian professionalism will be a tremendous contribution to its development and future success,” said King Abdullah II, who visited Moscow yesterday.

Yuri Luzhkov threatened to abolish tow trucks On the eve of snowfalls expected in Moscow, Mayor Yuri Luzhkov suddenly realized that the struggle to clear the streets of cars in the capital was being waged using far from civilized methods. And he promised to put an end to tow trucks if they do not change their working methods. Yesterday, the mayor, through his press secretary Sergei Tsoi, admitted that not everything is going smoothly in the city vehicle movement service.

Russia and Iraq, represented by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, yesterday entered into an agreement to write off $12 billion (93%) of the $12.9 billion Iraqi debt. Kudrin explained that first $7.5 billion will be written off, and the remaining $4.5 billion will be written off in two stages - after Iraq completes the International Monetary Fund program.

A year ago, Berdymukhamedov was elected president Yesterday Turkmenistan celebrated the first anniversary of the election of its second president, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. The event was celebrated modestly according to Turkmen canons. Just the day before, on Sunday, February 10, in honor of the significant date, a mass walk of young Ashgabat residents along the 36-kilometer “health path” was organized.

Pilot Zubkov is the best again with the help of arm wrestler Voevoda Until the end of the week, the central place among winter sports events will definitely be occupied by the Biathlon World Championships in Ostersund, Sweden. But in other disciplines there is now a fairly busy schedule of competitions. Last weekend, the world championship took place among speed skaters, who competed for medals in the classic all-around, and the final stage of the World Cup was held by bobsledders.