Tbilisi and Sukhumi were on the verge of an armed clash after yesterday Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili threatened the head of the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia Sergei Bagapsh with a police special operation in Sukhumi to free a Georgian television journalist.

The police will come to the homes of those who refuse voluntary fingerprinting The new initiative of the capital's police to combat skinheads has received new development.

In the northwest and in the center of European Russia, the weather will be determined by the Atlantic cyclone. In the north-western region, near the center of the cyclone, there is occasional precipitation (mainly in the form of wet snow), gusty winds, during the day on both Thursday and Friday -3...+3оС. Windy weather with precipitation is also expected in the central region, but it is warm there during the day, -1...+7оС, so precipitation will occur mainly in the form of rain.

Sergei Fedorov will play for Washington National Hockey League clubs used the last opportunity to strengthen their rosters for the remainder of the regular season (participants will have to play another 16-20 matches) and for the playoffs. On the day of the deadline, a lot of transitions and exchanges took place. Now, until the end of the season, any horizontal movements of players are prohibited.

A new player will appear on the Russian nickel and cobalt market The Russian Copper Company (RMK), being the third copper producer in Russia, decided to expand its presence in the nickel market and took the initiative to create a new player - the Russian Nickel Company (RNA). True, according to experts, it is unlikely to be able to claim a significant share of the market, in which MMC Norilsk Nickel occupies a monopoly position.

Dmitry Medvedev spoke for the first time as a presidential candidate Yesterday's speech by Dmitry Medvedev in Nizhny Novgorod formally became the first time when he spoke not on behalf of the current government, but directly as a presidential candidate . For this reason, he even went on a one-day unpaid leave. In the homeland of Maxim Gorky, Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting with voters.

New book by Vladimir Ruga and Andrei Kokorev “War and Muscovites. Essays on urban life in 1914-1917" was published by the publishing house "OLMA Media Group". In fact, this is a continuation of their joint book “Everyday Moscow”, which has already found its readers interested in the history of the Russian capital. Their new work is a series of essays dedicated to the life of the city during the First World War.

Grand Canyon fish await great cleansing flood In March, a man-made disaster will be created in the famous Grand Canyon in the United States. The floodgates of the Glen Canyon Dam, which holds the huge Powell Reservoir, will be wide open. The water accumulated in the artificial lake will be released into the semi-dry Grand Canyon at a speed of 1,160 cubic meters per second within three days. A wave will roll along the Colorado bed, which should turn a quiet river into a raging torrent.

Lenin, Stalin and Kerensky may be buried at Russia's first war memorial cemetery In mid-March, construction of Russia's first Federal War Memorial Cemetery (FVMK) begins. The Department of Contract Construction and Investment of the Russian Ministry of Defense signed a contract with the Spetsstroykontrakt organization of Spetsstroy of Russia. The document is being reviewed by financiers today.

Roszdravnadzor optimizes the functioning of the pharmaceutical market The registration procedure for medicines, which has become a headache for all Russian and foreign medicine manufacturers without exception, can be significantly simplified . This promise to the pharmaceutical community was made yesterday by Andrei Mladentsev, Deputy Head of the Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare and Social Policy (Roszdravnadzor), who made a report at the department’s board.

Brian De Palma's film "Uncensored" is released in Russian cinemas The film "Uncensored" (real title Redacted - which rather means "Edited") made a strange impression on me. Of course, I would like to share his anti-war, humanistic pathos: causing suffering to children and women, in the opinion of a Christian and a liberal, has no justification. The trouble is that this is only one of the possible views, and who, if not a liberal and a Christian, should know this.

Yesterday, in the village of Tarasovo near Minsk, the wife of Belarusian opposition politician Alexander Kazulin, Irina, was buried. She died on February 23 after a long illness at the age of 48. Hundreds of people came to say goodbye to her. To participate in the funeral, Alexander Kazulin received a three-day leave from the colony . Since 2006, he has been serving a sentence of five and a half years in prison on charges of organizing mass riots.

The authorities are trying to make Russia more attractive for repatriates Russian legislators are trying to save the state program for the resettlement of former compatriots . Despite the frankly unsuccessful first year of the repatriation program, domestic legislators have not yet lost hope of making Russia attractive to former fellow citizens of the USSR. And most importantly, let the regions utilize the large budget funds allocated for the program.

Judgments about the exhibition “Red Army Studio”, which opened at the Catherine Foundation, dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the creation of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army (RKKA), immediately became alarmingly polarized. The exhibition was invented by respected people - the head of the Interros publishing program Irina Ostarkova, curators Joseph Backstein and Zelfira Tregulova.

Chronicle of sporting events Hockey. NHL. Regular season. "Islanders" -- "Pittsburgh" -- 2:4 -- Malkin "P" (1+1) , "Carolina" -- "New Jersey" -- 2:1 OT -- Samsonov "K" (2+ 0) , "Montreal" - "Atlanta" - 5:1 - A. Markov "M" (1+1), Kovalchuk "A" (1+0) , "Edmonton" - "Detroit" - 4:3 (bull), “Washington” – “Minnesota” – 4:1, “Boston” – “Ottawa” – 4:0, “St. Louis” – “Dallas” – 1: 3, “Calgary” – “Colorado” – 1:3.