Rosobrazovanie promises to reduce tuition fees at universities Russian students who are forced to receive higher education for their own or their parents’ money should not be afraid of an increase in prices for paid departments of universities - on the contrary, fees should decrease over the course of the year. In any case, this is what Rosobrazovanie promises, the department responsible for organizing the work of higher schools in Russia.

Early booking promotion from CORAL TRAVEL Especially for those who plan their vacation in advance and carefully choose their vacation spot, the tour operator CORAL TRAVEL is holding a large-scale early booking promotion. Discounts are available up to 50% on accommodation in branded hotels in Turkey for arrival dates from April 1 to October 31, 2009! CORAL TRAVEL has launched a large-scale early booking campaign.

Emomali Rahmon looks up to Bishkek The head of the US Central Command, General David Petraeus, who is responsible for military operations in Afghanistan and the Middle East at the Pentagon, demonstrates a keen understanding of the peculiarities of Eastern policy. A month after his January tour of the capitals of Central Asia, when the general visited Astana, Dushanbe, Ashgabat and Bishkek, yesterday he made a separate visit to Tashkent, where he was received by Uzbek President Islam Karimov.

Germany has forgiven the US for the war in Iraq Germany is radically changing its policy towards Iraq. Just yesterday morning, a plane with the head of the German Foreign Ministry and Vice-Chancellor Frank Walter Steinmeier on board landed at Baghdad airport in complete secrecy, when official Berlin immediately called this visit historic. The head of German diplomacy arrived in the Iraqi capital for the first time in the last 22 years.

St. Petersburg Zenit and the capital's CSKA will open the Russian season today with matches of the 1/16 UEFA Cup. The current winner of the Zenit trophy will host the German Stuttgart at Petrovsky, and the Brazilian Zico will make his debut on the coaching bridge of CSKA in the match against Aston Villa. Both Zico and Dick Advocaat have enough problems before the start of the season.

New coaches of men's and women's volleyball teams named At a meeting of the Presidium of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation held yesterday in Moscow, decisions were made on the appointment of new head coaches of the national teams - men's and women's in the classical version of the game and in whip volley. Balakovo NPP coach Vladimir Kuzyutkin will work with the girls, and the Italian Daniele Bagnoli from the capital’s Dynamo will become the “helmsman” of the men’s team.

The winners of the "Best Doctor of the Year" competition have been announced In Russia there are pediatricians in whose areas there is no infant mortality, surgeons whose patients do not suffer from abdominal incisions, and sanitary doctors who prevent all possible epidemics. At least once a year, this can be seen during the award ceremony for the winners of the All-Russian competition “Best Doctors of the Year”.

The Norwegian continues to win at the world forum Five-time Olympic champion Ole Einar Bjoerndalen won his third victory in a row at the Biathlon World Championships in South Korea. The Norwegian athlete won the individual race for the first time in his career, becoming a 13-time world champion. Christoph Stefan from Germany won silver.

President Dmitry Medvedev will travel to the land of the pyramids “We have long invited the Russian president to visit Egypt,” this is how Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak began yesterday’s negotiations in Cairo with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

The head of the Central Election Commission stood up for the unregistered candidate The head of the department, Vladimir Churov, stood up in defense of the offended mayoral candidate at a meeting of the Central Election Commission last Monday, but to no avail: his colleagues did not consider it necessary to join the point of view of their boss, leaving the failed mayor unregistered.

Eduard Rossel lost control of the regional branch of United Russia One of the main long-time governors in the country, 71-year-old Eduard Rossel, has finally lost control over the Sverdlovsk branch of United Russia. Last Friday, the regional political council of the party in power elected deputy of the regional legislative assembly Viktor Sheptia as its secretary.

Russian IT industry in search of a national idea They are trying to make a mysterious project with the code name “national operating system” an object of government investment. The Russian IT market is in anticipation of an injection - it could be injected with a billion government dollars. It is unclear when the money will appear, but the competition for it has already begun.

The choice of anti-crisis recipes directly depends on an understanding of the causes and essence of the crisis. First you need to understand what kind of crisis this is: structural, cyclical, financial, banking. Only then, based on this understanding, does it make sense to build strategies to combat the crisis and overcome it. That is why questions about the causes and essence of the crisis are so urgent on the agenda. Answers to these questions are difficult to find in official Russian media.

In the center of the European territory of Russia, despite the increase in atmospheric pressure, atmospheric fronts will remain active. And the weather in the next couple of days will mainly depend on them. In the areas of the northwest, in a trough of low pressure, snow will fall in most areas at a temperature of -1...-6°C. In the center there is light snow in places, on Wednesday 0...-6°C, and on Thursday on the cold side of the front it is already -4...-9°C.

United Russia and the State Duma will prepare independent anti-crisis plans State Duma deputies did not have time, as planned, to prepare their anti-crisis proposals to the government for today's plenary meeting. Now consideration of this document in the Duma is expected on Friday, February 20. At the same time, United Russia is preparing its own anti-crisis plan, which it intends to discuss with the leader of its party, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.