The World Ski Championships started in the Czech town of Liberec. It opened with the women's classic 10 km race, in which 70 athletes reached the finish line. Among them are four Russians - Olga Rocheva, Tatyana Yambaeva, Alena Sidko and Olga Tyagay. Russian coaches nominated two experienced and two completely young skiers Yambaeva and Tyagai for this start.

Munich loses lawsuit against butchers in the rest of Bavaria So, like this: “1. Pierce the sausage with a fork approx. two centimeters from its end. 2. Make a slit just in front of the fork so that some of the skin remains on the sausage. 3. Stick a fork into the short part. 4. With an elegant twisting motion of the knuckle of your hand, use a fork to twist the sausage out of the skin. 5. Spread with mustard and eat. 6.

Vladimir Churov is ready to compete with hackers when organizing electronic elections The problems of electronic voting via the Internet were discussed yesterday at a round table by the Chairman of the Central Election Commission Vladimir Churov and representatives of the Russian hacker community - employees of the Hacker magazine. Opening the event, Mr.

The jury unanimously acquitted the accused in the Politkovskaya case At the Moscow District Military Court (MOVS), a panel of jurors yesterday completely acquitted all three defendants in the murder of Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya - Chechen-born brothers Ibragim and Dzhabrail Makhmudov (both in the picture) and former employee of the Moscow RUOP Sergei Khadzhikurbanov.

The US is ready to pay more for the right to leave its base in Kyrgyzstan The Kyrgyz parliament voted yesterday almost unanimously to denounce the agreement with the United States on the deployment of the American military base "Manas" at the Bishkek airport - 78 votes in favor, two abstentions and one against.

FMS proposes a new method of accounting for guest workers working for private owners The legislation regulating the situation of foreign workers in Russia is inadequate to the current situation and requires urgent changes. This was announced yesterday almost simultaneously by representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Federal Migration Service, on the one hand, and trade union leaders, on the other. Each side understands in its own way what these changes should be.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who presented the G20 anti-crisis plan “The Path to the London Summit” on Wednesday, visited Rome yesterday for talks with his Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi. As you know, Italy is presiding over the G8 this year. Gg. Brown and Berlusconi published a joint article yesterday in the newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore. The article outlines a strategy for countering the global economic crisis. “In London (at the G20 summit on April 2 - Ed.

Dmitry Medvedev promised to subsidize the purchase of air tickets for residents of the Far East and not to increase the length of military service The length of service in the army, despite persistent rumors that future conscripts may again go to serve for two years, as it was before January 1, 2008, or even two and a half, will not be changed. The Russian President made such a gift for Defender of the Fatherland Day to all future conscripts and their parents.

Zhukovsky's collected works continue to grow The new volume of the Complete Works and Letters of Zhukovsky (M., “Languages ​​of Slavic Cultures”) consists of poetic stories and fairy tales.

The bank will reveal client secrets to avoid criminal prosecution Swiss bank UBS will disclose to the US Department of Justice the data of its clients suspected of using offshore accounts to evade taxes, the lending institution said in a statement. The document does not indicate the exact number of people whose information will be transferred to the authorities.

Vladimir Putin and Vitaly Mutko will not recreate the Komsomol Officials are scrambling to figure out how to separate young people from the rest of humanity and make them part of their everlasting concern and political business. The Year of Youth in Russia, planned for 2010, is an excellent springboard for know-how from above. And the crisis perfectly sets off this event. After all, nowadays all industries ask the government for state support, without being embarrassed by their dependency.

"Pink Panther 2" on Moscow screens At the crime scene there is always the same sign: a business card with the inscription “Tornado”. In a very short period of time, the elusive thief of museum valuables managed to steal from various storage facilities the original of the Magna Carta, the Shroud of Turin, the Japanese sword of the emperor... as well as the famous Pink Panther diamond.

Netanyahu is closest to becoming Israeli Prime Minister Yesterday, the 59-year-old head of the Israeli right-wing Likud party, Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, became the undoubted leader among contenders for the post of prime minister. He was recommended to be appointed to this post by Avigdor Lieberman, the head of the third party in the Knesset, “Our Home is Israel” (NDI, 15 out of 120 seats).

Arab monarchs arm themselves over Iran “In this theater, as I really hope, Russian artists will also perform,” said Foreign Minister of the Sultanate of Oman Yousef bin Alawi, who gave the author, who had known him for a long time, a short excursion to a Vremya Novostei observer.

Installations by Irina Korina at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art The exhibition announced by our newspaper is being held as part of the “Moscow Current” program at the branch of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in Ermolaevsky Lane. The “Moscow Current” program, implemented by XL-gallery with the support of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, is aimed at presenting the work of famous Russian artists in development over ten years.