In the northwest and in the center of European Russia, the weather will be affected by the Atlantic cyclone. It will bring snow and sleet to the northwest. In the central regions, frosts will subside. The cold anticyclone will retreat to the east. On Thursday, there will be light snow in places in the central region, sleet in the Smolensk region, mostly no precipitation in the Yaroslavl region, and icy roads in some places.

Alexey Kudrin told how Russia will make ends meet Federal budget revenues this year will decrease by a third compared to the previous year. The federal budget deficit, according to forecasts from the Ministry of Finance, in 2009 will amount to 7.4% of GDP. But this takes into account the expenditure of funds from the National Welfare Fund. Without these funds, the deficit will be 8%.

The team sprint did not add medals to our skiers Russians Andrey Parfenov and Nikita Kryukov became fourth in the team sprint at the World Championships in the Czech town of Liberec. The debutants of the world championship lost to the strong Norwegian duo Ole Vigen Hattestad and Johan Kjestad 2.2 seconds. The silver and bronze medalists were determined by a photo finish. Axel Teichmann and Tobis Angerer from Germany were second, Finns Ville Nousiainen and Sami Jahojarvi were third.

Lech Walesa launched a historic offensive The irrepressible Lech Walesa is again at the center of Polish politics. The 65-year-old politician demanded the temporary closure of the Institute of National Remembrance (INR), where the archives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and intelligence services from the times of socialism are now stored.

Bangladeshi border guards riot for pay Bangladeshi Prime Minister Hasina Wazed received a delegation of 15 border guard soldiers at her residence. They assured her that the armed riot by rank-and-file fighters that broke out yesterday morning in the capital, Dhaka, was not an attempt at a coup. The prime minister asked the soldiers to lay down their arms and promised to consider their demands for increased wages, improved conditions of service and amnesty for all participants in the mutiny.

The state cannot arrange financing for defense orders On Wednesday, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov and the heads of two state corporations, Sergei Chemezov (Russian Technologies) and Anatoly Chubais (Rosnanotech), came to the State Duma. During the government hour, they told deputies about the state of industry (mainly defense) in the context of the financial and economic crisis. At the same time, Mr.

The Kaliningrad region, the westernmost region of Russia, is classified as one of the territories most favorable for the resettlement of compatriots. The corresponding state program has been in effect since May 2006. During this time, about 5 thousand people moved to the Kaliningrad region. This is not to say that they were received with open arms.

CLUBS Tatiana and Sergei Nikitin. Central House of Artists , 19.00. Nadja/Aidan Baker (Canada). Experimental electronics. CC "Dom" , 20.00. CONCERTS "Conductor's carte blanche." F. Chopin, I. Stravinsky, C. Debussy, A. Scriabin. Women's Choir of the Academy of Choral Arts. National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia. Conductor A. Lazarev. Conservatory , 19.00. "Masterpieces of European Baroque." I.-S. Bach, G.-F. Handel. Soloists M. Voinova (organ), F. Nodel (oboe), E. Zolotova (soprano), D.

The film festival “Spirit of Fire” in Khanty-Mansiysk ended yesterday with the premiere of the film “Assa 2”. In addition to this film, Sergei Solovyov showed for the first time at the festival another new work of his, the long-awaited film adaptation of Anna Karenina. For Sergei Solovyov himself, the road to the film based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy took more than a decade and a half.

The volume of overdue debt on mortgage loans issued in rubles and foreign currency increased by the end of 2008 by 13.4 and 17.3 times, respectively. As follows from the Central Bank statistics published yesterday, the fourth quarter turned out to be the most difficult for borrowers. During this period, the volume of overdue mortgage debt issued in rubles increased by 107%, to RUB 5.8 billion. It is worth noting that this is a record jump since January 2006.

The governor of Primorye wants to create a center for the production of liquefied gas Governor of the Primorsky Territory Sergei Darkin said yesterday that a plant for the production of liquefied gas will still be built in his region. A source at Gazprom told Vremya Novostey that such an idea is being considered as one of the possibilities for gas distribution in the later stages of development of the Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok pipeline project.

Public hearings were held in Moscow on the fate of the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val It’s still very nice when intelligent people, who are always so different, complex, capricious, intractable, can overcome their ambitions and present a united front. Principled and to the point. The opportunity presented itself here. On February 9, our newspaper already wrote about the extraordinary exhibition that opened in the halls of the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val.

The authorities of the Jewish Autonomous Region may suffer for subsidies to Chinese enterprises on their territory Law enforcement agencies of the Far Eastern Federal District intend to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the Jewish Autonomous Region. A source in Russian security forces told Vremya Novostey about this.

180 years ago, at the end of February 1829 according to the new calendar, a dusty courier from Tehran galloped into the Russian mission in Tabriz (today Tabriz in Iran). The news he brought brought two powerful empires - Persia and Russia - face to face with the threat of a new war: the Russian envoy and almost all of his entourage were killed in Tehran. Of his people, only one person survived, saved thanks to friendship with one of the local residents.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs ordered that photographs of babies be pasted into international passports Every baby traveling abroad is now required to present their photo at the border. This is the position of the recently adopted new instruction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs “On the procedure for registration and issuance of passports for exit and entry into the Russian Federation,” which requires that photographs of children from 0 to 6 years old be pasted into foreign passports.