The EU has decided what they will bring to London The heads of state and government of the European Union countries, in months of debate about ways to combat the crisis, found a route to the G20 meeting opening on April 2 in London. As a result of the EU summit that ended on Friday, it was decided to advocate for strengthening control and regulation of financial markets, as well as for the allocation of an additional 100 billion euros to combat the crisis.

Tatyana Golikova named irreducible expense items Even if the government manages to keep the amount of funding for medicine and social support at the level envisaged in the draft updated budget for 2009, the money may still not be enough to satisfy all those in need.

Murmansk governor was fired for deviation from the vertical of power and the party line The loss of his position ended for the governor of the Murmansk region, Yuri Evdokimov, a protracted confrontation with the United Russia party, of which he, like the vast majority of heads of federal subjects, is a member. On Saturday, Mr. Evdokimov, who spent 13 years in the governor’s chair, voluntarily (according to the official version) resigned.

The US has found a new NATO leader The most likely candidate for the post of new NATO Secretary General is 56-year-old Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. On this figure, a compromise between the United States and the main European allies has “already been reached,” a diplomatic source in one of the NATO member countries told Vremya Novostey on condition of anonymity.

Germany continues to fight Swiss tax haven In recent days, political fissures have deepened in relations between Germany and Switzerland, caused by sharp criticism of German leaders against states that are commonly called “tax oases.” The closely guarded tradition of banking secrecy in the Alpine Confederation does not allow German tax detectives to successfully hunt down tax fugitives.

“Znamenie” on Moscow screens John Koestler (Nicolas Cage), an astrophysicist and single father from Boston, accidentally discovers that on a crumpled piece of paper taken from a “time capsule” that was walled up in the school foundation by then-first-graders for half a century, there are exact coordinates (where, when, how much) the largest catastrophes and natural disasters of recent times - both those that have already happened and those that are about to strike (if, of course, you believe the

The winner of Milan - San Remo was determined by a photo finish To identify the fastest in the longest (298 km) road cycling one-day race on the international calendar, Milan - San Remo, held for the hundredth time, a photo finish was required. The Briton Mark Cavendish from the team (Columbia Team - Highroad) was only a quarter of a wheel ahead of the German Heinrich Haussler, representing Cervelo.

Guests from Berlin and New York performed at the Mariinsky Festival The Mariinsky Festival saved the visits of the most curious guests for last - Marcelo Gomez appeared in “Giselle” on the penultimate day of the festival, Polina Semionova danced “La Bayadère” the day before.

The mediators will discuss Transnistria after the elections in Moldova As Vremya Novostei learned, on March 25 there will be another meeting between the presidents of Moldova and the self-proclaimed Transnistrian Moldavian Republic in 1990, Vladimir Voronin and Igor Smirnov. They will continue to discuss the prospects for the Transnistrian settlement in the development of the agreements reached on March 18 in Moscow at a trilateral summit organized on the initiative of President Dmitry Medvedev.

The new literary prize will be awarded in January 2010 The Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation celebrated its fifth anniversary by establishing a new literary award “NOS” - this abbreviation means “New Literature” and much more, starting from Gogol’s story and ending with... whatever comes to mind.

François Pinault collection in Moscow Billionaire Pinault is the eighth most influential person in contemporary art. His collection is grandiose, his appetites are great (in Venice alone he is creating a second museum of his collection, for comparison: the Guggenheim empire has only one branch there).

Today, Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany will notify parliament of his resignation, as the 47-year-old politician told the congress of the ruling Hungarian Socialist Party (HSP) on March 21: “They tell me that I am an obstacle to the creation of a stable majority government, which is necessary to bring about change. In January last year, I said that if within a year it was not possible to increase the party’s support, then the personnel issue would have to be raised.

The sources of financing the federal budget deficit in 2009 do not raise questions due to the presence of the Reserve Fund, although the deficit itself will be significant. But it’s not just the federal budget that will face falling revenues—this problem will become a big headache for regional budgets, whose balance is usually close to zero (in 2008, the deficit was 54 billion rubles). The fall in their income will no longer require “optimization,” but a real sequestration of expenses.

World Cup starts in Los Angeles This week, the largest city in the American state of California, Los Angeles, one of whose districts is the capital of the world film industry, Hollywood, is hosting the planetary figure skating championship, which will draw a line under the current pre-Olympic season. It is at this championship that the number of participants in the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games will be determined.

The head coach of the Russian national team and London's Chelsea, Guus Hiddink, fell into a serious moral trap. The main thing is that it does not become professional and does not negatively affect the performance of both teams he leads. Today, the popularly beloved Gus flies to Moscow to begin preparing the Russian national team for two World Cup qualifying matches with Azerbaijan and Liechtenstein, in which, to tell the truth, even without coaches we are obliged to take all six points.