The FSB director and the government are tasked with ending the second Chechen war On Friday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev invited FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov to consider the issue of the current counter-terrorism operation (CTO) regime in Chechnya at the next meeting of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee, which Mr. Bortnikov heads ex officio. The next meeting of the NAC is scheduled for March 31.

The ISS is ready to receive a “large” crew The commanders of two spacecraft - the Russian Soyuz TMA-14 and the American shuttle Discovery - had to demonstrate their piloting skills last Saturday. Circumstances required Gennady Padalka and Lee Archambolt to “push” automation into the background in order to complete the assigned tasks. And both of them successfully dealt with them.

The loss of the USSR was deeply felt by many fellow citizens, and the memory of Soviet times has not been erased. The Bialowieza Agreement on the creation of the CIS and the previous upheavals have not sunk into oblivion, but remain a factor that excites public consciousness. Professor V.A.

Brown won the Australian Grand Prix The first race of the 60th Formula 1 World Championship, held on Sunday in Melbourne, Australia, ended with a fantastic victory double for the Brown team. Jenson Button, starting from pole, finished first, and Rubens Barrichello, despite the problems that arose at the start, finished second. The fate of third place was decided by the judges, who fined Toyota's Jarno Trulli after the finish for incorrectly overtaking Lewis Hamilton's McLaren.

At the World Figure Skating Championships, which was the last major start of the pre-Olympic season, each country tried to show off its product. It was at this tournament that the trends in modern figure skating were highlighted. Vremya Novostey correspondent Olga ERMOLINA talked about this with the famous coach Alexei MISHIN. - Alexey Nikolaevich, it seems that all four types of figure skating are at odds. Greenhouses say that the new rules turn them into robots and make them the same.

The head of the rural administration is in conflict with the Kaliningrad governor The head of the Kaliningrad region, Georgy Boos, according to regional sociological surveys, invariably holds first place in the ranking of the influence of local politicians. Local government officials rarely dare to argue with their boss. But there are also those representatives of local authorities who risk conflict with the governor. Among them is the head of the Ozerkovsky rural settlement, Andrei Mironovich.

Russia and Azerbaijan were pleased with the meeting Guus Hiddink passed the first half of the test for the compatibility of the positions of head coaches of the Russian national team and London Chelsea. In the first qualifying match for the 2010 World Cup, after his invitation to work part-time in England, the Russian national team took the planned three points. Azerbaijan, as expected, was beaten in class - 2:0.

The Spanish judicial authorities have accepted a case against former employees of the administration of US President George W. Bush. They are accused of creating legal gimmicks that made it possible to torture prisoners at the American prison at Guantanamo Bay. If the Spanish Attorney General's Office agrees to press charges, Spain's National Court of Justice will be able to issue an arrest warrant for six Americans.

At the raw materials forum they were looking for ways to restore the energy dialogue between Russia and Europe At the height of the global economic crisis and at a time of worsening relations between Russia and the European Union in the energy sector, the second meeting of the Russian-German raw materials forum, which was established a year and a half ago in Dresden in the presence of Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel, took place in St. Petersburg.

A famous painting went missing during the reconstruction of the Berlin Wall. The kiss of Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker was erased from the Berlin Wall. The close friendship of the former General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and the leader of the GDR was not destroyed by the hand of a vandal for fun. The famous graffiti “Lord!

In the north-west of European territory, with the departure of the cyclone on Monday, a short-term improvement in the weather is expected. Mostly without precipitation, daytime temperature +2...+7оС. And in a number of central regions, precipitation, mainly rain, is expected with the passage of atmospheric fronts. In the southwest and south of the Central District there will be rain in places, the temperature will rise to +1...+8oC.

Prime Minister of Italy 72-year-old Silvio Berlusconi led the new center-right party “People of Freedom” (NS), which became the largest in Italy. He was elected Chairman of the National Assembly at the founding congress that ended yesterday in Rome. The new political force was created on the basis of Berlusconi's former Forza Italia party and two right-wing parties - the National Alliance (NA) and the Northern League.

In Riga on March 16, a procession of Latvian legionnaires and representatives of Latvian youth national radical groups took place. The fact that the republican authorities did not side with the anti-fascist forces, but covered up Nazi collaborators, is indignant.

The head of E.ON Ruhrgas told how to increase the level of reliability of energy supply During tomorrow's conversation between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, we will, in particular, talk about the prospects for cooperation in the field of natural gas supplies from Russia to Germany and Europe. How is the relationship between the largest German company E.ON Ruhrgas and the Russian gas monopolist Gazprom?

Parliamentary parties will be provided with equal access to state electronic media Last Friday, the State Duma approved in the first reading the presidential law on guarantees of equality of parliamentary parties (currently there are four of them - United Russia, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Liberal Democratic Party and A Just Russia) when covering their activities on state television and radio channels.