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 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 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.

Russia is ready to help America with military transit to Afghanistan The Moscow conference on Afghanistan, organized on March 27 under the auspices of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), was a success in all respects.

The government will save the industry as a whole Measures to support the domestic automobile industry may be presented today at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, which will be held at the AvtoVAZ production site.

Leaders fail to break away from their pursuers In the qualifying round of the 2010 World Cup, there was a struggle not only for the leading positions, but also for third places, which, if the favorites misfire, will give them a chance to compete in the future to advance from the groups. Finland, for example, in our group 4, does not let the Russian team go far. And other companies have their own “dark horses” ready to rush to the finish line.

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.

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.

Dmitry Medvedev confirmed the continuity of the flight course Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday continued the tradition of top officials of the state flying on combat aircraft, started by Vladimir Putin. In October 1999, while still prime minister, Mr. Putin flew for ten minutes on a Su-25UB attack aircraft, and in March 2000 (already acting president) he flew from Krasnodar to Grozny on a Su-27UB fighter, while flying the plane for eight minutes.

CLUB Igor Butman Big Band. Igor Butman's club , 20.00. Sabina Vartanova. Music Town Club , 20.00. Anna Koroleva (vocals, saxophone) and Jump . "Forte" , 21.00. CONCERT Pavel Kogan and the orchestra. "20 years together". A. Dvořák; A. Borodin; M. Ravel. MGASO p/u P. Kogana. Concert hall named after Tchaikovsky , 19.00. Candy Dalfer (vocals/saxophone-alto, Netherlands). House music , 19.00. THEATER "The Narrator Shukshina". Directed by Alvisa Hermanisa (Latvia).

The band Sisters of Mercy performed at the B1 Maximum club I only saw this in the movie Play Out about the group The Cure: crowds of people with black lips, piercings, multi-colored mohawks. Homemade outfits made from some kind of mesh - I was sure that homemade informal outfits remained from my Soviet childhood. Not at all! And thank God.