It's time to evaluate Azerbaijan's belligerent calls In the capital of Greece, the foreign ministers of the member states of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) are discussing the most important problems of the European continent. The meeting in Athens between the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan Edward Nalbandian and Elmar Mamedyarov took place on Monday evening, and yesterday their negotiations continued and attracted special attention.

The astronauts were greeted on Earth by bad weather The return of the crew of the 21st main expedition from the International Space Station to Star City near Moscow turned out to be unusually long. Only today will Russian Roman Romanenko, Belgian Frank de Winn and Canadian Robert Thirsk be able to get to the Cosmonaut Training Center and begin rehabilitation procedures after a long orbital flight.

Human rights activists analyzed the actions of nationalists in 2009 In Russia, attacks on persons of “non-indigenous” nationality have become less frequent - in comparison with 2008, the number of such fatal incidents has halved. Such data were provided by the SOVA information and analytical center in a message published yesterday summing up the results of November and the outgoing year as a whole.

The alliance does not want to let Russia into its secrets The meeting of the Russia-NATO Council (NRC) scheduled for December 4 at the level of foreign ministers in Brussels was on the verge of failure.

President Barack Obama unveiled a new US strategy in Afghanistan. His performance at the Military Academy in West Point, New York, began at eight in the evening local time (four in the morning Moscow time). Before that, he outlined the essence of his speech by telephone to the leaders of NATO allies, as well as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia, India and China.

Norwegian Statoil ceded part of the US market to the “granddaughter” of Gazprom The American “granddaughter” of Gazprom, Gazprom Marketing & Trading USA, is close to contracting the capacity of the Cove Point terminal located in Maryland for the import of liquefied gas. Next year, the Norwegian Statoil will cede the right to regasify 516 million cubic meters of gas.

The Organizing Committee of the 2014 Olympics presented the innovative emblem of the Games The organizers of the Winter Olympics, which Sochi will host in 2014, demonstrated that they did not ignore the calls of President Dmitry Medvedev to more actively introduce digital technologies into Russian reality . Yesterday, at the capital's Ritz-Carlton hotel, they presented a new gaming logo, which they themselves modestly called a “digital revolution” aimed at the future.

Moscow new buildings are still not adapted for people with disabilities Enterprises of the Moscow construction complex have significantly complicated the implementation of programs for the ending Year of Equal Opportunities for city authorities.

Who is preferable for Russia to lead Ukraine? The presidential elections on January 17, as Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said yesterday, are not just elections, but a referendum on the country's independence, and he is partly right: from the point of view of his own prospects, this is definitely nothing more than a referendum for him.

Russia was left without champions in the most prestigious category On November 7, 2009, 36-year-old Russian heavyweight Nikolai Valuev lost on points to 29-year-old Englishman David Haye and lost the WBA world heavyweight champion belt.

In most of European Russia, the weather is unseasonably warm. In the central regions, the average temperature is significantly, 7-9 degrees, higher than the climate norm. This weather is supported by Atlantic cyclones that skirt European Russia to the west and north, turning towards the central regions with their warm sectors. On Wednesday in the northwestern region it will rain at times, during the day +2...+7оС.

Yuri Pogrebnichko again staged “The Three Musketeers. Ten years later" The leitmotif of this performance is that three veteran musketeers pass from the audience through the stage and hide behind the scenes to the song “Reconnaissance goes into a dangerous search.” They have aged a lot, these former heroes, now dressed in cheap Moscow tailoring suits, with medal bars on the lapels of their jackets, glasses on their noses, a graying mustache under their noses, and wire swords on their sides.

The second explosion at the crash site of the Nevsky Express was recognized as a terrorist attack The UPC announced yesterday that a criminal case had been opened regarding the second explosion at the site of the Nevsky Express crash, which occurred last Saturday during an inspection of the emergency site by the head of the UPC, Alexander Bastrykin. Until recently, it remained unclear what caused it.

Researchers have discovered why bacteria have such amazing vitality The life of bacteria is dangerous and complex. In addition to the immune systems of animals, which tirelessly fight against them, they also have formidable natural enemies - bacteriophages, viruses that kill half of all bacteria on earth every two days.

Russian authorities intend to use compatriots to improve the country's image abroad Representatives of Russian-speaking communities from 90 countries gathered yesterday in Moscow for the World Congress of Compatriots. The Russian authorities have great hopes for them. It is they who will have to completely change the country - both its internal structure and its external image. “I outlined ( in my message to the Federal Assembly on November 12 - Ed.