Georgia hopes for help from Kazakhstan Tomorrow, the current Chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Kanat Saudabayev, will arrive in Georgia for a two-day visit. Tbilisi pins its hopes on Kazakhstan's OSCE chairmanship, believing that this country understands the problems of the post-Soviet space better than others.

Every Olympics has heroes. And their tragedies. There will certainly be heroes at the Games in Vancouver (there are more than enough candidates), but a tragedy has already happened - 21-year-old Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili crashed to death during training. There have been deaths at the Games before. You don't have to go far. In 1996, in Atlanta, the heart of a Turkish television cameraman stopped due to stress caused by an explosion in a city park.

The opposition's weak election results during the crisis do not indicate the strength of United Russia Due to the economic crisis, the Russian opposition will not be able to adequately perform in the regional elections on March 14 and compete with United Russia. This statement was made by the General Director of the All-Russian Foundation for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) Valery Fedorov at a press conference in Moscow, based on data from sociological surveys.

New film by Roman Polanski at the Berlin Film Festival If literally, then “Ghost Writer”, and if in meaning, then “Literary Negro” - this is how the title of Roman Polanski’s new thriller The Ghostwriter is translated into Russian. But it’s probably better to say it literally, especially since the presence of Roman Polanski himself was ghostly.

Olympic grimaces of globalization The results of the first Olympic starts showed that Russian athletes training abroad, or our former athletes now defending the honor of other states, are still performing much better than those who before Vancouver worked in the main group of our Olympians preparing for the Games.

NATO forces begin largest operation in Afghanistan In southern Afghanistan, in Helmand province, the international coalition is currently conducting the largest operation against the Taliban since 2001. Its name “Moshtarak” is translated into Russian from Dari as “Together”.

The Russians did not claim the first award of the Games The first winner of the Games of the XXI Winter Olympics was the Swiss flying skier Simon Ammann. He took first place in the K-95 medium springboard jumping competition. If eight years ago in Salt Lake City, two victories of the then little-known Ammann in personal tournaments became a super sensation, now he came to Vancouver as one of the favorites.

RussNeft will pay off its debts at the expense of Sistema As AFK Sistema told Vremya Novostey, the company submitted an application to the Federal Antimonopoly Service to acquire a 49% stake in RussNeft. The corporation notes that the decision of the antimonopoly authorities on the legality of such a purchase should be made in the next thirty days, however, neither the amount of the transaction nor the possible timing of its completion have yet been disclosed.

Viktor Vekselberg reminded the president of his role in the fate of Kovykta At an offsite meeting on the fuel and energy complex, which was held in Omsk by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev , they dealt not only with illegal oil refiners, but also with global trends in gas markets. The main report on the topic was made by Viktor Vekselberg, who appeared on the list not as the executive vice president of TNK-BP for gas business, but as the chairman of the supervisory board of Renova.

The party in power is trying to combine its ideology with the course of the president Last Saturday, February 13, three political clubs of United Russia held a meeting on the topic “The Moral Basis of Modernization.” Although the very concept of “modernization” is usually attributed more to the field of high technology, economics, and state-building, humanitarians on the propaganda front are also actively looking for areas to apply their efforts.

In Irkutsk there was a rally for and against the launch of the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill Russians continue to refute the theses of politicians and analysts about the allegedly low protest potential and unpreparedness to take to the streets. Last weekend, rallies were held in Irkutsk for and against the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill (BPPM), which is preparing to restart. Moreover, according to eyewitnesses, there were significantly more opponents of the launch.

January 12 -- February 12, 2010 “Politicians Through the Eyes of the Media,” a joint project of “Vremya Novostei” and the “Medialogia” company, are ratings of political figures who are most actively discussed in the federal press and on central TV channels.

The capital's "chief advertiser" is released on bail from the Moscow City Duma speaker Today, Vladimir Makarov, the chairman of the capital's committee of advertising, information and decoration of the city, accused of exceeding his official powers and causing grave damage to the budget of Moscow, is due to be released from prison.

The leaders of the special police listened to the wishes of the public The capital's special police unit is trying in every possible way to refute the criticism that fell upon it after a high-profile publication in The New Times magazine.

On Sunday, an unusually large number of law enforcement officers were observed in the center of the capital. Looking at the police cordons blocking the streets, one got the impression that another march, rally or other action of “dissent” was coming - an unprecedented increase in security measures usually accompanies the opposition’s monthly attempts to make itself known.