India resumes dialogue with Pakistan Yesterday's high-level India-Pakistan contacts were "the first step towards restoring trust between the two countries following the 2008 terrorist attack on the Indian city of Mumbai ." This was said by Mrs. Nirupama Rao, Minister of State with the rank of First Deputy Foreign Minister of India, assessing the “useful discussion” she had yesterday in Delhi with her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir. Ms.

The Federal Tax Service asks to reveal banking secrets to it The Federal Tax Service (FTS) is serious about improving the quality of tax administration. For taxpayers, on the one hand, this may mean a reduction in the number of unfounded claims, and on the other, increased control over their attempts to minimize tax payments.

Moscow advises Minsk not to seek short-term benefits Russia invites Belarus to reconsider its attitude towards energy cooperation and abandon the desire for short-term gain. “In the energy sector, cooperation between the two states is developing one-sidedly. The search for immediate benefits leads to a dead end. We saw this clearly in the issue of discussing customs duties on oil,” Russian Ambassador Alexander Surikov said yesterday.

The President proposed to the Duma to legislatively limit early voting Early voting in municipal elections will be kept to a minimum. The corresponding amendments to the current legislation were introduced to the State Duma by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

The Public Chamber did not believe the threats of pharmaceutical manufacturers The Law “On the Circulation of Medicines,” which is being prepared for the second hearing in the State Duma, in its current form threatens to provoke a partial washout of cheap domestic drugs from the assortment of pharmacies this year.

Kaliningrad governor hopes for a second term and changes government structure After the January protest rally in Kaliningrad , in which, according to the Internal Affairs Directorate, 10 thousand people took part, Governor Georgy Boos (the protesters demanded his resignation) took a rather long pause. He did not communicate with representatives of local media, making statements only for the federal press.

The government is looking for ways to protect the economy from rising insurance premiums The government has sharply intensified the search for ways to protect businesses from the sharpest increase in the fiscal burden in the last decade due to the upcoming increase in the total rates of social insurance contributions from January 1, 2011 - from 26 to 34% of the wage fund.

BOBSLEY. Women Double 1. Canada-1 (Kaylee Humphreys, Heather Moyes) - total of four runs 3 min. 32.28 sec. 2. Canada-2 (Helen APPERTON, Shelley Ann BROWN) - 0.85 seconds behind. 3. USA-2 (Erin Pak, Elana Meyers) -- 1.12... 9. Russia-1 (Anastasia Skulkina, Elena Doronina) -- 3.65... 18. Russia-2 (Olga Fedorova, Yulia Timofeeva) -- 9,12. SKATING. Women 5000 m. 1. Martina SABLICOVA (Czech Republic) -- 6 min. 50.91 sec. 2. Stephanie Beckert (Germany) -- 6.51.39. 3.

CONCERTS Patricia Kaas. Kremlin Palace , 19.00. "F... kill it." One of the funniest teams of the Russian underground lives up to its name. All songs are short and funny. Mezzo Forte , 20.00. Vadim Eilenkrig and quartet. Igor Butman Club , 20.30. “My leg cramped!” “16 tons” , 21.00. "Picnic". "B1 Maximum" , 21.00. Therese Aune (Norway), Tinavie. Club-theater “Workshop ” , 22.00. CLASSIC Big Symphony Orchestra named after Tchaikovsky. D. Shostakovich. Soloist D. Demyashkin (piano). Conductor M.

Viktor Yanukovych took the presidential oath Yesterday, Ukraine found a new head of state - the leader of the Party of Regions (PR), Viktor Yanukovych, who won the second round of the presidential elections on February 7, was sworn in. The inauguration of the fourth Ukrainian president took place in the Verkhovna Rada in a meeting hall that was one-third empty, and the ranks of deputies from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) were empty.

It took astronomers more than a year to solve the unique explosion For the first time, scientists were able to look at one of the stars that existed at the beginning of the formation of the Universe. The distant star SN 2007bi was discovered in the summer of 2007 using telescopes from the Palomar Observatory, located in the hills between Los Angeles and San Diego, as part of the Near Supernova Factory project, which aims to observe stars whose evolution ended in a catastrophic explosive process.

Aviation began to carry more and cheaper In January, key performance indicators for Russian civil aviation jumped more than 30% compared to the same period last year. According to statistics published yesterday by the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviation), the industry is developing very dynamically. However, experts believe that growth is ensured not so much by the general rise of the Russian economy as by a decrease in air ticket prices.

Polish court restored socialist justice The decision of the Constitutional Court of Poland, which declared unconstitutional the almost halving of pensions for members of the Military Council of National Salvation (MCNS), which introduced martial law in the country on December 13, 1981, caused a loud public outcry. The law taking away privileges from functionaries of the special services of the socialist Polish People's Republic (PPR) came into force on January 1 of this year.

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The development of the seas began earlier than expected Finds on the Greek island of Crete suggest that humans first took to sea much earlier than until recently thought. The stone tools found by archaeologists on Crete were made at least 130 thousand years ago. The island has been separated from land for more than 5 million years. This means that the people who made the tools arrived on the island by sea.