Former speaker of parliament, leader of the opposition “Democratic Movement - United Georgia” Nino Burjanadze will today hold meetings in Moscow on the prospects for her country’s relations with Russia. The schedule is kept secret, but there is evidence that negotiations with the leadership of United Russia are planned.

The government allowed 11 universities to introduce additional exams The list of universities that will conduct additional specialized tests this summer in addition to the unified state exam has been approved by the government. According to the White House decision, 11 universities will be allowed to select applicants not only by the Unified State Exam, but also through their own exams, which is more than half as many as last year.

Yesterday, the famous diplomat Yuli Aleksandrovich Kvitsinsky died at the age of 74. Back in early February, the Vremya Novostey newspaper addressed his assistants in the State Duma, where he was deputy chairman of the committee on international affairs. We wanted to publish an interview with him about how negotiations on nuclear disarmament took place between Moscow and Washington. In the 1980s, Yuli Aleksandrovich headed the Soviet delegation at these negotiations in Geneva.

Former police lieutenant colonel accused of apartment fraud The Golovinsky District Court of Moscow has begun consideration of a criminal case against the former deputy chief of the public security police (MSP) of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Northern Administrative District (SAO), Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Dokuchaev. According to investigators, he was part of a criminal group involved in fraud with municipal housing.

The Prime Minister ordered to make the decisions of his Innovation Commission mandatory Yesterday, the White House hosted a regular meeting of the government commission on high technologies and innovations - and the first one chaired by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (previously it was headed by Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov). Mr.

It’s impossible to believe: Yuri Stepanov, one of the first, best, and most beloved artists of the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop, has passed away. Having caught a ride, he was returning home in the evening after the play “Three Sisters”. An overspeeding Mazda drove into their car, which was standing at a traffic light, and the old Zhiguli with the actor sitting in it was thrown into the oncoming lane under the cars. Only Yuri died.

The head of Naftogaz of Ukraine resigned on the eve of a vote of no confidence in the government Oleg Dubina resigned from his post as Chairman of the Board of Naftogaz of Ukraine. The country's Minister of Fuel and Energy Yuriy Prodan confirmed yesterday that the Cabinet of Ministers had granted his resignation on the evening of March 2 - right before the vote of no confidence in the government of Yulia Tymoshenko. It is not easy to summarize the work of Oleg Dubina.

State Duma deputy proposes to legalize the fatal danger of alcohol The head of the State Duma Committee on Youth Affairs, deputy of the LDPR faction Pavel Tarakanov proposed legalizing the harm of alcohol, namely, directly writing in the legislation that alcohol abuse can lead to death. The initiative was submitted to the State Duma and formalized as an amendment to the law “On state regulation of the production and circulation of ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products.” Mr.

Tomorrow a conference on the problems of disarmament and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons opens in Moscow. One of the countries that does not admit that it has nuclear weapons and refuses to sign the treaty on their non-proliferation is Israel. The Jewish state will be represented at the conference by the founder of the Israeli agency for the development of the missile defense system (ABM), one of the creators of the Hetz (Arrow) missile defense system, Uzi RUBIN.

The State Duma promises to adopt six dozen priority laws during the spring session The State Duma yesterday held its first plenary meeting after the winter holidays. It approved an approximate program of legislative work for the spring session.

Environmentalists want to stop the removal of radioactive waste from the central regions of Russia to the Kyshtym disaster zone The St. Petersburg Institute of Regional Press hosted the premiere screening of the documentary “Territory Unfit for Life” - about the consequences of the activities of the Mayak production association, a secret plant for the production of weapons-grade plutonium and reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, located in the city of Ozersk, Chelyabinsk region.

Anita Amirezvani. Blood of flowers. Translation from English Alana and Alexandra Kubatiev. St. Petersburg: Azbuka, 2010. Iranian Anita Amirezvani’s novel “The Blood of Flowers” ​​was translated into 26 languages ​​and nominated for the prestigious British literary award Orange Prize. A Tehran native who moved to San Francisco at age 16, Amirezvani worked on her debut novel for nine years.

Warm weather has settled over most of the European territory of Russia. In Moscow and St. Petersburg, the average daily temperature was more than 5 degrees higher than its climatic norm. In the next 24 hours, it will become colder in the northwest and in the center of the region, in the rear of the Atlantic cyclone. In the northwestern region, the temperature will drop on Thursday afternoon to -2...-7°C, on Friday to -4...-9°C, with snow in places.

Larry Applebaum looked at Eastern European jazz from the outside At the “Hungarian Jazz Showcase” (a festival with a scientific and practical conference, similar to those that are regularly organized in other countries), there was no trace of either avant-garde or, conversely, retro-jazz. Almost without exception, only the modern mainstream sounded - the same could have happened somewhere in Bratislava or Moscow.

Heroes of the war with Georgia dismissed from the army Another major reshuffle took place in the Russian military leadership yesterday. A new commander-in-chief of the main branch of the Russian Armed Forces, the ground forces, has been appointed, as well as commanders of two military districts, including the “hottest” one, the North Caucasus. The corresponding decrees were signed by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.