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.

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.

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.

Why expel Napoleon from Moscow again? The Russian Orthodox Church proposes to revive the tradition of celebrating the anniversary of the expulsion of Napoleonic troops from Russia on Orthodox Christmas Day . The idea belongs to the deputy head of the Department of External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church, Hieromonk Philip.

Milkovich's injury made Dynamo's path to victory easier The second round of the volleyball Champions League playoffs has begun. In the men's and women's tournaments, Russia has one team left - the capital's Dynamo and Zarechye-Odintsovo, respectively. Yesterday, the “blue and white” beat the Greek “Olympiacos” from Piraeus on their court in the first match of the “Round of Six” - 3:1 (25:16, 22:25, 25:22, 25:22).

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.

Moscow begins to freeze city projects Moscow treasurers changed their tactics for planning budget expenditures in order to avoid unnecessary unrest. If last year they were forced, due to financial difficulties, to cut expenditure items from the already drawn up budget, then in the main financial document of 2010, officials laid down in advance a kind of untouchable reserve.

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.

What does it mean for Athens, the euro and global finance Hot news about the economic crisis in Greece, which is developing into a political crisis, continues to appear on TV screens and news agencies. However, for the financial world, the only real news is the fact that the financial system of one of the member countries of the European Union, which is also part of the euro zone, was in a pre-default state.

Gennady Timchenko continues to purchase assets The Volga Resources Sicav-SIF fund, created in 2007 in Luxembourg, the main beneficiary of which is businessman Gennady Timchenko, continues to pursue an aggressive investment line. Yesterday it was announced that the main player in the mergers and acquisitions market in the Russian oil and gas sector over the past year has acquired a blocking stake in the oil service company Geotech Holding.

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 130th anniversary of the great Saryan was celebrated in Moscow Martiros Saryan is one of the best colorists of the 20th century, an artist whose work glorified not only the art of his native Armenia, but also the art of Russia. It is paradoxical, by the way, that a man of Armenian nature was born on the Don, in the city of New Nakhichevan (now the city is part of Rostov-on-Don), in a patriarchal Armenian family. The artist had eight brothers and sisters.

The European Court of Human Rights begins hearings into the bankruptcy case of a major oil company. Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is expected to hold hearings on the most high-profile case in Russia - the YUKOS case.