Kaczynski's liner has repeatedly found itself in difficult situations The plane of the Polish President was built on June 29, 1990 at the Aviakor plant in Samara. For 20 years, it was successively used by presidents Wojciech Jaruzelski, Lech Walesa, Alexander Kwasniewski and Lech Kaczynski. The plane was piloted by pilots of a special air regiment of the Polish Air Force, which provides transportation for the country's top officials.

Sudanese elections as a challenge for the US and the UN Sudan will continue voting in its general elections today. It started yesterday and will only end tomorrow. More than 16 million voters in the African country of 40 million will come to the ballot boxes. These are the first multi-party elections in Sudan in 24 years.

March 9 -- April 9, 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 intelligence services of Dagestan are on the trail of the alleged organizers of the terrorist attacks in the Moscow metro The end of last week was marked by a new aggravation of the situation in the North Caucasus. On Friday in Ingushetia, during a special operation to eliminate militants, a suicide bomber tried to break into a group of FSB officers.

Russian authorities want to increase the birth rate and are ready to discuss increasing the retirement age The state is not able to cope alone with the demographic crisis that Russia is experiencing. It is required that citizens themselves take more active care of their health, increase labor productivity, and invest more in the education of children.

The RFU is going to live according to the new laws The President of the Russian Football Union, Sergei Fursenko, has become incredibly active in recent days. In the executive committee of the organization entrusted to him, he nominated Deputy Prime Ministers Viktor Zubkov and Sergei Ivanov, Minister of Justice Alexander Konovalov, Chairman of the Board of Gazprom OJSC Alexei Miller and Head of the Accounts Chamber Sergei Stepashin.

Disputes between experts may reflect differences in views between the president and the prime minister The Institute of Contemporary Development (INSOR), which recently presented the results of an international study “Models of Post-Crisis Development,” warned about new dangers awaiting Russia on its path to prosperity. Institute experts believe that a resource-based economy, coupled with poor management quality, will inevitably give rise to a new wave of economic crisis in the country.

The British fear their parliament will be hung Britain has entered a period of political fever. The short but exceptionally intense election campaign began after Prime Minister Gordon Brown dissolved Parliament and called the next election for May 6. Within just one month, politicians of all colors and stripes must try to win over as large a part of the population as possible.

The Russian Empress became the symbol of Nord Stream On April 9, in the presence of Russian Head of State Dmitry Medvedev and European Commissioner for Energy Günter Oettinger, the first joint of the Nord Stream offshore gas pipeline was welded in Portovaya Bay near Vyborg.

Mikheil Saakashvili awarded the deceased President of Poland This week, Mikheil Saakashvili will interrupt his visit to the United States, where he is attending a nuclear security conference, and head to Poland for the funeral of President Lech Kaczynski.

The past Olympic season was not easy for the famous Russian biathlete, participant in three Olympics, Anna Bogaliy-Titovets. At first, she was not even among the contenders for the trip to Vancouver. However, a month and a half after the birth of her son, she resumed training with the dream of being in the Olympic “clip”.

Against the backdrop of a horrific plane crash in the sky near Smolensk with the death of the president and representatives of the top leadership of Poland, the “clasico” - the match between Real and Barcelona in the Spanish Championship - faded.

The international calendar offers races of varying difficulty levels For the world's leading cyclists, a huge number of races of varying levels of importance, complexity and duration are held every season. Moreover, in terms of timing, these competitions now and then overlap each other, allowing cycling road fans to immediately feel the striking contrast inherent in the international calendar. Yesterday was an indicative day in this regard.

The Smolensk-Severny airfield is a military facility and has not been certified for “meteominimum”, that is, the minimum necessary visibility conditions under which the reception and departure of aircraft at a given location is permitted. Depending on the availability of navigation equipment, the International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO divides airports into three categories. Moreover, the last category is divided into three more: IIIa, IIIb, IIIc.

For the first time in the last six months, the Central Bank did not give the market clear signals about a further reduction in interest rates. When asked whether rates will be cut in April, the head of the Central Bank, Sergei Mr. Ignatiev, replied: “I don’t know yet. Let’s wait, we still have a few weeks before the end of the month.