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Germany is waiting for Vladimir Putin German Chancellor Angela Merkel with one single remark gave a special character to today's visit of Vladimir Putin to Berlin. The Russian Prime Minister comes to the German capital to take part in the annual business forum organized by the Sueddeutsche Zeitung. Yesterday, Mr.

This weekend the second stage of the World Cup in cross-country skiing will take place in Kuusamo, Finland, in which sprinters will take part. On the eve of the competition, Olga ERMOLINA, a correspondent for the Vremya Novostey newspaper, spoke with one of the Russian skiers, the silver medalist of the Vancouver Olympics, Alexander PANZHINSKY. -- After a successful performance at the Vancouver Olympics, what goals do you set for yourself this season?

The President provided the army with financial guarantees for ten years Dmitry Medvedev yesterday became a spectator at a stage of ground forces exercises and discussed the progress of military reform with senior army officials. “I dare to assure you (there is. - Ed. ), absolute, unshakable determination to complete, to bring these transformations to completion.

Cold air will penetrate into the middle zone, and the warmth will be replaced by a slight frost. On Friday in the north-west of the European territory of Russia there will be light, sometimes moderate snow, during the day +6...+11оС. In the center there is snow, sleet, ice in places, icy roads on the roads, -4...+2°C during the day. On Saturday in the northwestern region there will be light to moderate snow at times, temperatures will be -5...-10°C.

To do this they had to meet in Dushanbe To the many “road maps” laid out through the intricacies of world diplomacy, another one may be added. This became known yesterday in Dushanbe during meetings of the heads of government of countries - members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, uniting Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

The State Duma is ready to call the Katyn tragedy a crime of a totalitarian state The Russian parliament is preparing the ground for President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Poland. Today the State Duma at its plenary meeting may adopt a statement “On the Katyn tragedy and its victims.” Judging by the draft document, it does not contain new information about the circumstances of the execution of Polish officers in June 1940.

Thomas Cook gains control of Russian company The hotel and tourism holding VAO Intourist announced yesterday the creation of a joint venture with one of the largest players in the global travel industry - the transnational group Thomas Cook. The tour operator business of Intourist will be transferred to the joint venture, and control over the enterprise (50.1% of shares) will go to Thomas Cook.

The President of Afghanistan will come to Russia in January Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Afghan counterpart Zalmay Rasul said at a joint press conference that they were satisfied with the negotiations that took place yesterday in the Russian capital. “We discussed preparations for the visit of Afghan President Hamid Karzai to Moscow in January 2011,” the guest said. Sergei Lavrov noted that issues of deepening and expanding the “already good” bilateral relations were raised.

City transport workers expect an improvement in the situation on Moscow roads only in the spring The capital's officials demonstrate the slowness of the city's economic machine and their dependence solely on the "whip" of the top management.

The financial crisis in the country is developing into a political one Ireland has fulfilled the first condition for receiving a loan from the European Union and the IMF - it has presented a plan to reduce budget expenditures. The aid package is expected to amount to around 85 billion euros. Market borrowing has become prohibitively expensive for Ireland after it became clear that it would have to provide €100 billion to bail out its banks.

Serbia and Croatia will join the European Union through reconciliation The Balkan countries are trying to cooperate more closely in order to bring their entry into the European Union closer. Among the republics of the former Yugoslavia, Macedonia and Croatia have official candidate status, and Slovenia has already been a member of the EU since 2004. It looks like Serbia will have to wait the longest.

Deputies took into account the president's wishes in amendments to the law on rallies The new version of the amendments to the law “On rallies, processions and picketing”, which tightened the rules for holding public events, was not long in coming - after President Dmitry Medvedev vetoed the initial amendments in early November, deputies reworked the document and intend to adopt it already at today's State Duma meeting.

United Russia has begun a communal purge of mayors United Russia will begin to cleanse itself of mayors who do not control the increase in tariffs for housing and communal services. City governors who err will be expelled from the party and, if possible, removed from their positions. The first victim of such a policy has already appeared - the mayor of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Vladislav Skvortsov.

CSKA is on the verge of failure in the Euroleague CSKA basketball players, who have reached the Final Four of the ULEB Euroleague for eight years in a row, are at risk of ending the tournament early this season. At the start of the second round of the first group stage, Serbian coach Dusko Vujosevic's team suffered defeat from Armani Jeans (Milan, Italy) - 65:71. After six matches, CSKA has one victory and the last place in sextet “D”.