JSC "Moscow city telephone network" will change analogous ATS 921 of Zamoskvoreckiy telephone unit to digital ATS 621 since 27 February till 15 March; it is informed in the news release of the company.
The cheese week - last week before the Lent, known also as Shrove-tide carnival begins on Monday on the orthodox calendar.
In the Petersburg airport "Pulkovo" the citizen of Tadzhikistan transported in the stomach 50 capsules with heroin was arrested.
The Russian team finished XX Winter Olympic Games in Torino having won 22 medals - 8 gold, 6 silver and 8 bronze.
The director of the Basmanny market Mark Mishiyev repeatedly accomplished self-willed re-planning of the quarters. The prosecutor of Moscow Anatoliy Zuev stated about this.
According to the data from 26 February bird flu is fixed in six regions of Russia.
Providing contract soldiers the right to enter high schools without examinations will not decrease the chances for other entrants to become a student, the Russian Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko stated on Sunday.
Russian Tourist Industry Union do not forecast abrupt decrease of tourists flow to Europe in case of double rise of price of Schengen visa.
The deputies of Vologda town Duma passed the provision about the order of holding the competition for draft hymn of the town.
Several hundreds of millions are to be allotted by the federal exchequer for constructing and restoring of the objects in Irkutsky, Shelekhovsky, Angarsky and other districts of Irkutsk region.
Pancake week begins tomorrow. According to Russian Orthodox calendar, Pancake Week is commemorated right before Lent.
By data of USA Bureau of population census, Earth population exceeds 6.5 milliard people. This point was passed at 3:16 by Moscow time on February 26.
Commissar of European Council on human rights Alvaro Hil-Robles appealed to Chechen rebels to lay down arms.
Russian chief sanitary inspector Gennady Onisheko sees no ground for restriction of Russian trips to Egypt.
Russian president Vladimir Putin will not come to Olympic Games, which closes on February 26 in Turin.
Revolutionary labor party failed to hold action in support of conscience liberty on Pushkin square in Moscow.
With expansion of European Union, Russian language became the 4-th commonly used foreign language in EU.
The most representative exhibition of the dogs of all species "Eurasia -2006" will pass on 25-26 February in Moscow, reported the organizers of review from the Russian cynologique federation.
In the city Gatchina of Leningrad region on Saturday will be opened the XII film festival "Literature and cinema". This is the only festival in Russia, into the program of which enter only the films, created on the basis of literary works.
When planning and distributing the grants of the state budget of the Ukraine to agricultural enterprises, suffered because of the catastrophic consequences of cold winter, enterprises from the list of organizations organized by subjects of owner`s activities, being subject to subsidy, were excluded. they reported about it in the press- service of the Alternative government of the Crimea.
The chairman of Application committee "Sochi -2014", the vice- premier Aleksandr Zhukov thinks that Russia deserved the right to hold the Olympic Games. About this he stated on Friday in Torino during the press conference of Application committee "Sochi -2014".
The director of the state unitary enterprise "Market Basmanny" Mark Meshiyev is arrested within the framework of the investigation of the case about collapse of the roof of market, which occurred last Thursday and led to the human victims.
Kazakhstan`s intelligence agency said Tuesday that five of its employees were among the six arrested suspects in the slaying of an opposition leader.
The building of Bauman market collapsed in Moscow on Thursday early in the morning. According to the data of the Russian Emergency Ministry the collapse of the market building, located in 47/1 Baumanskaya street, occurred at 05:45 on Thursday.
Tokyo law court, after examining on Thursday the case on the charge of the leader and founder of radical group "Red Army" 60 years old Fusako Shigenobu, sentenced her to 20 years of prisoning. She is charged in the attempted murder and the seizure of hostages during the attack on the French embassy in the Hague in 1974.