The Western media refer to current events in Egypt as "revolution." On January 27, the Egyptian authorities acknowledged the inability of the police to handle the protests of the opposition. Elite divisions of the Egyptian army have not been able to improve the situation in the country. Over 150 have been killed and nearly 1,000 protesters have been arrested and jailed, but clashes with the police become only stronger.

Both Muslim and Christian Egyptians united in their protests against the regime of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak. They make joint statements claiming that the Muslims and Christians of Egypt are struggling against corruption, unemployment, suppression and lack of freedoms. Liberals concluded an alliance with Islamists and leftist forces against Mubarak.

Hosni Mubarak is considered an ally of the United States. He openly supported the States in 1991 during the operation against Saddam Hussein: Mubarak sent a considerable military contingent against the brotherly Arab nation.

Russia's computer security company Kaspersky Lab, the fourth-largest global antivirus vendor, sold a large shareholding to US-based private equity firm General Atlantic. GA will become the second-largest shareholder of the Russian company, giving Kaspersky Lab an opportunity to improve its positions on the US market. The financial details of the deal have not been exposed yet, although it reportedly goes about 15-17 percent of the shares of the Russian company evaluated at $200 million.

According to CNews, the primary seller in the deal is the co-founder the chairperson of the board of directors of Kaspersky Lab, Natalia Kaspersky. The shares of the company's founder, Eugene Kaspersky, are not involved in the deal. Natalia Kaspersky still owns a considerable share at the company and does not have any plans to leave the position of the head of the board of directors unless the shareholders take a different decision.

Kaspersky Lab is Europe's largest producer of anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-spam, and anti-intrusion products. The company's products protect computers and mobile devices of over 300 million people globally. Kaspersky's technologies are used in the products of world's largest software makers.

Hong Kong has been recognized the world leader in the field of economic freedom for the 17th time in a row. According to the research conducted by Heritage Foundation, Hong Kong received 89.7 of 100 points on the economic freedom index. The average global index makes up 59.7 points.

"Hong Kong, one of the world's most competitive financial and business centers, demonstrated a high degree of resilience during the global financial crisis," the report said.

The research embraced 183 countries. The USA takes the modest ninth place on the list of the countries that scored most in terms of economic freedom. The UK did not even make it in the top ten, having dropped from the 11th to the 16th position.

Russia takes the 143rd place on the list. Russia can find a consolation in the fact that it is followed by Zimbabwe, which took the 178th place, and North Korea, which "prestigiously" takes the fourth place from the bottom of the list.

China will help the EU to fight the debt crisis. This was stated by Vice-Premier Wang Qishan at the opening of the Third Meeting of China and the EU on the issues of the economic and trade dialogue. China is ready to take "organized action," in particular, to continue buying up the bonds of those European countries that were hardest hit by the crisis.

For China, the EU is a major market for Chinese goods. In 2009, the volume of trade between the parties amounted to $429 billion. During the first 11 months of this year it has already exceeded $433.9 billion, which is 30% higher than last year.

China had a very sensitive reaction to the Greek issues. "When Greece has problems, China is ready to provide any assistance possible," said Prime Minister Wen Jiabao at a joint press conference with his Greek counterpart George Papandreou.

According to Wen Jiabao, Greece is the most "trustworthy friend of China in the European Union." The exact numbers of the European countries' debt purchased by the Chinese are not disclosed. However, the authorities of Portugal and Greece talked about significant investments of this kind

Flashback time: The language used to depict Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden as craven life forms has returned for a repeat performance except that this time the target is Julian Assange and his merry band of WikiLeakers. "Execute him" say dozens of US politicians and assorted government officials. "Arrest him and hang him," say others. OMG! laments the US government over news of critical infrastructure locations revealed worldwide. Never mind that maps of pipelines, cable routes, etc. can be pulled with ease right off the Internet.

So does this mean Assange is on Obama's hit list? Will US Special Operations Command send a kill-capture team? It all brings to mind Ari Fleischer's Single Bullet Doctrine of 2002 which stated that one bullet to Saddam Hussein's head would be cheaper than sending an invading army to topple the former and now very dead Iraqi president. Technically he was correct.