January 17, 2005, 19:54 Politics Thirty thousand prime ministers alone! Ilya Zhegulev The beginning of consideration of Viktor Yanukovych's complaint about the annulment of the re-vote does not bode well for him. The court excluded a number of key claims from the complaint and twice refused to disqualify the judge. However, Yushchenko also had a serious problem - Yulia Tymoshenko liked to solve issues with the help of the street.

Dmitry Butrin Monetization without spectacle Dmitry Butrin Head of the economic policy department of the Kommersant publishing house Pensioners are being pushed onto the avenues with slogans not so much by the reform itself, but by its complete inconsistency with the rest of what is happening around them. In Russia they harness slowly, but travel quickly.

January 17, 2005, 20:20 Society The government is asked to think German Prokhorov , Alexander Korataev (Tyumen) , Anastasia Nikitina (Irkutsk) , Denis Bulanichev (Novosibirsk) , Vadim Biserov (Perm) The President of Russia said that the government has not thought about the key problems of monetizing benefits. And he proposed a number of solutions that should reassure beneficiaries.

In Africa and South America, the life of a football player is short. Moreover, not even in a career sense, but in a life sense. If an athlete is not struck by lightning, as happened, for example, during an amateur tournament in South Africa, where a football player died, he will certainly be killed by a teammate, an indignant opponent, or an ordinary thief. But seriously, recently crime reports increasingly concern African and South American football players.

04:10 The Vladivostok prosecutor's office referred the case of non-payment of wages to court The prosecutor's office of the Frunzensky district of Vladivostok sent a criminal case to court accusing the director of the fishing enterprise Chesar LLC, Vladimir Borodin, of non-payment of wages to employees.

01:24 An assassination attempt was made on a female politician in the center of Baghdad In Baghdad, an attempt was made on the life of a female politician who was standing for election in the country on January 30. According to one of Salama al-Khafai's close associates, unknown persons dressed in police uniform opened fire on her car this afternoon in the center of the Iraqi capital. The politician's guards returned fire at the attackers. The criminals managed to escape.

January 17, 2005, 15:22 Culture Elvis is a thousand times king "Park of Culture" A new collection of Elvis Presley's hits, promoted according to all the rules of show business, elevates the late king of rock and roll to new heights of show business. "One Night", one of the songs from this collection, reached number one in the UK charts. This is a double anniversary for the deceased.

January 18, 2005, 10:21 Business Airbus has developed gigantomania Irina Mokrousova On Tuesday, the European aircraft manufacturing giant Airbus will solemnly show the world its new brainchild - the super-capacity A380 aircraft. Russian airlines will not be able to buy it: there is nothing and there is no need.

They asked me here somehow - on occasion and in a friendly way - to support a domestic manufacturer, and only as an accomplice. Specifically, it was necessary to support the manufacturer of the Chevrolet Niva car, which, they say, ranks first among the most stolen domestic cars. Therefore, there is something like that in her. I had to act as a person accompanying the buyer, whose role was seen by this buyer as quite multifaceted. The fact is that the buyer was a woman.

January 18, 2005, 10:26 Business Citizens handed over currency Ekaterina Gerashchenko By the end of 2004, Russians' demand for foreign currency fell noticeably: according to the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, a record volume of foreign currency was sold in November. Among the reasons are Russians’ lack of confidence in the stability of the dollar, New Year’s spending, and excess foreign currency imported into the country during the summer banking crisis.

January 17, 2005, 13:01 Culture Carter covered the Fockers Culture Park The American box office has finally received an update. Fakers lost first place to black basketball players, also on the menu are Scarlett Johansson, striped pajamas and the Electra complex. Down with “Hava nagilu”, long live hip-hop! The Focker family continues to bathe dogs in the toilet and revive the sex lives of ninety-year-old lawyers - but, thank God, not in the first place.

January 17, 2005, 17:57 Society Chechen woman talked to Muscovites for 9 years Olga Belova , Elya Vermisheva The Moscow City Court sentenced Zara Murtazalieva to 9 years in prison for preparing terrorist attacks and recruiting Muscovites to become suicide bombers. The defense is going to appeal the verdict - the case is made up of continuous inconsistencies. The Moscow City Court on Monday handed down a verdict in the case of Zara Murtazalieva .

The price of oil at trading in New York on Friday rose for the fourth day in a row - cold weather is expected in the United States. Futures contracts for US Light crude oil for February delivery rose $0.34 to $48.38 per barrel. This is the maximum value for the last six weeks. At the International Petroleum Exchange in London, February futures for Brent crude oil, which were traded in the last session, on the contrary, decreased by $0.06 to $45.15 per barrel.

A funny ban was recently introduced at London's Arsenal. The management forbade the players of this club to exchange T-shirts with their opponents. Among the players of the teams opposing Arsenal, there are many who are hunting for the shirts of stars like Thierry Henry or Denis Bergkamp, ​​but the team’s economic services do not have time to prepare new kits for the millionaire players. During the season, the Gunners manage to give away more than two hundred of their T-shirts.

11:15 An Orthodox church burned down in Tajikistan, killing two nuns In the Tajik city of Khujand, the Orthodox Church of Equal-to-the-Apostles Mary Magdalene burned down. According to the rector of the temple, two nuns assigned to the Svyatonikol Convent in Tashkent, 78-year-old Maria and 72-year-old Elikonida, burned alive in the fire. The fire completely destroyed the church building and its annexes, including the room where the church archives were kept for almost a hundred years.