January 30, 2009, 12:12 Culture Park The musical “The Bremen Town Musicians” will be shown on the 40th anniversary of the cartoon The premiere of the famous musical “The Town Musicians of Bremen”, which is dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the legendary cartoon of the same name, will take place at the “Mir” concert hall on Friday.

January 30, 2009, 11:19 Politics Kim Jong Il recovered and went to war North Korea terminated all agreements with South Korea Alexandra Sheiko North Korea has returned to a state of war with South Korea. Pyongyang tore up all previously reached agreements with Seoul. The DPRK said that there was no hope for either improvement or restoration of good neighborliness and blamed South Korea for the aggravation of the conflict.

January 30, 2009, 18:25 Business Russia will accelerate the issuance of a $1 billion loan to Belarus Russia will accelerate the issuance of the second loan tranche to Belarus in the amount of $1 billion. This was announced by the head of the Russian government Vladimir Putin on Friday following a meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Union State of Russia and Belarus.

January 30, 2009, 10:52 AM Opinions The Kremlin's melting brotherhood The more vigorously Russia rushes into a superpower battle, the more variations for self-determination its friends in the CIS have Vadim Dubnov Moscow, in pursuit of short-term benefits, conducts business with partners in the CIS so cleverly that one after another it loses friends in the post-Soviet space.

January 30, 2009, 12:48 Science Text size A A A Fingerprints - for touching Line patterns on fingers act as a high-pass filter Artyom Tuntsov Thin grooves of fingerprints are needed not only for holding the handle on a tram more tightly. If it weren't for them, we would be 100 times less sensitive to surface roughness. As four French physicists showed with the help of an “artificial finger,” papillary lines act as a kind of high-frequency filter.

January 30, 2009, 10:13 pm News Obama called Hu Jintao On Friday, US President Barack Obama called Chinese President Hu Jintao . This was reported by the White House press service. No details of the conversation are reported.

January 30, 2009, 03:41 News Lawsuit filed against Israel in Spanish court A lawsuit was filed in a Madrid court on Thursday against Israel over alleged war crimes. leaders, Salah Shehadeh, in 2002 In particular, the court document refers to the liquidation of one of the Hamas .

January 30, 2009, 00:26 Sports "Katyusha" invited to "Giro d'Italia" On Thursday, RCS Sport, the organizer of the legendary Giro d'Italia cycling race, announced a list of 20 teams that have received an official invitation to take part in the 2009 Italian Tour, scheduled for May 9-31. Among them was the only Russian ProTura cycling stable - Katyusha.

In 1975, political instructor Valery Sablin mutinied the destroyer Storozhevoy and almost escaped to Sweden on it. A year later, pilot Viktor Belenko hijacked a MiG-25 to Japan. Junior Sergeant Glukhov did not rebel against Soviet power, did not hijack destroyers, did not steal MiGs, and had nothing against Russia at all. He didn’t even want to run to Tbilisi, but simply walked, in his words, to Tskhinvali, and when he noticed that he was going to Tbilisi, he decided not to turn.

30 January 2009, 14:05 Cars Ghosn: 55 million new cars will be sold worldwide in 2009 The head of the Franco-Japanese Renault Nissan alliance, Carlos Ghosn, suggested that in 2009 the total number of new cars sold in all world markets will be about 55 million units, Bloomberg reports , citing France24 TV channel. As the agency notes, the volume of the global car market predicted by Ghosn is 14% less than last year.

January 30, 2009, 20:06 News Yushchenko will deliver an emergency message at 10:30 p.m. President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko will make an urgent appeal to the Ukrainian people on Friday evening, the press service of the head of state reports. The president's address is related to the difficult economic situation in Ukraine. The appeal will be broadcast on all Ukrainian TV channels simultaneously at 21.30 (22.30 Moscow time).

— 30.01.2009 03:54 — Lawyer confirms interest in Iaquinta On Thursday, Zenit head coach Dick Advocaat confirmed that Italy and Juventus striker Vincenzo Iaquinta is in the St. Petersburg club's sphere of interest. “Yes, we are interested in this football player,” Sport Express quotes Lawyer as saying. In 2006, Iaquinta became the world champion as part of the Italian national team.

In 2015, the share of foreign cars assembled in Russia will be 59 percent of the total number of domestic cars. This was announced today , speaking at the “government hour” in the State Duma by Minister of Industry and Trade Viktor Khristenko . “This is our fundamental vision for the future shape of the industry,” he said.

January 30, 2009, 12:09 News FT: Medvedev deviates from Putin's course Yesterday's meeting between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov and former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev shows that Medvedev is planning a course more independent from his predecessor Vladimir Putin , writes The Financial Times . The meeting took place while Putin was at the economic forum in Davos.

January 30, 2009, 12:47 Business Kudrin: a significant part of the national funds will be spent in 2009 A significant part of Russia's national funds will be spent in 2009 to cover the budget deficit, and the borrowing program may be increased in 2010-2011, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Russia Alexei Kudrin said on Friday at the “government hour” in the State Duma . “A significant part of the reserves will be spent in 2009, but not all.