In Argentina, during a training session for Racing Club football players, lightning killed the team's masseur. According to the club's official website, 61-year-old massage therapist Jorge Cesar Nardi was near the goal when he was struck by lightning. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, but doctors were unable to save his life. The massage therapist worked with the team for about ten years. “We are shocked by what happened,” said club president Rodolfo Molina.

January 12, 2011, 15:17 Business The Ministry of Finance allocated 10.6 million rubles to cover the expenses of children's rights defender Astakhov The government instructed the Ministry of Finance to ensure the expenditure obligations of the Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Pavel Astakhov in 2010 in the amount of 10.6 million rubles. The corresponding resolution was signed on December 22, 2010.

News Another US senator demands sanctions in the Magnitsky case Influential American Senator Roger Wicker supported a bill imposing sanctions against Russian officials responsible for the death of 37-year-old Sergei Magnitsky , according to a press release received by Gazeta.Ru from the Hermitage Capital fund, where Magnitsky worked.

On Wednesday, numerous rumors about Bianca Dragusanu's separation from Romanian national team midfielder Adrian Cristea came true. This was stated by the Romanian model. “Today we broke up,” said Bianca. — We had problems in our relationship. It was difficult for me to communicate with him. I decided to break off the relationship when I found out that he would remain in the CFR from provincial Cluj. We talked for about 20 minutes and he said he loved me.

January 12, 2011, 10:28 Culture The heroes defeated the Nutcracker Russian box office "Park of Culture" New Year's Russian box office: three heroes defeated everyone, "The Nutcracker" did not reach the "Throne", and "Gulliver's Adventures" and "Tourist" conquered only the Russians. If you believe the well-known superstition, next year should be extremely successful for Russian distributors: Russians, exhausted by salads, joyfully flocked to cinemas.

The Russian producer of coal, pig iron and iron ore OJSC Koks intends to conduct an IPO on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and on the Russian platforms RTS and MICEX . The placement will help “increase the supply of production with its own raw materials, strengthen the vertically integrated production chain and continue to improve operational efficiency for further growth,” the company hopes.

January 12, 2011, 15:12 Business A Ritz-Carlton hotel worth $250 million will open in Batumi, Georgia The international luxury hotel chain Ritz-Carlton Hotel will begin construction of a $250 million hotel in the Georgian city of Batumi. An agreement on the construction of a hotel in Batumi was signed between the Government of Georgia and the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. In accordance with this document, construction will begin no later than May 1, 2011 and will be completed by 2015.

January 12, 2011, 20:05 News The court extended until mid-February the arrest of activist Torbeev, who threw a burning fire at a policeman The Tverskoy Court of Moscow extended the arrest of Left Front activist Grigory Torbeev, who threw a burning firecracker at a policeman during the “Day of Wrath” on November 12, 2010, for another month until mid-February, the told RAPSI defendant’s lawyer Valery Shukhardin .

In the Kaliningrad region, the magistrate court fined the editors of the regional newspaper Slavskie Novosti, which published the names of teenagers who urinated on the Great Patriotic War memorial. An article entitled “Young Lawlessness in Slavsk” was published in November 2010. The author of the material reported that a group of three teenagers urinated in broad daylight on a mass grave in which 364 soldiers of the Great Patriotic War were buried.

January 12, 2011, 20:35 News Tunisian authorities impose curfew due to riots Tunisian authorities announced on Wednesday their decision to impose a curfew due to widespread unrest in the country caused by poor social conditions, youth unemployment and corruption; into the capital of the country Government troops have been brought . The government statement said the movement of people and vehicles is prohibited from 20:00 to 06:00.

Sergey Shelin No need for your innovations Sergey Shelin Columnist for the Rosbalt news agency Our factory of economic dreams— the Ministry of Economic Development —has produced another bureaucratic blockbuster, “Innovative Russia 2020.” This is a plan (more precisely, a strategy, and to quote it exactly, a Strategy with a capital “S”) about how, during the lifetime of the current generation of Russians, to turn our state into a trendsetter in global innovative fashion and in this way “to

THE MOVIE Bond renewed his license Production on the 23rd James Bond film has resumed — 12.01.11 18:08 — TEXT: "Culture Park" PHOTO: guim.co.uk Twitter Publish in LiveJournal Recommend Share with friends Previously frozen due to the bankruptcy of the MGM studio, the new James Bond film will still be released in 2012, on the hero’s 50th anniversary.

Sport $4 billion for a picture from Sochi Leading American television corporations offer $4 billion to broadcast the Olympic Games Andrey Kartashov Leading American television corporations are interested in acquiring the rights to broadcast the four Olympic Games, starting with Sochi 2014. The contract with the IOC is valued at more than $4 billion.

January 12, 2011, 21:28 Politics Adjusted for output The relevant State Duma committee discussed the conditions for Russia's compliance with the START treaty behind closed doors Ekaterina Vinokurova The State Duma Committee on International Affairs approved a list of amendments to the second reading of the Russian statement on ratification of the START Treaty.

Sport Text size A A A Kirilenko became an American Andrey Kirilenko received US citizenship Stanislav Yankovsky Basketball player Andrei Kirilenko received US citizenship. The European champion, the standard-bearer of the Russian team at the Beijing Olympics, said that this is only a change of status. Utah and Russian national team forward Andrei Kirilenko received American citizenship. This news excited Russian basketball fans in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday morning.