On January 31, at the age of 88, after a long serious illness, the mother of the President of Ukraine, Varvara Timofeevna Yushchenko, died, LIGABusinessInform reports. At 15:00, a funeral service for the deceased will take place in the Vladimir Cathedral in Kyiv, the presidential press service reports. Yushchenko will be buried in his native village of Khoruzhivka, next to her husband Andrei Yushchenko.

Sergey Darkin at Vladimir Putin. Frame RTR Vladimir Putin submitted to the Legislative Assembly of the Primorsky Territory the candidate of Sergey Darkin as the governor of the region, RIA Novosti reports. Darkin became the first governor to appeal to the President of Russia with a question of trust. Did this on January 23. Darkin's powers expire on June 25.

Vladimir Dubov and Mikhail Brutny. Photo from the Interpol website A message appeared on the Interpol website about the search for the two largest shareholders of Yukos: Vladimir Dubov and Mikhail Brutny . The explanation of the wanted list says that both of them are accused of fraud. According to some reports of oaks, Brutny and Leonid Nevzlin, who was also previously put on the international wanted list, are in Israel, notes "News Time".

Mikhail Friedman and Vladimir Putin. Photo by Kommersant On Monday, the Kommersant newspaper, fulfilling the decision of the Arbitration Court in the claim of Alfa Bank, published a refutation of the information contained in the article "Banking Crisis went out into the street." At the same time, the text of the refutation was published twice (on the same pages as the refuted article), but once - in an inverted form.

A 25-year-old Cambodian woman died in Vietnam after she was suspected of having bird flu. According to Reuters, citing the head physician of a hospital in southern Vietnam, the woman was hospitalized on January 28 with a high temperature. She died on the morning of Sunday 30 January. Her lungs were severely damaged. Doctors suggest that the woman died of bird flu, however, a series of tests are required to confirm the diagnosis.

Vick-Freiberg. Photo from Newsru.com The Russian Foreign Ministry published a comment on the statements of the president of Latvia Vike-Frebergs about her plans to come to Moscow on May 9-10, 2005.

Skinheads. Photo from the site www.fontanka.ru A fight at the Belorusskaya metro station on Sunday night, as a result of which four people were injured, representatives of the National-patriotic lady movement provoked, RBC reports. The brawl occurred between two groups of youth on Sunday around 23.10 Moscow time. Six young people of the Slavic type attacked two immigrants from the Caucasus. The latter resisted and stabbed the attackers.

On Monday morning, a powerful explosion rocked the center of Dushanbe near the Ministry of Emergency Situations. This is reported by Reuters, whose correspondent is at the scene. As a result, one person died and four were injured. "I see a severed head," the agency's correspondent said. The deceased is the driver of the Volga car that exploded, RIA Novosti reports. "The car was parked at the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

In the Sovetsky District Court of Kazan, a guilty verdict was passed against former police officer Ilyas Burganov. According to the press service of the Human Rights Center of the city of Kazan, the former senior detective of the "Derbyshka" department of the Soviet District Department of Internal Affairs of Kazan was found guilty of exceeding his official powers with the use of violence and special means against eighteen-year-old Denis Petrov.

Alexey Kudrin.

Two AKSU-74 assault rifles were found in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, which were stolen from the armory of a military unit stationed in the suburban village of Khomutovo, Gazeta.Ru reports. As Interfax was informed on Monday by the military prosecutor's office of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk garrison, the shortage of weapons in the tank battalion of the motorized rifle division was discovered on Friday, and on the same day the prosecutor's office opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Art.

The international rating agency Standard & Poor's has upgraded Russia's long-term foreign currency rating to investment grade BBB- from BB+. This is stated in a statement posted on the agency's website . At the same time, the short-term rating was upgraded to A-3 from B, and Russia's long-term national currency rating was upgraded to BBB from BBB-.

Near the city of Irbit, Sverdlovsk region, a massacre was committed. It is reported by RIA "Novosti" with reference to the press secretary of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Sverdlovsk region Valery Gorelykh. According to him, the body of a local resident born in 1956, a locksmith of a commercial firm, was first found in the village of Gaevo, who committed suicide. He shot himself in the chest with a hunting rifle.

People's Deputy of Ukraine David Zhvania, a close associate of President Viktor Yushchenko, promised to personally extradite Boris Berezovsky to Russia if he arrives in Kyiv, RBC reports. "If Boris Berezovsky arrives, and Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko do not extradite him to Russia, then I will do it. This is how I understand democracy," he told Ukrainian journalists.

Victor Yushchenko. Photo by the Air Force President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko said that Ukrainian security services have data on the origin of Dioxin, which he was poisoned. "Such a dioxin is produced in four to five military laboratories in Russia, America and a number of other countries," Yushchenko said on Sunday in an interview with CBS.