House The department of the Prosecutor General’s Office in the Central Federal District was detained by the former President of the Social Initiative and Company Nikolai Karasev, who is accused of deceit of housing buyers. This was reported on Wednesday by the official website of the Prosecutor General. According to Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Savchenko, Karaseva was detained on January 10.

Festive table. Photo from the site www.wineworld.ru More than 60 kids were received by Yekaterinburg hospitals, whom parents overfeed on holidays. As reported by RIA Novosti, reported on Wednesday in the city health department. According to the source, during the New Year holidays, 66 children aged seven months to two years with elevated temperature, liquid stool and vomiting were received in the infectious hospital of the children's hospital #15 of Yekaterinburg.

Soldiers of the Krasnoyarsk garrison. Frame NTV In the military unit of the railway troops deployed in Krasnoyarsk, the military prosecutor's office is checking in connection with a disease of 10 military personnel. This was reported to Interfax on Wednesday in the Krasnoyarsk military garrison. According to the source, it was established that military personnel of units 62577 fell ill in the period from January 1 to 10.

Anton Dolin The main cinematographic news of the last ten days (with the exception of regular reports on the cash successes of the "daytime patrol") was the news that came from Cannes. Almost six months before the beginning of the most prestigious and famous of the world festivals, the name of the president of the jury of 2006 was declared. To judge the films of colleagues this time will be the Hong Kong director Wong Kar-Vai.

Vega is the brightest star of the small constellation Lyra (Alpha Lira) and the fifth largest among all the stars of the earthly sky, the brightest star of the summer triangle - a characteristic group of stars of the Northern Hemisphere. It has a bluish tint and is located at a distance of about 24 light years from the sun.

Stoneenge is an ancient calendar. Photo from the site www.aboutstonehenge.info The Duma faction "Rodina" proposed from January 1, 2007 to introduce in Russia the chronology of the Julian calendar. After December 31, 2006, 13 days in Russia could have existed a transition period during which both calendars would operate, and then there would be a “smooth transition” to the new calendar, which operated in Russia until 1918.

Hepatitis A. Image from the site www.privivka.ru The prosecutor's office of the Nizhny Novgorod region is preparing to charge the chief technologist of the MUP "Nizhny Novgorod Vodokanal" Alexei Gubanov in the case of an outbreak of hepatitis A in the city and the region. This was reported by Gazeta.ru with reference to the prosecutor of the region Vladimir Demidov.

Vodka. Photo from the site http://mvdrk.karelia.ru From January 1 in Moscow from 23.00 to 8.00. The sale of alcohol is limited more than 15 degrees. Such a measure is provided for by a document approved at the end of last year by the capital's government, RIA Novosti was told in the city administration. Retail enterprises are prohibited from trading strong alcohol at night. For catering enterprises, the time of trade is limited by the operating regime.

Big Ben in Moscow. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru Moscow, Pushkinskaya Square. The opening by the Moscow Government of an ice copy of the London Big Ben. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru

Vladimir Putin and Viktor Yushchenko. Photos of the press service of the President of Russia Presidents of Russia and Ukraine Volodymyr Putin and Viktor Yushchenko are found on Wednesday in Kazakhstan, where they arrived at the inauguration of Nursultan Nazarbayev. It is reported by the Air Force.

Kim Jong Ir in the doorway of his armored train. Frame NTV The leader of North Korea Kim Jong Ir on Tuesday visited China on the way to Russia. This was announced by Reuters a source familiarized with the route. "He was in China. Today he went to Russia," a source said on anonymity. “He did not meet with representatives of the Chinese authorities,” he said, adding that Kim Jong Ir may stay in China on the way back. The source refused to report the details.

Victor Yanukovych. Photo from the site www.korrespondent.net Ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine, leader of the Party of Regions, Viktor Yanukovych, said he was ready to discuss the possibility of his appointment by the head of government. It is reported by Proua. "We are ready to discuss this issue with parliament. After such a discussion, a specific decision will be made," he said. Earlier, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine resigned the government of Yuri Yehanurov.

Yushchenko and Putin. Hard of news. Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed satisfaction with the resolution of a gas conflict with Ukraine and intends to give instructions to the government, if necessary, to help Gazprom fulfill all the obligations adopted. He made such a statement on Wednesday after a meeting in Astana with the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko. Putin also stated that the Prime Minister of Ukraine was still waiting in Russia.

Sweets "Mednoks". Photo from the site www.slavjanka.ru Employees of the Investigative Department of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Samara Region find out the reasons for the appearance of mercury in one of the boxes of chocolate sweets. This was reported to Interfax by the head of the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the region Alexander Kromin.

Accident. Photo from the site http://uzhgorod.net.ua In Moscow, the driver of a car, having lost control, shot down five people. As Interfax was told in the traffic police of the capital, this happened on Wednesday at about 7.00 in the morning on Rusakovskaya Street in the area of ​​house number 10. Five road workers suffered, all of them were immediately hospitalized. The driver of the car after the collision still crashed into a truck.