Corot mission. Image from the site ESA The French space telescope Corot , designed specifically for the search for planets, is only a little superior in size to our land, as well as the planets that turn in the orbit far enough from their star (i.e. not only “hot jupiters”), on Wednesday at 17:23 Moscow time from the Kazakh cosmodrome by Baikonur using the Russian rocket launcher, Soyuz-2.

Meeting of the People’s Council of Turkmenistan. Photo from the site Turkmenistan.ru Representatives of the People’s Council of Turkmenistan approved six candidates for the presidential election of the republic, which are planned to be held on February 11, 2007, RIA Novosti reports.

River Fontanka. Photo from the site www.samson-reki.spb.ru In St. Petersburg, unknown people beat a citizen of China, a student of the architectural university, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Main Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, last Monday on the Fontanka embankment, not far from the hostel of the university, several people attacked the student. He received a fracture of his nose.

NURBERDA NURMAMMEMDOV. Photo from the site hem.lidnet.se/~ugzybirlik The presidential candidate of Turkmenistan from the United Democratic Opposition of the Republic (Odot), the chairman of the People's Democratic Movement "Agzybirlik" Nurberdy Nurmammmedov disappeared in Ashgabat. This was reported on the official website of the Odot. According to the message, on December 23, 2006, Nurmammmedov left the house and did not return.

Tony Blair. Photo by ar The plane of the British Airways airline, one of the passengers of which was the British Prime Minister Tony Blair, "missed" past the runway when landing at Miami International Airport. According to AR, Boeing-747, who flew out of London Khitrovo, hit several spotlights at the beginning of the runway. The plane did not leave the borders of the concrete strip and independently reached the place of parking.

Leonid Nevzlin. Photo from Newsru.com The Prosecutor General’s Office called the former co -owner of “Yukos” Leonid Nevzlin by the possible customer of the murder of Litvinenko and the attempt to kill Dmitry Kovtun. This is stated in the message posted on the website of the department. "The investigation has data on the detection of victims (not specified for what criminal cases.

Constitutional Court. Frame 1 channel The Federation Council rejected the law on the move of the Constitutional Court of Russia from Moscow to St. Petersburg. 21 senator voted for the adoption of this law on Wednesday, against 103, RIA Novosti reports. The State Duma adopted this law on December 20. According to the document, Petersburg was to become a place of permanent stay of the Constitutional Court.

Alexander Lukashenko. Photo by ar Belarus is able to completely block the supply of Russian gas to the west through the Yamal -Europe pipeline. This is written on Wednesday "Vedomosti", referring to a source close to Gazprom and familiar with the course of negotiations. A transit contract for gas export for this pipeline should be concluded annually.

The server was not found. Screenshot As a result of the earthquake south of Taiwan in China, the Internet is seriously violated. The earthquake occurred on Tuesday evening. According to RIA Novosti, citing the Chinese China Netcom Provider company, a fiber-fiber cable is damaged, which connects mainland China with the outside world. “As a result, difficulties in climbing sites located abroad arose,” the company representatives explained.

Gerald Rudolf Ford. Photo by the AR Watergate scandal In the United States, the former president of the country Gerald Rudolf Ford died. This is stated in a widow Betty’s widow, which was widespread on Tuesday evening, reports Reuters. On Tuesday, Ford died in his house in California. He was 93 years old. On October 12, 2006, Ford was hospitalized at the Eisenhower Medical Center in California. Four days later he was discharged.

Dmitry Kovtun. RTVI frame The results of a medical examination of businessman Dmitry Kovtun, who is a witness in the Litvinenko case, will most likely be known after the New Year, RIA Novosti reports. “At present, a medical examination is ongoing,” Kovtun himself said. He added that he feels stable. Russian businessmen Dmitry Kovtun and Andrei Lugovo are on an examination in one of the Moscow hospitals in connection with suspicion of infection of Polo-210.

The bodies of the seven shareholders of OJSC Caucas -chain were found in Cherkessk. NTV frame from Newsru.com Former son-in-law of the President of Karachay-Cherkessia Aliya Kaitov was sentenced on Wednesday to 17 years in prison in a maximum security colony. The Supreme Court of the Republic found him guilty of organizing the murder of a deputy of the KCR Parliament Rasul Bogatyrev and six more people, Interfax reports.

Nodar Kancheli. Frame '' Vesti '' The Moscow City Court on Wednesday recognized the amnestation of the architect Nodar Kancheli in the "Transval Park case". According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by lawyer Igor Trunov. Thus, the court rejected the cassation appeal of the victims in the case. From today, the decision of the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow to terminate the criminal prosecution of Nodar Kancheli and Anatoly Voronin has entered into legal force.

Nuclear reactor. Photo from the site sbnt.jinr.ru In the Japanese Prefecture of Ibaraki, after the zipper entered the power cable, the dzea nuclear reactor was drowned out. As RIA Novosti reports with reference to Kyodo Tsusin, it is installed at an experimental enterprise for processing the spent nuclear fuel, where there is a power to enrich uranium. The damage was quickly eliminated, the atomic energy agency involves renewing the reactor on Wednesday in the evening.

Saddam Hussein in court. Photo by ar The United States welcomed the decision of the Iraq appeal court, which confirmed the death sentence to the former president of the country Saddam Hussein. According to Reuters, the official representative of the White House Scott Stanzel called the upcoming execution of Hussein "an important milestone" for Iraq. “The decision marks an important milestone in the efforts of the people of Iraq to replace the Tiranian power with the power of the law,” he said.