Oleg Schwartzman. Photo from the site '' Civil Power '' Rosoboronexport demands to recover 80 million rubles in a lawsuit to protect business reputation from Kommersant Publishing House and entrepreneur Oleg Schwartzman in connection with the interview published in the Kommersant newspaper, Interfax reports.

Badri Patarkatsishvili. Photo from the site www.online.sovtest.ru The Georgian Prosecutor's Office brought the entrepreneur Badri Patarkatsishvili accusations of preparing a coup and other serious crimes, ITAR-TASS reports. Earlier, similar accusations were made to the associate of entrepreneur Valery Gelbahiani, and Patarkatsishvili himself charged an attempt to bribe one of the senior Georgian security forces.

George Bush turns to the nation. Photo by ar US President George Bush is found in Ramalla with the leader of the Palestinian Autonomy Mahmoud Abbas. According to the Air Force, thousands of security service employees are involved to ensure the security of the American president, and the commandant hour was actually announced in the area of ​​the Abbas residence. As expected, negotiations will be devoted to the problem of Israeli settlements and the actions of Palestinian militants.

Presentation of the book by Leo Rubinstein. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru The other day, my friends and I collectively thought about stupid and idle, but an interesting question: until what time people at meetings will congratulate each other on a Happy New Year. Until spring, or what? Someone suggested: until they disassemble the Christmas trees. And this, as is known from different jokes, as well as personal practices, can last exactly what until spring.

Advertising of cigarettes and a beggar on Moscow street. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru The Russian government decided to introduce a complete ban on cigarette advertising. According to RIA Novosti, at the first meeting in the new year, the Russian government approved the draft federal law "On the accession of the World Health Organization to Combat Tabacian." This convention provides for a complete ban on all advertising, stimulating sales and sponsorship of tobacco products.

The flag of victory over the Reichstag. Photo from the site Orthodoxy.ru In Pskov, on January 10, after a long illness, the veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union Mikhail Minin, who was one of the first to hoisted the Priest of the Reichstag in May 1945, Interfax reports. According to the administration of the Pskov region, farewell to retired lieutenant colonel Minin will be held in Pskov in the regimental church of Alexander Hevsky on January 12.

Bust of Putin. From the site www.dni.ru Representatives of "Fair Russia", including the deputy chairman of the Duma, Alexander Babakov, introduced a bill to the State Duma on the creation of heritage centers of the presidents of Russia. According to the Gzt.ru newspaper, the task of centers is defined as the study of the activities of each president, which forms a whole layer of documents, materials and things of various kinds of social and historical significance.

Elections in Georgia. NTV frame from Newsru.com The CEC of Georgia on Wednesday abolished the results of the presidential elections in four polling stations - one at a time in the electoral districts of Sababurtalo (Tbilisi), Mestia, Telavi and the Tsalka, reports REGNUM.

OSCE observers. Photo from the site Belarus.cz The head of the OSCE observers from the OSCE in the presidential election in Georgia, the German diplomat Dater Boden confirmed reports of cases of falsification of voting results. According to the German Wave radio, he said this in an interview with Frankfurter Rundschau. Boden also noted the "chaotic situation" in the Central Election Commission of Georgia.

Dmitry Rogozin. Photos of faces Former State Duma deputy Dmitry Rogozin was appointed by the President of President Vladimir Putin a constant representative of Russia in NATO. Rogozin replaced Konstantin Totsky in this post, RIA Novosti reports. Earlier, Rogozin’s candidacy was approved by the Council of the Federation and the State Duma as the new Permanent Representative. On the eve of the North Atlantic Alliance gave a formal consent to the approval of Rogozin as a permanent representative.

ISS. Photo from the site www.gctc.ru The ISS crew held the first session of the “Matryoshka” experiment on the study of the impact of radiation on the vital human body organs during his stay in orbit, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Roscosmos website.

Found fossil (left) and reconstruction (right) of an extinct armored worm. Illustration Vinther, et al Nature from the site www.yale.edu The rarest find in the southeast of Morocco of the fossilly instance of the Paleozoic animal, which preserved fragments of its soft tissues well, allowed to resolve the 150-year-old paleontological riddle.

Sergey Arakcheev. Photo from the site Yoki.ru The Moscow City Hall banned the picket in support of the internal troops officers Evgeny Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, sentenced at the end of December to the long term of imprisonment. The official reason for the refusal, according to the Kasparov.ru website, was that at the venue of the action, near the building of the Ministry of Defense, the lawn was broken.

Oleg Kozlovsky. Photos of faces The leader of the defense movement Oleg Kozlovsky, forcibly drafted into the army at the end of last year, was recognized as worthless to military service in peacetime. As the Echo of Moscow reports, doctors from the army hospital presented such a conclusion.

Sergey Storchak. Photo from the site g8russia.ru The Basmanny Court of Moscow extended the term of detention of the Deputy Minister of Finance Sergei Storchak arrested in mid -November on April 9. Thus, the request of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor General’s Office is satisfied, Interfax reports. This decision can be appealed in the Moscow City Court for 10 days.