A gas pipeline. Photo from the site infomarket.md Ukraine intends to increase the cost of gas transit through its territory by five times. According to Kommersant on Thursday, the first deputy prime minister of Ukraine, Alexander Turchinov, the day before, said that the new head of Naftogaz of Ukraine Oleg Dubina will hold negotiations in Gazprom in the coming days, during which he will discuss a set of issues in the field of gas supplies, including transit rates.

The Central Bank does not plan to denominate the ruble. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the first deputy chairman Central Bank Georgy Lugovsky. "We do not consider it necessary to carry out a denomination in the coming years," Lugovskiy said.

Sergey Buntman The first deputy editor -in -chief of Echo of Moscow, Sergei Buntman, was awarded the highest award of the Union of Journalists of the Golden Feather of Russia. According to the radio station, the awarding ceremony of the prize winners will be held on February 1 at the ball of Russian journalists in the Congress Hall Center for International Trade. Buntman is one of the founders of the Echo of Moscow radio station. Since 1990, he has been constantly working at the radio station.

Messenger device. Image from the site messenger.jhuapl.edu American space probe Messenger (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging) on ​​January 14, 2008 made his first flight past Mercury (of three planned before the final access to orbit in 2011), close to the first planet of the Solar System to the record 200 kilometers. NASA experts are now busy processing the images received (in total about 1200).

Special operation. Photo from Newsru.com The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ordered Russia to pay 100 thousand euros as compensation for moral damage to relatives of the inhabitants of Ingushetia Khalid Khatsiev and Kazbek Akiev. According to RIA Novosti, they were killed in the military operation of Russian troops on the border with Chechnya.

Dmitry Medvedev. Photo from the site kvadrom.ru Dmitry Medvedev can publish his presidential program on January 22 at the Second All -Russian Civil Forum, which will hold the Public Chamber. As the Vedomosti writes on Thursday, more than 1000 people will take part in the forum. Among the participants will be members of both convocations of the Public Chamber, members of the public chambers of regions, public councils with authorities and non -profit organizations.

By the beginning of this year, all the correctional institutions of Russia introduced a program for learning prisoners over the Internet. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced on Thursday by a representative of the press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service. "Connecting to the World Wide Schools Network under correctional institutions of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia was carried out as part of the implementation of the priority national project" Education ".

Mikhail Saakashvili and Vladimir Putin. Photo by ar Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a congratulatory message to President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili in connection with a re -election to the presidency of Georgia. This was reported on the official website of Putin. "Accept congratulations in connection with your re -election to the post of President of Georgia.

Vasily Aksenov. Photo from the website of the newspaper "Your Day" The condition of the writer Vasily Aksenov remains stably serious. According to Echo of Moscow, this literary agent Viktor Vogman announced this. According to him, the recovery process after the operation may drag on. There are no changes in the writer’s state. On the eve of Aksenov, hospitalized with a stroke, an operation was performed for a blood clot.

Alexander Donskoy. Photo from the site Pravda.ru The mayor of Arkhangelsk, Alexander Donskoy, was found guilty of using a false diploma and was sentenced to a fine of 70 thousand rubles. As RIA Novosti reports, such a sentence issued the Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk on Thursday. In October last year, the Arkhangelsk Regional Court abolished the sentence to Donskoy, who previously convicted for the use of a fake diploma and illegal entrepreneurship.

Fight. Photo from the site http://mignews.com.ua In Moscow, the general director of the Russian phonographic association Vadim Botnaryuk is beaten and robbed. According to RIA Novosti, this was reported by the representative of the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Northern Administrative District of the capital, on the territory of which an attack was committed. According to her, the attack on Botnaryuk was committed on Tuesday at about 22.00 on Pravda Street.

Screenshot from LJ Sergey Mironov Speaker of the Federation Council, leader of the Fair Russia party, Sergei Mironov, started a blog in the Live Journal. The blog was opened on January 12, 2008. The first entry in it was made on the same day. According to Lenta.ru, on Thursday, a note appeared on Mironov’s personal website, confirming that this is really Mironov’s blog, and not the so -called virtual.

Kaliningrad. Illustration from the site Religi.ru In Kaliningrad, police officers who, in preparation for the presidential election, will detain violators of elected law, will be paid cash prizes in the amount of 50 thousand rubles. According to Newsru.com with reference to Interfax, the chairman of the city election commission Sergey Sopilyuk announced this.

Tu-160. Photo from the site www.russavia.hotbox.ru On May 9, 2008, more than 30 combat aircraft and helicopters will take part in the air of the military parade in Moscow. According to Interfax, the assistant to the Commander -in -Chief of the Air Force, Colonel Alexander Drobyshevsky, announced this. According to him, the Tu-160 strategic bomber, the world's largest An-124 transport aircraft, as well as SU fighters and MiGs will fly over Red Square.

Josephoartigasia Monesi. Image Royal Society/Reconstruction (Drawing and Sculpture) BY Gustavo Lecuona from the News.NationalgeGraphic.com website Paleontologists found in Uruguay the fossil remains of an ancient animal from the rodent detachment , which weighed about a ton, could be compared with a bull and lived 2-4 million years ago. This is the largest representative of the extinct types of rodents, the remains of which have ever been found by scientists.