Russian manufacturers are satisfied with rising sugar prices. World sugar prices have reached a record level over the past 24 years. The cost of raw sugar on the New York Exchange rose in one day (January 20) by 6.4%, to 17.15 cents per pound, and since May 2005, quotes have grown almost 2.1 times. In total, last year, sugar has risen in price by 92%.

11:32 // 23.01.2006 The new director of AvtoVAZ OJSC was appointed for engineering and technical maintenance of cars and providing spare parts, a source close to AvtoVAZ OJSC told Interfax. This position was taken by Alexander Kurylin. Previously, the director of AvtoVAZ OJSC for engineering and technical maintenance of cars and providing spare parts was Alexander Nummetkin. Source: gzt.ru

The chef “Dossier.ru” was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison with a probationary period of five years sentenced the Tver court of Moscow, journalist Yulia Pielekhov. The chief editor of the site "Dossier.ru" was released in the courtroom. The verdict noted that the correction of Pelekhova, who was repeatedly found guilty of extortion of 100 thousand dollars from the Moscow businesswoman Oksana Tokareva, is possibly with conditional punishment.

On February 17, a rock concert “Russia without fascism, war and violence”, organized by a number of opposition parties and movements, will be held in the capital's DC named after Gorbunov. As it became known to the "Gazeta", some domestic rock groups, among which mentioned "Bi-2" and "Spleen", for political reasons refused to participate in an anti-fascist concert.

The Communist Party refused to support the Communist Lawyer Elena Lukyanova, who was nominated by a candidate for deputies at the Duma in the State Duma in the Medvedkovsky District of Moscow. Instead of it, according to the “newspaper”, the Communist Party may support another candidate - retired colonel Vladimir Kvachkov, accused of attempted on the head of the EEC RAO Anatoly Chubais. Colonel Kvachkov is a real colonel, Colonel Kvachkov is a real soldier.

12:03 // 23.01.2006 The ex-head of Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was serving eight years in prison in a colony in the Chita region, asks the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation to recognize the rules of the internal routine of correctional institutions in terms of determining the procedure for the dates of convicts with lawyers illegal and invalid. RIA Novosti was reported in the Khodorkovsky press center. Consideration of the application is scheduled for February 17.

Spy scandals are unexpected, as you know, only for those who are not their participant. But not everything becomes public. The choice, without a doubt, fell on the most long and solid operator in Russia - the British Embassy. In 1649, the Aglitsk Embassy in the entirety was sent out of the country - they were executed there, while in Rus' they were just polished by the Nazide in the form of an absolute monarchy. The "emissaries" of Britain in Russia have always been eminent.

Four employees of the British Embassy in Moscow are accused of espionage of the largest scandal in recent years has broken out between Russia and Great Britain. Four employees of the embassy of this country are accused of espionage activities at once.

The second largest car concerns of the United States will launch a “dozen factories” by the Ford Automobile Concern is going to close at least ten factories in North America in the coming years. According to The Detroit News, such a measure is provided for by the restructuring program called “Freet Movement”, which the company was supposed to officially announce tonight Moscow time.

Yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense, Sergei Ivanov, visiting Baku, said that Russia could withdraw from an agreement on ordinary armed forces in Europe (DOVS). "Until now, we adhere to an agreement on the adapted DOVS, unlike other states that signed it but have not ratified. So far, we will fulfill all the flank restrictions. And then we will see and see," Ivanov said upon arrival in Baku.

The Public Chamber intends to form the loyalty of society to the state, and not vice versa yesterday, members of the Public Chamber outlined the circle of the most important tasks, which, in their opinion, faced society. The first task - OP members intend to achieve the loyalty of this society to the state. "Society and public organizations must work in accordance with the state, and above all with the president, the State Duma and the government," said OP OP Evgeny Velikhov.

Elena Panfilova - Gazeta in February, the State Duma intends to adopt in the first reading a bill on the ratification of the UN Convention against Corruption. Elena Panfilova, Director of the Russian Branch of the International Movement of Transparency International, told Rustem Falyakhova to the Observer of Gazeta that the norm on property confiscation will return to Russian legislation.

09:30 // 23.01.2006 In Vladivostok, the manager of the Sberbank department was arrested, during a fire in which 9 people were killed on January 16. She was charged with violating fire safety rules, which entailed the death of two or more persons through negligence, ITAR-TASS reported in the press service of the Primorsky Territory. The head of the department Lyudmila Feofanova did not create a fire safety system in the premises of the bank.

In all, human rights activists are to blame on the day of the first meeting of the Public Chamber, a spy scandal, discrediting one of the most authoritative human rights organizations of Russia, says one thing. The authorities gave human rights activists to understand: either you play according to our rules, or serious reasons will be found to stop your activities.

NASA scientists warn that cosmic garbage becomes a serious threat to the satellites of the analysts of the American space agency NASA claim that in the near -Earth space there are 9 thousand objects whose diameter exceeds 10 centimeters. All these are the fruits of human activity: the spaced steps of missiles, the acting and failed satellites, accidentally lost details and fragments formed during the clashes of garbage already available in orbit.