The factory consolidation project will require at least 10 billion dollars. The state can take control of the largest domestic automakers. According to sources at the Federal Agency for Industry (Rosprom), the head of the department Boris Aleshin sent the country's president an appropriate letter. The official tried to convince Vladimir Putin that the leaders of the Russian automobile industry will be able to successfully compete with foreign car concerns only by joint efforts.

20:42 // 29.01.2006 This was announced by the Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin. "As of January 1, 2006, we have now determined that this is about trillion 460 billion rubles. We summed up the preliminary results of the transfer of the year, now our federal treasury is checking all the operations that have been carried out and everything takes into account, but the final figure will not change significantly," he said.

17:41 // 29.01.2006 The gas supply to the Russian Embassy in Tbilisi was restored, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. After the corresponding demarchees of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the Tbilisi authorities restored the gas supply of the Russian embassy in Tbilisi, which was interrupted on Friday late in the evening, RIA Novosti reports. Source: gzt.ru

Russian Buddhists celebrated the New Year Russian Buddhists today celebrated the New Year on the lunar calendar. With the holiday, Sagaalgan ("White Month" in Buryat) - New Year - followers of this faith and laity was congratulated yesterday by President Vladimir Putin.

19:35 // 29.01.2006 Or rather, on Lake Como. The actors met in Italy, on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and they plan to get married there. George Clooney, who has a villa in the vicinity of Lake Como, offered Pitt and Jolie to play a wedding at Villa d Este, RIA Novosti reports. At the moment, Angelina Jolie is in the fifth month of pregnancy and is waiting for twins. Source: gzt.ru

At least 60 people died as a result of the collapse of the roof of the exhibition pavilion in the Polish city of Katowice, 141 people were injured, of which 128 people are in hospitals. This was announced by the head of the rescue operation, the commandant of the Schlensky police, Janusz Skulikh. Among the victims of the disaster are children. “At present, the probability that someone was alive under the wreckage is close to zero,” said Skulikh.

The deputies and prime minister have been preoccupied with the unsatisfactory work of the special services for almost a year since the “tulip revolution” in Kyrgyzstan changed power. However, democratic transformations promised by the new leadership are not yet embodied in reality. First of all, this concerns the situation in law enforcement agencies, the close ties of which with crime have repeatedly been mentioned at the highest level.

19:50 // 29.01.2006 Now default "Excluded in Russia", assured the Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin.

The ethics Commission will check on whose money the cumber posters for Strasbourg were made by the LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky suspects the head of the Communist Party of Gennady Zyuganov of using his official position for party purposes. According to the leader of the liberal democrats, Zyuganov ordered “posters and other propaganda materials” in the Russian Permanent Prophet’s session in Strasbourg. That is, he spent the money of Russian taxpayers on his batch.

Georgia was again heated by Russian gas for six days it took Russian specialists to restore the Mozdok -Tbilisi gas pipeline, as a result of the explosion of which this winter came not only to Georgia streets, but also to the houses. Yesterday, gas supply was resumed, but the energy crisis grew into a diplomatic one.

In the countries of the Commonwealth, antimonarchic sentiments are intensified by the majority of the Australians, so that their country becomes a republic if the head of the Commonwealth of the British nations will be King Karl, the current Prince of the Wales Charles. This is evidenced by the results of the sociological study of The Newspoll, conducted by the Australian, the most influential newspaper Australia.

The protest of co -weswerders took place in 20 cities of Russia yesterday at 12 o’clock was the first All -Russian protest of the deceived investors, which was conducted by the affected members of the Social Initiative commander partnership. The rallies took place in more than 20 cities of the country, including Voronezh, Tambov, Tver. The depositors of Moscow and the Moscow Region held a joint action.

The draw of the Euro-2008 qualifying tournament on Friday in the Swiss Montrea took place the draw of the Euro-2008 qualifying tournament. For leading football countries with a happy habit of solving their problems as they arrive, news from Montrem did not become the main ones last week: they live in the world championship in Germany, the tournament is much more relevant and close chronologically.

The World Economic Forum - this mystical power, like a magnet attracting bankers, prime ministers, plutocrates and rock stars to the Swiss ski resort in Davos - is involved in a powerful cocktail of greed, ambition, self -deception and philanthropy. It is not surprising that a very wealthy Bono, who loves to call himself a former punk rocker, should have an equally true idea of what this annual party is at the highest level than the rest of the gurus of a globalized economy.

15:35 // 29.01.2006 The main military prosecutor’s office in the cases of grandfature in the Chelyabinsk tank school is investigating 11 criminal cases, which are brought to criminal liability of 12 military personnel, said Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, chief military prosecutor Alexander Savenkov.