The Gazeta continues the project "Football Stavka". Weekly on Fridays, the newspaper observers - popular sports commentators will give copyright forecasts for matches of European football championships. Italy. Series a The temptation to play the Italian League is doubtful and adequate to the temptation to drink non -alcoholic beer. Pleasure is below the average, there is no use at all, but life without paradoxes and stupid deeds is more suppressed than even the worst “nulevka”.

14:46 // 01/01/2007 Vladimir Putin considers a “good sign” the initiation of a large number of cases on corruption. “Recently, a lot of things on corruption are a good sign,” he said at the annual press conference in the Kremlin, bringing customs as an example. “Almost all management is dismissed, things are ongoing, and some are already sitting behind bars,” the President of the Russian Federation said.

In the Chester Zoo, the cubs of Komodsky Varan were born, conceived without any participation of the male of Komodsky Varan are capable of an immaculate conception - as evidence of this, the employees of the British zoo presented five tiny black and yellow cubs obtained with the help of parthenogenesis, that is, without the participation of males. Scientists hope that varan babies will promote the replenishment of the population of these rare animals on the verge of extinction.

18:18 // 01/01/2007 Harry Potter and Fatal Remes will be the last novel of the British writer Joan Rowling about a wonderful wizard boy. The final part will be published on July 21, 2007, AP reports. The book will appear on the shelves in the covers for children and adults in the form of a gift publication, as well as in the form of audiobooks. Earlier it was reported that two characters will die in the final book. Perhaps one of them will be Harry.

The upcoming elections in Dagestan resemble the battlefield the closer than March 11 - the election day in the national assembly, the more passions are heated in Dagestan. Moreover, in this North Caucasus Republic, the election struggle is increasingly preferred to wrestle with the help of weapons. The most sharp contradictions arose between the republican branches of the ATP and "United Russia": yesterday in the Kizlyar region of the republic it came to shooting.

The Prosecutor General’s Office is ready to incur new accusations to Khodorkovsky and Lebedev on February 5, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev, will be charged with new charges. This was reported yesterday by businessmen lawyers Elena Levina and Elena Lipzer, who received official notifications from the Prosecutor General. For several weeks now in the Chita pre -trial detention center, they have been getting acquainted with the materials of the second criminal case of their clients.

15:25 // 01/01/2007 Russian President Vladimir Putin did not expect that the Chechnya government would be able to achieve such good results in the development of the republic. "The current government, the Prime Minister of Chechnya, managed to do a lot," Vladimir Putin said during a press conference for Russian and foreign journalists, ITAR-TASS reports. “It was even unexpected for me what was happening there, there are visible results of this work,” the president said. Source: gzt.ru

21:35 // 01/01/2007 2.5 thousand officials of the Ulyanovsk region passed a test for knowledge of the Russian language. The initiator of the exam was Governor Sergei Morozov, reports Echo of Moscow . Questions for tests were prepared by a group of Ulyanovsk teachers, as a basis they took the program of the Russian language course of the 11th grade of secondary school. In each of the options there were 40 questions, and for the delivery of the test, officials were taken for two hours.

19:48 // 01/01/2007 The case of the officers of the Sochi riot police, who are accused of attacking the Druzhba camp, was transferred to court. The representative of the Public Verdict Human Rights Fund Oleg Novikov said that 29 people were recognized as victims, three of which are minors. The human rights activist recalled that last summer several dozen riot police arrived in a children's boarding house, Echo of Moscow reports.

The conflict in Darfur won the first place in death and the fifth in citation this week in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababe passed the 8th summit of the African Union (AS), a supranational organization, which includes 53 states. One of the main topics of the summit is the conflict in Darfur, the Western province of Sudan.

18:31 // 01/01/2007 In Tallinn, they exclude the possibility of transferring the burial of Soviet soldiers from Estonia to the territory of another state. This statement was made today by the embassy of this country in the Russian Federation, ITAR-TASS reports. “Military burials are the domestic business of Estonia,” said the press secretary of the Embassy of the Franc Persian.

In Moscow, such an assessment was considered a biased and provocative Russia in terms of civil freedom levels from North Korea, Libya or Cuba. This is stated in the report of the international human rights organization Freedom House. Freedom in Russia is becoming less and less, the pressure is increased both on the opposition and for non -profit organizations, there are almost no independent media left.

The Air Force source to the investigating authorities shared the information in the Litvinenko case collected by the investigation by Alexander Litvinenko, who transferred the Scotland-Yard on Wednesday to the Royal Prosecutorial Service, indicate involvement in the poisoning of the ex-employee of the FSB businessman Andrei Lugovoi.

The personnel permutation in the Hermitage was officially explained by the state of health of the main keeper yesterday, it was known that Svetlana Adaksina was appointed as the main keeper of the state Hermitage, who in recent years worked as deputy head of the East. She replaced Tatyana Zagrebina in this post, which will now lead the restoration and preservative center "Old Village", also under the jurisdiction of the Hermitage.

11:00 // 01/01/2007 Russia in terms of civil freedom is no different from North Korea, Libya or Cuba. This is stated in the report of the international human rights organization Freedom House, reports "Echo of Moscow" . Freedom in Russia is becoming less and less, the pressure is increased both on the opposition and for non -profit organizations, there are almost no independent media left.