11:51 // 11.01.2008 Japanese companies will be involved in the construction of artificial islands off the coast of Sochi in preparation for the 2014 Olympic Games, said Aslan Atabiev, chairman of the board of the Russian-Japanese business council. “We know very well what problems the Emirates faced when creating artificial islands, so Japanese participation and their technology are extremely interesting for Russia,” Atabiev said at a press conference in Tokyo.

14:53 // 11.01.2008 A fuel oil leak in the Klyazma River in the Moscow Region will not affect the water supply of the metropolitan region. This was assured today by journalists, the chief sanitary doctor of the Moscow Region Olga Gavrilenko. According to her, there is no threat to the Klyazminsky reservoir in connection with the incident at the moment.

17:14 // 11.01.2008 The head of the Bureau of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (BDCHP-OBCE) for observing the elections, Dieter Boden, was invited to the Georgian Foreign Ministry, where he gave clarifications about the recent publication in the German press, which contained criticism about holding the presidential election in Georgia on January 5.

14:28 // 11.01.2008 Cooperation agreements similar to last December between the Federal Migration Service and the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation can be concluded in 2008 with other departments and structures, Mikhail Turkin, deputy director of the FMS of the Russian Federation, told reporters on Friday.

15:29 // 11.01.2008 Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill arrived in Moscow for consultations with Russian diplomats on the problem of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

18:02 // 11.01.2008 The operating time of the Oschadbank institutions of Ukraine was extended for two hours - until 22.00 Moscow time - due to the excitement that arose around the payments of compensation to the depositors of the Sberbank of the USSR, the press service of Oschadbank reports. “Given that on January 11 it is the first day of compensation payments, the leadership of Oschadbank decided to extend the operating mode of the bank’s institutions on Friday, January 11, for two hours.

13:33 // 11.01.2008 Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Sheremetyevo’s capital’s capital's airports are not yet going to enter a full ban on smoking at the airport, but if there are appropriate instructions and regulations, they are ready to do this, representatives of the press service of the airports told RIA Novosti .

13:35 // 11.01.2008 The current Russian pension system is “extremely unsuccessful”, and the state intends to proceed with its reform this year, said the first deputy prime minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. "The pension system is really complicated, maybe the most difficult. We are aimed at changing this system," Medvedev said at a meeting with the crew of the Captain Morgun fishing vessel.

12:55 // 11.01.2008 Moscow authorities determined the need for the city for foreign labor for 2008 in the amount of 300 thousand people, a source in the city administration told RIA Novosti .

16:20 // 11.01.2008 The international reserves of the Russian Federation increased in 2007 by 57% to $ 476.4 billion, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation said. Reserve assets in foreign currency increased by 79% to $ 386.67 billion. The volume of international backup assets in special borrowing rights (SDR, the estimated unit of the International Monetary Fund, IMF) as of January 1 of this year amounted to $ 1 million.

14:08 // 11.01.2008 Russian sailors of fishing courts complained to the first deputy prime minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, who is on a trip to the Murmansk region, to the actions of the Norwegian authorities. According to RIA Novosti , Medvedev climbed aboard the fishing trawler Captain Morgun, standing in the port of Murmansk to inspect the ship and chat with the crew.

12:39 // 11.01.2008 Russia is concerned about the difficult situation in Kenya, where more than 480 people died during the street riots after the presidential election on December 27, the RF Foreign Ministry said in the statement of the information and seal of the Russian Foreign Ministry. "In Russia, with concern, they are observing the preserved complex situation in the Republic of Kenya," RIA Novosti quotes the document quoted.

14:02 // 11.01.2008 The ban for foreign citizens did not affect the prices and assortment in Russian markets, Mikhail Turkin, deputy director of the FMS of the Russian Federation, told reporters. "We conducted a detailed analysis of this measure. There was no deterioration in the market in the country - the number of goods did not decrease, the prices did not increase," Türkin said. He noted, reports RIA Novosti that the so -called "zero quota" for foreign citizens will remain in 2008.

15:34 // 11.01.2008 The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation plans in the near future together with the Association of Russian Lawyers (AYUR) to evaluate the quality of training of specialists in legal specialty in Russian universities. According to the results of this work, some universities may lose accreditation.

14:24 // 11.01.2008 Russia can withdraw from the Convention on the safety of navigation, requiring, in addition to annual certification, to confirm a diploma of fishermen every five years. The attention of the First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was turned to this problem by one of the sailors of the fishing vessel "Captain Morgun". According to him, only Russia participates in this convention, and the rest of the countries that signed it came out of it.