10:08 // 20.01.2008 With clamped ice of small vessels in the Sea of Okhotsk, the MI-8 MI-8 helicopter took 6 out of 14 people, reports ITAR-TASS . The remaining 8 people refused the evacuation. The remaining on the vessels from the helicopter was dropped 100 kg of products. The weather in the district incident is quiet. The thickness of the ice is 1 meter.

Maarten van van Den Den Balti will be supervised by the development of the company in Russia by Maarten Van BelT. According to the press service of the company, he will begin on March 1 to fulfill his duties. As the general director of VISA representative office, he will oversee issues regarding the development and implementation of a business development strategy in the Russian market.

Thousands of inhabitants of the Krasnodar Territory were left without water in the Krasnodar Territory 3.5 thousand people, including 875 children - residents of the front -line farm, Pervomaisky, a cheerful and bitter beam - for about a day remained without water supply due to damage to the water supply.

13:01 // 20.01.2008 President of Pakistan Perevez Musharraf went on Sunday with an eight -day visit to Europe, RIA Novosti reports. During the visit, Musharraf will visit Belgium, France, Switzerland and Great Britain, inform state television. According to the country's Foreign Ministry, during meetings with the leaders of European countries, the resident of Pakistan will discuss the development of bilateral relations and issues of mutual interest.

The Pskov governor of the United Russia is again pulled to the State Duma of the CEC at a Friday meeting, the formation of the lower house of the parliament completed. The department of Vladimir Churov first redistributed the liberated mandates of the State Duma deputies from United Russia - Alexei Sigutkin and Sergey Antufev. Sigutkin became the head of the apparatus, and Antufiev became the governor of the Smolensk region.

13:50 // 20.01.2008 On the charitable campaign ended in the Irkutsk region, "Help the child and you will save the whole world!" More than 17 million rubles were collected, ITAR-TASS reports. According to the chairman Svetlana Kulinich, the action that started on June 1 last year was conceived with the aim of raising funds to help children's healthcare institutions. " It included television, radio and print media, authorities of different levels, public organizations of the region.

16:32 // 20.01.2008 Russian observers positively evaluate the course of the elections in Serbia, RIA Novosti reports. The presidential elections in Serbia are organized at the proper level and are able to ensure a high turnout of voters, said Evgeny Fedorov, a member of the observation commission from Russia, State Duma deputy. "We visited a significant number of polling stations in Belgrade, part of our group works in the city of Novyard Garden.

13:42 // 20.01.2008 The united Georgian opposition began a rally on the territory of the Tbilisi Hippodrome in protest against the inauguration of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, RIA Novosti reports. There are several hundred people on the hippodrome and there are no opposition leaders here yet. At the rally are the leader of the party of the people Koba Davitashvili, the leader of the conservative party Zviad Dzijiguri, as well as the leader "for the Unified Georgia" Giorgy Tortladze.

17:18 // 20.01.2008 The Arab Parliamentary Union expressed on Sunday the full support of Egypt in his conflict with the European Union, which accuses Cairo of violating the rights of representatives of religious minorities. In the resolution adopted by the last Thursday, the deputies of the European Parliament accused Egypt, where most residents are Muslims -Sunnis, of isolation of religious minorities, in particular, Christians and Shiites.

The male team of Russian handball failed the start of the European Championship, having tied with the Montenegrins (25:25) and losing to the Norwegians (21:32), the male team of Russian handball maximally complicated the task of entering the second stage of the European Championship. The match with the Dania team on Sunday was decisive.

21:32 // 20.01.2008 The gas sector power station suspended its work, after which it plunged into the darkness, reports the Associated Press . The Palestinian authorities, as the reason for the shutdown, are called a fuel deficiency, which arose as Israel closed the checkpoints in response to the Palestinians missile attacks.

11:26 // 20.01.2008 The police checks an anonymous message about mining the aircraft at the St. Petersburg airport "Pulkovo", RIA Novosti reports. "At about 10.30, an anonymous call was received about the mining of the aircraft by the Petersburg -Samara flight. Perhaps the plane will fly on time," the representative of the Ministry of Emergencies said. The plane should fly out at 12.05. Source: gzt.ru

17:51 // 20.01.2008 On the eighth day of Australian Open, two representatives of Russia Nadezhda Petrova and Maria Kirilenko will try to solve the problem of entering the quarter -finals, RIA Novosti reports. Nadezhda Petrova, sown under the 14th number, will play with the 18-year-old Pole Agnieshka Radwanskaya (29), who was around the second racket of the world around the Russian woman Svetlana Kuznetsova from further struggle.

Pair games are very different. And certainly entertaining. What books, theater and, of course, cinema do not get tired of telling. Not to mention everyone’s personal experience. But, in my opinion, Putin and Medvedev managed to update the pair genre. A visit to Sofia will be remembered not only by a breakthrough to the Southern Stream, the signing of the relevant documents or demonstrations of protest, which the Bulgarians unexpectedly met the Russian president. There was something else.

A quarter of the Russians found the guilty in the Politkovskaya and Litvinenko case increased the number of those who confidently declare that the Russian intelligence agencies are involved in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and the former FSB lieutenant colonel Alexander Litvinenko. Such data are contained in the Friday survey of the analytical center of Yuri Levada, conducted on November 20-23, 2007 among 1,600 Russians.