In Japan, a citizen of the Russian Federation was sentenced to an unprecedented crime in the Japanese port city of Niigat for a raid on a gambling institution by four years in prison, 26-year-old Russian Yuri Markov was sentenced. On the night of September 24, 2007, two attackers broke into the center of Patinko's playing machines. Threatening with weapons, the bandits selected 5.5 million yen from the employee of the institution (about $ 50 thousand) and disappeared.

The suspect of involvement in the murder of the Magadan governor was taken to Russia, a suspect of involvement in one of the most high -profile crimes of recent years - the murder of the Governor of the Magadan region Valentin Tsvetkov - Martin Babakekhyan was extradited on weekends from Spain to Russia.

13:37 // 20.01.2008 Roscosmos celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Progress ship, RIA News reports. “Thirty years of the trouble -free operation of the Progress space truck are the best evidence of the reliability of the Soviet and Russian space technology,” said Roscosmos spokesman Alexander Vorobyov. The first "progress" was launched into orbit exactly 30 years ago.

An overview of the next matches of the Russian hockey super League, the closer the playoffs of the Russian hockey super league, the fierce the struggle at all levels of the standings becomes. And what happens in its lower part occupies not only fans of teams who are directly fighting for survival. In the outsider wars, even unconditional favorites of the championship lose points. In the two past tours, Khabarovsk was provided with hockey to the maximum.

12:01 // 20.01.2008 The explosion of domestic gas in a private house in the village of Sasan-Yurt Kurchaloevsky district of Chechnya continued in the morning on Sunday the whole series of such emergencies registered in Russia during the first days of the New Year, RIA Novosti reports. “As a result of the explosion, there was no fire.

18:08 // 20.01.2008 The next international conference in Afghanistan will be held in France in 2008, RIA Novosti reports. This was stated in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.

10:51 // 20.01.2008 In Serbia, presidential elections are held, reports Reuters. The main struggle will unfold between the two candidates - the current President Boris Tadich and the deputy chairman of the Serbian Radical Party, Tomislav Nikolich. According to polls of public opinion, a small gap from its main pro -Western rival has Tomislav Nikolich. It is expected that in the first round Nikolich will gain 33 % of the vote, Boris Tadich - 30 %. The second round will take place on February 3.

South, Sharapova and Petrov beat compatriots in the 1/8 finals of the Australian Open Australian tennis championship, pleasing to the audience with a scattering of enchanting matches and sensational results. Several Russian players had to fight for trips to the quarterfinals with compatriots. Three Russian derbs took place in the 1/8 finals. Mikhail Yuzhny showed his best result on the courts of Melbourne - he for the first time in his career, with the fourth attempt, defeated Nikolai Davydenko.

15:20 // 20.01.2008 Doctors call the recovery of the ex-president of the Suharto Indondence incredible, reports Associated Press . The state of the 86-year-old continues to improve, on Wednesday it was disconnected from the artificial respiration apparatus, on Sunday he moved his hands and spoke in a whisper. "He is in full consciousness and can follow the instructions and answer our questions in a low voice. He scratched and raised his hands. This is an amazing achievement," said Dr.

13:33 // 20.01.2008 Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili promised until the beginning of April to submit to residents of Georgia a report on the implementation of his presidential program, RIA News reported. “Our goal is Georgia without poverty. We have no extra time, so today I declare that our Georgia without poverty program will begin to be implemented, and exactly after 50 days we will have specific results.

Bridles in the Russian capital will continue until Tuesday instead of baptismal frosts, Moscow received heavy snowfall, which interrupted the long period of snowless. As the newspaper already reported, in December only 25% of precipitation fell, and in January until yesterday, weather forecasters counted only a few millimeters of rainfall. Winter was rehabilitated exactly after baptism: on Sunday, as of 12.00 in the Russian capital, about 10 cm of snow had already fallen.

13:18 // 20.01.2008 The ship "Sergey Skadovsky", who suffered the day before an accident in the Sea of Azov, entered the Kerch Strait, accompanied by a tug and icebreaker, RIA-News reports.

18:08 // 20.01.2008 Due to the failure of the computer at one of the German gas stations, three cents per liter were traded all day all day, REGNUM reports. On average, a liter of gasoline in Germany costs about 1.39 euros. So at the gas station a huge queue lined up, which the owner was at first very happy. And only then did he find that, instead of increasing the cost of a liter by 3 cents, he sells at a price of 3 cents. During the day, the loss amounted to about 15 thousand euros.

16:55 // 20.01.2008 As a result of the terrorist attack, 6 people died in the Angar province in Iraq, the Associated Press reports. According to the police, the goal of the suicide bomber was the head of the Sunni tribal family, but he was not injured. The terrorist blew himself up at the moment when four guards stopped him at the checkpoint leading to the farm of the Sunni sheikh near Falluja. The explosion carried away the lives of four guards and two civilians, and a quarter were injured.

Zubkov will hold an anti -inflationary meeting today in the premiere of Victor Zubkov, an anti -inflationary cerebral storm will take place. Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin, head of Mart Elvira Nabiullina and Chairman of the Central Bank, Sergei Ignatiev, will look for a general approach in the fight against inflation. The reason for the anti -inflationary meeting was the results of January extremely unsuccessful for the financial authorities.