21:14 // 01/27/2008 The new privatization in Ukraine will create a normal investment climate in the country, said Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. "The new privatization will be absolutely clean, transparent and it will give people the feeling that it changes the country, raises enterprises and creates a normal investment climate in Ukraine," RIA Novosti quotes the words of Tymoshenko. On January 16, the Ukrainian government approved a list of enterprises that will be privatized in 2008.

21:18 // 01/27/2008 The organizers of the Olympic Games in Beijing distributed only one quarter of 1.8 million tickets that could be bought at the time of the next distribution, which provoked a new ticket headache, Reuters reports.

Pyths fell after the stock market for last week, the most significant in recent months, the fall of the Russian stock market. During this time, the shareholders of investment funds of shares suffered large losses. According to the Agana Criminal Code, on average, the cost of an open fund of shares decreased by 9.64%. Open index pyths tied to fluctuations in exchange indicators suffered even more. The drop in the cost of their shares was an average of 12.17%in the market per week.

10:26 // 01/27/2008 In the capital of Jordan, in the 82nd year of his life, one of the historical leaders of the Palestinian resistance movement Georges Habash died, RIA Novosti reports. Georges Khabash, who in 1967, founded the People’s Front of the Liberation of Palestine (NFOP) and headed it for more than 30 years, was a prominent representative of the movement of Arab nationalists of the left -wing sense.

12:35 // 27.01.2008 Directors of one of the automobile gas stations (AGZS) of the Moscow Region are accused of receiving illegal profit in the amount of almost 22.5 million rubles, a source in the regional law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti .

17:19 // 01/27/2008 Kaliningrad airport Koldovo has been closed from the afternoon of Sunday due to heavy snowfall. Flights announced after 15.00 Moscow time for arrival and departure are canceled. According to ITAR-TASS , the head of the press service of Kdavia, Elena Penkova, was detained by the flight of airline to Prague, and two Aeroflot aircraft from Moscow and Kdavavia from Volgograd were not able to land in brave and left for the spare airfield in St. Petersburg.

The government suspended the privatization of the film studio by the Russian government decided to suspend the privatization of one of the country's largest film studios - Lenfilm. As the First Deputy Prime Minister of the government Dmitry Medvedev noted, before making such fateful decisions for the city and for the country, it is necessary to understand what hands the Lenfilm will turn into.

10:47 // 01/27/2008 Cyclone, approaching the shores of Kamchatka on the night of January 26, bypassed the southern regions of the peninsula and brought down the snowstorms and a strong wind on the eastern and northeastern regions of the region. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the Kamchatka Hydrometeorological Center. Last day and that night the influence of the elements was most very felt in the Ust-Kamchatsky district. There, in the wind of up to 24 meters per second, blizzards were marked.

11:48 // 01/27/2008 Serb Novak Djokovic, “sown” under the third number, and Frenchman Jo-Vivilfried Tsonga on the court of Leiver Arena began the final match at the Australian Open Tennis Championship with a prize pool of $ 10.3 million USA. This is the first meeting of these tennis players. It is reported by ITAR-TASS . Source: gzt.ru

The Swiss court was supported by Nessim Gaon, Noga continues the lawsuit with Russia. The Ministry of Finance hopes that there will be no new arrests, and some old claims will be completely withdrawn in the spring. Swiss justice is still on the side of Nessim Gaon. According to the ATS agency, the Federal Court of Switzerland in Lausanne supported Noga’s lawsuit against Russia and allowed this company to arrest Bank of Russia accounts in Swiss banks BNP Paribas Suisse, UBS and Credit Suisse.

13:31 // 01/27/2008 The British diplomat Lord Paddie Eshdown refused the UN specialist in Afghanistan, the Associated Press reports. He motivated his refusal by a statement of the Afghan authorities, who consider Eshdown not the most attractive candidate.

14:34 // 01/27/2008 The pounding of the International Passenger train along the Kaliningrad - Gdynia (Poland) route with a direct non -respondent car to Berlin is resuming from today.

The dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov was 60 years old Mikhail Baryshnikov was born in Riga. At the local choreographic school, they saw the talent and sent the boy to Leningrad. There, in the famous Vaganov school, his teacher was Alexander Pushkin, a mentor of Rudolf Nuriev. At the age of 18, Baryshnikov was admitted to the ballet troupe of the Opera and Ballet Theater named after Kirov (now the Mariinsky Theater), where he soon occupied a leading position.

11:24 // 01/27/2008 At the meeting, the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation refused the ex-Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov in registration as a candidate for the presidency, RIA Novosti reports. To participate in the elections, the leader of the Russian People's Democratic Union was to collect two million voter signatures in their support.

15:01 // 01/27/2008 China began paying compensation to the victims as a result of nuclear tests as part of assistance to veterans, reports Associated Press . Over the past year, 15.12 billion yuan or $ 2 billion were paid to veterans or their families. The number of compensation issued is not reported, as well as about the amount that each of the veterans received. The Chinese authorities, opening the secret of their nuclear program, reported that from 1964 to 1996.