19:05 // 29.01.2008 The strike of Polish “truckers” did not affect the work of customs posts on the northwestern border of Russia, RIA Novosti reports. This was stated by the representative of the press service of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation. "There are no queues on the Russian section, and all officials of customs posts on the border work as usual," the press service said.

The murder of the deputy from the opposition can push Kenya to the Civil War mass riots in Kenya reached unprecedented scale yesterday. In the capital of Nairobi, one of the most influential deputies from the opposition - Mugaba Vera was killed. According to the Kenyan police, the deputy shot two armed men when he drove up to the gates of his house around midnight.

20:25 // 29.01.2008 The Ministry of Defense of Slovenia announced the abandonment of plans for the purchase of Spanish transport aircraft CASA-295M, motivating its decision with a recent crash of this type of this type in Poland, RIA Novosti reports. "The safety of Slovenian soldiers is our priority, and under these circumstances we are forced to interrupt the procurement process," the ministry said.

Viktor Zubkov invited foreign investors to Lesopal Viktor Zubkov took up the involvement of investors in timber processing literally manually. At the end of February, he will invite foreign businessmen to Moscow who could potentially become investors in the Russian forestry complex (LPK). Yesterday, in Komi, Zubkov was preparing arguments with which he would lure foreigners into the Russian forests.

The creation of the media library was recognized as premature by the advertising business convinced the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) to abandon, at least temporarily, from the idea of creating an exchange for the trading of television defense. Instead of it, an advisory council on the functioning of the market for the distribution of advertising will be created at the Federal Antimonopoly Service.

10:25 // 29.01.2008 The French Automobile Conceived PEUGEOT Citroen signed an agreement on the construction of a plant for the production of his cars in the Kaluga region, where the German concern Volkswagen has already built his plant.

10:06 // 29.01.2008 The arrivals and departures of about ten flights were detained due to fog at the Novosibirsk airport Tolmachevo, Olga Kochetova press secretary told RIA Novosti . She said that at 6.00 (03.00 Moscow time), a fog with a haze was installed at the airport, visibility was reduced to 100 meters. In connection with the weather conditions of Novosibirsk, flights from Moscow, Yakutsk, Polyarny, Yekaterinburg, Urumchi and Beijing sat on spare airfields.

18:26 // 29.01.2008 The retail turnover in Russia in 2007 amounted to 10 trillion 757.8 billion rubles, which is 15.2 % more compared to the 2006 indicator, ITAR-TASS reports. In the next report of the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), it is reported that in December 2007, the retail turnover in the Russian Federation amounted to 1 trillion 229.1 billion rubles, which is 16.7 % more compared to December 2006 and 20.3 % compared to November 2007.

10:15 // 29.01.2008 Express-am33 telecommunications satellite, launched on the morning of January 28 from the Baikonur cosmodrome to a geostationary orbit, after nine hours of stay in the space on command from the Earth, the first session was held on the transfer of telemetry information, the press service of the scientific and production association of applied mechanics (NPO PM) told RIA Novosti Reshetneva Kristina Uspenskaya.

09:56 // 29.01.2008 The director of the State Tretyakov Gallery (GTG) Valentin Rodionov denied rumors about the preparatory dismissal of the head of the latest trends Andrei Erofeev, who was preparing the foreign exhibition "STS-art", which erupted the scandal between the Minister of Culture and the leadership of the GTG. “These are rumors. But Erofeev still has five reprimands. We have no one has received so many reprimands for our whole life,” Rodionov said.

19:56 // 29.01.2008 CSTO member states plan to continue the formation of anti-drug "security belts" around Afghanistan, the representative of the organization’s secretariat told RIA Novosti . Members of the Permanent Council at the CSTO discussed in Moscow a draft plan for the events of the Member States of the Organization for the Collective Combating of the illegal circulation of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors for 2008-2011, developed in the CSTO Secretariat.

The director of the Tretyakov Gallery Valentin Rodionov in an interview with the newspaper in London, the Royal Academy of Arts opened the exhibition “From Russia: French and Russian Masterpieces of Painting of 1870-1925”, which presents paintings from the Tretyakov Gallery, GMIA, the Russian Museum and Hermitage.

11:16 // 01/29/2008 The power supply of 238 settlements in Ukraine out of 243 was restored, which on the night of January 27 was de-energized, the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies of Ukraine reports. "As of 7.00 (8.00 Moscow time), on January 29, five settlements remain de -energized," the report said.

11:03 // 29.01.2008 In Yamal, a deputy of the district Duma was sentenced to a fine of 200 thousand rubles for tax fraud. As ITAR-TASS was informed in the press service of the district prosecutor’s office, it was established that the deputy of the Krasnoselkoy District Duma Khachatur Gasparyan, “as the general director of the MUE Krasnoselkskoye Automobile Automobiles, developed and implemented a plan that allowed him to hide the income of the enterprise.

The head of the Federal Air Transport Agency goes to the registration business President Vladimir Putin yesterday signed a decree on the dismissal of the head of the Federal Agency for Cadastre Real Estate (Rosnedvisiness) by Sergey Semeded. The dismissal was expected. Government sources of Gazeta claim that Sergei Liken an application for resignation in November last year. He is going to return, as confident in his surroundings, to the registration business.