One of my acquaintances Rusin (a representative of the oldest East Slavic people, who retained the language and culture of Kievan Rus almost into inviolability, was resettled mainly in the Uzhgorod district of the Transcarpathian region of Ukraine) recently expressed a old insult to Kyiv: “Ukraine is a geopolitical invention of the Austria -Hungarian General Staff”.

10:39 // 01/15/2009 The State Administration of the Federal Penitentiary Service (GUFSIN) of the Russian Federation for the Krasnoyarsk Territory begins medical Internet consulting for real time for Russian convicts, the head of the press service of the regional department, Ekaterina Bronman, told RIA Novosti . "Doctors of the regional tuberculosis hospital No. 1 (KTB-1) for the first time in Russia will answer the questions of convicted women IK-22 through video conferences.

On the third ring, a traffic control system is launched in the first quarter of 2009 in Moscow on the third transport ring will fully earn an automated road traffic control system (ASUDD). The corresponding order of the Moscow government was signed by the mayor of Yuri Luzhkov. Partially Muscovites have already tested it: these are the same electronic scoreboard, calling for drivers to observe a certain speed limit. Soon Asudd will become much more “smart”.

On Sakhalin, an 18-year-old resident of the region was charged with robbery, who on December 9 last year attacked a citizen of Japan by Nasu Tokayuki and stole documents and wallets from him. The 67-year-old director of the Japanese Cultural Center received a stab-cut wound of the abdominal cavity and was delivered for treatment to the clinic of the city of Sapporo. The suspect was detained on January 11.

15:53 // 01/15/2009 The bilateral interline settlement, which was concluded by the Kaliningrad company "KD Avia" and "Egyptair", has come into effect from today. This was announced by an employee of the press service of KD Avia, Julia Petrova. According to the terms of the agreement, each airline received the right to sell tickets for flights carried out along the routes of another, ITAR-TASS reports.

The best young inventor of Russia Vyacheslav Muravyov in an interview with Gazeta, Russia not only did not impose in talents, but also constantly grows with them. This was proved by the first Russian youth innovation convention in Moscow in December.

The world premiere of the film about Joseph Brodsky will take place at the Rotterdam Film Festival the film directed by Andrei Khrzhanovsky “One and a half rooms, or a sentimental trip to your homeland”, made in the genre of an ironic fairy tale, will be a special event of the 38th Rotterdam Film Festival.

Illegal construction destroys a relic grove near Anapa by activists of a number of Russian environmental organizations boycott illegal, in their opinion, the construction of Big Utrish on the territory of the reserve. The environmental zone is located on the North Caucasus coast of the Black Sea near Anapa. According to the Decree of the Russian Government of May 23, 2001, by 2010, Utrish should receive a higher security status and become a reserve.

16:27 // 01/15/2009 The Dimitrovgrad court received a complaint of the Kungaev lawyer against the decision on the parole of the former Colonel Yuri Budanov, who was serving a sentence for the abduction and murder of Elsa Kungaeva in 2000, RIA Novosti was told in court. “The judge is currently considering her,” the court spokesman said.

Deputies propose to insure all guest workers on Thursday in the State Duma draft law, which proposes to change the procedure for obtaining medical care in Russia. Its authors were Vladimir Pligin, Sergey Smetanyuk and Alexander Koval. Each a foreigner who comes in Russia will have to earn a work permit to purchase a medical insurance policy. According to independent estimates, in Russia there are from 5 million to 12 million migrants.

Officer families will gain access to preschool institutions without queue, the State Duma Committee on Thursday approved the amendments to the law “On the status of military personnel”, which establish priority for the military families in the distribution of seats in kindergartens. The project was introduced by the chairman of this committee Viktor Zavarzin and has already received a positive opinion of the government.

19:22 // 01/15/2009 The ONEXIM group Mikhail Prokhorova sold a 100% share in the Rosbank management company LLC company management, the group said. "The deal will enter into force after receiving the appropriate coordination of the FAS Russia and can be completed in the first quarter of this year. As part of the transaction, representatives of the ONEXIM group will leave the Board of Directors of the Criminal Code of Rosbank," the ONEKSIMA report said.

The budget revenues again reduce the government continues to review the scenarios for the development of the economic situation this year for the worse: yesterday, a source in the government said that in 2009 the budget revenues can be reduced to 5.6 trillion rubles (10.9 trillion rubles in the approved budget), and the budget deficit will amount to 4 trillion rubles. This will happen if the average annual price of a barrel of oil is $ 32, and the dollar will cost 34 rubles.

16:27 // 01/15/2009 In Yekaterinburg, on the basis of the Sverdlovsk Regional Clinical Hospital, a regional vascular center was opened today. The organization of such a center became possible thanks to the participation of the region in the federal pilot project to improve medical care to patients with vascular diseases. Last year, a project of creating regional and municipal vascular centers began to be implemented.

To five and a half years in prison, the Golovinsky court of Moscow was sentenced by the former employee of the metropolitan control of the organized crime of Vagan Kasyan. It is found guilty of extortion of entrepreneurs $ 1.5 million. A criminal case against a policeman was instituted in August 2007.