The “Silver Clown” at the world's most prestigious circus festival in Monte Carlo was received by the Kanatomi family from Russia today, January 21, in the Principality of Monaco in the Monte Carlo region, the awarding of the winners of the world's largest festival of circus art. His second award, the “Silver Clown”, will receive the Kanatomi Chizhov family from the troupe of the Big Moscow Circus on Vernadsky Avenue for the number, which they poetically called “freedom of horses”.

12:27 // 20.01.2009 The Dagestan Ombudsman Svetlana Alisultanova died in Makhachkala on the night of January 20 of heart at the age of 58, a representative of the presidential administration told RIA Novosti . "The Commissioner for Human Rights under the President of Dagestan Svetlana Alisultanova died tonight in her house in Makhachkala. According to preliminary data, the cause of death was a heart stop.

13:23 // 20.01.2009 On the day of the official employment of the new US President Barack Obama, about 60 activists of the Local Youth Movement gathered at the US Embassy in Moscow to "call on Obama to be a man and" play by the rules, " RIA Novosti reports from the scene. The inauguration ceremony of the new US president will be held in Washington on Tuesday, January 20. One of the activists "Local" dressed in a piglet costume.

Increased subsidies for the repair of houses, the Moscow government increases budget subsidies to managing companies for maintaining and repairing apartment buildings, the city hall said. On average, subsidies are increased by 20%, and their size, as before, depends on the presence of an elevator and garbage chute in the house. This, obviously, is due to the ruble in January, which began in January in a crisis, and in the 1990s such a measure was called indexation.

20:09 // 20.01.2009 At the end of 2008, the net profit of Russian banks will decrease to about 450 billion rubles from 500 billion rubles in 2007, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the director of licensing and financial recovery of credit organizations of the Bank of Russia Mikhail Sukhov. "The result of 500 billion in 2007, most likely, will not be reached. The figure will be close, about 450 billion rubles," Sukhov told reporters in Tula.

The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia in Moscow will be involved in the civil process according to claims for reimbursing the relatives of those who died during the Dubrovka terrorist attack in 2002 by their money and values.

21:21 // 20.01.2009 Russian universities will accept the results of the exam in three subjects in 2009, a source in the Ministry of Education and Science told RIA Novosti . "Minister Fursenko signed an order that was currently being sent to the Ministry of Justice for registration. It refers to the rules of admission to higher educational institutions in 2009," the agency’s interlocutor said.

19:15 // 20.01.2009 Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Sobyanin awarded the Prizes of the Russian Federation in the field of print media in 2008, ITAR-TASS reports. Speaking at the ceremony, he noted that the print media always issued standards of high -quality journalism.

19:42 // 20.01.2009 Ministers of Finance and Economics of the EU countries at a meeting on Tuesday in Brussels approved the decision to allocate Latvia from the European Commission in the amount of 3.1 billion euros to stabilize the economy, the representative of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic told RIA Novosti . "Latvia will receive a loan from the European Commission to stabilize the economy in the amount of 3, 1 billion euros.

On the streets of Genoa there will be no buses with religious slogans in the Italian Genoa debt a dispute between atheists and advertisers. IgpDecaux advertising agency, which has a contract for advertising in city buses, refused to execute the order of the union of atheists, rationalists and agnostics for an advertising banner with the slogan “Bad news: there is no God. Good news: we do not need it.

13:40 // 20.01.2009 Moscow authorities plan to build a new road from Rostokinsky passage to Sokolnichesky Val, which will become part of the understudy of the Yaroslavl highway to unload the territory of the Culture Park "Sokolniki" from transport, the chief architect of the city Alexander Kuzmin at a meeting of the capital's government said, RIA Novosti reports.

15:23 // 20.01.2009 The installation of gas from solid fractions of sewage sewers and the production of electricity will earn in the coming days in Moscow, the mayor of the Russian capital Yuri Luzhkov at the Pure Water International Conference, RIA Novosti reports.

Two people tried to commit suicide on Monday in the Moscow Metro, at the Oktyabrskoye Field stations and Prague, while in both cases they were not able to carry out the plan, a source in the capital's law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti .. Two people tried to commit suicide on Monday in the Moscow Metro, at the Oktyabrskoye Field stations and Prague, and in both cases they were not able to carry out the plan, a source in the capital's law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti .

10:31 // 20.01.2009 In connection with the introduction of a non -cash payment of parking services in Moscow, the Moscow government decided to liquidate the city service of paid parking in the prescribed manner of the State Unitary Enterprise. The Department of Housing and Public Utilities and Improvement of the city was instructed to submit proposals to the Department of Property on the composition of the liquidation commission within 10 days.

Evkurov reported to Medvedev in the first months of his work, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited the Ingushetia on a working visit, where he held a meeting with the leadership of the republic on security, the fight against crime and socio-economic problems. However, the first thing Medvedev met with the head of the republic Yunus-Buck Evkurov, who has been led by Ingushetia since November.