A retired general took detention of the Moscow Garrison Military Court to custody the former head of the 29th Research Institute of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Nikolai Konon, accused of fraud in the amount of more than 23 million rubles and exceeding official powers (Article 159 and 286 of the Criminal Code).

16:46 // 01/22/2009 Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko said that in a radical decrease in the hryvnia course, which put the entire Ukrainian economy in an extremely difficult situation, the National Bank of Ukraine and the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko are to blame. "All this is done at the direct instructions of President Viktor Yushchenko," Tymoshenko said at a press conference, RIA Novosti reports.

16:44 // 01/22/2009 The Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the former secretary of the St. Petersburg branch of Vladimir Fedorov, who has been in confrontation with the Central Party leadership since the fall of 2008, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the party’s press service.

13:01 // 01/22/2009 The leading actor of the Lenkom Theater Oleg Yankovsky is undergoing a diagnostic examination in Germany from January 21 to 24, the director of the Lenkom Theater Mark Warsaver told RIA Novosti . “The return ticket to Moscow for Yankovsky has already been ordered,” said Warsaver. “Oleg Ivanovich’s mood is good, and we hope that everything will be in order.” He also said that, most likely, on the stage Yankovsky will appear already on January 30 and 31 in the play "Marriage".

Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, in an interview with Gazeta, the delegate of the Local Council and a member of the pre -collection commission, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, explained in an interview with a special correspondent for the “newspaper” by the hope of the Kevorka Rules and details of the upcoming election of the 16th Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. - Father Vsevolod, on Sunday the bishop's cathedral will gather. Where and how will this happen?

The currency market was wearing. First (on Wednesday), the ruble entered as a revengeant and suddenly went in a counterattack for a dollar with the euro. The next day, the Central Bank published a summary of its losses on the currency front. They are impressive: from August 8, 2008, when international reserves were at the maximum, until January 16, 2009, that is, in five months, they were reduced by a third - to $ 396.2 billion. What's in the dry residue?

17:46 // 01/22/2009 Dmitry Medvedev appointed Andrei Podavalov the temporarily acting envoy to the President of the Russian Federation in the State Duma, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Kremlin website.

15:58 // 01/22/2009 Spoiled meat and semi -finished products without veterinary inspection were found in the south of Moscow and were not allowed to the shelves of the city, according to the Veterinary Committee of the capital.

The concept of transport development of the Moscow River has been developed soon on the Moscow River promise to open several routes of river tram, each of which will serve 8-20 thousand passengers per day. The Moscow government adopted the concept of the city program for creating a passenger system using water transport for 2011-2013. True, experts doubt that a new type of public transport will help unload the capital's traffic jams. Namely, this is announced by one of the goals of the project.

09:41 // 01/22/2009 Fraudsters robbed an apartment of People's Artist of the USSR and pop singer Olga Voronets in Moscow, the amount of damage to the victim amounted to more than 600 thousand rubles, a source in the capital's law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti. "On the eve of the Usievich Street, house No.

16:57 // 01/22/2009 Ukraine will negotiate with Russia about the preferential gas price for 2010, said Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko at a briefing, RIA Novosti reports. "In 2009, we were given a 20% discount on the formula price. Formal price will be calculated in 2010, and we will negotiate preferential prices," Tymoshenko said.

17:13 // 01/22/2009 The Moscow District Military Court the day before refused the request of the defendants in the case of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya - the brothers Ibrahim and Dzhabrail Makhmudov - to bring them to the crime scene, RIA Novosti reports from the courtroom. The defendants wanted to visit the spot, because, according to them, they do not remember where they were October 7, 2006 - on the day of the murder of a journalist.

10:19 // 01/22/2009 The editorial board of the American newspaper Wall Street Journal in New York was evacuated after receiving 13 letters with unknown powder. The special police unit who arrived at the place of the incident began to determine the composition and degree of harmful powder. “We received about 13 envelopes with suspicious powder that were addressed to the general office. They were intended for several executive directors.

19:43 // 01/22/2009 The cost of a bivalve basket of 41 rubles approximately corresponds to the dollar rate of 36 rubles, the common press release of the Bank of Russia said, RIA Novosti reports. "From January 23, 2009, the upper boundary of the technical corridor is set at 41 rubles, which at the current rate of $ 1.3 per euro corresponds to approximately 36 rubles per dollar," the message says. Source: gzt.ru

At the Arctic shelf, MGM Energy discovered a significant natural gas deposit in the northwestern territories of Canada on the coast of the Bofors Sea, a huge deposit of natural gas was discovered. According to the Canadian geological exploration company MGM Energy, driving a reconnaissance well of 175 km northwest of the village of Inavik in the Delte of the Mackenzie River, she discovered a large deposit of natural gas.