Q.E.D This winter, just like a year ago, the authorities of St. Petersburg are unable to clear the streets of snow and the roofs of huge icicles. After a six-year-old boy was killed by an icicle on January 13, demands for Valentina Matvienko’s resignation began to be heard in the city, and State Duma deputy from A Just Russia Oksana Dmitrieva contacted the prosecutor’s office with a request to initiate a criminal case against the governor.

235 1 min. ... On Saturday, January 22, in Noginsk near Moscow, the leader of the youth wing of the union of supporters of A Just Russia, Nikita Slepnev, was beaten. Several people attacked him at the door of house No. 41 on Third International Street, where he was supposed to meet with members of the housing committee. "I drove up to the house, parked at the arch between the second and third entrances, closed the car and moved to the meeting place.

January 24 The National Bank will apply to branches of foreign banks the mandatory reserve rules that apply to Ukrainian banks. Thus, after the creation of the first branches in Ukraine, they will be required to comply with NBU Resolution #91/2006 “Regulations on the procedure for the formation of required reserves for banks of Ukraine.” This is enshrined in NBU decision #567 dated December 22, 2010.

Today, January 24, the Kerch shipyard "Zaliv" entered into contracts with two Western European companies for a total amount of 20 million euros. According to the general director of the plant, Nikolai Ermak, the new contracts will provide work for the enterprise until the end of the first quarter of 2012. During this period, the plant will have to produce 6 ship hulls for Norwegian and Dutch companies. In this case, the buildings will be saturated, that is, more than 75% completed.

Permstat summed up the results of housing construction in 2010. During the year, 4,449 apartments with a total area of ​​314.1 thousand square meters were put into operation in Perm. m., which is 8.1% more than in the previous year. In the Perm region, enterprises and organizations of all forms of ownership, as well as individual developers, built 9,784 apartments with a total area of ​​691.4 thousand square meters. m., which amounted to 99.5% of the 2009 level. Nadezhda Emelyanova

At a meeting of metropolitan judges following the results of their work in 2010, the Chairman of the Moscow City Court, Olga Egorova, reported increased pressure on the servants of Themis and threats against them, as well as the low quality of materials coming from the preliminary investigation bodies. The Chairman of the Moscow City Court, Olga Egorova, said that she transferred several judges to other jobs due to threats received against them.

EXPENSIVE PLEASURE The Australian company Stuart and Sons, engaged in the production of musical instruments, decided to please pianists and built a grand piano with 102 keys - in ordinary grand pianos, as a rule, there are only 88 keys. The new Stuart and Sons model extends the bass range to the C subcontra octave and the treble range to the fifth F note. Simply put, nine keys have been added to the left and five to the right.

Today, January 24, the share price index at trading on the PFTS stock exchange increased by 0.24 points, or 0.02%, to 1,048.96 points. Since the beginning of 2011, the PFTS index has increased by 73.88 points, or 7.6% from 975.08 points. Based on materials from the Ukrainian News Agency

On Monday, the criminal prosecution of the former co-owner of Euroset, Evgeny Chichvarkin, who was accused in absentia of complicity in kidnapping and extortion, was dropped. This decision was made by the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) on the basis of a ruling of the Supreme Court of Russia, according to which the alleged accomplices of Mr. Chichvarkin were completely acquitted.

618 2 minutes. ... Almost involuntarily, having increased their share in the lending market during the crisis, state banks were able to qualitatively improve their work and now it is very difficult to compete with them for good borrowers, notes Raiffeisenbank Chairman of the Board PAVEL GURIN. — From the second half of 2008 to December 2010, the share of state and quasi-state banks in the assets of the banking system increased from 44.4 to 49%.

The Ashatli agricultural holding began supplying its own products to Chelyabinsk and Udmurtia, the company’s press service reports. An agreement for the supply of large volumes of products under the Green Symphony brand was concluded with the Izhtrading network. Potted salads and greens produced by Tchaikovsky Greenhouses LLC of the Ashatli agricultural holding are already presented in more than 60 stores in Izhevsk. In Chelyabinsk, “Green Symphony” is sold through the “Metro” retail chain.

Provocateur About art Director Serebrennikov presented on the Small Stage of the Moscow Art Theater. A.P. Chekhov's play "Near Zero" based on the novel attributed to Vladislav Surkov. Long before the premiere, a discussion arose in the cultural community on the topic “Should an artist play political games?” Critics were divided into two camps: some called not to play with power under any guise; others objected: what does Surkov have to do with it?

Between 16:00 and 16:50 Moscow time, eight international flights landed at Domodedovo Airport. These are the data from the airport’s online scoreboard.

Based on the facts of the destruction in the center of Kazan of objects of cultural heritage of republican significance, known to local historians as the “Banarsky number” (Dzerzhinsky street, 13, built in the second half of the 19th century) and the “Potekhin house” (Chernyshevsky 10/6, built in 1830), in The Yapeev police department initiated a criminal case. Marat Dolgov, prosecutor of the Vakhitovsky district of Kazan, told Kommersant about this today.

IT WILL NOT SEEM A LITTLE Film actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who spent seven years as governor of the state of California, admitted that his expenses and financial losses over the years amounted to about $200 million. However, Schwarzenegger assures that he does not regret the money at all - he is much more worried about whether he will be able to improve relations in family.