information about their beneficiaries After Russian Railways, energy companies and Rosatom confused hundreds of thousands of their clients with requests for beneficiaries with reference to the government and the threat of breaking contracts, the authorities considered it necessary to clarify the requirements for state-owned companies.

December 2011 in the Sverdlovsk region turned out to have little snow and set a 20-year record for snow deficit - while over 100 years of meteorological observation, the first winter month took fifth place for the same indicator, said Galina Sheporenko, chief forecaster of the Sverdlovsk Center for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring. “There is not enough snow. Last December ranks fifth in terms of precipitation over the entire period of observation - a little over a hundred years.

The Department of the Investigative Committee for the Krasnoyarsk Territory opened a criminal case against the head of the Uyarsky district of the region, Vladimir Solomatov, who is suspected of bribery, a representative of the department said yesterday. “According to the preliminary version, from April to November 2011, Solomatov twice extorted bribes in the amount of 70 thousand and 170 thousand rubles. from a citizen engaged in entrepreneurial activity.

TV leaders January 10-15 Before the TV channels had time to show their various New Year’s “lights” on the air, on the old New Year they, according to tradition, immediately repeated them. Everything. But this year, viewers returned to television somehow quickly and actively. Usually they swing for a long time. In this sense, the performance of the Vremya program on January 9 on Channel One was remarkable.

More than 140 years in prison: that’s how much the US prosecutor’s office requested for a hacker from Russia. Vladimir Zdorovenin was detained in Switzerland and soon extradited to America. In Russia, such a term is called excessively cruel, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs included a hacker in a report on numerous violations of freedoms in the United States. Read more from Kommersant FM correspondent Nikita Batalov.

The court will consider a claim about a politician insulting residents of the Urals Perm businessman Alexey Reutov filed a lawsuit for the protection of honor and dignity against Vladimir Zhirinovsky and the editors of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. He asks that the politician’s statements in a video distributed by the newspaper with negative statements about the population of the Urals be declared untrue.

Vyacheslav Lepsheev considers himself innocent Today in the Supreme Court of Khakassia it is planned to pronounce a verdict in the second case of bribery of the former head of the republican traffic police Vyacheslav Lepsheev, who was already sentenced last year, in addition to bribery, for fraud and abuse to eight years in prison.

The World Bank on Wednesday lowered its forecast for global economic growth in 2012 to 2.5% - compared to the 3.6% expected by bank experts in the summer of 2011, pointing to high risks for the global economy due to the recession in the eurozone. According to the latest Global Economic Prospects report, eurozone GDP will contract by 0.3% this year. Developing countries in this situation must be prepared for the risks of slower economic growth, the report says.

Ukraine's payments to the International Monetary Fund in 2012 should amount to SDR2.433 billion ($3.719 billion at current rates), including SDR199 million in interest, the fund said. The main payments will be made for the period from October 30 to November 12 - SDR926.3 million and the first ten days of August - SDR655.7 million. Large payments are also planned for the first weeks of February and May - SDR428.4 million and SDR423.2 million, respectively.

32 1 min. ... Football English Championship. 21st round Wigan-Manchester City 0:1. Team position. 1. Manchester City - 51 points. 2. Manchester United - 48. 3. Tottenham - 46. 4. Chelsea - 40. 5. Arsenal - 36. 6. Newcastle - 36. 7. Liverpool - 35. Italian Championship. 18th round Napoli--Bologna 1:1. Team position. 1. Juventus - 38 points. 2. Milan - 37. 3. Udinese - 35. 4. Lazio - 33. 5. Inter - 32. 6. Napoli - 28. Handball Men. European Championships in Serbia First group stage.

Residents of China and most Asian countries are preparing to celebrate the New Year according to the Eastern calendar, which will begin on January 23. City streets are decorated with bouquets of flowers and red lanterns painted with hieroglyphs with wishes of happiness. For traditional Eastern culture, New Year's Eve is the main family holiday. This day is also called the Spring Festival and falls on the second new moon after the winter solstice.

The Russian national hockey team defeated the US team and took first place in the group tournament at the Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria. According to RIA Novosti , the meeting, which took place on January 18, ended with a score of 7:1 in favor of the Russians. Among the winners, Egor Orlov, Alexander Mikulovich, Stanislav Kondratyev, Evgeny Svechnikov, Eduard Nasybullin and twice Maxim Lazarev distinguished themselves.

Oklahoma City Thunder topped the regular season NBA After three weeks of struggle in the NBA regular season, which was in jeopardy for a long time due to the lockout, the Oklahoma City Thunder are leading the standings. Yesterday, Scott Brooks' team met the Celtics in Boston and won their seventh victory in a row - with a score of 97:88.

142 1 min. ... Today, former Dynamo Kyiv midfielder Valentin died at the age of 73. Valentin Troyanovsky was enrolled in Dynamo's reserve team in 1954, when he was only 15 years old. He made his debut in class A in 1960. And already in the next season, Troyanovsky helped Dynamo win the first gold medals of the USSR Championship.

The police were prescribed a brochure on tolerant behavior Yesterday, St. Petersburg police received a brochure outlining the basics of tolerant behavior, written by teachers and ethnographers at the request of Smolny. The security forces themselves did not appreciate attempts to teach them how to ethically treat guests of the Northern capital. A thousand copies of the brochure “St. Petersburg Policeman.