16.01.2012, 15:47:10 version Print | PDA/PDA Rally "Ukraine against Yanukovych" in Kyiv, December 2011. Photo from frontzmin.ua Fresh tradition The Ukrainian opposition decided to unite for victory On January 22, when Ukraine celebrates Unity Day, local opposition parties, both those with representation in parliament and those just dreaming of getting there, intend to sign documents on unification.

Thai police on Monday, January 16, filed charges against a native of Lebanon who was arrested on Friday on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack, reports Agence France-Presse . According to the agency, Atris Hussein (according to other sources - Attis Hussein), suspected of connections with the radical Lebanese movement Hezbollah , is accused of illegally storing components for the production of explosives.

16.01.2012, 17:18:28 version Print | PDA/PDA Vladimir Putin. Photo ©AFP Putin and the campaign The media predicted the resignations of a number of governors Vladimir Putin began to put pressure on the governors. He chose tariffs for housing and communal services and other social problems as the main topics for criticism, which could bring him additional points on the eve of the presidential elections.

The crash of the Costa Concordia cruise ship will cost the owner company 1.5 billion euros. The Italian TV channel Tgcom24 reported this on January 16. The amount consists of the cost of the ship itself (about 500 million euros) and the money that Costa Crociere will have to pay passengers as compensation (about a billion euros). It is reported that each of the passengers on the liner will receive compensation in one amount or another.

Analysts from Penny Lane Realty have compiled a rating of the most expensive apartments in Moscow, rented out in 2011. The first place was taken by apartments in Ostrovny Proezd, which were rented for 25 thousand dollars a month. A five-room, two-level townhouse with three bedrooms is located in the elite residential complex "Fantasy Island". The apartment, with an area of ​​306 square meters, has been renovated by a designer, and the apartment was rented unfurnished.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will continue the publication of program articles, which began on January 16 with material in Izvestia, RIA Novosti reports, citing Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov . He did not specify where the next articles would be published. According to Peskov, the article in Izvestia entitled “Russia is concentrating - the challenges that we must respond to” is the introductory part of the prime minister’s election program.

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts will open the exhibition "Livre d'artiste/The Artist's Book", which will present examples of book graphics by the largest Spanish masters of the 20th century. This was reported in a press release received by Lenta.ru. In particular, the museum will exhibit etchings, lithographs and woodcuts of six artists - Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Salvador Dali, Juan Gris, Antoni Clavet and Antoni Tàpies.

party candidate Yabloko . Grigory Yavlinsky , who is running for president of Russia, has collected the two million signatures required for registration in his support about this late on Sunday evening, January 15, wrote on his page on the Twitter microblogging service Yabloko leader Sergei Mitrokhin .

On January 15, the 69th Hollywood Foreign Press Association Golden Globe Awards took place in Los Angeles. The host of the event, as a year ago, was comedian Ricky Gervais. The winners of the award this time were, in particular, George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jean Dujardin, Martin Scorsese.

Diego Maradona on Sunday, January 15, was operated on in a clinic in Dubai. As the daughter of the legendary Argentine football player Dalma tweeted , the operation went “very well.” Dalma Maradona also thanked everyone who worried and asked about her father. According to the Associated Press , Diego Maradona had kidney stones removed. The former footballer, who currently coaches local club Al Wasl in the UAE, was hospitalized on Sunday after complaining of abdominal pain.

Russian tennis player Nikolai Davydenko was defeated by Italian Flavio Cipolla in the first round of the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam tournament of the season. The match, which took place on January 16, ended with Cipolla winning in five sets with a score of 6:4, 4:6, 3:6, 6:2, 6:1, according to the official website of the tournament. In the second round, the Italian tennis player, ranked 76th in the world ranking, will play against Spaniard Feliciano Lopez.

In Belarus, Oleg Pekarsky was dismissed from the post of First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs. The corresponding decree, as Interfax-Zapad reports, was signed by the President of the Republic Alexander Lukashenko .

16.01.2012, 16:09:13 version Print | PDA/PDA Photo of the suspect. Image from uvd-ivanovo.ru An identikit of the attacker on the head of the Ivanovo Federal Antimonopoly Service has been published The police compiled a sketch of one of the participants in the attempt on the life of the head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service for the Ivanovo Region, Alexander Borovkov. The image was published on the website of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Russian athlete Pavel Krotov took first place at the World Cup in freestyle acrobatics, reports the official website of the International Ski Federation (FIS). The competition took place on January 15 in Mont Gabriel, Canada, and ended on the night of the 16th, Moscow time. For Krotov, this victory at the World Cup stage was the first in his career. In the super final, the Russian scored 112.79 points.

Users of blog hosting LiveJournal , who are dissatisfied with the candidates proposed in the official vote for “blogger of the year,” were offered to hold “alternative” elections. Photographer Sergei Mukhamedov opened voting in his magazine. As Mukhamedov writes, he was “a little surprised” by the candidates who were submitted to the vote in the official LiveJournal community afisha-lj , and decided to highlight the “bright characters who delighted” Russian bloggers in 2011.