In Moscow, 26 people died due to frosts for a week; Another 114 people were injured due to hypothermia, and 8 people were injured by fallen icicles, NTV reports. According to Moscow ambulances, of all the dead, 12 people froze for Saturday and Sunday after a new cooling. In total, 137 people had already died from the cold in Moscow for the November, December and January. Meanwhile, in the north of Russia, as ITAR-TASS reports today, 120 people were injured in a week of frosts.

Today in The New York Times, an editorial article was published, which states that Vladimir Putin will not dare to endure Lenin’s body from the mausoleum, since "such a decision can cause a political storm among the communists and the left opposition." According to NTV, citing sources of the Interfax agency in the Kremlin, it may happen that President Putin will still solve the issue of removing Lenin’s body from the mausoleum after some time.

According to the ITAR-TASS agency, today the federal troops in Chechnya killed two field commanders. According to the agency, which refers to the employees of the apparatus of the Presidential Assistant in Chechnya Sergey Yastrzhembsky, the field commander nicknamed Yasir was destroyed in Grozny, and in Urus-Martan, the commander nicknamed Taliban. " According to this information, a special operation of the federal troops was carried out against the field commanders.

Of the 307 crimes committed in Moscow over the past weekend, 262 were solved. According to the capital's police department, among the crimes committed in the past two days were three murders and 5 cases of grievous bodily harm. All these 8 crimes were solved without delay. In addition, 27 robberies and assaults were committed in the capital, 16 of them were solved. During the same time, 92 thefts were registered in Moscow, 20 of which were apartment thefts.

OJSC Gazprom is considering the possibility of building a gas pipeline from Russia to China. This “project is real, but its economic feasibility is not yet completely clear,” said Rem Vyakhirev, head of the board of Gazprom OJSC, at the ceremony of signing an agreement with the government of the Altai Republic. Everything depends on the Chinese.

According to the Associated Press, last Friday in Cuba, two famous Czech politicians were arrested - a parliamentary deputy, former Minister of Finance Ivan Pilip and Jan Bubenik, a member of the Czech Foundation for Democracy.

In accordance with the new instructions of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the lawyer was not allowed for interrogation. Titov testified for about three hours. Now the investigators have made a lunch break, but after 15:00 they are going to resume interrogation. The interrogation of the head of the Media-Most financial department Anton Titov, who, in the framework of the work of Vladimir Gusinsky, is conducting the prosecutor's office today, has been going on for more than three hours.

"The other day I am going to meet with Grigory Surkis (Dynamo President) to discuss the transition," Reuters told the 22 -year -old football player. However, according to Ukrainian media reports, the sale of a talented player is not included in Surkis's plans. Recall that the Kaladze contract, concluded in 1997 with the Kyivians, is designed for four years. However, Kaladze himself already had preferences in which of the clubs he would like to come.

Today, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that the organization of oil exporting countries OPEC intends to decide to reduce oil production by one and a half million barrels per day, AP reports. On Wednesday, January 17, a meeting of OPEC oil ministers will take place in Vienna, and Chavez's speech confirms rumors about a reduction in global oil supplies.

Today, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office demonstrated active work to investigate new major criminal cases that were not related to the Media Most case, within the framework of which today the investigators went on the NTV editorial office in search of 2 years not working in the company of chief accountant Julia Rogozina. High officials were interrogated for her: atomic energy Minister Evgeny Adamov and the head of the Central Bank of Russia Viktor Gerashchenko.

On Wednesday, January 17, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) must determine the volume of oil that states members of this organization will stop supplying to the world market. In anticipation of this decision, the energy market, reinsuring itself, raises the general level of prices for hydrocarbon raw materials. At the last trading of last week in New York, the price of one barrel of oil for delivery in February soared to $30.05.

“Only 1.2 billion dollars” is the difference between the amount of Russian debt to the Paris Club and provided for the payment of this debt by funds in the country's budget for the current year. The head of the Central Bank of Russia, Viktor Gerashchenko, believes that this amount is "not so large." He believes that Russian debt to the Paris club can be paid completely, without restructuring this year.

According to the ITAR-TASS agency, the bodies of four Russian engineers killed in Algeria on January 7 will be delivered to Russia this afternoon. The dead engineers will be brought to Moscow by the flight of El Alzheri airline, and then they will be sent home to Lipetsk. Earlier it was reported that the bodies will be brought to Russia no earlier than January 18.

Economic amnesty should be extended to persons serving sentences by court, suspected and accused of committing crimes in the economic sphere, including such as theft, fraud, illegal entrepreneurship, illegal banking, money laundering, giving and receiving bribes.

Today, several hundred inhabitants of one of the microdistricts of Vladivostok in protest against many hours of electricity disconnects blocked the Vlavostok-Khabarovsk highway. According to NTV, the action began at about 15:30 local time. The bulk of the picketers are women and children. In the thirty -degree frost, they went to the main highway on the exit from the city and blocked the traffic. For what period of time the Federal Gostrass was blocked is still unclear.