On January 25, bailiffs arrived at NTV. The purpose of their visit was to seize 19% of the company's shares. According to the lawyer of the Media-Most holding, Pavel Astakhov, the arrest was imposed in pursuance of the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court. As already reported on January 22, the arbitration court issued a decision to seize those 19% of NTV shares that are currently pledged to Gazprom-Media.

Today, the State Duma adopted in the first reading amendments to Article 24 of the Federal Law "On Military Duties and Military Service", which defends from the draft for secondary schools who have reached the age of 18. The adoption of the amendments unanimously voted 286 of the present deputies, NTV reports citing Interfax.

The elders of the Urus-Martan district of Chechnya decided not to appoint a new imam until the situation in the republic is completely stabilized. This was announced on Wednesday "Interfax" the head of the administration of the area of ​​Shirvani Yasuev. According to him, the attempts made over the past month attempt to find a candidate for the post of spiritual leader Muslims were unsuccessful.

According to reports from Stavropol, this morning in the city in one houses on Artem Street, seven people were wounded as a result of a household explosion. Now rescuers and firefighters are working at the scene of the explosion. The explosion occurred at about 8 a.m. in the old two -story house, but all the details about what happened specifically was not yet clarified: it is only known that the cause of the explosion was a faulty gas stove, NTV reports with reference to Interfax.

At the Krasnolimanskaya mine in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, where an explosion and a fire occurred on January 21, work continues to eliminate the accident. Work on filling the lava inert gas has already been completed. On Wednesday, air samples were taken in the area of ​​the production site. Today, the government commission announced the results of these tests and came to the conclusion that it was necessary to continue the further work to eliminate the fire.

The hostess of the competition Anna-Karin Kammerling improved the world achievement at a distance of 50 meters of Butterfly. In the 25-meter pool, the Swede sailed this distance in 25.36 seconds. The previous record belonged to her and was equal to 25.6 seconds. The second and third places in this swim were also occupied by the representatives of Sweden: Teresa Alshammar finished after the winner, and Johanna Schuberg was content with the third place.

Today, in the Swiss town of Davos, the World Economic Forum begins work. The leaders of the world business, the heads of government and states will come to the Alpine resort to discuss in the informal setting of the most important economic problems for the 31st time. The main topic of discussion this year is to overcome the abyss between the rich and the poor. This year, the Russian government at the forum will be represented by Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Kudrin.

The price of March oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) on January 24 was $29.05 per barrel. That's 52 cents lower than Jan. 23, according to Bloomberg. At the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) in London, where the price of oil rose on Tuesday, trading on Wednesday also ended with prices for March Brent crude futures falling. The decline reached 41 cents, and the new contract price stopped at $26.26 per barrel.

For the first time in the last month, the exchange rate of the single European currency against the dollar fell below 92 cents per euro. The reason was the growing dissatisfaction of investors towards the European currency. There are doubts among market participants that the trend of strengthening of the euro currency, which emerged in the first week of January, will be prolonged.

Academician Mstislav Keldysh met its 20th anniversary of the research vessel on jokes in the Kaliningrad port. The crew gathered in the wardroom. The head of the laboratory read a congratulation. And, it seems, this event turned out to be the most boring in the entire long history of this ship.

The Minister of Defense Marshal of Russia Igor Sergeev said that the conducted medical examination of Russian peacekeepers in Kosovo and Bosnia has not yet revealed Lukemia's diseases among them. At the same time, according to him, the medical examination of the personnel continues, the final results will be known later. Igor Sergeev said that in the period from 6 to February 8, he will visit the Balkans on a working visit.

In a semi-final match of stunning beauty and intensity, he defeated Australian Patrick Rafter. Until the middle of the fourth set, there was an absolutely equal game on the court, in which Rafter’s physical power collided with Agassi’s playing variety and tennis wisdom. Using one of the few chances in the first set, the American took Rafter's serve and won 7:5.

According to Thursday, the Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, the question of the fate of the Secretary of State of the Union of Russia and Belarus Borodin is under control of the President of Russia, reports Echo of Moscow with reference to Interfax. But the Russian side will determine its further actions on this issue depending on today's court decision in New York, Igor Ivanov said.

Tonight in Moscow it was officially announced that the Mir station will be flooded on March 6. According to the Director General of Rosaviacosmos Yuri Koptev, the issue of the station was discussed today at the Security Council with President Putin, and "now everything has already been decided completely." "The president told us: the main thing is to reduce the" Mir "from the orbit so that no problems have any problems with the inhabitants of the Earth; so we will do it," said Yuri Koptev.

No matter what government came to power in Israel, the temple mountain is a place in East Jerusalem, where the Jerusalem Temple destroyed by the Romans in 70, √ will not be given to Palestine. This was stated on Wednesday by Israeli President Moshe Katsav during a visit to the Jewish Community Center in Maryina Roshcha.