The Vossibugol coal mining company, one of the largest in Russia, has changed its owner, ITAR-TASS reports. According to information received from the administration of the Irkutsk region (the management of Vostsibugol is located in Irkutsk), the main stake in the enterprise, previously owned by Eastland CJSC, was transferred to the MDM group, a friendly financial and industrial group Russian Aluminum.

Today it became known that in the United Arab Emirates, a member of the Federation Council of Russia, the head of the Legislative Assembly of the Rostov Region, Alexander Popov, was arrested. On January 15, while driving a rented car, Popov had an accident, as a result of which a woman living in the Emirates citizen Vietnam died. The press service of the Rostov Duma made a special statement about this.

Today, February 1, the art exhibition “Our Putin” opened at the “Union “Creativity”” gallery in Moscow. The authors of the exhibition are painter, designer, portrait master Fyodor Dubrovin and painter-colorist Valery Podkuiko, reports Ekho Moskvy radio. There are no more than a dozen portraits of the Russian President at the exhibition.

Members of the main European royal surnames will take part in the funeral of the last Italian Queen Maria Zhose Savoy, which will take place on Friday in the French city of the OTCB.

Russian President Vladimir Putin today at about 10 in the morning came to the Central Clinical Hospital to visit Boris Yeltsin, who is 70 years old today. Putin, according to NTV correspondent, came to congratulate the former president of the first of all Russian politicians; Later, several more people gather to visit Yeltsin. According to Presidential press secretary Alexei Gromov, the conversation of Putin and Yeltsin lasted 40 minutes.

According to RIA Novosti, Pavel Borodin called his family this morning and asked them to congratulate Boris Yeltsin, who was 70 years old on Thursday. The details about what specifically asked to tell former President Borodin is not reported. "Pavel Borodin, who has been in Brooklyn's prison in New York, is allowed to call only in pre -declared phones for the past two weeks," RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Secretariat of the Union of Russia and Belarus.

The command of the Russian Air Force plans to strengthen aviation units in the North Caucasus to carry out combat missions in Chechnya. Today, the director of the Federal Security Service Nikolai Patrushev, whose department is now responsible for conducting a counter -terrorist operation in Chechnya, said that there are about 5 thousand militants in the republic. One and a half thousand of them ≈ this, according to Patrushev, are implacable.

One of the problems of modern journalism is that journalists build their relations with the source of information on a professional basis. This was announced today by the general director of VGTRK Oleg Dobroduev, who arrived in Vladikavkaz at the invitation of President North Ossetia Alexander Dzasokhov, ITAR-TASS reports.

The militants undermined the commodity of the Gudermes √ Kadi-Yurt. There are no dead and wounded. Messages and explosive devices, from which peaceful residents and border guard have suffered over the past day, are most of all today. The AFP agency found out that terrorists have appointed a reward of $ 500 for the heads of dogs trained to look for explosives. Dogs are used by Russian troops during operations to search for weapons and ammunition.

Today in Odintsovo, police investigators interrogated two acquaintances of the former chairman of the war of the war of war disabled in Afghanistan Valery Radchikov, who died on Wednesday in the suburbs in a car disaster. According to information agencies, we are talking about Radchikov’s friends who were with him in the car at the time of the accident, but the investigators did not give any details about what these people said.

As Ava Gardner said about him, "any normal woman simply could not help but fall in love with Clark." There were many such women in the way of Gabel. Although in his youth he hardly hoped for the title "King of Hollywood", which he received in the future. His mother died when William Clark Gabel was a seven -month baby. He did not graduate from high school, escaping from the house at 16.

Today, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office said that the famous entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky would be charged as part of a criminal case of abuses in Aeroflot. According to Vasily Kolmogorov, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, the "investigation of the Aeroflot case" continues, and the time will come when Berezovsky is charged.

The main theme of today's government meeting will be the situation with the supply of fuel of the Russian regions. The office meeting will be held by Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov. As expected, the Minister of Energy Alexander Gavrin will make a report on this issue. By today's meeting of the government, the Federal Commission for the Securities Market prepared a number of sensational amendments to the Criminal Code.

In response to numerous requests from the media, official and public organizations, as well as ordinary citizens, concerned about the absence of the chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate (DECR MP), Metropolitan Kirill (Gundyaev), at the award ceremony for Russian Orthodox Church figures, the DECR MP Communications Service issued an official explanation, reports agency "Blagovest-info".

Today, the strike of urban transport workers paralyzed the movement in the French capital. The movement was stopped on all metro lines except one, where the trains are controlled by an automatic system and run without driver. Only half of the buses entered the routes. Many residents of the city were forced to use personal transport to get to work. As a result, giant traffic jams arose, especially dense at the entrances to Paris.