RAO "UES of Russia" abandoned the acquisition of the BAS TPP in Bulgaria: having won the tender, RAO could not agree on the working conditions of the thermal power station. This was reported to "Interfax" in the press service of the Bulgarian Privatization Agency, later this information was confirmed by RAO UES. Recall that Bulgaria in the spring of 2005 recognized the Russian energy holding the winner of the TEPA TEP "Varna".

All five regular members of the UN Security Council, including Russia and China, warned Iran that they should abandon the idea of ​​creating nuclear weapons. This was announced on Monday by the official representative of the US State Department, Sean McCormak.

In St. Petersburg, parts of the human body were found in the Obvodny Canal. On Tuesday morning, the police received information that, opposite the Building Base of Rybinskaya, in the Moscow district in the Obvodnaya Canal, “something strange,” reports Fontanka.ru . Police officers who came to the place found that these are parts of the human body - hands without hands and legs without feet.

The world champion and the Olympic Games with a sixth jumping russian Elena Isinbaeva to the title of the best athlete of the world in 2005 also added a similar title in Europe, becoming the winner of the Waterford Cristal Trophy prize. Visitors to the official website of the European Athletics Association (EAA) gave it the majority of the votes in the female half of the survey to identify the best athletes of the 2005 continent. For men, the winner was the Lithuanian discoline Virginia Alekna.

Three wives of a resident of Yemen Mohammed Salekh managed to persuade his wife to make a hajj instead of taking a fourth wife. For a long time, an elderly man saved money to marry a young girl from his village. “My judicious wives managed to convince me that, having accumulated money, the priority must be given to Hadju . And that marriage can be postponed,” the Muslim said.

The 26-year-old midfielder Petr Bystrov, who played for the Saturn near Moscow, signed a five-year contract with another club in the Russian Football Championship-FC Moscow. Last season, Bystrov became one of the best assistants in the country's championship. On the account of the midfielder of 8 assists in 26 matches. However, as the press service of the Moscow FC notes, Bystrov knows how to not only give assists, but also score. It is no coincidence that in 2004 he scored 8 goals in 25 games.

During the New Year and Christmas holidays in the capital, serious incidents were not recorded, said the acting mayor of Moscow Vladimir Resin before the meeting of the government of the capital on Tuesday. "On a large account in the capital, nothing terrible happened," Resin said. He said that on holidays in Moscow several dozen fires occurred, as a result of which 17 people were killed - 9 men and 8 women .

On January 17-18, Armenia Foreign Minister of Armenia will meet in London with his Azerbaijani colleague Elmar Mammadyarov to continue negotiations on the Karabakh settlement. This was announced by the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Vartan Oscanyan at a press conference on the diplomatic results of the last year, ITAR-TASS reports.

An employee of the plant associated with military shipbuilding was detained in St. Petersburg on suspicion of espionage, the Federal Security Service of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region said. At the end of December, this man was detained and testified. In his story appears a character who is well familiar to our counterintelligence. It turned out that the NATO Country Channel operated for several years thanks to the Russian officer recruited by Estonian special services.

The budget of Ukraine for 2006 will need to be reviewed in connection with the increase in the price of natural gas, said the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Vladimir Litvin. "It is obvious that the budget will need to be recalculated, reviewed. This will be the general responsibility of the Verkhovna Rada and the Government," the speaker told reporters on Monday. The budget of Ukraine for 2006 was adopted a few days before the New Year, RIA Novosti recalls.

Forecasters on Tuesday forecast ice in Moscow and the region and ask the inhabitants of the metropolitan region to be more careful. “In the afternoon, a light frost is expected in a megalopolis and a suburbs, an air temperature of 2 to 4 degrees below zero,” the hydraulic service of Moscow and the Moscow region said that “there is a great probability of ice formation”. Today, cloudy weather is expected in the capital and the region, precipitation is unlikely. The wind is north-west, 3-8 m/s.

The Vice Speaker of the State Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky offers to take the offices of all officials under video surveillance in order to better fight corruption in the country. The fight against corruption, in his opinion, will become one of the important areas of the State Duma in the coming year, ITAR-TASS reports.

Iran intends to resume nuclear research on Tuesday. Today in the country, seals from nuclear research centers under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have been removed, Mohammad Saidi, deputy director of the Iranian atomic energy organization of atomic energy, said in Tehran. He noted that the seals were removed from the sanction of representatives of the IAEA only from those objects that are used for research, but not enriching atomic fuel.

The US Ministry of Internal Security admitted that the American authorities are viewing private postal items from abroad, "when they consider it necessary as part of the fight against terrorism." Susan Trevino, a press secretary of the customs department and border protection, said that this department was instructed to ensure that "neither terrorists nor their weapons could penetrate our territory," Interfax reports.

The study showed that Israel consumes the most toilet paper in the civilized world per capita. The study was conducted by a global manufacturer of hygiene products, Kimberly-Clack, which owns such famous brands as, for example, Huggies and Kotex. According to published data, among countries where the products of this company are sold, only in Israel an increase in the use of toilet paper was observed in the last year, reports Newsru Israel with reference to the Israeli newspaper Maariv.