German federal chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Moscow. From the airport, Merkel will immediately go to the Kremlin for negotiations with Vladimir Putin.

At a meeting on Monday, the CEC of the Russian Federation refused the Political Party "Rodina", as well as the Rodina (People's-Patriotic Union) electoral bloc in the certificate of the list of candidates for deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation at the 196th Medvedkovsky single-mandate district of Moscow. The Rodina party as its candidate nominated journalist Kir Lukyanov, and the temporarily unemployed Natalya Barmen-Sidorova was a candidate from the electoral bloc.

In Yekaterinburg, ATMs and intercoms refuse to work due to severe frosts. The software of ATMs does not withstand low temperatures and is spontaneously disconnected. Most of the ATMs in the city were made abroad, and they are simply not adapted to Russian frosts, they told the New Region website in one of the district branches of the Ural branch of the Sberbank of Russia. Bank employees do not deny that ATMs - the equipment is very fragile and capricious, so they often break.

As a result of a large fire in Vladivostok, according to updated data, nine people were killed, 19 people with burns, injuries and carbon monoxide poisoning were hospitalized. The fire is currently extinguished. Most people died as a result of a fall from the eighth floor, when they independently tried to get out of the premises covered by fire. Some of the victims are in serious condition. It is possible that after the survey of the building, the number of victims may increase.

During the recent meeting of Alexander Lukashenko with Vladimir Putin, there were no attempts to hide the influence that the Russian president on his extravagant neighbor, writes The Times, in the Black Sea residence of the Russian leader.

On Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with the President of the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) Swiss Joseph Blatter and the head of the Russian Football Union Vitaly Mutko, called "imperialism in football" attempts by the European Union to dictate the conditions for holding football tournaments on the continent.

In Turkey, 19 cases of the disease "bird flu" were registered, and the total dangerous infection penetrated into 27 out of 81 provinces. Such data were published on Monday, the Ministry of Health of the country. On Sunday, a 12-year-old girl died in the eastern province of Van, however, according to the Ministry of Health, she did not confirm the N5N1 virus. Thus, the number of those killed in Turkey as a result of infection with this virus is still three people.

On Monday in London, consultations on the nuclear problem of Iran will be held. Supporters of the transfer of the Iranian dossier to the UN Security Council - Eurotroy and the USA - will try to convince Russia and China of the correctness of this approach. These countries have extended until recently against the "complication of the situation", and both have the right to veto.

Forward Barcelona Ronaldinho, captain and central Liverpool midfielder Stephen Jerrard, as well as the striker of Milan Andrei Shevchenko on Monday, were named among the players of the “team of the UEFA year”, and the mentor of the London “Chelsea” Jose Maurini was honored to become a coach of the imaginary team. In the vote, which ended on Friday on UEFA.com , a record number of fans took part - more than one and a half million.

A bird, sick with bird influenza, can be recognized by unusual behavior, according to a memo for the prevention of bird flu, widespread on Monday to Rospotrebnadzor. "The sick birds have unusual behavior - discoordination of movements (rotational movement of the head, curvature of the neck), the lack of a reaction to external stimuli and an oppressed state. The swelling and blackening of the crest and earrings, as well as difficulty breathing, is noted," the document says.

The prime minister of Israel Ariel Sharon in order to relieve breathing the night before the tracheotomy was made. According to the widespread Jerusalem state-pounding "Hadass", the operation was successful, reports ITAR-TASS. The attending doctors of Sharon spoke about the need to conduct tracheotomy a few days ago after they began to withdraw the patient from a state of artificial coma, recalls Newsru Israel .

The complaint about the transfer of Mikhail Khodorkovsky to the colony of the Chita region, filed on January 10, has disappeared, says one of the defenders of the ex-head of Yukos Yuri Schmidt. The lawyer sent a complaint a week ago by urgent mail to the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow. On Monday, the defender came to the court in order to find out how much hearing was assigned.

The world and humanity are facing an ecological catastrophe of planetary proportions, which will happen much earlier than it is customary to think - the score is for decades. With such an apocalyptic warning, the Patriarch of the Green Movement, the English scientist James Lavlock, made. The author of the world -famous hypothesis Gaia Hypothesis has previously made similar warnings.

The famous Russian director Alexander Sokurov is going to start filming a new film about the Caucasus. Filming will be held in Kabardino-Balkaria in the summer, and representatives of the Kabardian family Sokurov, numbering dozens of families, will take part in them. The director told ITAR-TASS in Nalchik, where the retrospective show of his films ended.

The lawyers of one of the accused in the case of the murder of the editor of the Russian version of the Forbes magazine Paul Khlebnikov filed a complaint to the chairman of the Moscow City Court against the actions of the judge considering the criminal case.