One person died from the cold in Moscow over the past day, the capital's ambulance service reported. According to the ambulance, another 17 people with a diagnosis of hypothermia were hospitalized. In total, 136 people died from the beginning of the winter season in the capital. The first case of death from hypothermia in this winter was recorded at the end of October last year. Over the past day, 45 people were injured in St.

Norilsk Nickel got rid of the control package in the most titled hockey club of the planet - CSKA. Experts note that Russian hockey in crisis: large corporations turn away from their clubs one after another, on the maintenance of which they spend tens of millions of dollars a year without prospects to recoup these investments. RAO "Norilsk Nickel", a subsidiary of the Norilsk Nickel GMC, distributed an official message about the sale of a 51%share at the CSKA Hockey Club LLC.

The jury in Dagestan justified the accused of an attack in the city of Buinaksk in September 1999. On Tuesday, the collegium of the jury of the Supreme Court of the Republic issued a verdict in the case of Magomed Salikhov, who was accused of organizing and committing a terrorist attack in Buinaksk on September 4, 1999. The jury considered him innocent in the commission of these crimes and storage of explosive devices.

Iranian authorities block access to the British television and radio broadcasting corporation on Farsi BBCPERSIAN.com . According to the BBC Internet service, the number of visits to the site has sharply decreased over the past three days, when reports about blocking access began to arrive. The editor of the Sima Sima Alindzhad said that attendance was unexpectedly reduced by a third, the Russian BBS service reports.

In the Amur Region, by 24 years in prison, a rapist and a murderer of a young girl were sentenced to 24 years. According to Vostok -Media , citing the regional prosecutor’s office, a preliminary investigation and the court found that on May 1, 2005, a criminal, while intoxicated, raped the familiar stepdaughter - a girl who went to his apartment - a girl of 5 years. Trying to hide this crime, the rapist drowned the girl in the bath.

For the first time, the environmental achievement index (Environmental Performance Index) of the world states was published. It will be officially represented on January 26 at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The compilers of the rating are Yale and Colombian Universities.

The boiling of the Middle East fell silent in anticipation of the start of the parliamentary elections in the Palestinian autonomy on January 25. At midnight, election campaigning ended. The struggle is expected to be stiff. The elections should show, “who is in the house is the master”: the Arafatov Guard, led by Mahmud Abbas or its Hamas antagonist, whose success in the recent municipal elections indicates increased political influence.

The Saratov City Cossack Society made the initiative to protect students of foreign states and the protection of public order on the territory of student towns in Saratov. This was reported on Tuesday by the leading specialist of the press service of the city administration Elena Shilova. It is assumed that the Cossacks will ensure the protection of public order in the territory of student towns, universities and dormitories.

The Iranian authorities continue to make threatening statements in connection with the probable transfer of dossier under the nuclear program of Tehran to consider the UN Security Council.

The complex of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior is insured in the amount of 6.2 billion rubles, which is more than 200 million dollars, Interfax-religion reports.

The tension between the communities of Christians and Muslims in Egypt tends to grow and is caused by the lack of an effective legislative base in the field of religion, experts on human rights. “The country does not have a law on religious freedom, and we are forced to live in accordance with the president’s periodically published decrees, but they are clearly not enough,” said Samir Morosos, director of the Coptic Center for Social Sciences in Cairo.

The National Bolsheviks claim that in the evening in the capital, at about 19:30, at the exit of the Ryazan Prospekt metro, the police were detained by the police, Deputy Eduard Limonov, Vladimir Linderman (Abel). Together with him was detained by Moscow National Bolshevik Dmitry Sumin. This is stated in the message of the NBP press service, which received Newsru.com.

In case of switching to world prices in Russian-Ukrainian relations of Russia, it will be necessary to pay "billions of dollars" for renting land associated with the content of the Black Sea Fleet in the Crimea. The head of the State Committee for Land Resources of Ukraine Nikolai Sidorenko made such a statement on Tuesday in Kyiv.

In Moscow, an accident on a heating main was eliminated, as a result of which 5 residential buildings were left without heat for more than 10 hours, the Russian Ministry of Emergencies said. In total, 30 houses were turned off. "The accident on the heating main in the area of ​​Ryazansky Prospekt occurred the night before at 19:30 Moscow time. As a result, 5 residential buildings, a clinic and a kindergarten were left without heating.

The Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov officially handed the chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to Rene Van der Linden on behalf of the leaders of 73 communist and left -wing parties. "This protest is directed against the consideration of the Assembly of the issue of the so -called crimes of communist regimes," Zyuganov told Interfax.