They were from 25 to 30 years old, they studied at the establishments of special services (FSB) or in military educational institutions, and thanks to their surnames, they find themselves today in the key sectors of the Russian economy. This is the son of the Prime Minister, the son of the Minister of Defense, the son of the director of the FSB. All of them hold the best positions in the oil or banking sector.

In the French Alps, skiing, an 11-year-old girl from Russia died. The tragedy occurred last Sunday at the Kurchevel ski resort in the Savoy Department.

The former owner of the British manufacturer of exclusive sports vehicles TVR Nikolai Smolensk compartment of the production branch, just when she was going to announce bankruptcy by stopping the production of TVR in Britain, writes the British The Times (full text on the website inopressa.ru ). In addition, it turned out that the person, once proclaimed by the Savior of the company, slowly left a few days before its collapse.

In the early days of the New Year in South Africa in one of the passages of the Kango cave, the popular attractions among tourists, a fat woman was stuck. Rescuers managed to free the woman and the people who followed her only after 12 hours. The woman was stuck in the so -called "Tunnel of Love." The accident occurred in the middle of the day, the woman managed to free only by midnight. In order to pull the stuck lady, rescuers used a liquid paraffin, and also used a helicopter.

The Moroccan, accused of involvement in the organization of terrorist attacks on September 11 in the United States, was sentenced in Germany to the maximum term of punishment - 15 years in prison. Such a verdict brought to Munir al-Motassadec on Monday the Supreme Land Court of Hamburg.

New facts related to the death of Alexander Litvinenko appeared in the German press. Focus magazine draws attention to the fact that shortly before the poisoning of a former FSB officer in London, under mysterious circumstances, Igor Ponomarev, a permanent representative of the Russian Federation in the International Maritime Organization ( IMO ). The Russian diplomat died in the fall of 2006, two days before the alleged poisoning of Litvinenko on November 1.

A powerful snow cyclone, because of which on the eve of Sakhalin and Kurili were in the transport blockade , fell on Kamchatka on Monday. According to the regional hydrometeorological center, a storm warning was announced on the peninsula. In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the wind speed reaches 20 meters per second. By the middle of the day, weather forecasters predict its strengthening up to 30 meters per second. Several winds could no longer withstand several power lines.

On Monday, in London, court hearings are resumed in the case of the death of Princess of Wales Diana and her friend Dodi al-Faida. The hearings will be held under the leadership of another coroner (forensic expert)-an experienced 73-year-old judge Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, who was appointed deputy royal corner specifically for this case.

The latest new products of world manufacturers are presented at the anniversary 100th exhibition of the annual North American international auto show in Detroit. Traditionally, the largest automakers of the world are presented here, including American companies General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, Japanese Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Mitsubishi. The presence of Korean auto giants - KIA and Hyundai on the car drive in Detroit in the Detroit.

Russian tourists, who for more than 15 hours expected the departure from the Egyptian resort of the Hurghada due to a breakdown of the aircraft, safely returned to Moscow late on Sunday by two Lainers of Boeing-767 Transaero. According to Interfax, the airline press secretary Sergei Bykhal, the aircraft landed at the Domodedovo International Airport. "The plane, which was following the UN -8650 flight, flew at 0:05 Moscow time, and the UN -9650 flight at 23:44.

AFP photographer Haime Rari, abducted on January 1, 2007 in the Gaza Strip, was released. He was released by armed people who kept him captive for a week. Currently, the photographer was transferred to employees of Palestinian security and was taken to the residence of the chairman of the National Palestinian Administration of Mahmoud Abbas. First aid was provided to the prisoner there, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to AFP.

The Russian delegation was transferred on Monday to the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne the application of Sochi-2014. Recall that the Austrian Salzburg and the South Korean Pyeongchang are competitors for the game. The VOC evaluative commission plans to visit all the candidate cities from mid-February to mid-April 2007. The official election of the city, which will accept the 2014 Winter Olympics, will be held in July this year in Guatemala.

The world oil prices, which survived a record for almost two years last week, grew up on Monday in anticipation of a cooling in the east of the United States and after messages about interruptions in its supply through Belarus. Among other factors - an announcement of the upcoming reduction in the volume of oil production by its largest manufacturer of Saudi Arabia.

In the Hungarian Sekereshfehervar, the owner of the continental cup in hockey was determined. They became the Belarusian "Youth", which in a decisive match beat the Omsk Avangard on the shootouts. This is the first success of the representative of Belarusian hockey in European club tournaments.

In Uzbekistan, a human rights activist was beaten, promising to release a number of prisoners for a fee, but did not fulfill his obligations. The human rights activist Elena Urlaev was attacked by the persons who promised to assist in the release of their close relatives from the places of imprisonment by carrying out the appropriate lawyer, on Monday Interfax, a source in law enforcement agencies.