On Saturday night, due to strong winds on several power lines in the Rostov region, a wire break was registered. About a dozen villages remained an excavation of electricity. As Interfax was told on Saturday in the regional department for the prevention and liquidation of emergencies, several settlements in Chertovsky, Matveevo Kurgan and Neklinovsky districts remained without electricity. However, the efforts of emergency recovery brigades were practically restored.

Simultaneously with the process of global warming on Earth, the process of dimming is underway, said Alexander Minin, a leading researcher at the Institute of Global Climate and Ecology of Roshydromet. "Due to the airosol pollution, there are less and less solar radiation to the ground every year, that is, there is a darkening process," Minin told reporters. He noted that this phenomenon was discovered in the middle of the last century by Israeli scientists.

On Sakhalin, rescuers removed more than sixty fishermen from the ice floe, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the Far Eastern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation. Information about the emergency was received at 11:29 local time (04:29 Moscow time). In the Korsakovsky district, near the village of Okhotsk, from the coastal, Saving the wind to torn off an ice floe about five square kilometers and began to be carried to sea.

The United Russia party, in the event of its victory in the elections to the Moscow Region, which will be held in March 2007, will offer the president the candidacy of the current governor of the Moscow Region Boris Gromov to approve him for this post for a new term.

In the 24th round of the English Premier League Liverpool, Chelsea confidently outplayed 2: 0 on its field and significantly reduced the chances of the London club to win the country's championship for the third time in a row. Liverpool approached the game in the optimal composition, but the “aristocrats” had no injured defenders - John Terry and Ricarda Carvalia in the application.

Today, in the Swiss Basel, the Russian Boxer-Stylavest Nikolay Valuev will hold the third protection of the WBA world title belonging to him. The rival of the "Russian giant", as the Russian in the West, will be American Jamil McClayin. The track record of the 33 -year -old Valuev in a professional ring is 45 victories (33 - ahead of schedule) in the same number of battles.

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova easily won a ticket to the 1/8 finals of the Australian Open 2007. In the third round match, she, sown in Melbourne under the first number, very easily beat the Italian Tatyana Garbin in two sets with a score of 6: 3, 6: 1. Only at the very beginning did Garbin showed Sharapova more or less worthy resistance, winning two starting gamers. However, then everything fell into place. Maria did not leave the rival a single chance.

Russian tennis player Marat Safin was fined $ 2 thousand for insulting an arbiter at the Pascal Maria tower during a fight on Australian Open with Andy Roddik, which ended with an American victory in four parties. Recall that the match was interrupted due to the rain, and when the roof over the Arena of the "genus Leiver" closed, Safin refused to continue the game until the surface of the court was completely dry.

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez expressed the hope that the Cuban leader Fidel Castro would completely recover, but admitted that his condition remains difficult. According to Chavez, a few days ago he spoke half an hour with the Cuban leader on the phone. “It’s difficult for him now, but, as he himself says, the car they are trying to fix for 80 years.

Russian Communists are going to fight for the restoration of the Soviet Union and urge the Communist Parties of the former Union republics to unite. “We believe that the restoration of the violated Union Fatherland is our key task, and we will continue to work on this task,” said the Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, speaking on Saturday at the Plenum of the Council of the Union of Communist Parties - the CPSU.

The British police, investigating the case of donations in exchange for titles, detained on Friday to interrogate the political adviser to the head of government Ruth Turner. She spent several hours in custody, after which she was released on bail. Scotland-Yard investigators were interested in Turner's possible involvement in the use of preventive measures in order to prevent this case from considering British justice.

In the case of the placement of anti-missile defense facilities (pro) of the United States in the Czech Republic and other former countries of the Warsaw Treaty, Russia will find an adequate response to these plans, said the chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs and Relations with compatriots, ex-secretary of the Russian Security Council Andrei Kokoshin.

Police officers, who began the investigation on the suicide of the popular performer Murat Nasyrov, restored the last minutes of his life from the words of eyewitnesses, sources in the operational investigation group told Interfax. According to the agency’s interlocutor, “on January 19, Nasrov met his civil spouse Natalya Boyko, who returned to Moscow. Together they arrived in one of the apartments of the house 15 on Vuchetich Street, where they lived.

According to the results of 2006, the Kaluga city authorities reduced payment for heat supply for the population, the press service of the city council told Interfax. As an employee of the press service explained, Maxim Akimov, Maxim Akimov, told local journalists about such a decision in connection with unusually warm weather in the last year. According to the interlocutor of the agency, in total in 2006 the Kaluga residents overpaid the heat supply of apartments of almost 20 million rubles.

The United States has not yet received explanations from Beijing about the test of anti -recipient weapons. This was reported on Friday by reporters by the official representative of the White House Dana Perino. “The USA,” she said, “expressed the alarm in connection with the test of both here, in Washington and in Beijing ... We did not hear anything in response from the Chinese.