Laureates are announced at the 36th International Film Festival in Rotterdam . "Tiger awards", VPRO Tiger Award, designed by the best directorial debuts, went to films from Germany, Denmark, Malaysia and Brazil. With great success, views of the competitive picture of the Russian director Catherine Grokhovskaya "irrevocable man" took place.

American Sunita Williams broke the record of open space among women. The ISS crew on Monday night again went out into the outer space, the crew engineer Sunnit Williams and Michael Lopez-Alegria spent more than seven hours, AR reports. Thus, in total, Williams spent 22 hours 27 minutes in space - this is more than any other woman. Together with her partner, they installed a new cooling system. The current output was not prevented by the leak of the coolant - ammonia.

The Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ) warns about the danger to freedom of speech, which comes from dictators of the 21st century, which are popular in its countries. As an example, the regimes of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez are called on Monday Newsru Israel with reference to Reuters.

The Federal Financial Market Service began an investigation in connection with a sharp drop in Sberbank shares on Friday. At about 16 o’clock in the afternoon, the promotion made a dizzying somersault, collapsing in a few minutes by 7%, and then returning to the previous level. The fall was provoked by Reuters that the price of placement will be significantly lower than the market.

In Moscow, a meeting of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was held with the so-called Eurotroshka: Germany Foreign Minister Francum Walter Steinmeier, EU Supreme EU Hoviere Solana, Benita Ferraro-Waldner, Hoviere Solana’s foreign policy and security. The meeting was devoted to the relations of Russia and the EU, including in the energy sector and in the field of international issues, such as the situation in Kosovo.

The Ministry of Defense of Italy for the first time confirmed the existence of a powerful military oil pipeline built by NATO in the midst of the Cold War. The oil pipeline is called NATO-Pol (Petroleum Oil Lubricant-"fuel-lubricants"-approx. Ed.), This is a whole system of storage facilities and pipelines that begins on the seashore, passes through six regions of Italy, connects several military airports in the northeast of the country and extends to the very heart of Europe, writes La Stampa .

The Chili team on tennis is a very serious rival for the Russian team in the 1/8 finals of the Davis Cup. This was stated by Russian tennis player Marat Safin upon arrival at Santiago Airport. He assured, however, that the Russians will try to win in this meeting, which will be held on February 9-11 in the city of La Seren in the north of Chile.

Studies of sociologists show that over the past two years, the proportion of Russians who believe in the reality of creating a union state between Russia and Belarus has decreased from 13% to 6%.

In the Sverdlovsk region, the bodies of all 15 girls were identified whose corpses were found in the mass grave in the region. According to Oleg Ponasenko, deputy prosecutor of the Sverdlovsk region at a press conference in Yekaterinburg on Monday, 13 of the 15 killed girls were residents of the Sverdlovsk region and were listed, two more victims were nonresident. As the investigation established, some girls were strangled, other victims died from strong blows on the head.

In Iraq, terrorist attacks, shelling and attacks do not stop, whose victims of at least 47 people became victims, more than 100 people were injured. 33 people died and about 100 were injured as a result of terrorist attacks in Baghdad and its environs. According to local police, explosive devices were laid in cars, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the French media.

Danish entrepreneur, owner of Megafon, Sky Linka and other Russian telecommunication companies, Jeffrey Galmond, fell into a scandal. He was arrested for a brawl arranged by him in an expensive hotel in New York, where he met Christmas, CNews reports. The Danish newspaper Borsen became known scandalous details of this incident. At the end of 2006, he returned from the Bermuda Islands, where litigation with his participation took place and stopped at Christmas in New York.

Senators may be obliged to take the oath to the Constitution. The corresponding bill was submitted to the State Duma by several representatives of the Federation Council (SF), led by Speaker Sergei Mironov. Thus, the authors expect to increase the personal responsibility of lawmakers and strengthen discipline.

Maria Sharapova continues to hold first place in the ranking of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) according to the results of 52 weeks. Sharapova has 3978 points. In second place is Justine Enen-Ardenne, who recently arranged a divorce and ready to conquer new sports peaks. Last week, Sharapova took part in a tennis tournament in Tokyo.

In northern Germany, in the city of Zittensen, located south of Hamburg, in a Chinese restaurant, six corpses were discovered on Monday night - three men and three women. Some of the dead were connected before his death. According to the police, a 47-year-old man found the corpses who came to a restaurant called Lin Yue to pick up his wife from there. The woman was also among the dead. The corpses of the victims of unknown criminals lay in several rooms in the restaurant building.

The court decision in Switzerland puts mental disorders on one step with severe physical ailments: the country's highest court - the federal tribunal allowed people suffering from severe mental illnesses to achieve the right to euthanasia. Euthanasia in this country has been resolved for several years now, to persons suffering from incurable diseases involving a fatal outcome.