Amendments to the law "On narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances" introduced by the Astrakhan Regional Duma were transferred to the State Duma Committee on Health. The authors of the bill proposed allowed to hospitalize and isolate chronic alcoholics and drug addicts without a court decision, their consent and without the permission of their legal representatives. The only basis for forced treatment will be a systematic violation of public order, ”writes the newspaper New Izvestia .

The elected president of South Korea is ready to meet with the DPRK head Kim Jong Ir at any time if such an intercorean summit helps to eliminate the programs for the creation of nuclear weapons by Pyongyan. Whether Men Buck announced this at a press conference in Seoul. “The leaders of the two Kores can meet at any time if such negotiations are beneficial in the denuclearization of the North. However, the next summit should take place in Seoul,” Lee Men Buck emphasized.

A special group investing in bribery and bribery, searched on January 14 the house and personal office of the head of the South Korean Corporation Samsung Lee Kan-hee. The searches were also subjected to other large managers of the company. The prosecutor's office took from everyone a recognizance not to leave.

According to the latest data, the number of those killed with a terrorist attack in the largest Pakistani city of Karachi in the south of the country increased to 12 people, more than 60 were injured, local private television channels report with reference to sources in the city’s hospitals. At the same time, the authorities so far talk about 10 dead and about 40 wounded. According to local media, there are children among the dead and victims.

In the Tyumen region, a gang of raiders is neutralized, who made a daring robbery on a mental hospital. The leader of the group was a police officer. Currently, four under investigation is charged for committing a number of robberies in the south of the Tyumen region, the Internet newspaper "Oilso.ru" reports with reference to the management of the Investigative Committee under the regional prosecutor's office.

The African Republic of Malawi breaks the diplomatic relations with Taiwan and officially establishes them with the People’s Republic of China, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to a senior source in the Malawian government. Thus, the number of countries recognizing the sovereignty of Taiwan island decreased to 23. As the local seal previously reported, Malawi sent two ministers to Beijing to conduct the appropriate negotiations.

After a long break, the world-famous film actor and theater Jean-Paul Belmondo again appeared before the movie camera. His next role is an elderly and lone professor in the Rome of the film Wittorio de Sica of the 50s "Man and his Dog", ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the French media. Belmondo, who in 2001, had a stroke , immobilized the right half of his body, said in connection with the filming that began: "I want to star as it really is.

About 500 people remained in the village of Antal in the north of the Irkutsk region as a result of an accident in the boiler room without heat. The accident occurred the night before - the water valves and the pump of a local boiler room, which serves a microdistrict of 20 residential buildings, failed.

The world famous tenor Sergey Larin passed away. The Russian, who was constantly living in Bratislava and who was the leading soloist of the Slovak National Theater, died, not having lived until 52 years old. According to the Ministry of Culture of the Republic, the tenor fought a serious illness for a long time, ITAR-TASS reports. Sergei Larin became famous, first of all, as a performer of classic arias in French and Italian romantic operas.

The auction for the right to build two new Lipetsk microdistricts Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant (NLMK) won last Thursday, the press service of the city hall said. The starting value of the site was 169 million rubles. Applications were submitted by two participants: NLMK and LLC Megapolis (Volgograd). The winner offered 187 million rubles for the lot. This is written by "Vedomosti" .

Member of the Political Council of the "Young Guard" - the Youth Movement of the United Russia party (Mger) - Alexei Radov wrote a statement about the exit from the movement and called on other young guards to follow his example, reports "New Region" .

About three hundred volumes with statements from the residents of Ingushetia were delivered to Moscow, who, as part of the "I did not vote," confirmed that they did not participate in the parliamentary elections on December 2, 2007. Recall that the organizers of this action through the Prosecutor General’s Office strive to prove that not 98% of voters came to the elections, as they say in the local election commission.

RF President Vladimir Putin at a working meeting with Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika last Friday supported the reforms prepared at the initiative of the Prosecutor General, according to which about 60% of the criminal cases investigated by the Investigative Committee under the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation should go into the investigation of the inquiry bodies supervised by the prosecutor's office.

Hitachi can unite with Fujitsu and Toshiba, creating a joint enterprise for the production of "hard drives". The union is forced, since Hitachi does not want to sell a package of its shares to competitors or foreign (not Japanese) investors, Zdnet Asia reports. The Hitachi Global Storage Technologies unit can be sold to Silver Lake, which is known for its links with Seagate, the largest competitor to Hitachi.

A girl from Uzbekistan, for the sake of which the British ambassador Craig Murray threw his wife and two children a few years ago, now moved with him to London. She wrote an exciting autobiographical play and performs it at the local theater. The Daily Telegraph tells an unusual story. Nadira Aliyeva does not hide that love in this whole story had nothing to do with it: the connection with Murray was the easiest way to get out of Uzbekistan. “It was the fastest way to get out of there.