The General Director of the Russian Phonographic Association (RFA) Vadim Botnaryuk, on whom the attack was committed in Moscow, died in the Botkin hospital from the injuries, the association said. The farewell ceremony will be held on Tuesday, January 22, at 13.00 in the ceremonial hall number 1 of the Troekurovsky cemetery, RFA notes.

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With clamped ice of small vessels in the Okhotsk Sea, the MI-8 EMERCOM helicopter took 6 out of 14 people. This was announced by ITAR-TASS by the head of the Vladivostok naval rescue and coordination center Konstantin Sviridov, noting that the remaining 8 people refused the evacuation. According to him, 100 kg of products remained on the ship from the helicopter. The weather in the district incident is quiet. The thickness of the ice is 1 meter.

On Chukotka, rescuers found all three teenagers who got lost during a snowstorm. This was announced by ITAR-TASS by the head of the Main Directorate of the Russian Emergencies Ministry for the Chukotsk Autonomous Okrug Mikhail Zivilev. By 00:30 January 21 by local time (15:30 January 20 to Moscow), one of the missing - a 12 -year -old teenager - was found. At 09:30 (00:30 Moscow time), the rescue group discovered the second missing, and an hour later and the third teenager.

All over Serbia on Sunday morning, polling stations opened. Nine people claim the presidency of the country. As expected, the main struggle will unfold between the two candidates - the current President Boris Tadich and the deputy chairman of the Serbian Radical Party, Tomislav Nikolich, Interfax reports. Experts note that in the current elections, residents of Serbia will have to choose not only the president, but also the path of development of the country.

In the capital of Somalia, an attempt on the prime minister of the country Nur Hassan Khussein was made today. According to the officials who arrived with the prime minister in Mogadish, the Islamists fired at the Presidential Palace from the mortar, in which Nur Hassan Khussein stopped for the duration of his first visit to the capital. “We heard at least five volleys from a mortar, but not one of the mines reached its goal,” officials noted. Nothing has been reported about possible victims.

The head of the RAO "UES of Russia" Anatoly Chubais assesses the situation with the energy security of Siberia, where strong frosts have been established in recent days, as a stable, Interfax reports. “We track the situation in this region daily,” he emphasized, answering the question of journalists. “I can say that the modes are reliable there,” he assured.

In Makhachkala on Dagestan Street there is flooding houses with wastewater, reports Echo of Moscow . Snow melts, which fell on the frosty days of the first decade of January. Complaints to the duty unit of the regional center of the Ministry of Emergencies came from two houses number 18 and 20. The Gorvodokanal team left for the place. The gateways open, one of the collectors for draining the accumulated water is cleaned. The case did not come to the evacuation of residents.

RFU President Vitaly Mutko expressed his attitude to whether Andrei Arshavin should leave Zenit to Euro 2008 and whether it is worth taking the Russian national team for the European Championship. "Probably, Andrei himself will probably answer the first question. I do not know his sensations. Does he have internal motivation? Of course, it is important that he passed the preparatory cycle with Zenit. They hear an interview with Benitsa?

Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Sheremetyevo’s capital’s capital's airports on the night of Saturday to Sunday worked as a regular mode, despite the strong snowfall in Moscow, the representative of the Central Dispatch Service (CDS) of Moscow said on Sunday of RIA Novosti . "At night, all airports worked as usual, without restrictions and delays. All ups and landings were carried out on the schedule, without failures.

The united Georgian opposition completed a rally at the Tbilisi Hippodrome in protest against the inauguration of President Mikhail Saakashvili, RIA Novosti reports. “We never recognize Saakashvili our president and continue our political struggle. The people who came to the rally today showed the whole world that Saakashvili is not their president,” one of the members of the opposition association Giorgi Tsagareishvili told reporters. About 10 thousand people attended the rally.

The rating of Nicolas Sarkozy for the first time after his election by the President of France sank below the 50 percent mark. According to the results of a public opinion poll, which are published today by the Journal du Dimanche , 47 percent of the French gave a positive assessment of the activities of the head of state.

A large batch of explosives was given to police officers of the ITUM-Kalinsky district of Chechnya. "A resident of the village of Kokada, Itum -Kalinsky district, issued 163 kg of TNT to policemen, " a source in law enforcement on Sunday told Interfax . He noted that a check is carried out on this fact.

Mikhail Saakashvili, elected by President of Georgia, took the oath of allegiance to the country's constitution.

At the Australian opening championship, Russian tennis player Mikhail Yuzhny outplayed with a score of 7: 6, 6: 3, 6: 1 of his compatriot Nikolai Davydenko and went to the next stage of the large helmet tournament. An interesting struggle in this match was only in the starting set. Davydenko owned the initiative, but at the same time making many mistakes. Such a specificity of the dispute led to a tie-break, where South did not leave Nikolai any chances-7: 2.