More than 150 defenders of animal rights from Anima Naturalis on Sunday, January 27, held a protest against the fur industry in Barcelona, ​​Newsru Israel reports. “Animals need their fur, and we can do without it,” they announced. This sounded especially expressively, given the cool weather - 13-14 degrees of heat. Despite this, the activists divided the donag and lay on the sidewalk, dousing with red paint.

The special representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry in the Balkans, Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, is pessimistically evaluates the chances of resuming the negotiation process on the status of Kosovo. “The chance to resume the negotiation process in some form, although it remains, but, as mathematicians say, he strives for zero every day,” he said on Monday at an expanded meeting of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs.

In the Amur region, the policeman shot a teenager who, along with his friend, tried to climb into a strange house. In the Amur Region in the city of Shimanovsk, a police officer shot a 17-year-old teenager who tried to illegally climb into someone else's dwelling, reports the "region of the DV" with reference to the press service of the regional Internal Affairs Directorate.

As part of the March Auto Show in Geneva, the Italian company Fiat will introduce an open version of its popular car?- The sensational model 500, which managed to get a lot of various awards in a fairly short time and, in addition, win the European Car of the Year title. The machine will be equipped with a folding soft roof.

The Russians began to drink technical alcohol and cologne less, so the mortality of the population from alcohol poisoning in Russia over the past two years has decreased almost half. Such data are given by the National Alcohol Association (NAA), assuring that the population in most of it gets used to drinking cheap, but still legal products, the newspaper "News Time" writes.

In St. Petersburg, a trial began on the serial killer of Voronenko, who raped five people. Meetings are held closed. In the City Court of St. Petersburg, hearings began in the case of a native of Ukraine Dmitry Voronenko. The process takes place without jury, reports Interfax with reference to a source in court. Recall that Voronenko is charged with five criminal episodes that stirred the Northern capital.

Without a “newspaper hype” they met in Israel the fifth anniversary of the re -election of Ariel Sharon to the premier post. The author of the Steaming Program, which evacuated Jewish settlements and army bases from the Gaza Strip, the hero of the Arab-Israeli wars, the builder of the Wall of Security, whose portrait invariably occupied the first lanes of Israeli newspapers, is now quietly fading away in the Shiba rehabilitation center at the Tel Ha-Shomer clinic, ITAR-TASS notes.

Motorola lost second place in the world mobile phone market of Korean Samsung. However, Samsung top managers should not relax-the company is still more than 2 times behind the Finnish Nokia. In the battle for second place in the world mobile phones market, a decisive factor will be whether Motorola will be able to repeat the success of the RAZR line, the newspaper RBC Daily writes.

On January 28, the Paris prosecutor’s office decided to initiate a criminal case “On the use of False Documents” and “Introduction to the automated information data system”. The charges are made against an employee of the Societe Generale Bank Jerome Kervel, who is suspected of embezzlement of 4.9 billion euros. The decision of the prosecutor’s office was announced by the prosecutor of the Republic of Jean-Claude Maren.

More than 20 thousand cars due to ice fell into a huge "traffic jam" on the Beijing -Zhuhai highway in the area of ​​the Central Chinese Chunan province, local media reported. As a result, about 60 thousand passengers and drivers were blocked on the highway. The situation is aggravated by the fact that all other high-speed roads of the provinces are closed due to snow drifts and ice. All drivers were forced to use the only highway, Interfax reports.

In recent days, players of the Russian stock market continue to record the collapse of quotes. The RTS index from 01/14/2008 to 01/23/2008 fell from 2339 to 1890 points. That is, its value dropped by about 19.2%. Many people in connection with this ask the question: how will the real estate market behave? Undoubtedly, when it comes to a systemic economic crisis, the real estate market will certainly respond to a general financial situation in the country.

The election headquarters of the presidential candidate Dmitry Medvedev informed that the First Deputy Prime Minister decided not to participate in the pre-election television battles. The official reason is high workload in the government.

Parties "The People for Democracy and Justice", which is created by the ex-prime minister of Russia, the leader of the Russian People's Democratic Union Mikhail Kasyanov, not allowed to the elections , was refused registration. This was announced on Monday by the chairman of the Executive Committee of the Party "People for Democracy and Justice" Alexander Polinkin, Interfax reports. “Today we called the Federal Registration Service and asked about our registration.

On Monday, the funeral of the ex-president of Indonesia Suharto took place, who died at the age of 86 the day before, BBC reports. In the morning, the body of the ex-president was transported from the capital of Indonesia Jakarta to the burial place in Solo (Java). At the farewell ceremony was attended by the President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono with his wife.

Brothers Joel and Ethan Cohen received the highest award of the Guild of US directors for the Black Western "There is no place for the old people." The holders of this prestigious award were announced in Los Angeles during a closed ceremony, which, by tradition, was not even broadcast on television, ITAR-TASS reports. The receipt of the prestigious guild of directors significantly increases their chances of Oscar by the results of 2007.