Leading manufacturers and food merchants agreed to extend the moratorium for another three months to increase prices for the main types of food, which expired on February 1, 2008. The relevant agreement was reached at their meeting with the Minister of Agriculture Alexei Gordeev. It is clear that the “defrosting” of prices for products, from which the least socially protected Russians would suffer from the presidential elections scheduled for March 2, could not be allowed, the “news time” notes.

In St. Petersburg, the police detained a young man suspected of a series of rape of children. The criminal went home, looking for single children and introducing himself as a postman. Employees of the criminal investigation department detained a 19-year-old student of the Oceanology Department of the Russian Hydrometeorological University. However, the police believe that before them is none other than the postman, reports Fontanka.ru .

Modern machines have a real birthday today: exactly 122 years ago, on January 29, 1886, the famous German inventor Karl Benz received a patent for the world's first gasoline car. This was reported by the UNIAN agency. That machine was a three -wheeled double crew on high disputed wheels. As a power unit, Benz installed on it a four -stroke gasoline engine with water cooling with a capacity of 0.9 hp.

The Russian Orthodox Church won the first victory in the struggle on the implementation of the subject "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" in the school curriculum for more than six years.

Researchers in the UK and the USA studied the "relative cheerfulness" of people, interviewing about 2 million people in 80 countries. As a result, as The Times writes, it turned out that a middle -aged crisis is inevitable. The feeling of well-being has a U-shaped route in our life, with peaks at the beginning and end of life and a fall in the middle. For example, in the UK, the age when people feel the least happy is 40 years for women and 50 for men. (Full text on the website inoressa.ru .).

The manager of the affairs of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk Clement, criticized the tradition of celebrating the Day of all lovers in Russia, or Valentine's Day, which is on February 14. “For some reason, human rights activists do not oppose this, but they could,” the Interfax-religion quotes Metropolitan Clement’s performance at today's plenary meeting of the 16th Christmas readings in Moscow. The ideology of St.

{pic_1 c} Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) officially brought to the market its fastest video adapter. The novelty is called Ati Radeon HD 3870 X2. As is clear from the name of the card, it consists of two ATI Radeon HD 3870, connected together through the Crossfire interface. Moreover, theoretically, two such cards, that is, four chips HD 3870, can be installed on one computer.

The operational group to investigate the circumstances that could lead the top manager of VTB Oleg Zhukovsky to suicide finally determined the main factor that could cause his death. According to investigators, Oleg Zhukovsky committed suicide due to the fact that VTB did not extend the contract with him, writes "Your Day" . The death of a 55-year-old banker attracted the attention of the public primarily the loud name of the bank and the strange circumstances of the death of the banker.

Telecommunication companies of the EU countries are not obliged to inform the names and addresses of people suspected of illegal copying of musical works on the Internet. It is reported by ITAR-TASS. Such a verdict was issued by the European Court. His resolution says that "the EU legislation does not require from the governments of countries that are part of the Union to protect copyright" in a similar way.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, meeting on Tuesday in Minsk with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov, said that he was “very satisfied” with the way the allied relations with Russia have been developing recently. “For the worse, our relationship has not changed recently, but on the contrary, we have straightened out unnecessary moments that existed primarily in the economy.

The Italian oil and gas company ENI found a gas field in the Norwegian Sea. According to the Norwegian branch of the company today, gas and condensate deposits were found on the Marulk section on the Norwegian continental shelf and are estimated at about 12-19 billion cubic meters of gas. ENI is the operator of this site and it belongs to the 20% share of Marulk, 50% belong to the Norwegian Statoilhidro, and another 30% - Dong E&P Norge.

There are rumors in the European offices that, after a scandal with the British Council, London intends to generally slow down the development of a new agreement between the Russian Federation and the EU. This was announced by the deputy chairman of the International State Duma Committee, chairman of the subcommittee for European cooperation Andrei Klimov. "But Russia will not sign any agreements that are beneficial to the European Union, but are dangerous for us," Klimov said to Vedomosti .

The Chita Regional Court in the afternoon will continue to consider the request of the Investigative Committee under the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation on the extension of the ex-head of the MFI Menatep Platon Lebedev, the term of detention in the Chita pre-trial detention center. At the meeting on January 28, the regional court took a break after the defense of the defense of electing Lebedev of any preventive measure not related to the detention.

In Turkey, a ban on wearing a Muslim scarf (charshaf) in higher educational institutions will soon be able to abolish. The corresponding amendments to the law on higher education introduced the ruling party of justice and development (PSR) to the Turkish parliament. Having enlisted the support of the ultra -right party of the nationalist movement, the PSR achieved the support of the bill by a majority (348) of parliamentary deputies.

In Kyiv, on Solominskaya Street, the Volkswagen car nearly collided with the "Lada" suddenly jumped into the oncoming lane. The driver of a foreign car, in order to avoid an accident, sharply changed the direction of movement, but lost control: the car flew to the sidewalk directly to the telephone booth in which the person was. From the blow, a man who spoke at that moment on the phone flew on the pavement.