The global financial crisis hit the Japanese company Sony. According to the Finmarket agency with reference to The Financial Times, the Sony shares fell by 8% at Tokyo Trading after local media reported that the company's operating losses in the current Fingod, which would be completed in March, will amount to 100 billion yen ($ 1.1 billion).

In 2009, the state budget deficit may exceed the planned indicator and amount to 650 billion yuan ($ 95.6 billion), the Finmarket reports with reference to the Diya Tsayskin Zhibao newspaper.

The head coach of St. Petersburg Zenit Dick Lawyer took second place in the ranking of the best club coaches of the world of 2008 according to the International Federation of History and Statistics Football (̇ffHs).

The Prosecutor's Office of Tatarstan opened criminal cases against local nationalists who published an appeal to the UN on the Internet, which announced the illegitimacy of the forcibly inclusion of Tataria in the Russian Federation. Now they are accused of inciting national enmity.

The driver’s licenses can begin to be given to the Russians at the end of 2009, the head of the traffic police of the Russian Federation Viktor Kiryanov told ITAR-TASS . He noted that a new example of a driver’s license with new categories and subcateurories has already been developed. The deadline for the introduction of new rights depends on how quickly the corresponding changes to the legislation are made.

The most popular search engine among Internet users in the United States remains Google. This, according to the Computer , follows from Hitwise released by the results of analysis of the American search engines in December 2008. Last month, Google accounted for 72.1% of the total market volume. For comparison, a year earlier, the company controlled 65.9% of the corresponding segment.

On Wednesday, the verdict of Tomsk Georgy Romanchenko entered into force, who was found guilty of extremism in December.

The director of the Italian football club "Milan" Adriano Galliani met with representatives of the English "Manchester City" to discuss the future of the midfielder Milan, Kak. Information about this, according to Reuters , confirmed on Wednesday the Italian club. “Galliani adopted the Manchester City delegation in Milan. It was a manifestation of politeness, as always in such cases. Negotiations on the transition of Kak are currently not underway,” the Milan statement said.

In the Crimea in the Belogorsky district on Thursday morning there was an accident of a regular bus, as a result of which eight people were injured, including five Ukrainian citizens, two Russians and one citizen of Uzbekistan.

The Russian Football Championship in 2009 will be shown only Channel One and NTV-Plus. Not a single all-Russian television channel submitted a tender, which announced the NTV-Plus television company. “Yesterday (January 14), the deadline for filing applications has expired, and today we can state that not a single television channel has submitted applications,” Anastasia Kazakova, head of the NTV-Plus press service, told RIA Novosti .

Despite the different points of view existing in society, Russians understand that “in those troubled times a great atrocity was committed,” said the head of the Yekaterinburg diocese. “The criminals raised their hands against God’s anointed, the emperor and commander-in-chief (of the troops) of our country,” explained Archbishop Vincent.

In the Oryol region, an employee of the local drug control department was arrested, who brutally beat his colleague. Beaters were inflicted right in the building of the department for control of drug trafficking.

Ukraine still refuses to ensure the transit of Russian gas to Europe, referring to the lack of a technical agreement on the conditions for the delivery and acceptance of gas at the border GIS in 2009, the Gazprom said . As noted in the message, on Thursday, at 02:00 Moscow time, the United Dispatch Administration Naftogaz of Ukraine was aimed at the next application for transit 99.2 million cubic meters of gas per day from 10:00 through the GIS "Suda".

In the Paris suburb of Vilnev-Sen-Jorge, the attackers threw bottles with an incendiary mixture of the local synagogue today. The building caused material damage. Firefighters arrived at the scene of the incident, the police are investigating in this case, ITAR-TASS reports. The largest Jewish and Muslim communities in France live in France.

In the Kirov region on Thursday, Governor Nikita Belykh, a former leader of the Union of Right Forces, is taking office. "The solemn meeting of deputies of the regional legislative assembly will be held in the Kirov Regional Drama Theater," the information and analytical department of the Legislative Assembly said.