Kaliningrad distillery of used foreign cars practically stopped importing cars from Western Europe and the USA to the region. This was announced by Interfax by the representative of the Kaliningrad Regional Customs (Cat). "At present, the import of used foreign cars from abroad is actually not. Such a picture has been observed from January 12, when new, increased duties for customs clearance of imported vehicles were introduced," the agency’s interlocutor on Tuesday said.

According to the "Analytical Consulting Center Miel", the average specific price of the proposal of suburban households of the Moscow Region in the 4th quarter of 2008 amounted to 76.3 thousand rubles per square meter. meter, reports the site rokf.ru. Regarding the previous quarter, the price rose by 8.1%. In dollars equivalent, the price of supply of suburban housing, on the contrary, rolled away by 4.5% and was marked at the level of $ 2790.1 per "square".

Russian Mikhail Yuzhny completed his speech at the open championship of Australia on tennis. In the match of the first round, he could not overcome the resistance of the Austrian Stefan Kubeck, losing in three sets with a score of 3: 6, 2: 6, 2: 6. Thus, the southern one, last season, reached the Australian Open to the quarterfinals, could not protect the rating points earned earlier and will now lose its position in the ATP rating list.

The dollar exchange rate to the ruble on Tuesday increased by about 50 kopecks and reached the maximum level in the entire history of trading at the MICEX - 33.4 rubles per dollar. At the same time, the euro to the ruble to the ruble decreased by almost 50 kopecks to 43.3 rubles against the backdrop of a significant weakening of a single currency in relation to the dollar in the international Forex market, ITAR-TASS reports.

Barack Obama is offered as a 44th president of the United States. This happened around 20:00 on Tuesday Moscow time. After taking office, the president made an inaugural speech , in which he addressed not only the inhabitants of the United States, but the whole world. The presidential oath of Obama was accepted by the chairman of the US Supreme Court, John Roberts. Obama is the first in the history of the United States African American to become the president of the United States.

The US secret service, responsible for the protection of the American leader, intends to accept unprecedented security measures during the current inauguration of the new President of Barack Obama. More than 40 thousand people will protect guests. For the inauguration, a new armored presidential limousine was specially made and 5 tons of four -layer bulletproof glass were purchased.

In a number of areas of Siberia, severe frosts are expected in the next two days - from 40 to 50 degrees. In this regard, weather forecasters transferred a storm warning for the southern regions of Western Siberia. According to RIA Novosti on Tuesday, a press secretary of the West Siberian Hydrometeorological Center Renad Yagudin, the temperature began to decrease at the end of last week, and the peak of cold weather will have to be on Wednesday and Thursday.

The ex-coach of the London "Chelsea" Avram Grant held negotiations with the Bulgarian Football Union (BFU), which affected his possible appointment to the post of head coach of the Bulgarian national team. However, according to Reuters , due to the high demands of the salary grant, his candidacy, most likely, will not be accepted.

The results of the latest surveys confirm: fewer Russians believe that Lenin’s body should remain in the mausoleum. So, if in 2005 30% of respondents expressed such an opinion, then at the end of 2008 there were already 25% of such supporters, VTsIOM studies show. In general, two -thirds of Russians advocate the land of the leader of the leader of the world proletariat.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation intends to tighten punishments for drivers who arbitrarily leave the scene of an accident and try to prove their innocence with fraudulent schemes, Russian Newspaper reports with reference to employees of the Main Investigation Department of Moscow. According to police investigators, some criminal norms allow the culprits of accidents and disasters not only to receive an unreasonably soft punishment, but also to evade responsibility.

In the American state of Massachusetts there is a trial of a school teacher, who is accused of sexual violence against a minor. According to the prosecution, the married woman was literally obsessed with a passion for a teenager and raped him more than 300 times. In the dock, 29-year-old Christina McCallum from the city of Boston was in the dock. Her criminal regular sex life with a child lasted for 19 months.

On Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held negotiations with his South Ossetian colleague Murat Gioev. The parties ratified the treaty, cooperation and mutual assistance, concluded in 2008, and also signed a memorandum according to which Russia will represent the interests of South Ossetia in international organizations and in other countries. Soon, Russia and South Ossetia will sign about 20 agreements, the Russian Foreign Minister said.

The elected US President Barack Obama proposed to the elected vice president Joseph Biden at one time to take one of two posts in his future administration: vice president or Secretary of State. This was said by Biden Jill's wife, when the couple took part in the record of the current show of the famous TV presenter Winfrey in the capital's Kennedy Center.

In connection with the economic crisis, Russian psychiatrists expect an increase in the number of alcoholic psychoses, but they hope that this time there will not be an increase in the number of suicides. To date, “we can’t say that we have an increase in suicides,” said Tatyana Dmitrieva, director of the Scientific and Judicial Psychiatry Center for Social and Judicial Psychiatry on Tuesday. Nevertheless, statistics on suicide in Russia are extremely alarming, experts say.

The President of the ONEXIM investment fund Mikhail Prokhorov won the case against The Moscow Times. According to the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court, the publication must refute the previously published information about the entrepreneur. Now the ninth arbitration court has confirmed the legality of this decision. Recall that in The Moscow Times on June 11, 2008, an interview with former business partner Prokhorov Vladimir Potanin was published.