Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is ready to conduct a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this weekend or on Monday, January 26, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrei Nesterenko told reporters, commenting on the State Department that Clinton could not get through to Lavrov.

Psychologists have confirmed the reason why radio stations translating retro-music and hits of the past are so popular all over the world. According to Washington Profile , researchers from the University of Kansas established that old hits contribute to the awakening of memories. In order to resurrect the past, it is enough for a person to just think about some song that is associated with a certain period of his life in his mind.

The first lady of the United States Michelle Obama acted through her press service with condemning the decision of the famous American toy company, which began to sell dolls with the names of the U.S. President. “We consider it inappropriate to use the names of private citizens for marketing,” the US press service of the first Lady of the United States said in Washington.

Residents of the village of Naumovka, Belgorod district, were left without water supply: the attackers cut off the water tower with a capacity of 15 cubic meters to pass on scrap metal, the regional press service told Interfax . “As it turned out, having cut off the tower, which supplied the entire settlement with water, the criminals with a tractor dragged her behind the village, where they cut into parts with the help of a welding machine,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

RFU President Vitaliy Mutko at the ceremony of bronze medals to the players of Moscow Dynamo promised that soon a large international tournament will be held in Russia - the European or Peace Championship.

The goalkeeper of Juventus Gianluje Bufffon admitted that he would have decided to leave the club if they had offered an equally fantastic amount for his transfer as for Milan's midfielder Kaka. “The story of Kaku to Manchester City was more like a theatrical performance. If such serious clubs as Juventus, Milan or Inter are going to make a deal, then they are not talking aloud before all the subtleties are settled,” the world-2006 champion “Sport-Express” reports.

The most difficult stage in the construction of the interchange at the Sokol metro station - builders are preparing for the passage of the tunnel under the highway and the current metro line, Alexander Levchenko, head of the Department of Road -Mostoma and Engineering Construction, told RIA Novosti . "Difficulties are just beginning - the penetration under the existing road tunnel of the Leningrad direction. This is a complex object that needed to be examined in the most thorough way.

As reported by Newsru.com, law enforcement agencies of the Tver region detained a man who is a member of the Russian National Unity ultranationalistic organization and is suspected of two murders for racist reasons. It was reported that the police detained a member of the Patriotic group "Russian National Unity" (RNE) of a 24-year-old local resident Anton Tabachkov.

The operation on aorticronary bypass, which was urgently required by the Prime Minister of India Manmokhan Singhu, was successful. As officially reported in a common medical ballot, the head of the Indian government is in a "stable state". According to preliminary data, around the day it will be in the intensive care unit on the artificial ventilation of the lungs.

Two girls of five and two years died in a fire in Perm on the night of Saturday, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia in the Perm Territory reports on Saturday. "On Friday after 20:00, the residents of one of the apartments of a 5-storey building, located on Gagarin Boulevard, felt the smell of smoke. In the process of bypassing the entrance, they found that the smell of smoke spreads from a one-room apartment on the 4th floor.

The total number of unemployed citizens of Russia is 6 million people. This was announced by the head of the Federal Service for Labor and Employment, Yuri Gerzius. In an interview with the Echo of Moscow radio station, he explained that such an assessment was given "by the method of international labor organization" and includes not only registered unemployed.

US President Barack Obama signed a decree that cancel the action of a similar document George Bush, according to which the ban on the provision of Washington of the State Military House to those foreign organizations that either practice or act in support of abortion was imposed, ITAR-TASS reports. Thus, the process of revising the decisions adopted by the previous government is gaining momentum.

American military personnel shot the Iraqi married couple today, heavily injuring their 8-year-old daughter. According to the police, the incident occurred in the Kirkuk region in the north of the country, where the US troops, together with the Iraqi armed forces, conduct an anti -terrorist operation. The American command recognized the fact of the death of Iraqz and his wife.

Law enforcement agencies in Ingushetia opened a criminal case on the provision of armed resistance to two local residents when trying to detain them in Nazran during a special operation. The case was opened under Article 317 (attempted life of an employee of a law enforcement authority) and part 2 of Article 222 (illegal turnover of weapons and ammunition) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, a representative of law enforcement agencies of the republic told Interfax .

Several people, including the child, were bitten by wolves in the village of Pirosmani DedeopliStskarai district in the Kakheti region in Georgia. According to Saturday, the information center of the Kakheti region, over the past few days, a flock of wolves has arranged several attacks on the village, as a result of which several people, including the child, were bitten.