The "consonant march" was held today in St. Petersburg. About 40 people took part in the action, reports the Fontanka.ru online publication. At the end of the march, three were taken to the police department. "We agree to everything!" - With such a slogan, the march participants went to Sunday. She took place on Vasilyevsky Island, not far from the city center. However, this venue for the action cannot be called crowded.

Sri-Lanka’s army units made their way today with battles in the city of Mullaitiv-the last bastion of the Tamil separatists in the northeast of the island. As the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of Kehelia Rambukwell told reporters in the capital of the country of Colombo, the advancing advanced detachments of the 59th division were able to break the resistance of the militants from the Tiger Liberation group Tamil Ilam (Toti) and enter the city.

The leader of the Biathlon World Cup, Russian woman Ekaterina Yuryeva, became the winner of the race from the general start at the stage of the World Cup in the Italian Antholts. At the very beginning of the race, nothing portended a victory for the Russian woman. The German Magdalena Neiner, which added excellent shooting to a great run, famously accelerated from the start of the German.

British peers suspected of “correcting” the law for a material reward. The shadow of such a suspicion, in particular, fell on four members of the House of Lords, who, undercover, journalists of the British newspaper Sunday Times proposed amending the law in exchange for the payment of “commission” in the total amount of about 120 thousand pounds (180 thousand dollars).

The goalkeeper "Cologne" Fried Mondragon is ready to abandon his salary until the end of this season, if it helps the team to purchase Lucas in the Munich Bavaria this winter. “It would be great if he has been subsidiary already in the winter. If the team does not have enough money for this, then I am ready to refuse to play for free by the end of the season,” Sovetsky Sports reports the words of the noble Mondragon.

Rumors about the sick among the crew members of the Faina vessel are not true. This was announced today by the editor -in -chief of the Internet publication "Marine Bulletin - Council" Mikhail Voitenko after a conversation with a relative of one of the sailors who called home on Saturday. “He said that the state of health of the crew is satisfactory,” said Voitenko.

Russian strikers Alexander Ovechkin (Washington) and Evgeny Malkin (Pittsburgh) were among the winners of skill contests, traditionally conducted on the eve of the "match of all stars" of the NHL. The best player of the league last season Ovechkin for the second year in a row became the winner of one of the most spectacular views of the program of the first day of the Star Wick End - a competition for the most beautiful throw.

The demand of Russians for the most expensive hotels in the English capital is growing, despite the crisis, experts say. According to Anton Borshchev, general representative of the Mandarin Oriental hotel group, Anton Borshchev, wealthy clients do not limit themselves to visits to the British capital and do not regret money for their rest. "The wealthy Russians do not cancel their private trips to the UK.

At the village of Gvelety, the Kazbeg district, located a few kilometers from the North Ossetian section of the Georgian-Russian border, an accident at the gas-measuring station of the main gas pipeline occurred tonight, according to which Russian gas is entered in Georgia for its transit to Armenia. " This was reported today by representatives of the gas and oil corporation of Georgia.

French trade unions called for a general strike on the upcoming Thursday, January 29. According to a public opinion survey published today by the Parisien newspaper, almost 70 percent of the citizens of the republic speak in support of this initiative. It is expected that representatives of all sectors will join the protest - workers, transporters, doctors, teachers, airline employees and even a number of Paris Exchange operators.

A storm warning was announced in North Ossetia in connection with the strengthening of the South Wind, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the Republican Department of the Ministry of Emergencies. "Forecasters warned of the expected strengthening of the Southern Fen Wind on Sunday up to 20-25 meters per second, which could lead to emergency situations associated with damage to power lines and communications," the press service said.

In the Khasan municipal district of the Primorsky Territory, a car collided with a bus transporting tourists, a source in law enforcement agencies said on Sunday. "On the 85th km of the road, Razdolnoye-Hasan, a soldier, following the Mitsubishi car, drove into the oncoming lane and collided with the Toyota bus, transporting a group of tourists in the amount of 17 people," the agency’s interlocutor said.

The most powerful snowfall fell on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands this morning. The bad weather was generated by a series of new nascent cyclones. The island hydrometeorological center said that it would be “shallow” cyclones, with heavy snowfalls, but without wind. In connection with the weather, flights of aircraft to the southern Kurils were canceled, here I had to close the airports of the Islands of Iturup and Kunashir. In other directions from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, planes fly as usual.

The exact blow of the Russian striker Roman Pavlyuchenko did not help Tottenham cope with Manchester United in the 1/16 finals of the England Cup in football. The beginning of the match at Old Trafford surprised all the fans of Manchester United: already in the 5th minute, Pavlyuchenko put the ball into the goal of the hosts with a spectacular blow to the fall - 0: 1. However, the guests failed to develop quick success.

The eldest son of the ruler of North Korea Kim Jong Ira said that he has no interest in the inheritance of his father’s power, according to the South Korean agency Renhap. “Nobody can say anything for sure, and only the father will decide everything,” Kim Jong told reporters in Beijing. Kim Jong Ir, according to rumors, suffered a stroke, and this makes observers ask the question of who will replace the North Korean leader.