The Governor of the Orenburg Region Alexei Chernyshev instructed the regional Minister of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism Valery Fedorov to conduct a thorough An official investigation of the incident in Orenburg at the Authoring Avtoring Autodrom during winter track races where a person died. On January 25, a racer on a VAZ car flew into the stands filled with viewers. As a result, a 70-year-old pensioner died, another 5 victims were hospitalized.

The Governor of Oklahoma Brad Henry announced a state of emergency on January 26 throughout the state in connection with the ice storm intensifying there. The storm began on Monday morning, but now several thousand people were left without electricity. Schools are closed in a number of districts. The ice storm and snowfalls collapsed on the first day of the week not only on Oklahom, but also on Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentukki, as well as the southern parts of Indiana and Illinois.

The State Duma will consider at a plenary session on Friday in the second reading amendments to the Criminal Code, tightening responsibility for drunk drivers. The Rosbalt reports this, as reported by Rosbalt, the State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov told reporters today. Amendments to Art.

The reserve fund of the Russian Federation is now 4 trillion 700 billion rubles, said the Deputy Prime Minister, the head of the Ministry of Finance, Alexei Kudrin, at a meeting of the Presidium of the Government.

In the Nazran district of Ingushetia, in the city of Yandar, unknown people from automatic weapons fired a private household, Interfax reports with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic. They specified that the incident occurred on Monday evening, and, according to preliminary data, there were no injured. At the moment, the investigation team has gone to the scene, events are being held to search and detain criminals.

Another satellite of the Glonass-M global navigation system is temporarily deduced, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the website of Cosmonautics News. Satellite? 795 (4 position 1 orbital plane) is disabled due to problems with the coordinate determination system. This satellite was brought into space on December 10, 2003 and introduced into the standard operating mode on January 9, 2004.

The US Congress Senate approved the 47-year-old Timothy Gaynner as the new head of the US Department of Finance. Voting on his candidacy took place in the upper house of Congress. She was supported by 60 legislators. “Against” 34 votes were presented, ITAR-TASS reports. Later on the same day, Gaitner led to the oath of vice president Joseph Biden. According to the American media, this solemn ceremony took place in the building of the Ministry of Finance.

The European Court of Human Rights decided to satisfy the appeal of Latvia on the revision of the case of a veteran of the Great Patriotic War and the commander of the partisan detachment Vasily Kononov. Recall that Kononov filed a lawsuit against the Strasbourg court, in which he argued that the Latvian authorities illegally accused him of committing war crimes. In July 2008, the lawsuit was satisfied , 30 thousand euros were recovered from the Latvian authorities.

The Moscow City Court rejected a petition on Monday to release from the guard of the former soldier of the Vostok battalion and the freelance adviser to President Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov to coordinate the activities of the security forces in the leader of the Republic of Aslan Diliev, who is accused of the murder of the Chechen businessman and checked for the murder of the former deputy of the State Duma, Gosduma, the Gosduma deputy, Geezi Gerod Ruslan Yamadaeva, reports RIA Novosti .

The leader of the Israeli party "Avoda" and the Minister of Defense Ehud Barak, trying to impress voters-immigrants from the former USSR, decided to quote the words of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. He urged to "wet in the toilet" of Palestinian militants who did not stop the armed struggle in the gas sector.

This year, oil, cotton and coffee will become the leaders of price growth among raw materials that can be on average 20%, experts of the Tiberius Asset Management AG hedge fund, Interfax reports with reference to the Bloomberg agency. Oil can rise in price by 28% - to more than $ 60 per barrel in the second half of the year, the representative of the Foundation Christoph Ebel believes.

The light two-engine aircraft Cessna 560 is preparing to make an emergency landing at the airport of Novosibirsk Tolmachevo due to the non-maintenance of the main rackets of the chassis, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the source in Rosaeronavigations. "The Cessna 560 aircraft operated a flight from Chelyabinsk to Barnaul and at 20.46 Moscow time when the aircraft was set to land," the agency’s interlocutor said.

The songs of one of the most popular singers of the last decades - Michael Jackson - now you can not only listen, but also look. Producer James Nethernd acquired the rights to stage production of one of the hits of the “king of pop music”-Thriller songs, ITAR-TASS reports. As expected, in the future musical, other compositions from Off the Wall and Thriller albums will be used.

An outstanding writer, one of the last classics of American literature, John Apdike died in the 77th year of his life. This was reported by the Skynews channel with reference to the writer's agent. The media have not yet been reported by the media, but Sky notes that Updike suffered from lung cancer. During his life, Apdike received two Pulitzer prizes and many other awards. Despite the fact that he was considered an “intellectual” writer, his books have always been bestsellers.

Over the past month, the number of Russians who evaluate the state of the global economy as a crisis has increased by almost 10%. The number of those who believe that Russia has suffered the most from the crisis. Only every tenth Russian sees significant results from the implementation of the government’s anti -crisis plan.