Ex-Governor of Illinois Rod Blagievich, accused of corruption, said that he was "blackener than Barack Obama." He made such a statement in an interview with Esquire magazine. At the same time, judging by the AP agency, the ex-governor used obscene vocabulary. “What kind of ... [in the presentation of the arc, the curse is omitted]?” Says Blagoevich, “this guy (Obama) was elected only thanks to the hopes of the American people. He reads all his speeches with the help of a television room.

On Monday, India successfully tested two air-to-air Astra missiles, reports the Ministry of Defense of India. The launches of missiles were made from the landfill near the city of Chandipur in the East Indian state of Oriss. “The first missile was released at 9:45 local time (12:15 Moscow time - approx. Ed.), The launch of the second rocket was made at 12:06. Both launches were successfully carried out,” Interfax quotes the message of the Indian military department.

Forward of the Russian national football team, Alexander Kerzhakov, signed a three-year contract with the St. Petersburg Zenit, says the Sport-Express newspaper. According to the publication, the football player is currently in St. Petersburg and will join the bronze medalist of the 2009 championship on January 17, when the players begin to undergo a physical examination. At the same time, the leadership of the St.

In the Chelyabinsk region, a member of the hired killer was sentenced, who had been hiding from justice for almost 15 years. Killer’s victim was the driver of one of the merchants, who was killed by the boss, who suspected his subordinate in theft.

The first Minister of Northern Ireland, Peter Robinson, put up the powers for six weeks due to the scandal around the private life and finance of his wife, BBC reports. As the general public recently found out, 60-year-old Iris Robinson, a year and a half ago, started an affair with a 19-year-old young man, whom she met at the funeral of his father and her friend.

The cause of the death of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and his partner Vladimir Seregin was an open valve of the cabin of the aircraft. This version was nominated by a group of independent experts, led by retired Air Force Colonel, a former employee of the Research Institute of Operation and Repair of Aviation equipment Igor Kuznetsov, writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta . For the past nine years, the group of Kuznetsov through modern computer programs.

The Ukrainian crew of the Ariana dry cargo, captured by pirates in May 2009 and released eight months later, spoke about his misadventures to the newspaper Today . The prisoners of their own words, in their own words, thought a rebellion on board and drove moonshine, and the pirates, meanwhile, learned to speak Russian and even watched Russian films, quoted the story Newsru.ua .

At the wealthy Russian resort, the elite shift again at the wealthy Russian resort. Last year, the appearance of high-ranking Russian officials there caused the discontent of the president, so this time none of the civil servants in the French resort seemed, the newspaper reports due to poor weather conditions. And the time for many Courchevel tourists stopped at the duty -free shopping store

The Omsk Office of the Federal Migration Service protested the registration of the Klyuchs of the Omsk District of the former police major Alexei Dymovsky from Novorossiysk, who gained fame after a video message about violations in law enforcement agencies.

214 prisoners from the Ignasio Allende prison were delivered to the Mexican Aldama prison on the set of the new film with the participation of Mela Gibson to the Mexican prison. It is planned to remove several episodes of the criminal drama "as I spent a summer vacation" in the "Wilia Aldama", according to the script of Gibson himself, which will play the main role in the film, AFP reports.

Deputy General Director of the Kizlyarsky Electromechanical Plant concern (Kamz) Ahmed Ibragimov was killed on Monday in the city of Kizlyar, the press service of the Dagestan Ministry of Internal Affairs said. They specified that "Ibragimov’s body with 4 gunshot wounds was found today at about 19:30 Moscow time on Korkmasov Street." On the fact of the murder of Ibragimov, a criminal case has been instituted, an investigation is underway, reports ITAR-TASS.

The American automaker Ford is ready to present a new, third generation of the most popular Focus model. The official debut of the novelty will take place very soon - within the framework of the Detroit car dealership. According to representatives of the company, it will be more than just an updated version of the most successful hatchback in Europe. The new Focus, in their opinion, will turn out to be the most important car of the Ford brand over the past 25 years, Autocar reports.

In the near future, the most popular actor John Malkovich can withdraw at once in two comic blockbusters-in the spy thriller "Red" (Red) studio Summit Entertainment and in the long-awaited fourth part of Spider-Man. The Red Scenario, based on the comics of Wildstorm/DC Comics, was prepared by the Eric and Yon Jobers, who previously worked on the criminal comedy of Montana and the Belaya Mlag thriller.

Cash fees around the world from the rental of the Avatar painting by James Cameron over the past weekend grew by $ 191.5 million and reached an impressive figure of $ 1.3 billion. This was reported by representatives of the sales company "XX Century Fox". The blockbuster, taken in a three -dimensional image, firmly occupies the second place in this indicator in the history of modern cinema. The palm of the championship is still holding another creation of Cameron - "Titanic".

Chateau d'arricau-Bordes estate in Gasconi (ancient historical region of France), belonging to the family of Charles de Betz, who became the prototype of d'Artagnan in the novel by Alexander Dumas “Three Musketeers”, was put up for sale for $ 5.3 million, RIA Novosti writes with reference to the British newspaper Telegraph. The owner of the castle was Uncle de Betz on the maternal line - Jean -Paul Monteskeu d'Artagnan.