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.

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 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 disposal points of old vehicles as part of the program for subsidizing the purchase of new cars will be opened from March 8 of this year, the Finmarket reports.

The head coach of the Russian national team HUS Hiddink took ninth place in the list of the best coaches of national teams according to the results of 2009 according to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics. According to the Sports television channel, the rating of the Spanish squad Vicente del Bosk led the rating. The second place was taken by the Italian Fabio Capello, heading the England team.

The prolonged festivities, although they bring serious losses to the economy, do not plunge it into hibernation, since most of the GDP give mining production, which have no vacation. However, there is an opinion that a long festive session in January is exclusively an elite who goes abroad together, while the people who are vacationing in their native nature are better to do in May, writes Kommersant money .

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 .

Abkhazia wants Russia to protect it, but not strangle it. This task is very delicate, given that the existence of a self -proclaimed country directly depends on Moscow, the Spanish El Pais writes on Monday. The publication recalls that the troops and warships of the Russian Federation protect the boundaries of Abkhazia with Georgia, ensuring the safety of Russian tourists visiting this region. Tourism here has a "home" flavor, but speculation lies in an ambush.

On Monday, in Paris, at the age of 89, the outstanding French film director Eric Romer, who was considered, is considered, along with Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Trufffo Eric Romer, one of the founders of the French “New Wave” in the cinema, RIA Novosti reports with reference to AFP. Relatives of Romer reported that he had died in the hospital, where he was delivered a week ago. Eric Romer (real name Jean-Maris Sherer) was born on April 4, 1920 in the French city of Nansi.

Actor Vladislav Galkin, hospitalized on Friday at the 50th surgery department of the Botkin Hospital of Moscow, was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis and alcohol delirium (white fever), Lifenews reports. According to preliminary data, the actor has serious problems with the liver and pancreas. In any case, this department of the clinic specializes precisely in diseases of this kind.

The leader on the world market in the number of sales has changed - the USA became the second, China intercepted the palm of the championship. According to Interfax , car sales in China grew by 46% in 2009, which provided him with the title of the largest automobile market in the world. For a hundred years, the leader of the world car production has been an American market - since the Ford T.

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.

Over the past two years, real estate sales in Cyprus to customers abroad have declined by 84%. The reason for this is not only the economic crisis, but also a number of other factors that call the right of ownership on the island, writes Zagranhouse.ru . A few years ago, real estate in Cyprus was popular among foreign buyers, many of whom considered the purchase of a second house on the island as a good alternative to Spain or Greece.

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.