Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko believes that on January 17, Ukraine chooses its future and a new path begins for her. “Today is not just a candidate’s election, but Ukraine chooses the future for decades,” Tymoshenko said after she voted in the Sunday elections in Dnepropetrovsk. “This time we arrived at home with the whole family, where we were born, and where our youth went. And today we vote for the future of our Ukraine,” she said.

Canadian Sidney Crosby will forget about friendly feelings for his Russian Pittsburgh Penguins comrade Evgeny Malkin during the White Olympiad-2010 in Vancouver, where the hockey teams of Russia and Canada are considered the main contenders for Gold. The captain of the current holders of the Stanley Cup stated this on the eve of communicating with journalists after training the "penguins" who arrived in the capital of the winter games for the NHL regular championship against Vancouver Canax.

London Chelsea as part of the 21 round of the English Premier League in football defeated Suns with a crushing score of 7: 2. Yuri Zhirkov spent the Russian legionnaire “Aristocrats” on the field of the second half, but did not participate in the fiction episodes. Already in the first half, Chelsea scored four unrequited balls - first the Frenchmen Nicolas Anelka and Florer Maluda distinguished themselves, and increased the advantage of the hosts of Ashley Cole and Frank Lampard.

In the Donetsk region, a technical break was announced in the 46th district of N62 in the 46th district. According to the press service of the Party of Regions in the Donetsk region, there are no ballots on the site. The day before, the chairman of the precinct commission from the candidate for deputies of Sergei Tigipko Galina Levina put in all 596 bulletins the stamp "left" opposite the presidential candidates Alexander Moroz, Oleg Tyagnibok and Oleg Ryabokon, the press service claims.

Thirty -eight Austrian citizens were in Haiti at the time of the earthquake, of which eight people are missing, the Minister of European and International Affairs Michael Spindlegger said on Sunday on Sunday. According to him, 29 people were not injured, one woman died during a natural disaster. The fate of eight people is still not known, the head of Austrian diplomacy said. He also said that Austria allocated 800 thousand euros to the aid of Haiti.

In the Donetsk region, representatives of Georgia were taken into custody, who were registered as journalists of local media in separate polling stations, Georgian ambassador in Ukraine Grigol Katamadze at a briefing on Sunday in Kiev said, Interfax reports. Katamadze turned to the chairman of the Central Election Commission Vladimir Shapoval with a request to deal with the situation in the Donetsk region. Shapoval promised that he would give an appropriate order immediately after a briefing.

Viktor Yanukovych and Yulia Tymoshenko entered the second round of the presidential election in Ukraine. The third place, which allows you to count on a privileged dialogue with the future winner, was won by the banker Sergey Tigipko. These are the data of all EXIT-Polls registered in the presidential election in Ukraine. The preliminary official data of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine will provide on Monday, reports ITAR-TASS.

The Central Election Commission of Ukraine at the Sunday meeting again refused to register Georgian observers. For the draft resolution, in which it was proposed to give observers from Georgia the official status, six members of the commission voted, one was against it and eight people abstained. Thus, the decision is considered not accepted. Eight votes were needed to make a decision, RIA Novosti reports.

The Moscow Basmanny Court today issued the arrest of the investigator of the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee under the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation Andrei Grivtsov and the non -working Sergey Kirimov, who are accused of extorting a bribe in the amount of $ 500 million. This was reported by ITAR-TASS by the head of the press service of the Moscow City Court Anna Usacheva.

The Iraqi court sentenced the cousin of Saddam Hussein - Ali Hassan al -Majid - to the death penalty. According to national television today, al-Majid received the highest measure of punishment for participating in surgery against residents of the Kurdish city of Halabja in 1988. Then the Iraqi army sprayed the fighting poisoning gas over the city, as a result of which about 5 thousand people were killed, mostly women and children.

The Party of Regions considers it illegal to the decision of the Kiev appellate administrative court on the abolition of the opportunity to vote at home, reports Echo of Moscow . Supporters of Viktor Yanukovych, the favorite of the current presidential election, are sure that the court decision cannot have legal force, since the entire process of making a court decision has previously been completed, up to the Supreme Court of Appeal.

US President Barack Obama surprised his wife Michelle, having arranged dinner with close friends on Saturday evening in honor of her birthday. "The president unexpectedly took the first lady to the Nora restaurant for dinner in honor of her birthday ... The first lady is 46 years old tomorrow (Sunday). It seems that the children were left at home for tonight," said the RIA Novosti on the Presidential Group of Tom Benning from the Dallas Morning News newspaper.

The movement of trains in the Trans-Siberian Railway in the Ishim district of the Tyumen region, which was interrupted on Saturday due to the gathering of two carriages of the freight train, was restored on Sunday, the Novaya Press Service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation for the Tyumen region told RIA Novosti .

The investigator for particularly important cases of the Main Investigative Department of the SCP of the Russian Federation Andrei Gryvtsov was detained for extorting a bribe due to the joint actions of the inquiry bodies and the investigating authorities of the SCP, Interfax said on Sunday the official representative of the SCP of the Russian Federation Vladimir Markin. "On January 14, a certain Sergey Kirimov was detained in Inter -Kommerzbank, while trying to receive a bribe of $ 8 million.

In Moscow, an illegal casino was demolished. It continued to work, despite the ban on the activities of gambling establishments, the Echo of Moscow reports. The building on Minsk Street was demolished by decision of the arbitration court. It was carried out forcibly using the bailiff service. One of the buildings of the casino has already been demolished two days ago.