The doctors managed to keep the leg of Bobsleist Irina Skvortsova, who received severe injuries on November 23 during a collision of car on the highway in the German Koenigzee. This was announced by the President of the Bobsleya and Skeleton of Russia (FBSR) Nikita Musir. “Now there is no tissue rejection, we hope that Skvortsov will be removed from a coma,” the Echo of Moscow radio station quotes the sports official.

American director Tim Burton will become the chairman of the jury of the 63rd Cannes Film Festival. Berton's gloomy storyteller, who shot Batman and the Nightmare before Christmas, will be the first head of the Cannes jury, who came to directed from animation, the festival press release notes. “Previously, I often watched 3 films at once or arranged for myself a horror maerphone for two days, so I am morally ready for this,” Burton admitted.

The more Russia departs from democracy, the more dangerous it becomes for the United States, the assistant to the American president in Russia and Eurasia Michael McFoll believes.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met today with the main rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar ( the Federation of Jewish communities of Russia - Feor). During the conversation, the head of the Russian government praised the role of Jewish organizations in preserving the memory of the victims of Nazism. “I carefully look at what is happening in the world, especially about the problems related to the distortion of history, with the denial of, say, the Holocaust and so on.

The CEC of the Russian Federation has made a proposal to the presidential administration on the abolition of early voting in the elections of all levels. The proposal is already being considered, a member of the Central Election Commission Maya Grishina said at a press conference on Tuesday. She recalled that now early voting is practiced in municipal elections and often entails certain problems and complaints, ITAR-TASS reports.

Half of Russians (49%) consider the legislative ban on the production and sale of incandescent lamps, after the entry into force of this norm, every fifth plans to continue to use such lamps by purchasing them in advance, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the results of a survey of the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM), the results of which are published on Tuesday.

Crisis trends in the real estate market did not pass by the development company Coalco, controlled by businessman Vasily Anisimov. For the first time, the businessman had to share his project with the creditor - Sberbank. Good to the transition of half of the project "Crystal towers" to "Sberbank Capital" on the eve was given by the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), writes RBC Daily .

Oil refineries in Belarus may stop if oil supplies from Russia are not resumed in the same volume. "There was no pumping of raw materials in the direction of the mozyr on January 24, and the supply to the Novopolotsky refinery per day was only 6 thousand tons," a source in the industry told Reuters. If the pumping of raw materials in the near future does not resume in full, enterprises will be forced to transfer installations to recirculation mode.

Barack Obama is striving to be a “really good president” of the United States for one four -year period, and not mediocre for two. The head of the American administration made such recognition in an interview with ABC . As Obama noted, in the political circles of Washington there is an opinion that the main task of a person working in an elected position is to achieve a re -election.

In Chita today they are looking for a missing boy. Six -year -old Arkady Kleinburg on Monday, January 25, at 14:00 local time left the house in the village of Kashtak to his grandmother, who lives nearby, and disappeared. A statement about the loss of the child came from his parents after five hours.

In the USA, in the 95th year of life, one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century, composer Earl Wilde, died. The musician, famous for the performance and his own interpretations of the works of Sergei Rachmaninov, died in his house in Palm Springs (California) on Saturday, January 24, ITAR-TASS reports. Earl Wilde recorded more than 35 concerts and about 700 solo performances. In 1997, he was awarded the Grammy Prize.

In the center of Baghdad, an explosion thundered on Tuesday. At least 18 people died, another 80 were injured, BBC reports. The explosive device was put into operation by a suicide bilger in the center of the capital of Iraq near a police station, located near the building of the Iraq Ministry of the Interior. Three of the dead were police officers. Eyewitnesses report that the suicide bomber was probably trying to drive past the checkpoint to the criminal district of Kerrad.

The Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed an unusual way to combat the budget deficit of this American state: a transfer of part of prisoners from California prisons to Mexican. The proposal concerns not all convicts, but only those who do not have documents, that is, criminals-nonsense, BBC reports.

In Bangladesh, justice has become a real mockery for a young girl. The 16-year victim of rape was carved with lashes, and its offender moved away from responsibility. Before that, the girl broke up, because as a result of abuse, she became pregnant. A 20-year-old resident of the village of Gabbari, Anamul Mia was accused of sexual crime.

At night on Tuesday, a fire arose in Moscow in the hostel of Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography. The fire was extinguished, there were no injured, firefighters from smoky premises were saved by more than 80 people, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the head of the press service of the Moscow Ministry of Emergencies, Yevgeny Bobylev. According to him, a message about the fire in house 4 in Gorokhovsky Lane was received at the service "01" at 04:47.