Boris Nemtsov predicts that in case of winning the elections of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, a powerful opposition awaits him, Interfax reports. “Julia Vladimirovna, even if she loses, will be in such a powerful opposition that Yanukovych will not be greeted,” Nemtsov said on the air of the Ukrainian shopping center ( Schuster Live ) on Sunday evening.

Moscow apartments in the secondary market are sold better. In January, the number of purchase and sale transactions exceeded the pre-crisis level, the newspaper Vedomosti writes. In January of this year, Moscow was registered by 46% more transactions of sale of apartments than in the crisis January of the past: 3923 against 2674 - these are the data of the Rosreestr Office in Moscow.

British scientists have identified a group of genes that determine the "speed of aging". Their discovery can turn the approach of medicine to the problem of health and the treatment of "age" diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, some types of cancer and senile dementia, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to The Guardian Certain genes inherited from both parents can force a person with age for a number of biological features to be 8 years “older” by those who have no genetic material.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday named the names of candidates for posts of the heads of four regions of the country. The proposals of the head of state are submitted to local legislative bodies, the Kremlin press service reports. It is noteworthy that all four regions await the change of power - in all cases, approval at leading posts is proposed to new candidates.

The winners at the 39th International Rotterdam Film Festival were announced by the films "Cold waters of the sea" (Agua Fria de Mar) Pass Fabreg (Costa Rica), "Sao Nok Krajok) Anochi Suvchecornga (Thailand) and" To the Sea) Pedro Gonzalea-Rubio (Mexico), RIA Novosti reports. The special prize of film critics received Nordeado (Norteado) of another native of Mexico, Rigoberto is chain.

The domain name Maidan.ru is put up for sale on the day of the second round of the presidential election of Ukraine at the largest Russian Internet auction Molotok.ru . So far, the cost of the domain is 1000 rubles. The auction will last until February 10, RIA Novosti reports.

A bill is being prepared for consideration to the State Duma on the transfer of the function of inspection of cars from the traffic police to private hands. The main idea of ​​the document introduced by the Ministry of Economic Development is to defeat corruption in this system, in which more than 60% of car owners acquire a talon of inspection for a bribe. About this writes "Kommersant" .

On suspicion of extorting bribes in Astrakhan, a whole unit of 19 employees of stationary traffic police posts was detained. "The Investigative Department of the SCP of the Russian Federation for the Astrakhan region opened a criminal case on the fact of extorting bribes by employees of the first company of a separate battalion of the road -patrol service No.

The investigation does not consider the terrorist attack as a possible reason for the explosion on the American state of Connecticut, as a result of which five people were killed. “No one put the bomb. This happened quite by accident and unintentional,” said Sebastian Guliano, mayor of the city of Midletown, in which the explosion thundered the day before. There are no threats of a new explosion or hazardous substances in the atmosphere, ITAR-TASS reports.

The traffic police will not put the rods equipped with electric shockers. This is stated in the Department of Safety of Road Traffic (DobDD) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Interfax reports. "You should not mislead the road users regarding the prospects for the use of a wand with a stun gun by traffic police inspectors," said Oleg Ponaryin, deputy chief of the police colonel Oleg Ponaryin.

German communities require legislatively establishing restrictions on the filming of streets and houses of German cities for Google Street View to protect the private life of German citizens. Cash payments from Google can solve this problem. According to the head of the Federal Consumer Protection of Consumer Rights Ilze Aigner, the Communities of the Communities require tightening legislation against Google Street View and other similar network services.

For three and a half years of the "country amnesty", no more than a quarter of the owners of garden houses were able to use it. The rest of the residents of the metropolitan village "Rechnik", whose houses began to be demolished in January, may comprehend the rest. To do this, they write “New Izvestia” , it is enough to cancel their own decisions on the allocation of land or retroactively announcing the territory of the summer village of the environmental zone by analogy with the “river”.

Yuan’s revaluation may occur before the expected deadline, in the second quarter of 2010, the Chinese currency may rise in price by no more than 5%, the head of the International Center for Financial Research at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Zhang Mina says. In 2009, GDP growth in China amounted to 8.7%, China fulfilled the task of preserving this indicator at the level of 8%, the newspaper Zhenmin Zibao writes.

The authorities of the Italian city of the Empire were official apology to the Russian consulate and businessman Vladimir Potanin in connection with the incident around the sale of Villa, RIA Novosti reports. Recall that back in January, unknown scammers forged a package of documents in order to purchase Karpeneto villa, located in the picturesque place of Porto Maurizio on behalf of the head of the Interros holding, Vladimir Potanin.

The Israeli police detained grief robbers who were brought by such feelings that were not characteristic of criminals as altruism and mercy. The attackers decided to call their victim an ambulance and wait for her arrival. However, the police arrived at the place of robbery of the first. Residents of the Central Region of Israel Asaf Okhayun and Rinen Zarka were arrested last Saturday.