The World Boxing Council champion (WBC) in heavy weight, Ukrainian Vitaly Klitschko reached an agreement with the mandatory contender of the Cuban Odlaniel Solis on the title fight. According to ITAR-TASS with reference to the German media, the match will be held on March 19 in Cologne. Negotiations were difficult, and on January 8, an auction was appointed in Mexico to determine the organizer of the fight.

Russia plans to carry out about ten launches of cosmic missiles in the first quarter of 2011, Interfax was told in the missile and space industry. "Five launches are planned to be carried out from the Baikonur cosmodrome, rented by Russia from Kazakhstan, four launches - from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region and one launch from the positional region of the Dombar missile division of the Strategic Missile Forces in the Orenburg region," the source said.

The Court of Finnish Gorde Pori refused the Russian Rimma Salonen, living in Finland, to grant temporary right to custody of his minor son Anton. According to Johan Bekman, authorized Salonen, "the court ," the court made a strange decision that fully reflects the position of only one party - the father of the child and does not take into account the position of Rimma in Finland.

The icebreaker "Krasin" on Monday morning approached Admiral Makarov, they together withdraw the transport refrigerator "Coast of Hope" from the Sakhalin Gulf. “They go with a caravan. Ahead of the icebreaker Krasin breaks through the channel, Admiral Makarov is coming close to it, which is in short towing the“ Coast of Hope ”,” the Interfax agency was told in the press service of the Far Eastern Shipping Company (DVMP).

The southern part of the United States was covered by a powerful cyclone. According to the forecasts of American weather forecasters, the front of snow storms and, which is especially dangerous, ice rains will stretch out of the northeast Texas to North and Southern Caroline during the night.

The crew of the schooner "Partner" , which gave the distress signal in the Tatar Strait of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, most likely died. This, as the Russian BBC service reported, was stated by the head of the Federal Agency for Rosrybolovstvo Andrei extreme. According to him, this fishing ship is considered poaching, from 11 to 14 people were on board. The entire crew of the vessel that goes under the flag of Cambodia consists of Russian citizens, the inhabitants of Sakhalin.

The world community should prepare for an imminent meeting with extraterrestrial civilizations. The British Royal Academy of Sciences made such a statement on Monday, which, as ITAR-TASS reports, published a special study on the existence of life in the expanses of the universe.

In the UK, a criminal case against radical environmental defenders collapsed due to the fact that the police officer, which was in motion, refused to testify. The hearings were supposed to begin on Monday, but they were canceled after the police Mark Kennedy contacted the lawyers of the defendants, saying that he was ready to help them. After that, the prosecutors decided to withdraw the case, the BBC television and radio broadcasting corporation reports.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev made a number of personnel permutations in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. So, by decree of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Deputy Commander of the Primorsky Flotilla of the heterogeneous forces of the Pacific Fleet, the 1st rank captain Ildar Akhmerov was appointed, the Kremlin press service said. Ildar Akhmerov was headed by the crew of the Marshal Shaposhnikov vessel, which freed the Moscow University tanker from the pirates in May 2010.

On Tuesday, January 11, new shutdowns of electricity are expected in the Moscow Region, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the press service of the Moscow United Electric Service Company (MOESK). This time, the “planned de-energization of settlements related to the repair and restoration work to eliminate the consequences of technological violations in the distribution power supply” will affect nine regions of the region.

Doctors call on Russian tourists vacationing in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, to caution due to the risk of cholera. "Given the adverse development of epidemiological situations in the Haiti and the Dominican Republic, tourists must observe a number of rules when visiting areas with a high risk of disease," the Rospotrebnadzor said .

In Iran, the "network of Israeli spies" involved in the murder of the Iranian nuclear physicist Masud Ali Mohammadi in January last year was arrested. About this, as ITAR-TASS reports, the National Television of the Islamic Republic reported on Monday. In Iran, the "network of spies and extremists associated with" Mossad "(Israeli intelligence) is exposed.

Russian biathlonists opened an account with medals at the fourth stage of the World Cup, having won two “bronze” in male and female races from the mass start on the final day of the competition in the German Oberhof. Svetlana Sleptsova, having shot without a miss, became the third at a distance of 12.5 km with four fire lines. The Swede Helena Ekholm, who was ahead of German Andrei Henkel, won with the exact shooting of 1.6 seconds, Sleptsova - 5.2.

In Chelyabinsk, an official farewell ceremony with the former Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region Peter Sumin, who died on the night of January 6, began, at the Glinka Opera and Ballet Theater, Interfax reports. "The official farewell ceremony with the first governor of the Chelyabinsk region will be held in the Chelyabinsk State Opera and Ballet Theater from 11:00 to 14:30 (local time). Peter Sumin will also take place there.

In Moscow, on Monday, single pickets are again held in support of the opposition Boris Nemtsov ("Solidarity"), Konstantin Kosyakin ("Left Front"), Eduard Limonov ("Other Russia") and Vladimir Thor (DPNI), detained on December 31, on a rally on the triumphal square in defense of freedom of meetings. At noon, the action began opposite the city hall, at 14 o’clock - near the special receiver on the Simferopol Boulevard, where they are contained, Echo Moscow reports.