Vladimir Smolkin, a representative of CityConcert, who organized the tour of the soloist Boney M Bobby Farrell in Russia, says that he is the only person in the world who can tell how the musician actually died . Smolkin believes that Farrell was destroyed by a sick heart and love for the big New Year's earnings, writes the Moscow Komsomolets .

It is possible to drive a car drunk if you do not go on the road, in a combination of circumstances, you can. The newspaper "Moscow Komsomolets" writes about the real case, when a driver named Vasily Komarov (the name is fictional), having drunk a bottle of vodka, got behind the wheel and rolled outside the roadway - in the field. Employees of the traffic police caught the violator and took his rights from him.

On the tracks near Moscow, after a protracted New Year's holidays, a mess is happening: on the roads - mountains of snow, sidewalks and pedestrian ways to bus stops are littered. This fact was established by the regional traffic police officers who went to check the work of public utilities. According to the results of the checks, several hundred fines were written out.

The famous Russian porn producer Sergei Pryanishnikov sued the Ministry of Culture of Russia, seeking the cancellation of the ban on selling 146 videos removed by his Spacompany studio, BBC reports. Last year, the expert group of the Ministry of Culture issued the studio the corresponding license, but in December the leadership of the ministry canceled the previously adopted decision. At the same time, claims were not presented to the content of the films, but to their names.

Astronomers set two records at the same time: they found the most distant galaxies from the Earth, seeing it in the earliest of the ever noted stage of development, BBC reports. The accumulation is called Cosmos-Aztec3. It grows, like a megalopolis that draws into itself nearby villages. A group of galaxies is located 12.6 billion light years from the Earth. She began to form when the universe was only about a billion years.

The prosecutor's office of the Primorsky Territory became interested in the animated virtual advertisement of the Vladivostok Internet provider "Alliance-Telecom", which allowed visitors to the company of the Kremlin and a person similar to the President of Russia, RIA Novosti on Thursday, the senior assistant to the prosecutor of the region Elena Telegina.

During the New Year's holidays, the fifth participant in the fight was detained, in which the Spartak fan Egor Sviridov died , whose death led to a number of nationalist performances in the cities of Russia, Interfax reports with reference to a source familiar with the course of the investigation.

The Japanese Electrotechnical Concern NEC has developed a contactless thermometer in the form of a regular desktop mirror. As ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Tokyo Seal, in order to measure the temperature with the help of a new thermometer, just look in the mirror without touching it. After a few seconds, the result will be displayed on its surface. If the temperature is too high, then the thermometer-mirror will give an alarming sound signal.

The new leadership of the Fifth Canal took off the air of the programs, and also stops the work of the Moscow branch of the St. Petersburg television channel, dismissing about 80 of its employees, reports Echo of St. Petersburg . The "Court of Time" program will no longer be aired by the Fifth Canal.

Europe is preparing to exert "extremely strict political and diplomatic pressure" to Belarus in response to repression after the presidential election on December 19, when hundreds of opposition activists and many candidates were behind bars. Their discussion will continue on Thursday evening by the leadership of the European Parliament after the head of the hedgehog Buzek called on his hard measures the day before.

The famous Lithuanian businessman Vladimir Romanov said that he had the intention to buy the Saturn football club near Moscow, who refused to participate in the Russian championship due to financial problems, Soviet Sports reports. On the last day of 2010, Saturn announced that due to insufficient financing, the team is being removed from the championship of Russia in the 2011/12 season. The players on January 11 received work books and certificates of wage arrears.

The lawyer of the ex-head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky Vadim Kluvgant believes that the verdict in the second case of the leaders of the oil corporation was predetermined at the stage of his transfer to the court. In addition, the lawyer is confident that the judge Viktor Danilkin, who was presiding in the process, made a sentence - in connection with this, the clinic proposed to conduct an investigation to establish this author.

The French castle of the first and last emperor of the Central African Republic (TsAS) Jean-Bedel Bocassa on Wednesday was sold at auction for 915 thousand euros, RIA Novosti writes with reference to the French media. The dictator of Bokassa gained scandalous fame thanks to accusations of eating people, although the court did not recognize this misconduct for him. He came to power as a result of a military coup in 1966, and ten years later proclaimed himself the emperor.

Scientists revealed the cause of the mass death of birds in the east of Romania, where local residents have already begun to fear a new epidemic of bird flu. Experts found that the starlings died of alcohol poisoning. They ate grape squeezes that remain in the press after the production of wine, and their body lost with the received dose of alcohol, BBC reports.

Former Minister of Economics of Ukraine Bogdan Danilishin received political asylum in the Czech Republic. About this, RIA Novosti reports, on Thursday the Ukrainian Service of Radio Svoboda, citing lawyer Danilishina Marina Makhitkova. According to the lawyer, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Czech Republic made the decision to provide Danilishin on Thursday. At the end of October, the ex-minister was detained in the Czech Republic along the line of Interpol.