Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin prepared his proposals to privatize the largest energy state-owned companies, Kommersant said. The Deputy Prime Minister proposes to make privatization plans taking into account the country's budget surplus in 2011 at the level of 300 billion rubles.

On Sunday, January 8, in the Swiss city of Lugano, at the 83rd year of his life, the French pianist of Jewish descent, Alexis Weissenberg, who is called one of the greatest performers of the last century, RIA Novosti reports with reference to The Daily Telegraph. The cause of death was Parkinson's disease, from which the musician suffered for many years. Alexis Sigismund Weissenberg was born in Sofia on July 26, 1929.

The State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine said that it did not have a record from video surveillance cameras, which are installed in the women's colony in Kharkov, where ex-Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko is now serving a sentence. The department also refuted the words of representatives of the politician that she lost consciousness on January 6 after taking drugs, RIA Novosti reports. “As far as I know, she did not lose consciousness, she felt unwell, maybe her head was spinning ...

The Chinese company Broad Group in 15 days, or 360 hours, erected a 30 -story building - a hotel in the province of Hunan. This building, according to builders, is able to withstand the earthquake of magnitude 9.0. The company specializes in energy -efficient and environmentally friendly buildings, as well as on factory manufacturing modules, which are "put on" on steel structures, writes Prian.ru .

Employees of the Institute of Robotics of the Beijing Airlines University, the main naval hospital of the Chinese army and Japanese University of Kagawa jointly developed a robotics system for surgical operations on the vessels of the brain, the Chinese news agency Sinhua reports. The system consists of the main control terminal, a controlled terminal and a screen with a navigation three -dimensional image system.

Opel spoke about its subcompact crossover Mokka. A day earlier, his American “twin” Buick Encore was presented at the auto show in Detroit, and the Germans decided not to wait anymore: the first official photographs of the car and some details were published. Opel claims that Mokka will be the first German subcompact crossover. True, its length is 4280 mm, which is only 147 mm less than one of the leaders in the compact segment - VW Tiguan.

Until February, state -owned companies are required to ensure the complete disclosure of the beneficiaries, including the final, their counterparties.

The Los Angeles police did not find any evidence that the famous American actress of Russian origin Natalie Wood was killed , and did not die as a result of an accident, RIA Novosti reports with reference to The Los Angeles Times . According to data that the publication leads to the head of the investigative department of the police of William Maxwini, a new investigation that lasted several weeks did not reveal any new circumstances of the tragedy that occurred more than 30 years ago.

Against the backdrop of an exacerbation of the relationship between Iran and the West and the next scandal around the Iranian nuclear program in Tehran, an attempt was made on a famous scientist. On Wednesday morning, in the north of the Iranian capital, a car was blown up, in which there was an employee of the Center for the enrichment of Uranus Mustafa Ahmadi Roshan.

The Patriarchate of Constantinople , in whose jurisdiction there are Athos monasteries, in the first statement regarding the arrest of the abbot of the monastery of Vatopede Efrem, called on the Russian Orthodox Church not to interfere in this matter. As you know, the abbot Ephraim was arrested on December 24, he is accused of abuse of real estate between the monastery and the Greek state. The arrest of the priest caused a number of protests in Greece and abroad.

The Judicial Collegium for Administrative Affairs of the Supreme Court (Sun) of the Russian Federation on Wednesday canceled the decision of the St. Petersburg City Court, which recognized the order of the Committee for the Protection of Architecture and History of the City Administration illegal, which excluded 31 historical buildings from the list of cultural heritage facilities, RAPSI reports.

A new scandal related to the dubious collection of signatures in support of one of the presidential candidates - the head of the Irkutsk region Dmitry Mezentsev. Before he could dissociate himself from a group of volunteers who filled the signature sheets at the Moscow Railway University, the deputy chairman of the public movement "Democratic Choice" Igor Drandin posted a new compromise on his blog.

The Honda company introduced an accord conceptual compartment at the Detroit Auto Show, which gives an idea of ​​how the next generation model will look like. Moreover, it is very specific - in the American market, the trademark will appear in the fall of this year. The dimensions of the future Accord will almost not change: the sedan will become a little shorter and lighter, and the compartment will remain the same.

The Russian Football Premier League (Premier League) will help the Tom football club, which has serious financial difficulties, establish contacts with sponsors, told reporters on Wednesday during a visit to Tomsk, President of the Premier League Sergei Prygkin.

In 2012, Motorola Mobility and Lenovo will release the first serial smartphones based on Intel Atom processors. About this, as RIA Novosti reports, said Intel CEO Paul Othelini in his speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) exhibition in Las Vegas. The K800 smartphone from Lenovo, which in the second quarter of this year will appear on sale in China, and then in other regions, should enter the market.