People's Artist of the RSFSR, laureate of the USSR State Prize Yevgeny Zharikov died in the 71st year of life, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation. The famous handsome Soviet cinema, who loved the audience in the films "Three Plus Two" and "Ivanovo Childhood", died on Wednesday night, told Interfax a source in medical circles. Zharikov was sick with cancer, recently he was in the Botkin hospital under the supervision of doctors.

The economic policy of Russia will not obey any political graphs, but is designed for a significant perspective, the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday at a meeting on economic issues. "Under the conditions of preserved internal problems and conditions of global instability, the economic policy of the state, as before, should be primarily balanced, verified and detailed," Itar -Tass quotes Medvedev.

The American space department - NASA - and independent experts in the United States rejected the version expressed in Russia that the Fobos Grunct interplanetary station could suffer from the impact of the US radar. The fact that in the first hours after the start, the device could accidentally find himself in the radar area installed on the Kvajalein atoll (Marshallov Island), the Russian newspaper Kommersant Russian newspaper said last Tuesday, January 17.

The bloody family drama was played on the outskirts of Moscow, where a man was cut after reprisals against his divorced wife. Everything happened in front of their one -year -old daughter. Before going to the crime, the suicide read the revelations of my beloved on the social portal "Odnoklassniki". The tragedy occurred on Monday evening in one of the apartments of a five -story building on Gromov Street in the north of Moscow.

Farewell to the famous film and television agent Evgeny Ginzburg took place on Wednesday, January 18, in Moscow in the White Hall of the capital's house of the cinema, where several hundred colleagues and friends of the master gathered, ITAR-TASS reports.

Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko informed American diplomats about the involvement in Rosukrenergo of another ex-head of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma and the current Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. This is stated in the display of the then American ambassador John Hearbst on January 25, 2006, which was published by the WikiLeaks site.

Today, in the Epiphany Christmas Eve , a press conference on the topic "celebration of the baptism of the Lord in 2012" was held in the Komsomolskaya Pravda Publishing House. Representatives of the clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church answered the question of guessing to baptism - whether to revive this innocent tradition, and how to perceive fortune -telling at first glance.

Bentley Director General Wolfgan Durheimer spoke about the company's plans for the near future, reports Avtomotro.ru . The most anticipated news was the upcoming luxury crossover.

The capital's authorities are completing preparations for a large-scale reconstruction of the city's main outbound routes. Repair work on the highways will begin this year and will last at least two years. Even the mayor’s office admits that the reconstruction will lead to a significant deterioration in the road situation in the city. Kommersant writes about this.

The German blogger Jan Dremer managed to expose the grouping of Russian hackers, who for several days hacked computer systems of social networks using the evil worm Koobface, thus earned millions of dollars. A group called "Ali Baba & 4" united five residents of St. Petersburg: Anton Korotchenko (Nick Krotreal), Stanislav Avdeed, Svyatoslav Polishchuk (PSVIAT and PSYCOMAN), Roman Koturbash (Pomuc) and Alexander Koloppy (Floppy), reports "RBC" with reference to The New York Times.

The co-founder of the Internet company Yahoo Jerry Yang is leaving the board of directors and resigning from all positions held in the company, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Yahoo website. Yang is also leaving the boards of Yahoo Japan Corporation and Alibaba Group, in which Yahoo has large stakes. The management of Yahoo, which owns the popular search engine and provides a wide range of Internet services, claims that Young made the decision to leave independently.

On Wednesday in the capital of Iraq, Baghdad was subjected to a missile shelling of the Turkish Embassy, ​​unknown people released three missiles into the diplomatic mission building, ITAR-TASS reports. According to the head of the Turkish mission, Yunus Demirer, one of the missiles fell into the wall surrounding around the perimeter of the embassy building. According to preliminary data, there are no dead or victims.

The new US Ambassador to Moscow, Michael McFol , the main ideologist of the Russian-American reboot, began his mission with a meeting with Russian civil activists and opposition politicians. The leaders of Parnas, Voices have already criticized the representatives of the ruling party in the State Duma and many ordinary citizens for this.

The Voter League - a new non -political association created by famous public figures and representatives of the intelligentsia who participate in large -scale protests of recent times, was officially represented in the press center of RIA Novosti . Her founders spoke about the goals and objectives of the League and the principles of her work.

The American authorities announced the extradition from Switzerland of a 54-year-old citizen of Russia Vladimir Heznin, accused with his son Kirill of kidnapping data from credit cards of American citizens and thus damage in the amount of several hundred thousand dollars. As stated in a joint statement by the Prosecutor's Office of New York and the FBI, the charge of fraud under nine points was brought by Russians back in May 2007.