The producer of the film director Alexander Sokurov , the keyboard player of the legendary group "Kino", the author of the music for the films "Alexander", "Creation of Adam", "Streets of Broken Lights" Andrei Sigle became a victim of scammers. 17 million rubles were stolen from his company, according to Fontanka.ru . According to the investigation, the company "Proline LTD", which was headed by Sigle, built the stadium in Kolomna, and after doing all the work the customer did not pay the money.

The blogger from Novosibirsk, who reported that the Moscow flight of Aeroflot was detained for an hour due to the late VIP passenger, began to doubt the correctness of his version. The official statements of the press service of the Minister of Communications Igor Schegolev, who allegedly late for the flight, seemed to the indignant passenger quite truthful. What can not be said about the reports of the airport administration and airline, in which the blogger found contradictions.

Applicants for candidates for the president of the United States from the Republican Party participated in the next election debate on the eve of the next primary elections (primaries) in Florida on January 31. The meeting between the four remaining politicians today took place the day before, on Thursday, in the city of Jacksonville. The discussion took place in high colors, notes BBC .

The authorities are not going to investigate the discrepancies discovered last fall in the information about the income and property of the State Duma deputies submitted by them for different organizations - the Central Election Commission and the lower house of the parliament.

At a meeting, the Deputy Minister of Finance Alexei Savatyugin proposed a formula for conflict resolution among insurance companies regarding the "binding" of the inspection coupons for OSAGO policies. Amendments to the legislation are being prepared that shift the responsibility for the lack of a talon of insurance from insurers to car owners, Kommersant reports.

In the suburbs, on the territory of the set of television show "Dom-2" an explosion occurred, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement. The incident happened at about 19:20. According to preliminary data, two people were injured. Recall, "Dom-2" is removed in the village of Leshkovo, Istrinsky district of the Moscow region.

Since Gazprom is now the sole owner of the Beltransgaz Belarusian gas operator, he will increase the volume of transportation of Blue Fuel to Europe through Belarus, said the director of the National Energy Institute, Sergei Owr. According to him, Gazprom owns a 100% shares of Beltransgaz and the Belarusian section of the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline, so the Russian company will use this gas transportation route as much as possible.

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova was ahead of the famous football player David Beckham in the ranking of the richest athletes in the world, whose version was published on Thursday by Bloomberg . Sharapova made a significant rise, moving from 83rd to 33rd in the Bloomberg list. The ex-gambler of the English football club "Manchester United" David Beckham, now playing for the American "Los Angeles Galaxi", sank from 19th to 58th place.

Specialists of the Catholic Theological Faculty of Bonn University opened a new scientific site dedicated to the problems of the Judeo-Christian dialogue. Scientific articles, historical sources and other materials of the Nostra Aetate site. Dialog & Erinnerung ("Our time. Dialogue and memory") are intended for students, scientists, teachers and all those interested.

In the Chelyabinsk region, the police detained a minor pupil of a boarding school, who is suspected of killing a famous Moldavian athlete. The boxer was stabbed on New Year's Eve when he slept peacefully in the yard. A criminal case has been instituted against a 17-year-old teenager under Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder), the official website of the regional investigative department reports.

The coaching headquarters of the Russian hockey national team, led by Zinetula Bilyaletdinov, called the expanded composition of the team to participate in the third stage of the Europeanchockeyur, which will be held in Sweden from February 9 to 12. The preliminary list includes 30 players, among them there was no place for masters as Alexey Morozov and Danis Zaripov again.

Criminal investigators of the Moscow Region delayed the criminal authority of Georgian origin, which over the past years was considered a dead man. The 50-year-old “thief in law”, nicknamed Koka, was detained while driving a car along the federal highway. During the search, he seized heroin, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Criminal Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

The last examination of the deaths of the entrepreneur of Vera Trifonova in the metropolitan pre -trial detention center "Sailor Silence" in April 2010 established that she died from an overdose of atropine and adrenaline in a prison hospital, her relatives' lawyer Vladimir Zherebenkov claims. “On the eve of the result, we got the result of the examination made at our request, the National Medical Chamber.

On Friday, the CEC of Russia confirmed the withdrawal from the presidential race at once two candidates -nominates - one of the founders of the Yabloko party Grigory Yavlinsky and Governor of the Irkutsk Region Dmitry Mezentsev. The reason for this in both cases was problems with signature sheets. As reported, in Yavlinsky, the number of inaccurate and invalid signatures exceeded 25% , which is five times more than the error permissible by law.

Russian sports couples occupied the entire pedestal at the European Figure Skating Championship in British Sheffield. Gold medals were won by Tatyana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov. They received 137.65 points for the execution of an arbitrary program and scored 210.45 points in the amount of two rentals at the European Championship. The second with the result of 193.79 points was the duet of Vera Bazarova and Yuri Larionov.