The theme of the 43rd Davos forum is optimistic as "sustainable dynamism." The organizers of the meeting believe that today the global economy gives much less reasons for panic than a year ago, and no longer wait for disasters. Partly investors were reassured by the foreign exchange policy of the leading world central banks, who had thrown the money into the economy.

The deputy of one of the rural settlements of the Moscow region, according to preliminary data, in a drunken form arranged a large accident: having left the oncoming lane, "assembled" three cars there. Five people were injured, including a child, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in law enforcement. The accident occurred on January 12 in the evening on the 43rd kilometer of the Mozhaisk highway, but it became known about who exactly was driving the car.

Entrepreneur Alexander Lebedev is ready to make a deposit for businessman Sergei Polonsky and two other Russians arrested in Cambodia on charges of applying violence to local sailors. "If the Cambodian courts accept cash taxes, I am ready to introduce both Polonsky and his employees," Lebedev said on his microblog on Twitter . This gesture looks generous: Lebedev is accused of hooliganism and beating Polonsky during the recording of the television program on the NTV.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) sent an appeal to the Government of the Russian Federation with a request to return the winter time for the convenience of broadcasts of the 2014 Olympics, which will be held in Sochi from February 7 to 23 next year. This information was confirmed by the press secretary of the President of the Olympic Committee of Russia (OKR) Maria Kiseleva. “This issue is completely in the competence of the government. We can only wait for the decision.

In the United States, an 18-year-old participant in the freestyle wrestling school had to withstand not only the opponent, but also the 45-kilogram spotter, who collapsed at the fighter 30 seconds after the start of the fight. Michael McCorthy, who at that moment in the starting position, first decided that it was his opponent to dealt such a powerful blow. “I think:“ Yes, this guy is something aggressive, ”and then I understand that it was a lamp,” McCorthy said in the Today television show.

The UN Security Council adopted a resolution expanding the list of sanctions against the DPRK. The resolution was the response of the international community to Pyongyan in December last year launching a rocket with a satellite . The document received support for all 15 permanent members of the Council, including Russia and China. The resolution expands the sanctions list of organizations and persons in the DPRK who prepared for the launch of the rocket.

On Wednesday, January 23, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is considering one of the central issues of the current winter session for the Russian delegation - about the humanitarian consequences of the conflict in South Ossetia of 2008. His European parliamentarians have long christened the “Russian-Georgian War” and even called on Moscow to renounce the recognition of South Ossetian and Abkhaz independence. The new document also promises to be unpleasant for Russia.

Professor Vladimir Krivoruchenko did not notice the signs of depression on the work of the colleagues of the deceased in Moscow, but he himself recently admitted that he was incurably sick, according to the Necrologist published on the website of the Moscow Humanitarian University (Moscow State University). As previously reported, the 82-year-old professor-historian was found dead in an apartment in northeast Moscow on Tuesday morning.

In Omsk, on Tuesday, a sentence was sentenced to an elderly man who shot his neighbor from the hunting rifle. The motive for the murder was the repairs of the victim of the fence. This caused an attacker of suspicions of "violation of the boundaries." By court decision, the 61-year-old resident of Omsk, Georgy Shulzhenko, will spend 12 years behind bars. He will serve his sentence in a maximum security penal colony, the official website of the RF IC reports.

Singaporeur Jason Go in design embodied his most terrible child fear. According to The Daily Mail , he created a chair in the form of a huge hairy ball with a hole in the form of an mouth. According to the plan of the 36-year-old, this image pursues him from childhood, and yet goosebumps are running on his back.

The leadership of the correctional colony N 8 in the Chelyabinsk region was in the center of the scandal caused by the mysterious death of one of the prisoners. According to human rights activists, the man died after torture was applied to him with cold.

The Velsky District Court of the Arkhangelsk Region has terminated the production of the ex-head of the MEFA MENATIP Platon Lebedev, convicted of theft of oil and “laundering” of funds, on a decrease in his sentence, to reduce his sentence.

The Ambassador of the Netherlands in Moscow Ron Keller visited the mother of Russian opposition Alexander Dolmatov, found hanged in the Dutch deportation prison, Dmitry Nechaev, friend and ally of Dolmatov in another Russia. According to him, the diplomat expressed his condolences and assured the woman that Dutch law enforcement officers would do everything possible to investigate the death of her son.

The story of the pursuit of shooting at the police , after which six Chechens and one Afghanistan were arrested, is overgrown with new details. One of the detainees turned out to be a member of the territorial election commission with a decisive vote in Chechnya - the republic, in which the elections are traditionally 100% turnout and 100% of the vote for Vladimir Putin .

Sambist Rasul Mirzaev, sentenced to two years of restrictions on freedom for infliction on the negligence of death by Moscow student Ivan Agafonov, resumes his interrupted by the investigation a sports career in mixed martial arts. As the senior coach of the Russian national sambo team, Alexander Konakov, reported on the Russian News Service , Mirzaev has already begun training. “I think everything will depend on the psychological component.