The other day, due to an accident in the power supply system, 5.6 million Livejournal sites (a popular project that allows users to conduct online diarrhea has stopped working. According to Gazeta.Ru today, about 100 Internet servers were injured as a result of the accident, which supported the work of the magazine.

Numerous protests of pensioners, dissatisfied with the abolition of benefits and did not receive compensation promised by the Government, found power by surprise, although experts, media and sociologists in the summer warned her representatives about inevitable unrest in this regard.

Russian Maria Sharapova successfully started at the Australian Open in the tennis and made it in the second round of the tournament. Today she beat the Bulgarian athlete Cecil Karatanchev from Bulgaria - 6: 3, 6: 1. Also in the first round, another Russian woman won - Vera Dushevina, who outplayed Gil Craibas (USA) with a score of 3: 6, 7: 6 (7: 2), 6: 4.

Representatives of the presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych in the Supreme Court of Ukraine demand the allocation of judge Lilia Grigoryeva, People's Deputy Vladimir Zayets said. According to him, the judge decided to exclude three requirements from the applicant’s complaint, which violated the procedural norms, RIA Novosti reports. At the same time, members of the CEC of Ukraine and representatives of Yushchenko said that they have no requirements regarding the removal of judges.

The head of the Palestinian Autonomy Administration, Mahmoud Abbas, decided to integrate members of the Extremist group “Brigade of the Martyrs of Al-Axsa” into the Palestinian security services, writes Le Monde. According to a source in these services, Abbas asked law enforcement agencies to implement his decision as soon as possible.

The Supreme Court of Ukraine rejected the petition of representatives of Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych to challenge judge Liliya Grigorieva, judge Anatoly Yarema said after the meeting. Now Swiss lawyers are speaking, RIA Novosti reports. They make a statement in French, and the translator simultaneously translates them into Russian.

In the UK, nominees for the prestigious prize of the British Academy of Cinema and BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) were announced, Newsru.com reports. Kate Winslet is nominated twice in the same category "Best Actress" for the roles in the films "Eternal Light of Passion" and "Magic Country". In this nomination, she competes with her girlfriend, British actress Owl Stonton, who played a role in the film "Vera Drake", which collected a total of seven nominations of Bafta.

The charges of a fire in the hostel of the city of Kyzyl (Republic of Tuva) were foreseen, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Department of the Prosecutor General in the Siberian Federal District. The defendants are the heads of construction companies that repair the building. They were charged with fraud - they revealed facts of theft of funds that were allocated in 2003 for the repair of the hostel.

Occupying only 15% of the area of ​​Russia, the European part is a place of residence of more than 66% of the country's population. “Western drift” has been going on for 15 years, and demographers continue to record centroting migration flows. On the structure of intra -Russian migration - the next issue of the ballot "Demoscope" of the Center for Demography and Ecology of Human.

** What to expect in the coming hours. Announcement of events ** In Moscow: The Minister of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation Yu.Trutnev will hold an operational meeting with the heads of structural divisions of the Ministry of Physics and Technology of Russia. January 17-18, President of Kazakhstan N. Nazarbaev will visit Russia on an official visit. Russia may prohibit the import of crop production from Denmark due to the detection of dangerous pests in them.

In Los Angeles, the Golden Globe awards, an annual award, which are awarded to actors and directors, representatives of a foreign press writing about cinema, took place. The best film-Drama was the picture of director Martin Scorsese Aviator, and the leading actor in her Leonardo DiCaprio became the winner of the prize in the category "Best Male Role in the Drad film," Newsru.com reports.

Today, Moscow says goodbye to the famous illusionist, People's Artist of Russia Harutyun Akopyan, who died on the night of January 14 at the 87th year of his life. The civilian memorial service began at 12 o’clock in the central house of art workers. It is already known that Akopyan will be buried in the Troekurovsky cemetery. Harutyun Amayakovich Akopyan was born in Yerevan in 1918. At the insistence of his father, Akopyan graduated from a construction college, worked at Armstroy.

In Turkey, an earthquake of 4.1 points on the Richter scale occurred, RBC reports with reference to the Associated Press. There was no information about victims and destruction. The epicenter of underground shocks was in the province of Erzurum, 900 km east of Ankara. The earthquake occurred at 20:32 Moscow time.

** Themes of the day ** From political news, the central theme for the media continues to remain mass spontaneous protests against the monetization of benefits , which have been undergoing on January 10 throughout the country. The press notes that last weekend the most massive performances were awarded in St. Petersburg, where several rallies were held against replacing benefits with monetary compensations.

Vladimir Putin believes that the government and the leadership of the regions did not fully fulfill the task, which was that, as a result of replacing benefits for monetary compensation, the position of people would not worsen, RIA Novosti reports. During the meeting, Putin demanded that the government index pensions from March 1 at least 200 rubles. Putin said that the issue of implementing the law on preferential payments was not thought out to the end.