On the agenda of the Accounts Chamber "Monitoring in the ON-line mode of the Law on Monetization ." This was told by the chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation Sergey Stepashin. Eight regions are identified for the audit, including St. Petersburg, he said. The President’s control department will simultaneously check the other 10 regions.

At the open championship of Australia in tennis, Russian tennis players suffered the first defeats. Mikhail Yuzhny, in the dramatic match, lost to the famous Spanish tennis player Michael Podal - 1: 6, 6: 4, 6: 4, 5: 7, 3: 6. Another Russian, Igor Andreevya, defeated the Argentinean Fernando Gonzalez - 7: 5, 6: 2, 6: 3. The female couple Maria Kirilenko/ Lina Krasnorutskaya, who lost to the duet Marion Bartoli (France)/ Anna -Lena Grrrrrrion (Germany) - 3: 6, 1: 6, also performed unsuccessfully.

For six months now, the paranoid installation of monuments to Stalin throughout Russia has been going on. Veterans demand that the leader return the legal memorial place, and the city administrations joyfully fulfill the will of the people. Yalta , Krasnodar, Belgorod and the Ural village of Taiginka already put the foundation and calculate the size-who, in anticipation of the 60th anniversary of the Victory, who is in spiritual tendency. Messages grew gradually.

The Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Alexei Miller realized that his company was melting before his eyes. The press service of the concern spread the statement of its chapter, which states that preparations for the reform of the Gazprom shares market, that is, unification with Rosneft, is on plan.

The Information Center of the Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship (IC ORCHD) reported to Polit.ru about the next "off-court execution" in the Achkhoy-Martan district of Chechnya. Yesterday, as the letter says, employees of the local police department held operational-investigation events in a forest belt next to the federal highway Rostov-Baku near the bridge over the ASA River.

The press secretary of the newly elected President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko Irina Gerashchenko confirmed his plans to visit Russia on January 24, correspondent.net reports. It is planned that the next day after the inauguration, the President of Ukraine will visit Moscow on a working visit.

The authorities of the American state of Massachusetts began searching for four Chinese and two Iraqis, who are suspected of preparing a terrorist attack in the Boston area, RBC reports citing the American Boston Held.

The new President of the Palestinian National Administration Mahmoud Abbas is ready to meet with the ministers of the EU Member States, RBC reports. The meeting is scheduled for February 21. The upcoming visit by the Palestinian leader was announced by the Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Aselborne after today's meeting with Abbas in the Gaza Strip.

On January 24, the Moscow Arbitration Court will discuss the issue of eviction of Honest Kommersant JSC from the premises on the street. Maria Ulyanova, d.17, K.1. In this room is the long-suffering headquarters of the National-Bolshevik party. "Calling a spade of his proper proprietors, the Department of Property of Moscow at the direction of" Over "is evicted by the National Bolsheviks.

Conference "Internet: Censorship or Freedom?" Within the framework of the II open festival of non-profit youth Internet projects and the awarding ceremony of the winners of the II open festival of non-profit youth Internet projects will be held on January 20 in Moscow.

The largest iceberg in the world crashed into the shore of Antarctica, reports Associated Press . According to experts, this poses a serious threat to both the animal world and the research bases located here. It was expected that, at 15a, the iceberg is 160 kilometers long, it will collide with the mainland near the American research station Makmurdo last week.

On January 20, 2005, Stanislav Dmitrievsky, editor -in -chief of the Nizhny Novgorod newspaper Lawyer, and the co -chair of the Russian -Chechen friendship Society (ORCHD) was called by 2 o’clock in the afternoon for a conversation in the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, the Demos human rights center reported. The invitation to the conversation was received by phone.

The verdict against ordinary Andrei Troshaev, who shot two people of the Amur Region, was issued by the Far Eastern District Military Court, writes Gazeta.ru . Troshaev was found guilty of desertion with weapons, intentionally killing two people, robbery, theft, as well as theft and illegal wearing of weapons and ammunition.

** Themes of the day ** The central media are actively discussing a message about the resignation of S. Stepashin from the post of head of the Accounts Chamber . The media notes that this was officially and this was supposed to happen after the adoption of the law on a new appointment of the head of the chamber. According to the law, which entered into force on December 3, 2004, the status of the Accounts Chamber is actually equal to the position of the federal ministry.

The Supreme Court of Ukraine recognized the decision of the Central Election Commission legal, which declared Viktor Yushchenko the winner of the presidential election on December 26, 2004, RBC reports with reference to the AR. Thus, the Supreme Court rejected the complaint of presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych about actions, decisions and inaction of the CEC. The court examined the complaint from January 17.