The condition of the Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon improved slightly, but remains "stable-critical," RIA Novosti reports. Yesterday, Sharon began to move with his right hand and right foot. Today, these movements have become more intense, the left hand began to move. According to doctors, all vital parameters remain within normal limits. On January 5 , Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a heavy stroke and is still in a coma.

The genetic code of bird flu will be deciphered in the coming days, RIA Novosti reports After deciphering the code, the source of the disease will become known, as well as information about the resistance of the virus, the possibility of distribution in the form of an epidemic and mutation. In the course of studies of the virus strain in the UK, a new drug against bird flu Tamiflu, which was already purchased by Türkiye, will be tested in practice.

Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Astana to participate in the inauguration of the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, RIA Novosti reports. Together with Putin, the first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, also invited to the inauguration, arrived in Astana. Nazarbayev’s official entry ceremony will be held tomorrow January 11, at the Ak-Hord presidential palace. On the same day, Putin will negotiate with the Kazakh leader.

Foreign Ministers of the UK, France and Germany will hold a meeting on January 12 to discuss the issue of transferring the so -called Iranian nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council, AR reports. The reason for such a meeting was the decision of Iran to resume nuclear research.

According to the chairman of the PNN Mahmoud Abbas, the United States assured him that Israel would allow Arabs living in the Eastern Jerusalem to take part in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of Autonomy on October 25, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to the Air Force. This assuration, added Abbas, he received from the US President George Bush.

Sergey Markedonov 2005, in a certain sense, became a turning point in Russian politics in relation to the CIS-2-a kind of community of unrecognized states in the post-Soviet space. In the past year, after long bickering, the Kremlin agreed to the Georgian plan to resolve the conflict between Tbilisi and Tskhinvali and Viktor Yushchenko’s “road map” by the permission of the Transdnestrovian-Moldavian confrontation.

The pollution of the Amur to the Chinese Sungari Chinese River showed that Khabarovsk needs to urgently switch to alternative water supply sources, Gazeta.ru with the exile of Interfax, the opinion of the Plenipotentiary of the President in the Far Eastern Federal District Kamil Ishakova.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine decided to resign the government Yuri Yehanurov. The Votum of Dorrivance to the government was supported by the 250th of 450 deputies. Yanurov is instructed to act as the prime minister before the formation of a new cabinet. The draft resolution was proposed by the "wrong" faction, which is in a tough opposition to President Viktor Yushchenko.

Today, the lawyer of Mikhail Khodorkovsky Yuri Schmidt filed a complaint to the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow on behalf of his client. In the complaint, the lawyer invites “to recognize the decision of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation and the Federal Penitentiary Service in Moscow on the direction of Khodorkovsky M.B.

The musical Andrew Lloyd Webber "The Ghost of the Opera" on Monday went down in the history of Broadway: it was shown on the record 7486th time. Thus, the "Phantom of the Opera" broke the record set by another work of the composer, the musical of the "cat", BBC reports. The Phantom of the Opera appeared on the Broadway stage in 1988 and since then has not gone to the stage - for so long on Broadway has not yet shown a single performance. The performances were visited by 11 million people.

The leader of North Korea Kim Jong Ir arrived on Tuesday with a visit to China, RIA Novosti reports. The train with the North Korean leader crossed the border in the east of the PRC in an atmosphere of increased safety measures. The last time Kim Jong Il visited China in April 2004 for negotiations with the Chinese leadership. President of China Hu Jintao visited Pyongyang in October last year.

The chairman of the Duma Committee on Inter -Earodic Affairs, the head of the Russian delegation in PACE Konstantin Kosachev informed reporters that at yesterday's meeting of the Bureau, the agenda of the January session Pase was approved, which was opened on January 23. As the current, the theme of secret Terem CIA was approved in some European countries.

It’s easy to determine who runs faster, jumps higher or throws the javelin farther - just find out the athletes’ results; they don’t even have to compete in the same stadium. This applies to swimming, cycling or cross-country skiing - any sport where time or distance is an important factor. The situation is different in sports games and in spectacular sports, such as figure skating or gymnastics.

In the upcoming elections in the parliament of eight constituent entities of the ATP and Yabloko Federation, uniform lists of candidates are again nominated, Echo of Moscow reports. This was officially stated by the secretary of the Political Council of the ATP Boris Nadezhdin. He especially noted that this became possible after the success of the ATP and Yabloko in the elections to the Moscow City Duma. Today, the deadline for submitting party lists to the election commissions is completed.

The Verkhovna Rada, which resigned the government of Yekhanurov, will not be able to appoint a new composition of the government independently, since it does not have authority, Ukrainian Pravda reports. This was stated by the presidential adviser on legal issues, Nikolai Nonfynoye. According to him, the norms of the Constitution, which allow parliament to release the government, have already entered into force, and the norms that grant them the right to form the government is not yet.