Sudan's radical rebel group "Folk Army of Liberation" liberated 52 hostages, RBC reports with reference to the Associated Press statement by representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross. According to the statement, a group of 41 hostages was transferred to the Red Cross in North Darfur, and 11 people in South Darfur. In 2005 The Red Cross actively participated in the liberation of 20 people, among whom were representatives of the Sudanese army and the police.

44 people became victims of the An-24 aircraft catastrophe in Hungary, reports by the Hungarian Police Representatives with reference to Reuters . One of the people on board managed to survive. Slovak peacemakers who returned from Protina (Kosovo) on board were on board the aircraft. The plane fell in the mountainous areas in the northeast of Hungary, a few kilometers from the border with Slovakia.

The prices of Uzbek gas, which Gazprom intends to purchase this year, will discuss today in Tashkent the head of the Russian gas concern Alexei Miller, ITAR-TASS reports. He has already arrived in the capital of Uzbekistan. It is reported that most likely, the price of the gas purchased by the Russian side will increase to $ 60 per 1000 cubic meters against the current $ 40.

The working group of the Public Chamber prepared proposals on the composition of the governing bodies, which will be elected at the first meeting of the chamber on January 22. Academician Yevgeny Velikhov is recommended for the post of secretary of the chamber, and the Council of the Chamber will include mainly members of the OP, appointed by the president, the Kommersant newspaper writes today.

In Moscow, an absolute record of energy consumption was set - more than 16 thousand MW. "We went through an absolute record in energy consumption and went out for 16 thousand megavatts on the load," said Anatoly Chubais, head of the RAO ESC of Russia, at the headquarters of the Moscow Energy System during the cold, the headquarters of the Moscow energy system. “The energy system of Moscow never withstand such a load before,” said Chubais.

In the Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia, a group of unknown people attacked residents of the village of Gagarino, RIA Novosti reports. As a result of the raid, two people were killed, two were seriously injured. The victims were delivered to the Sunzhensk city hospital According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic, a group of unknown in camouflage form and masks, armed with automatic weapons, burst into one of the houses of the village of Gagarino and shot local residents.

The largest retrospective of Russian art ever exhibited in the USA is "Russia!" - It became one of the most successful projects in the history of the Museum of Guggenheim. The exhibition was visited by more than 400 thousand people, which is an absolute record for this museum.

During the audit in one of the parts of the Air Force stationed at the SECHEA military airfield in the Bryansk region, the loss of four AN-124 Ruslan transport aircraft was discovered, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax. According to the head of the territorial department of the Federal Service of Financial and Budget Supervision of the Bryansk Region Vladimir Korshunov, a shortage of four AN- 124 Ruslan aircraft for a total of 4,753 million rubles was identified.

Damascus condemned the US decision to freeze the accounts of the head of the military intelligence of Syria asf Shaukat, RIA Novosti reports. This decision is “caused by the position of Syria, advocating the realization of the rights of the Palestine people,” said the Syria Foreign Ministry.

In Tatarstan, a family of four, spouses and two of their teenage sons died as a result of household gas poisoning, RBC reports. The tragedy occurred in a private house in the village of Karmanovo, Zainsky district. The reason for the incident was that the torch of an automatic gas water heater went out and gas began to enter the living room. As it turned out, this device was installed without the permission of the gas service.

On the outskirts of the Dagestan capital of Makhachkala, on the evening of January 19, a dozen bags with dead chickens were discovered on the evening of January 19, the newspaper. RU reports with reference to the Air Force. Experts find out if the chicken from bird flu died. The bags were found in the trash at about 18.00 Moscow time. The results of the tests of several carcasses collected by specialists of the veterinary service and Rospotrebnadzor will be known in a few days.

** President of the Russian Federation and his administration ** President V. Putin held a meeting with the head of Rosatom S. Kirienko , who was devoted to a number of issues, including international ones, in the nuclear sector. In particular, according to S. Kirienko, Russia will increase the number of nuclear power plants and by 2030 intends to bring the share of electricity produced to them to 25% of the total.

On January 19, on the website of the Press Center Mikhail Khodorkovsky in the heading after cassation. Statements and defense comments "published an open letter to the chief editor of the newspaper Life Lawyer Yuri Schmidt, who, by a power of attorney from Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has the right to perform any actions on his behalf. In a letter, Schmidt accuses the newspaper of slander on his client and speaks of the possible problems that as a result will arise in Khodorkovsky in the colony.

In the east of Hungary, the burning fragments of the broken military transport aircraft of the AN-24 Air Force were discovered, on the board of which 48 people were located, RIA Novosti reports. The spokesman for the Slovak army Milan Vanga confirmed the fact of the plane crash. The plane flew from Protina (Kosovo) to the Slovak city of Koshchits. On board there were 48 soldiers of the Slovak mission KFOR in Kosovo, returning to their homeland.

The International Group of Molecular Genetics (Kerstin Lindblad-toh et al.) Announced the completion of work to determine the nucleotide sequence of all the chromosomes of the home dog ( Canis Familiaris ). An article with the results is published in yesterday's NATURE issue. Researchers also compiled a map of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP - Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms) between dog breeds and a comparative analysis of the genome and genes with such rodents and primates.