Russian President Vladimir Putin, by his decree, appointed Dmitry Rogozin by the constant representative of the Russian Federation under the organization of the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) in Brussels. Rogozin was replaced by the Permanent Representative of Konstantin Totsky. In NATO they agreed to the appointment of Rogozin by the Permanent Representative of Russia in this organization.

The candidate from the United Opposition in Georgia Levan Gachechiladze will be provided with a live broadcast today in the information issue at 20:00, reports Georgia Online . This was announced to the agency by the general director of the Public Broadcaster Tamar Kintsurashvili. According to her, fasting of not a single person is not worth the fact that the channel does not make it possible to speak live.

Sergey Martynov Russian President Vladimir Putin, by his decree, appointed Dmitry Rogozin by the constant representative of the Russian Federation under the organization of the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) in Brussels. Rogozin was replaced by the Permanent Representative of Konstantin Totsky. In NATO they agreed to the appointment of Rogozin by the Permanent Representative of Russia in this organization.

The third largest American bank JP Morgan Chase & Co. Inc. He appointed former British Prime Minister Tony Blara senior consultant to the company. This is stated in the bank's statement, reports RBC . Tony Blair begins to fulfill his new duties starting from today, and on the basis of incomplete employment to advise JP Morgan Chase on strategic issues, global political problems and current world trends.

The most tastelessly dressed celebrity was named Spice Gerl and the wife of the former captain of the England national football team Victoria Beckham. The critic Richard Blackwell, known for his ulcerative nature, was awarded this title, annually-since 1960-compiling a list of “fashionable nightmares”. He called Mrs. Beckham style “a series of skinny mini-abides,” the Russian BBC service reports.

The Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Rosoboronexport” demanded through the court to recover 80 million rubles from the defendants in a lawsuit to protect the business reputation against the Kommersant Publishing House and entrepreneur Oleg Schwartzman in connection with the interview published in the newspaper, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax.

The authorities of Abkhazia intend to open a diplomatic representation in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRSK). About this, as reported by REGNUM , said Maxim Gwinjia, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia, who visited the Mediterranean Island in January. According to Gwinji, Abkhazia is interested in establishing economic and cultural contacts with the northern Cyprus, where the Abkhazian diaspora lives.

The prosecutor's office of Ingushetia asks the court to recognize the information materials of the Beslan Voice public organization extremist. With the corresponding claim, he appealed to the Federal Court of the Nazran district of the Republic and. O. Prosecutor of the city of Nazran Aushev. This was stated by the co -chair of the organization Ella Kesaeva, who expressed disagreement with the position of the prosecutor's office.

A flash of the disease with viral hepatitis and among the children's population of the Tuzhinsky district of Tuva, is allegedly associated with poor -quality drinking water. This was reported to RBC in the territorial department of the Federal Service for Supervision of the Protection of Consumer Rights and Human Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor) in the Republic of Tuva. As the interlocutor of RBC noted, the causes of a hepatitis outbreak are currently being investigated.

Today at 01:06 Moscow time, the fifth power unit has been introduced into the work of OGK-4 at the Surgut GRES-2 OJSC. Thus, at the moment, there are five of the six blocks of the power plant. The station is fully performed by the dispatch schedule for the production of electricity. Today, OJSC "Co-CDU" plans to cancel the high risks operating in the Tyumen energy system.

** President of the Russian Federation and his administration ** Former head of the Ministry of Health and Social Development M. Zurabov will become the presidential adviser ("Trud") According to the “labor”, the decree on the new appointment of M. Zurabov will be signed in the near future, and the very appointment of news for employees of the presidential administration is no longer.

Sergey Markedonov On New Year's Eve, many hundreds of appeals of politicians and statesmen of different levels were heard. For the most part, these appeals were designed in PR-tunality: much has already been done, but even more has to be done. However, the two congratulations that sounded on the eve of the new, 2008 in the South Caucasus should be more seriously treated.

Alex Sandow A long time ago, at a time when autocracy in Russia was still inherited on the basis of blood relationship and without presenting registration certificates, there lived Tsar Peter I and he had an heir, Tsarevich Alexei. The heir was taught sciences, trying to prepare him for royal studies. His father tried to involve him in business: he either appointed him to supervise the repair of defensive fortifications, or sent him to procure provisions for the army.

The deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation and the President of the Association of Regional Banks of Russia, Anatoly Aksakov, recalled that from January 15, 2008, amendments to the law "On counteracting the legalization (laundering) of criminal proceedings and the financing of terrorism" adopted on November 28 last year have come into force.

**President of the Russian Federation and his administration** President V. Putin had a telephone conversation with President of Belarus A. Lukashenko, during which the leaders discussed current issues of bilateral cooperation. The conversation took place at the initiative of the Belarusian side, the Kremlin press service said in a statement.