The Ambassador of Russia to Kiev Viktor Chernomyrdin said that Moscow could reconsider its relations with Ukraine in case of its entry into NATO, Radio Liberty reports. Chernomyrdin added that, in his opinion, the decision to join or not to Ukraine should be made by the country's citizens in a referendum.

On January 18, 2008, a contract agreement was signed between Bulgaria National Electric Company (NEC) of Bulgaria to build a Belene nuclear power plant. On the part of ZAO Atomstroykport, the contract agreement was signed by the head of the company Sergey Shmatko, from the Bulgarian side - the chief executive director of NEK Lubomir Velkov and the executive director of NEK Mardik Papazyan.

Iran still finances the activities of militants in Iraq, and is also engaged in their preparation, said deputy commander of the multinational forces in Iraq, Lieutenant Raymond General Odereno, Vesti reports. ru ". The general said that the US military, as before, find a lot of Iranian -made weapons in Iraq. “We still encounter those who mainly receive support from Iran and who are still trying to attack coalition forces,” he added.

On January 18, 2008, a contract agreement was signed between Bulgaria National Electric Company (NEC) of Bulgaria to build a Belene nuclear power plant. “The signing of the Contact for the construction of Belene NPP means one -Russian has already accurately returned to the European Nuclear Technology Market, with new developments and advanced technology in the most sensitive sphere - the“ peaceful atom ”,” said the CEO of the Russian Union of Energy Efficiency Semen Dragmilsky.

The Board of Directors of the RAO UES of Russia decided to stop the company's participation in the design and survey Institute Dalselenergoproekt. The main activity of the Dalselenergoproekt are research, design, survey and design and technological work in the field of thermal and electric energy.

Alexander Tarasov Sublimation is alien to the cultural industry, repression is characterized by ... films ... in all the brains, the old truth that continuous thrashing, the suppression of any individual resistance is the condition of existence in this society. The animated Donald Duck ... receives his portion of beatings so that the audience can get used to those [beatings] who expect them themselves. Max Horkheimer, Theodor Wizengrund Adorno.

On January 16, the converting of shares was completed 20 of the Supply of the Societies of the Societies in the additional ordinary nominal uninterrupted shares of the Company as part of the transition of the Hydropol of OJSC to a single campaign. As a result of this operation, all shareholders of the joined societies-Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station named after P.S.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko gave an interview for the documentary “Candle of James Ernest Meys”, the UNIAN agency reports. Yushchenko shared his memories of personal meetings with Mace, which was one of the first to publicly give a systematic and clear assessment of the Holodomor of 1932-1933. Yushchenko recalled that it was Mais who proposed the idea of ​​honoring the memory of the Holodomor victims with a candle on the window.

The Moscow authorities decided to install barriers in the capital, which will be outlined by cars that do not meet the requirements of the Euro-2 environmental standard, Radio Lighthouse reports. The city hall refers to statistics data, according to which, most Muscovites in the first place of all the problems of all the problems were posed by the issue of ecology. According to estimates, the number of cars in the capital in a few months will approach 4 million.

All buildings in Washington, which the World Bank owns or rents, will be closed on Friday due to the threat of an explosion, Reuters reports. The World Bank said that his security service was investigating the threat of the bomb, which was announced by phone, and asked the staff at the headquarters in Washington not to come to work. The bank works with law enforcement agencies to evaluate the seriousness of the threat.

Rebekah Frumkin However, how insidious and short our memory is . A.N. Yakovlev The classic work of the French historian Maurice Halbvax “Social Frames of Memory” (1925) became finally available in Russian: it went out in the “red” series of “New Publisher” with the preface by Sergey Zenkin and in his same translation. Once L.Ya. Ginzburg wrote about the specifics of the perception of a classical book, referring to fiction.

** Everything is for humans ** Last week, President Putin, meeting with the leadership of the Federation Council, talked about which way Russia should go in the coming years. He repeated his longtime thesis that our country should enter the five strongest economies in the world, but the emphasis was on the human factor.

As already informed by Polit.ru, at the end of 2007, work was completed to strengthen the dam No. 11 of the Techensky cascade of water bodies (TKV), located on the territory of the Mayak in the Chelyabinsk region. “Over the past two years, Rosatom has reached large shifts in solving the problems of radiation safety of the population in the Chelyabinsk region,” says Igor Vishtin, director of the Russian branch of the World Wildlife Fund.

Russian President Vladimir Putin stated at a Friday conference in Sofia that Russia is ready to start work to return the Bulgarian archival documents taken out of the country during the Great Patriotic War, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to RIA Novosti. Russia so responded to the proposal of Bulgaria President Georgy Pyrvanov to start this work at the expert level. In turn, Pyrvanov said that Bulgaria in a detailed letter will indicate its specific requirements on this issue.

** January 21, Monday ** The main events: A meeting of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation will be held, at which the issue of registering the first deputy prime minister D. Medvedev will be considered as a candidate for the post of President of the Russian Federation.