On January 20, the first round of Serbian presidential elections took place. As you know, on February 3 there will be a second round, in which the radical Tomislav Nikolic and the democrat, current President Boris Tadic, have qualified. This result was expected - the picture of the presidential elections four years ago and last year’s parliamentary elections was repeated - the radicals took first place, but power went to the democratic coalition and its candidate.

Kasyanova’s headquarters disputes the results of a re-check of signature sheets by the Central Election Commission, clarifying that the number of fake signatures is slightly for refusing Kasyanov, the press service of the RDS leader reports. Among the rejected signatures collected in the support of Kasyanov, the number of fake is an insignificant amount, and the “marriage” is primarily associated with the design of the signature sheets. “We have just received a final protocol.

The sixth batch of nuclear fuel for nuclear power plants in Bushera was delivered to Iran from Russia, Echo Moscow reports. This was officially announced by the Iranian atomic energy organization. Russia plans to complete the supply of fuel for the station in February. The nuclear power plant in the Bushera will begin to work no earlier than the end of 2008.

Victor Grin, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, approved the indictment and sent a criminal case to the court on the merits of the banker Alexei Frenkel and his accomplices accused of the murder of the First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Andrei Kozlov, Prime-Tass reports. According to the investigation, Frenkel organized the murder of Kozlov, for which he attracted performers and accomplices.

According to the police in the apartment of the deceased actor Hit Ledger, drugs or drug -containing substances were not found, reports Ar . Earlier it was reported that near the corpse the police found a bubble with pills. The police press service also reported that the found bill of $ 20, folded into a tube. The bill will be transferred for examination, it is also reported that during a visual inspection of the traces of drugs, it was also not found on it.

More than 27 thousand inhabitants of Blagoveshchensk were left on Thursday without cold and hot water due to a major accident on the main water conduit. This was stated by the River Director of the press service of the city administration, Yulia Sosnovskaya, reports Gazeta.Ru . A rush on the main water conduit occurred at 06.00 of the Amur time (00.00 Moscow time).

The world's first space travel agency Virgin Galactic opened in the United States. This year, travel agency will offer a trip to the orbit of the Earth, Rosbalt reports. “This is a historical moment that opens the era of mass tourism into space. During the first 12 years of our project, hundreds of thousands of people will be able to travel into space, ”the author of the technical project Bart Rutan said at a press conference in New York.

Dmitry Pankin was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, RBC reports. The corresponding order was signed by Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov, the press service of the government said. Earlier, Pankin headed the Department of International Financial Relations, State Long and State Financial Assets of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.

Vladimir Putin was tired of the constantly worsening reputation of Russia abroad, and he decided to create the National Information Center (NIC), which will be engaged in work with foreign media. It is expected that the center will be created in February, just before the presidential election. To lead the Supervisory Board of NIC Putin asked his old friend and judo coach Vasily Shestakov. Shestakov is a deputy of the State Duma from the Fair Russia party.

According to the Vedomosti newspaper, the faculty of computing mathematics and cybernetics (Navy) of Moscow State University buys a supercomputer, which will become the most powerful of the civil computing systems operating in Russia. The new IBM Blue Gene supercomputer is supplied with the American IBM and the Russian integration-engineering company White Wind. The cost of a supercomputer is 125 million rubles (about $ 5 million).

The jurors of the Moscow City Court last night issued a verdict in the case of five employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, accused of illegally listening to telephone conversations and receiving bribes for this. Voices 12 jury were divided equally, and this is interpreted in favor of the accused. As a result, all the defendants in the scandalous business were justified and released from custody, Kommersant writes today.

The European Court of Human Rights made a decision in the case of Maslov and Nalbandes against Russia and made a unanimous decision on violation of the Convention regarding the ban on torture. The court awarded 70,000 euros Olga Maslova and 10,000 euros Fedor Nalbandov as compensation for intangible damage. They underwent repeatedly torture from the prosecutor's office and police. There was no effective investigation against both applicants.

Alexander Chudinov In the Soviet years, when studying any scientific problem, scientists were forced to take into account the ideological perspective of events, always remembering the relationship of the material being described with the modern socio-political situation within the country. In this sense, the history of the Jacobin dictatorship was also no exception.

Andrey Levkin In "Alexander-House" they represented the book "Russia: yesterday, today, tomorrow", made by the Central Bank. The book was an interview on all kinds of topical topics, at the presentation the authors discussed about the same. With one amendment-the socio-political situation has changed, which is why the main point of the conversation became clear who. However, one more thing is theoretical. As you know, all types of artistic expression using letters are divided into genres.

In Moscow, the owner of the Arbat-Pestizh stores Vladimir Nekrasov was detained, Prime-Tass reports. He is suspected of evading taxes in the amount of almost 50 million rubles from January 2005 to December 2006.