**There will be as many candidates as needed** Last week, the Central Election Commission officially registered Dmitry Medvedev as a candidate for the presidency of Russia; however, this, of course, did not surprise anyone.

All the past year I was pursued by numbers - on huge street "stretch marks", on narrow, ragged leaflets in the metro wagons, it was: "1937-2007". But these were by no means the announcement of the "bloody dawn of totalitarianism", the return of which has long been predicted by local Cassandra. With the rise, it was not the seventieth anniversary of the beginning of the "Great Terror", as one might think, but the anniversary of the last flight of Chelyuskin.

**There will be as many candidates as needed** Last week, the Central Election Commission officially registered Dmitry Medvedev as a candidate for the presidency of Russia; however, this, of course, did not surprise anyone.

January 26 at 19:00 in the bookstore of the Bilingva club will be presented by Svetlana Yurina’s book “Tourfirm as it is”. The author is trying to deal with the problems of an imperfect tourist business system, which everyone is faced in one way or another while traveling. The action of the book, in the center of the narrative of which is the metropolitan travel company, takes place both in Russia and abroad. At the presentation, a ticket will be held in Egypt.

Russian presidential candidate Mikhail Kasyanov filed a complaint about the Central Election Commission of Russia on Friday in the Tver District Court of Moscow. This was stated by adviser Kasyanova Elena Dikun, reports Gazeta.Ru . According to Kasyanov, the “inaction” of the CEC consists in the non -fulfillment of the obligations assigned to it by the law to ensure the publication of state television channels for the amount of payment of the airtime.

The Public Council at the Ministry of Regional Development will be headed by the head of the RSPP, a member of the Public Chamber, Alexander Shokhin. As Kommersant himself told Shokhin himself, he received an offer to lead the Council from the Minister of Know in November last year.

The Arbitration Court of the Irkutsk Region on Friday decided to leave without movement until February 24 of the Rosprirodnadzor’s lawsuit to suspend the activities of the Baikal Central Bank (BCC), filed at the end of December, the representative of the court said. “The plaintiff is invited to finalize this lawsuit in accordance with the norms of the Arbitration Procedure Code.

The Russian search engine “Yandex” first hit the ten largest search engines of the world, taking nine place in the December rating of the Comscore research agency and bypassing Chinese alibaba.com, reports Lenta.ru . In total, in December 2007, users made 66.2 billion search queries. Yandex accounted for 566 million requests. This is 0.9 percent of the total. The first place in the ranking was taken by Google. He and his services accounted for 62.4 percent of all search queries.

The CEC intends to refuse to hold a traditional night in the format in which it took place during the last few federal electoral cycles. There is a plan according to which the international information center will be organized outside the CEC walls, although in the elections 2007, 2004, 2003 it functioned in the Bolshoi Cherkasy Lane, where the commission is located, the Kommersant newspaper writes.

Alexander Dolgin In the days of the old markets, when the same goods were sold and bought from time to time, we could talk about the undoubted fidelity of the basic postulate of the classical economy that prices adequately transfer value. However, today in some markets there are no repeated transactions, and prices can be radically different from value, for example, when it comes to the field of culture.

Most of the detained activists of the prohibited National Bolshevik Party were charged with participating in an unauthorized rally, Radio “Freedom” reports. According to the “other Russia”, one of the participants in the action - Maria Kolele - was broken by the hand during the detention. In the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate, this information is refuted.

The Russian trade union of sailors fears that the disappearance of the Captain of the Uskov in the East Chinese Sea may be associated with the attack of the pirates, the Vesti information channel reports. In the Hong Kong zone, there are often attacks on the vessels of the trade fleet. In 2007, 18 ships were stolen by pirates, 292 sailors were held hostages.

In the summer of 6751, Grand Duke Yaroslav went to the Tatars to visit Batyev, and sent his son Kostyantin to Kanovi; Baty almost honored Yaroslav the Great and his men, and let him go, and the rivers to him: “Yaroslav, be the oldest prince in the Russian language”; Yaroslav returned to his land with great honor." This is from the Laurentian Chronicle - a record from 1243, marking the actual beginning of what we used to call the "Tatar-Mongol yoke." That is, vassal dependence of the

In the upcoming weekend, an extensive cyclone with the center above the north of the Russian plain will subordinate the territory from the Baltic to the Urals and from Scandinavia to the Black Sea. Everywhere it will be damp, silent, windy and at the same time quite warm, according to the Center Fobos .

The number of visitors to the sites of American newspapers in 2007 increased sharply, the statistics of the newspaper Association of America (Newspaper Armica) are evidenced on January 24, Lenta.ru reports with reference to Reuters. In 2007, on average, about 60 million unique visitors entered the sites of American newspapers - six percent more than in the previous year.