Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova became the winner of the Australian Open in women's singles. In the final, our compatriot defeated her rival from Serbia, Ana Ivanovic. In the decisive confrontation, Sharapova finished in two sets. The key episode of the opening game happened with the score 5:5, when Maria was able to take a game on Ivanovich’s serve. The Serbian failed to win back the break, and therefore the first set ended with a score of 7:5 in Sharapova’s favor.

"Arbat -Putstizh" to the owner of the Arbat -Putstiza, Vladimir Nekrasov and the consultant "Evergate" Sergei Schneider (Mogilevich) on Monday will be charged in part of the second article 199 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - "evasion of taxes and fees from organizations on an especially large scale." The maximum sentence under this article is 6 years in prison, "the source that was close to Saturday said close to Saturday investigation.

The organizers of the planned rally in support of Putin in Nazran called their supporters to go home. According to Ingushetia.Ru, the organizing committee decided to cancel the rally and postpone it until February 23. Motivation - "The local authorities once again went to provocations, trying to cause mass riots in Nazran, then to blame the organizers of the rally in them." REGNUM reports that at present shooting in the city subsided.

In St. Petersburg, the famous actor Igor Dmitriev died. He was 80 years old. Dmitriev was an academician of the National Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Russia, a member of the Union of Cinematographers, the Union of Theater Workers of Russia, the English Club, the World Club of Petersburgers. The funeral will be approximately on Tuesday, writes Fontanka.ru.

The General Director of the Moscow Palace of Youth was arrested in Germany. It is reported that he was detained at the request of the Russian side in connection with suspicion of embezzlement of MDM shares for 500 million rubles. Currently, the issue of its extradition to Russia is being resolved.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia expressed regret on the decision of the Russian Foreign Ministry on the expulsion of the Latvian diplomat. “Latvian diplomats fully comply with the norms of the Vienna Convention of 1961,” the Latvian statement said. Recall, as Polit.ru previously reported, on Wednesday Latvia left the second secretary of the Russian embassy, ​​accused by Lithuania of Spying, Alexander Rogozhin.

In the village of Pyshma, 300 kilometers east of Yekaterinburg on January 24, a frontal clash of the bus and the VAZ-21099 car occurred. According to preliminary data, the culprit is the driver of the school bus, the Vesti TV channel reports. The bus drove off the secondary road and did not give way to the car, which was driving along the main one. After a terrible blow, both cars flew into the ditch.

A large meteorite has fallen today in France. Eyewitnesses took a bright ball for a burning aircraft and immediately notified fire and rescue services about this, RSN reports. The fall of the meteorite confirmed the data of the locators. According to calculations, the place where the space body has fallen should be 7 km south of the city of Bourge. There were no reports of the victims or material damage from the fall of the celestial body.

The situation on the Russian-Polish border with every hour is becoming more tense. The Kaliningrad railway canceled trains to Gdansk and Berlin due to the strike of Polish customs officers. They require an increase in salaries. On the road on both sides of the border, more than a thousand wagons with Polish and Russian cargoes accumulated. The work of Ukrainian and Belarusian car checkpoints is also paralyzed. Only the “green” corridor works at the “Brest” point.

The largest brewery SCOTTISH & NewCastle has accepted the offer of Carlsberg and Heineken to buy S&N for 7.8 billion pounds (about $ 15.5 billion). An announcement of the conclusion of the transaction laid the end of almost 260 years of independence of Scottish & Newcastle, the manufacturer of world -famous brands of the Newcastle Brown Ale beer, Foster's and Kronenbourg 1664.

Russian skaters Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin took first place in the competitions of dance duets at the European Figure Skating Championship, which takes place in Zagreb. The Russians won an arbitrary dance and thanks to this the French Isabel Delubel and Olivier Schonfelder, who were leading after two types of program - mandatory and original dances ahead. Before the arbitrary program, Russian dancers lagged behind competitors one and a half points, writes Lenta.ru .

In the former capital of Ingushetia Nazrani, the buildings of the Assa Hotel and the editorial board of the government newspaper serdalo lit up, Ingusheti.ru reports. In different areas of the city, shootouts are heard. Earlier in the city, a rally was supposed to begin in support of Vladimir Putin, prohibited due to the fact that the pretender was declared a register of counter -terrorist operations. As reports by REGNUM , the city center is currently cordoned off by police officers.

The Japanese company TERAMENTO Corporation stated that it has purchased control packages of shares of six large companies, including Toyota and Sony.

From Germany, the former founder of Kinobank and National Standard banks is extracted to Russia, Konstantin Konovalenko. It is placed in an investigative insulator, ”said the Prosecutor General’s Office. Konovalenko is accused of fraud on an especially large scale, reports the RSN.

According to official statistics, almost 2 million American families lost housing in the first 11 months, having unable to pay off debts. The victims of the crisis were not only people, but also many cats and dogs that turned out to be homeless because their owners themselves lost their own housing. As reports RBC with reference to the French media, the number of inhabitants of animals in the United States has grown several times in recent months.