Islamist militants freed the schoolchildren, whom they kept hostage today for several hours in the city of Banna in the north-west of Pakistan, reports Reuters . The militants surrendered to the elders of the tribes, who conducted negotiations with them. The liberation of schoolchildren was preceded by the removal of a cordon around her. There are no victims and victims, reports news agencies.

According to Nature , French researchers from CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) and University Denis Denial University were able to see the remnants of ancient bacteria age 2.7 billion years in the so -called stromatolites. Strimatolite is a fossil carbonate deposition, when polishing which is visible a layered structure of a stone, made up of more and less wide stripes.

In the southeast of Moscow, a murder was committed on Novo-Marinskaya Street, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax. According to the source in law enforcement agencies, at about 20.30 Moscow time, unknown people threw out at full speed from the car in the area of ​​house 33 on Novo-Marinskaya Street a girl who hit her head on the border and died. The identity of the deceased is established. She turned out to be a 21-year-old student of one of the Moscow universities.

A group of students, who disappeared in the mountains of North Ossetia, independently went down to the village of Myramadag, where rescuers met her, all students are alive and healthy, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to RIA Novosti. Recall that an unregistered group of 15 students was heading from the village of Siagdon of the Alagirsky district towards the village of Koban through the mountain pass and lost. The incident was reported by relatives of the missing.

In the company MTS-Ukraine, which is part of the AFK Sistema holding, top management is again changing. Pavel Pavlovsky, General Director of the Ukrainian Daughter OJSC, will leave the company at the end of January. His place, according to the newspaper Kommersant - Ukraine, will be occupied by the former director of the Ural branch of MTS Andrei Dubovskov, who last autumn was the first deputy director of MTS - Ukraine.

The country's population will be able to save on local fixed communication services. From the first of February 2008, most regions will reduce the payment of an “unlimited” tariff. At the same time, the cost of a minute of the local telephone connection on tariff plans “combined” and “time -based” will increase. In some regions, the basic volume of connections included in the “combined” tariff will change.

The unknown shot at the UAZ car in the Tenkinsky district of the Magadan region, reports Duta.ru with reference to the message of the press service of the regional Internal Affairs Directorate. 3 km from the village of Ust-Omchug, an unknown man shot a UAZ car. The 42-year-old driver in the cabin received a tangent gunshot wound. During the investigative-operational events, the suspect was detained.

In November 2008, Russian Railways plans to conduct public placement on the Russian Exchange up to 30% of the shares of Transcontainer OJSC. This was reported today by the company. Previously, Russian Railways planned in 2008 to sell 25-30 percent of the “transcontainer” on Russian exchanges and a year later to place an additional issue on the London Exchange.

The presidential candidate from United Russia, the first deputy prime minister Dmitry Medvedev will not participate in the election debate, reports Lenta.ru with reference to RIA Novosti. On Monday, Medvedev notified the CEC of the refusal to participate in campaigning events held on the channels of all -Russian and regional television and broadcasting organizations.

During the frosts, Jerusalem homeless people will be provided for free in hotels, Lenta.ru reports with reference to The Jerusalem Post. On January 28, the mayor of Jerusalem Uri Lupolyansky announced that every homeless resident of Jerusalem for the period of frosts will be provided with housing. This operation is called the "warm house". The city authorities recommended residents to report every homeless person he noticed.

The Syktyvkar Federal Court today rejected the complaint of the Memorial human rights company, which demanded that the British Council departments in Russia be recognized as unlawful, Gazeta.Ru reports. According to human rights activists of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who sent a note to the British in connection with the continuation of the work of the council departments in St.

Since the founding of St. Petersburg at the mouth of the Neva, this decision of Peter I has been criticized more than once. Diderot himself wrote to Catherine II that it seemed to him “very inappropriate to place the heart on the tip of the finger,” and advised moving the capital to the center of the country. Often, the creation of just such a “window to Europe” is justified by historians only from the point of view of the economic convenience of access to the sea.

In Chechnya, two police officers were killed during a clash, three were injured. Two militants were destroyed, reports RBC . The collision occurred near the village of Gordali Nozhai-Yurt district during operational-search measures. According to the law enforcement agencies of Chechnya, the head of the group (warrant officer) and sergeant were killed, three policemen were injured, two of them were hospitalized, one was provided with medical assistance on the spot.

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