In China, a 2nd black list of 14 websites with unhealthy content has been published, the Sinhua agency reports. The forbidden sites included such popular sites as MSN, TOM and others. On January 5, in China, a special scan of the fight against the distribution on the Internet of Vei sites with pornographic content started. On the same day, the names of 19 sites were published in blacklisted for posting information with unhealthy content.

No more than half of the borrowers who have fallen due to the crisis in a difficult financial situation can count on the state of residence in the repayment of mortgage loans, Kommersant writes. In December, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin offered an agency for mortgage and housing lending (AIZHK) to help such citizens pay with banks on a mortgage. AIZHK published the criteria for the selection of borrowers to whom the agency is ready to help.

Arabic and Palestinian cellular operators providing communication services in the GAZ sector reduced tariffs for Enclave residents by 50-80%. In addition, mobile operators send the Palestinians in gas, messages, calls to be strong and remember that Muslims of the whole world pray for them. Companies that thus decided to cheer up the residents of the sector are not called. Meanwhile, the IDF is also engaged in the newsletter of messages to the Palestinians in Gazal.

**What to expect in the coming hours. Announcement of events** Gazprom - Ukraine Ukraine has signed a protocol on control over the supply and transportation of gas from Russia to Ukraine, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said; Transit to Europe can be resumed in 36 hours, says Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek.

The theme of the crisis has firmly taken its place in the view of 2009, but it will not be limited to it. A New Year's poll by Polit.ru showed that many of our experts and colleagues believe that Russia and the world have to solve a number of problems that arose earlier, “before the oil flood” (publisher Dmitry Itskovich), but are still unresolved. There may not be any drastic changes this year, but it may turn out to be a preparatory year.

As of January 1, 2009, the volume of the reserve fund of Russia amounted to more than four trillion rubles, the press service of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation reports. It is also noted that a month ago the volume of the fund did not exceed 3.7 trillion rubles. The national welfare fund at the end of the month has also increased. If in early December its volume amounted to 2.1 trillion rubles, then in early January - almost 2.6 trillion rubles.

The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation in the Moscow Region completed an investigation into a criminal case against the General Director of the Monopoly Production and Construction Company Evgeny Bashko. He is accused of giving a bribe to an official, that is, of committing a crime under Part 1 of Art. 291 of the Criminal Code. This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee .

Dmitry Medvedev expressed condolences to the relatives and friends of the plenipotentiary of the President in the State Duma of Alexander Koskopkin in connection with his tragic death. “This is an irreparable loss for your family, for everyone who knew, appreciated and respected Alexander Sergeyevich. He came to politics as very young.

In the epic called "Andrei Arshavin’s transition to the European Club" a new character appeared. Manchester City, sponsored by the Arab sheikhs, is ready to pay Zenit for his main star 18 million pounds, as well as satisfy the high financial requests of the football player himself, reports Sportbox.ru . According to Sunday Mirror, City representatives have already negotiated with Arshavin and his agent, and the owner of the club - Sheikh Mansur Al Nakhayan gave the go -ahead to conclude a deal.

The new Russian -language version of the Firefox browser first includes the Yandex search line, the Vedomosti writes. Previously, in all Russian versions of Firefox, the number one was Google. The beta version of Firefox 3.1 with the built-in search for Yandex can be released on January 13. Mozilla is looking at the quality and demand for search engines - therefore, in the Chinese version of Firefox, the default is the search for Baidu, and in Japan - Yahoo Japan.

The Indonesian ship with more than 200 passengers on board crashed, reports Reuters. According to the representative of the country's transport administration, there is only information about 18 survivors. The State Radio of Indonesia reported that the ship located in the east of the country has been lost. The authorities suggest that the ship sank between the islands of Sulawesi and East Kalimantan.

The Russian government approved the new composition of the State Commission on Radio Frequencies (GKRC), Prime-Tass reports. According to the order, Boris Boyarskov, Evgeny Karpov, Stanislav Puginskity, Nikolai Sacchenko, Mikhail Sukhodolsky were displayed from the GKRCH.

In December 2008, the consumer price index amounted to 100.7%, for the period from the beginning of the year - 113.3%, the Federal State Statistics Service reports. Prices rose to the caviar of salmon fish - by 3.6%, live and frozen fish - by 2.1-2.4%. The price of chickens, dumplings, manti, ravioli, canned meat, raw -button sausages - 1.7-1.9%. For canned vegetables, whole disrepair milk, natural honey, chocolate, chocolate sweets, caramel and chewing gum - by 1.7-4.0%.

Now you can study the behavior of the crowd, model and predict it without leaving the cabinet, while working with a virtual crowd that Arizona scientists have simulated on a computer. The University of Arizona recently published the results of the study (read here , and see here ) On the basis of the University of Arizona State University, scientists tried to create a computer model of behavior of real people in the crowd. This model is an imitation of an entire city.

On the fact of the collapse of the Mi-171 helicopter in Altai, a criminal case was instituted under Article 263 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violation of traffic safety rules and air transport). The case was initiated by the West Siberian Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office.