“It is not a fact that these same elections will take place. This issue remains unresolved, that is, the Verkhovna Rada has already registered the bill on these elections, but it is not very clear how the Verkhovna Rada will work and whether it will be seriously reformatted or at the threat of early termination of authority with the final result of the presidential election.

Boris Borodin What is being decided in the next presidential election in Ukraine? What will these elections give us? The answers to these questions seem to me no less significant than the result of these same elections. Although, to be honest, even more significant, because the result of the elections - for me personally - is already obvious. Either Julia Vladimirovna or Viktor Fedorovich will win - and this result sadden me.

The Ministry of Economic Development introduced the amendments to the Law “On the privatization of state and municipal property”, allowing the private companies to involve in privatization are written by Vedomosti. According to the amendments, the companies allowed for the privatization process will be selected by the government. It will also determine the amount of remuneration, which will depend on the results of sales, and the procedure for its payment.

The Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources of Kazakhstan Sauat Mynbaev considers it impossible to force the project to build a nuclear power plant (nuclear power plant) in Aktau on the basis of the Russian VBER-300 reactor without guarantees of the Russian side at a price for electricity and technical risks.

At a meeting on improving control and supervision functions in the field of agriculture, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that the Russian government would reform the system of veterinary and phytosanitary control, the news agency will be reported. “I believe that the result of our meeting should be the adoption of comprehensive decisions to reform the system of veterinary and phytosanitary control, including changes in federal legislation and departmental regulatory framework,” he said.

Governor Valentina Matvienko today took part in the work of the board of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, the press service of the Government of St. Petersburg reports . “The past year has become for all of us a year of difficult tests caused by the global economic and financial crisis. And we withstood these trials.

A 47-year-old journalist, beaten by a policeman on a medical sabotage of Tomsk, died, the Vesti-Tomsk website said. The cause of the death of the journalist was multiple injuries, which was inflicted on him on January 4, the 26-year-old senior police sergeant Alexei Mitaev. Local media reported that the policeman actually raped a handle from a shovel of a journalist who was drunk and was in a semi -conscious state.

The Moscow Arbitration Court postponed the consideration of the claim of the president of Inteko Elena Baturina on the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation and compensation of 200 thousand rubles of moral damage in relation to the co -chair of the Solidarity movement Boris Nemtsov, RBC reports.

Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov promised Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to develop a budget car from scratch, the target price of which, according to Vedomosti , will be 8,900 euros (about $ 12,800). The government told the newspaper that it is proposed to take a five-door hybrid with a universal body, developed jointly with Yarovit-Motors, which engages in engineering and produces trucks in St. Petersburg.

The Investigative Committee for the Krasnodar Territory was presented to the ex-employee of the Internal Affairs Directorate of Novorossiysk Alexei Dymovsky a prosecution under the article “Fraud committed by a person using his official position,” the press service of the department said. The preliminary investigation continues. In relation to Dymovsky, a preventive measure in the form of a non -departure subscription was chosen.

Muscovites can soon lose a well -known American ice cream: a fierce family war has unfolded around the Russian plant Baskin Robbins, RBC reports with reference to the Izvestia geset. The heirs of Baskin Robbins CJSC, who died in April last year, Yuri Abraman, on which American ice cream is produced, divide the property of the enterprise.

The President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), Alexander Shokhin, said that both the USA and Russia are interested in resuming the supply of American poultry meat in the Russian Federation, Finmarket reports. The President of the RSPP also noted that Russia has an additional possibility of purchasing poultry meat in those countries that use the airborne cooling method.

In Amsterdam today, the lawsuit over the leader of the Netherlands Ultra -right Party of Freedom Hert Wilders, known for his anti -Islamic rhetoric, in particular, by the recognition that he would “have expelled the Prophet Muhammad from the country” if he had “lived in our time”. The prosecutor’s office accuses Wilders of insulting the religious feelings of Muslims and inciting hatred regarding immigrants, Euronews reports.

There will be no new direct charter flights from Georgia to Russia before negotiations between the two countries on this problem, the press service of the Ministry of Transport said. Direct flights between Russia and Georgia were canceled in 2006 after exacerbation of relations between the two countries, restored for some time in 2008, then again canceled after the August conflict of 2008.

The Government of Ukraine approved the volume of gas imports in 2010 in the amount of 27 billion cubic meters. m. This is stated at the disposal of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of December 29, 2009. It is planned to obtain its own gas 20 billion 672 million cubic meters. m, reports " RBC-Ukraine" . In 2009, the volume of gas import of Ukraine amounted to 33 billion cubic meters. m. Cm. Also : Gazprom's head Miller: Ukrainian elections will not affect gas supply