Rescue teams are preparing to resume surgery on the coast of Italy, Costa Concordia, which was suspended after the vessel was shifted a few centimeters due to strong waves at sea, Associated Press reports. Having received a hole 70 meters long and about two meters wide, the ship lay on its side and remains in this state near the island of Gillo.

Power returns the election of governors. True, a whole set of restrictions on the path of an ordinary citizen in the governor's chair remains. The risk of the riot of the regionals against the center is also not as large as in the late nineties. However, the measure of regional authorities may well affect the regional authorities. Dmitry Medvedev began to carry out “anti -Bulberry prevention”: he introduced a law on direct elections of governors to the State Duma.

The world court of the Tver district fined the leader of the unregistered party "Other Russia" by Eduard Limonov for 1,500 rubles for organizing an unauthorized rally on December 31 last year, Interfax reports. The court found Limonov guilty of "violation of the established procedure for organizing a rally." On December 31, the police once again stopped the opposition’s attempts to gather on the Triumphal Square.

According to the preliminary results of the extraordinary elections of the lower house of the Parliament of Kazakhstan, two parties were able to overcome the 7-percent barrier, Interfax reports. According to the Chairman of the Central Election Commission, Kuandyk Turgulkulov, the Kazakhstan political party Ak Zhol gained 7.46 % of the vote, and the Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan (KNPK) ─ 7.02 % of the vote.

7 cargo aircraft accommodating 22 thousand laptops will deliver equipment to Russia for web broadcasts, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. At the end of February, they plan to test the system at 60 percent of polling stations, Ilya Masskh, deputy head of the Ministry of Communications, told reporters. In order not to disrupt the schedule, I had to contact abroad, shipping and delivery of the ordered equipment will begin today.

On January 16, the Court of the Amur Region sentenced Alexei Zhitsky, who was found guilty of pedophilia, by 25 years in a special regime colony, the RIA Novosti website reports. In addition, the convict must pay compensation for moral damage - 1 million rubles to the victim in the murder case and 500 thousand relatives of the girl affected by the pedophile. Zhitsky is accused under the articles “Murder”, “Violent actions of a sexual nature” and “Rape”. The convicted person does not find guilty.

The Federal Service of the Russian Federation on drug control is offered to allow foreigners to enter Russia exclusively by foreign passports, Interfax reports. Drug police believe that drug couriers from Central Asia use the opportunity to come to Russia on a national passport.

The coast of Italy, the liner Costa Concordia, leaked, reports Sky News with reference to the statement of the Minister of Environmental Affairs of Italy Corrado Clini). It is still unknown whether this liquid is fuel. Around the ship began to build protective barriers. Earlier, the Italian authorities declared the need for urgent measures to prevent a spill of 2.4 thousand tons of fuel located in 17 separate liner tanks.

The investigation was terminated in the case of the clash of the boat and the barge, which occurred on the night of July 31, 2011 opposite Luzhnetsk Embankment in the center of Moscow and claimed nine lives, the website of RIA Novosti reports. The tragedy occurred as a result of a collision of the “Swallow” walking boat and the Dry-loaded motor ship “OKA-5”. Eight passengers and captain of the boat died on the spot.

The bill on direct governor’s elections is already ready and will be submitted in the near future Dmitry Medvedev to the State Duma, Kommersant reports with reference to sources in the Kremlin and the White House.

The insurance payments of the victim’s owners off the coast of Italy Liner Costa Concordia can amount to $ 1 billion, which promises to become the largest insurance payment for one shipwreck, Interfax writes with reference to experts. On Monday, Italian television reported that Costa Crociere will be damaged about 1.5 billion euros. This amount includes the cost of a vessel built in 2004-2005, which is estimated at 500 million euros.

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Rogozin took under personal control an investigation into the causes of the accident of the Fobos-Grunct interplanetary station, reporting this in his Facebook'e . On January 31, he plans to hold a meeting at the Himavtomatika Design Bureau in Voronezh.

In Moscow, a meeting of the Central People's Staff of Public Support for Presidential Candidate Vladimir Putin, the site " EP " reports. During the meeting, participants should approve the heads of the regional national headquarters of Putin’s public support, as well as a schedule for traveling members of the headquarters.

The laureate of the recently established prize "Polit.ru" will be a person whose actions will be bold in form, wise in content and noble in meaning. Pavel Plesov told us in which case the whole set of these qualities is possible. Polit.ru: we gathered here about the presentation of the Polit.ru award. Could you say what awards you lack in various fields? Pavel Plesov: Prizes - more, good and different. The more bonuses that are given for specific cases, the better.

A criminal case was instituted on the sale of a resident of Udmurtia of weapons boxes, in which there were 79 Kalashnikov assault rifles, RIA Novosti reports. At the same time, it is not officially specified by which article the case is initiated. A source in law enforcement agencies said that this is an article “improper performance of the obligations to protect weapons, ammunition, explosives and explosive devices”.