Great Britain, Italy and Spain supported the initiative of France and Germany, which proposed a new system of leadership of the European Union. Paris and Berlin propose to establish the posts of two co -chairs of the European Union, who should be occupied by the head of the European Commission and the chairman of the EU Council. Both leaders will be elected for a long time.

Mikhail Salenkov , Moscow: The European Court of Human Rights is ready to accept six complaints of Russian citizens, residents of Chechnya. The interests of the applicants are represented by the Memorial human rights center, whose employees believe that appeal to the Strasbourg court may affect Russia's policy in the North Caucasus. 36 complaints of residents of the Chechen Republic were sent to the European Court by representatives of the Memorial.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called on North Korea to reconsider his decision to withdraw from the contract on non -proliferation of nuclear weapons. On Tuesday, at the opening of the UN conference on disarmament in Geneva, Annan said that the crisis around the DPRK nuclear program should only be allowed peacefully. On the same day, the North Korean delegation arrived in Seoul.

In Moscow, the commission on monumental art is again discussing today the issue of returning the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky to Lubyanskaya Square. The primary party organization of the Irkutsk Communist Party “Komsomol Veterans”, as well as the Moscow Club of State Security Veterans, addressed the city authorities. The monument to Dzerzhinsky was dismantled in 1991 after the defeat of the Civil Code of the State Emergency Committee.

The program is conducted by Dmitry Volchek. The host of the Radio Liberty program “From the Christian point of view” Yakov Krotov, the Observer of the RS Elena Fanailova, artists Harutyun Zulumyan, Vladislav Mamyshev-Monro, German Vinolov, Valery Orlov, director of the Sakharov Center, Yuri Samonurov, the brown of the Sakharov Museum Lyubov Kholin.

In Russia, an emergency has developed with alcohol consumption, ”the project“ Concept of State Alcohol Policy ”says. The concept provides for tight control over the production and sale of alcohol, restricting advertising and increasing criminal liability for illegal production of alcohol. The document was adopted today by the working group of the State Council of Russia on the fight against drug addiction and alcoholism.

Even in difficult Soviet times, the intelligentsia considered Georgia to be its outlet. On Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi in those years, one could often meet writers, artists, musicians, who are rightfully called the great. Our regular author Yuri Vachnadze prepared material about two outstanding personalities that are directly related to Georgia - singer Alexander Vertinsky and writer Levan Khaindrava.

The Ministers of Finance of the European Union at a meeting in Brussels issued a warning by Germany, which has a significant budget deficit. Germany faces a fine of millions of euros if it does not reduce the deficit to a level of less than 3 percent - as established in the stability and development pact adopted by members of the European Union. Now the expenses of the German budget exceed income by 3.75 percent. France is also warned, whose deficit approached a dangerous mark.

In the UK, thousands of firefighters did not go to work today - after negotiations with the authorities about raising salaries again came to a dead end. This is the second strike of firefighters over the past month. 19 thousand military men are ready to replace the striking. According to the authorities, the actions of trade unions cause damage to public security.

In Iran yesterday, the closure of another periodic publication was announced - the weekly Tabane Kazvin. The reason for the closure is not indicated. The judicial authorities of Iran, in which conservative religious leaders dominate, accuse the reformist press of trying to undermine the foundations of the Islamic state.

Saddam Hussein should not have any illusions that he can find another way out of the crisis, ”said British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Speaking in parliament today, Blair expressed the hope that, if necessary, the UN authorized the use of force against Iraq, but repeated that the UK, together with the United States, was ready to act without a resolution of the UN Security Council. Germany, China, Russia and France are warned against the use of force against Iraq - at least in the near future.

Secretary of the Russian Security Council Vladimir Rushailo and the chairman of the Georgian Parliament Nino Burjanadze are discussing the situation around Abkhazia today in Moscow. On the eve of Burjanadze, she said that due to the Abkhaz problem, the relationship between Moscow and Tbilisi came to a standstill.

At the Australian Open Tennis Championship, which continues in Melbourne, the first semi -finalist of men today was American Andre Agassi, who won the Frenchman Sebastian Groszhan - 6: 3, 6: 2, 6: 2. The American competition was an American Vinus Williams, who defeated Daniel Gantukhova from Slovakia - 6: 4, 6: 3. Russian woman Elena Likhovtseva, in a mixed pair with Mark Nowls from the Bahamas, lost to American Martina Navatilova and Leander Pesa from India.

The program is conducted by Dmitry Volchek. Marina Timasheva talked with Russian comedian Vyacheslav Polunin. Dmitry Volchek: on January 25 and 26, in the premises of the Mayakovsky Moscow Theater theater, the Russian Academy of Theater Arts is recruited at the course of the famous Russian comedian Vyacheslav Polunin, the creator of the Pantomime Theater "Lyudey".

Yuri Bagrov , North Caucasus: the authorities of Chechnya and Ingushetia are preparing for the arrival of the delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Blocks are reduced in the Chechen Republic, military units are withdrawn from those settlements where the arrival of the Lord Frank Jadda is outlined, thus trying to create the appearance of a reduction in the army group.