Spanish athletes winning international competitions want to sing a hymn during the award ceremony The Spanish anthem was left without words. The National Olympic Committee of the country, on whose initiative, a competition was held for the best words, rejected the option selected by members of the representative jury.

A man-head. According to observers, the president of Serbia will be the one whom her Prime Minister Kosteunitsa will support (in the photo) According to preliminary data, in the presidential election in Serbia, the representing the nationalist wing of society Tomislav Nikolich wins. However, his separation from the current president of the liberal Boris Tadich is small, and the winner of their confrontation will be revealed during the second round on February 3.

The program is conducted by Oleg Vinokurov. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Amsterdam Sofya Kornienko takes part. Oleg Vinokurov: In Amsterdam, in the very heart of the famous Red Quarter, the Red Light Fashion project started: by decision of the city council, several windows that previously occupied prostitutes were transferred to the most fashionable city designers of clothing and accessories.

The program is conducted by Oleg Vinokurov. A radio correspondent of Radio Freedom Veronika Bode takes part. Oleg Vinokurov: The latest study of the analytical levad Center has a lot of data about the successor of the Russian president. About how the Russians are perceived by Dmitry Medvedev, whether the features of similarity with Vladimir Putin see him, Veronica Bode was told by Boris Dubin, the head of the department of socio-political studies of the Levada Center.

The program is conducted by Mikhail Salenkov. The expert in the Balkans Sergey Romanenko takes part. Mikhail Salenkov: According to preliminary data, the first round of the presidential election in Serbia did not reveal the winner, none of the nine candidates gained the absolute majority of votes. The second round is scheduled for February 3. We have a live broadcast on the Balkans of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergey Romanenko.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Kyiv Vladimir Ivakhnenko takes part. Andrei Shary: In Kiev, a scandal erupted at the end of last week is gaining momentum, in the secretariat of the Ukrainian president there was a fight between the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Yuri Lutsenko and the mayor of Kiev Leonid Chernovetsky.

The winter session PACE opened in Strasbourg

In France, at the age of 110, a veteran of the First World War, a participant in the battle of Somme and the oldest resident of the country Louis de Kazenav died. France President Nicolas Sarkozy in this regard paid tribute to almost one and a half million French soldiers who fell on the fields of the war of 1914-1918. Now in France there was only one veteran of the First World War - Lazar Pontiselli, who is also 110 years old.

Valocordin, Corvalol and other drugs containing a small amount of potent and toxic substances will still be released without recipes. This was stated by the Deputy Head of the Federal Drug Control Service Alexander Fedorov. Earlier information appeared that these drugs and pentalgin were in a new list of drugs that should be sold only by prescription.

The Chinese authorities refuted the message that appeared about the death of more than 10 workers in the construction of the main Olympic stadium in Beijing. Such information was published by the London newspaper Sandy Times. The material quotes the words of unnamed eyewitnesses to the tragedy and it is written that the families of the dead were paid increased compensation so that they were silent.

Balkans expert of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergey Romanenko on elections in Serbia were searched in the Moscow Museum named after Sakharov, the state of St. Petersburg monuments causing fears of specialists

On January 22, a list of nominations for the Main Cinematographic Prize of the United States will be announced - awards of the American Film Academy. It is expected that the list will be the names of Kate Blanchett, George Clooney, Daniel Day-Luis and Angelina Jolie. The representative of the film academy said that the Oscars will be presented as planned-February 24 at the Kodak cinema in Los Angeles.

In the 71st year of her life, actress Suzanne Pleshtt died in Los Angeles. She was glorified by the role of the wife of an eccentric psychiatrist in the television series "Show Bob Newhart." Suzanna Pleshtt played more than a hundred roles in the television and films, including in the famous picture of Alfred Hitchcock "Birds". She did not live a few days before the opening ceremony of the star with her name on the Alley of the Glory of Hollywood.

The Central Election Commission of Russia will today consider the issue of registering Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as a candidate for the president of the country. In addition to "United Russia", it is supported by "Fair Russia", the Agrarian Party and "Civil Power". In addition to Medvedev, the leaders of the Communist Party and the LDPR - Gennady Zyuganov and Vladimir Zhirinovsky, already registered by the Central Election Commission, claimed for the presidential post.