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The condition of the former President of Indonesia Suharto worsened sharply on Sunday night. He - for the second time in the last few days - the vital organs refused. Doctors described the condition of the 86-year-old Suharto as "extremely critical." The Reuters agency reports with reference to one of the doctors that the ex-president of Indonesia fell into a coma.

The Central Electoral Commission of Russia today is considering the issue of registration with the presidential leader by the opposition leader Mikhail Kasyanov. Earlier, the commission rejected a significant number of signatures filed in support of Kasyanov. He, in turn, emphasizes that claims relate to the improper execution of signature sheets, and not their authenticity.

The former President of Indonesia Muhammad Suharto died in Jakarta at the age of 86. Since the beginning of January, Suharto was hospitalized due to heart, lung and kidneys. The condition of the ex-president worsened sharply on the night of Sunday. He fell into a coma. At 13.10 local time (9.10 Moscow time), doctors noted death. General Suharto was in power in Indonesia for more than 30 years - from 1967 to 1998, when he was deposed as a result of mass folk speeches.

In the Khabarovsk region, two traffic police officers were killed, two more were injured. The policemen who drawn up documents at the scene of the accident was shot down by a foreign car without license plates, which was moving at high speed, ITAR -TASS reports. The tragedy occurred on the Habarovsk-Komsomolsk-on-Amur highway. The driver disappeared from the scene, but was subsequently detained. A criminal case has been opened.

Iran partially resumed gas supply to Turkey after a 20-day break. As the leadership of the Iranian National Gas Company stated, gas exports to Turkey were resumed on Sunday in the amount of three million cubic meters per day. A consistent increase in supplies is expected. Iran interrupted gas exports to Turkey in early January, when domestic consumption increased sharply due to cold weather, and Turkmenistan stopped supplying its gas to Iran.

In the central house of a writer in Moscow on Sunday, a memorial evening dedicated to the day of memory of the victims of the Holocaust. In the evening organized by the Holocaust Foundation, with the participation of the Russian Jewish Congress, the Moscow government, the Israeli embassy in Russia and a number of public organizations, former ghetto prisoners, war veterans, public figures, diplomats will take part.

In Kenya, more than 50 people died as a result of a new outbreak of violence on ethnic grounds. In the last days of the clashes between supporters of the authorities and the opposition belonging to different ethnic groups, they take place in the city of Nakur - the capital of one of the provinces. Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is negotiating with the government and the opposition, trying to achieve the cessation of violence.

In St. Petersburg today there is a 64-year anniversary of the full removal of the blockade. At the memorial plaque on house number 14 on Nevsky Prospekt, a rally will be held. Mourning events will be held at the Piskarevsky memorial and Seraphim cemeteries, on Victory Square and in other places where the inhabitants of the blockade Leningrad are buried.

In Ghana, on the 26th draw of the African football Cup, a second round in the S. football group was held in two teams, who won this tournament four times, won major victories: Cameroon - Zambia - 5: 1 Egypt - Sudan - 3: 0 After two rounds: Egypt - 6 points, Cameroon, Zambia - 3 each, Sudan - 0.

In the UK, the Holocaust Day was widely celebrated. According to London, the Radio Liberty correspondent Natalia Golitsyna, since 2001, the day of memory of the victims of the Holocaust has been traditionally celebrated on January 27-on the day when in 1945 Soviet troops liberated the prisoners of the Nazi concentration Ausching. Now the center of the solemn ceremony was Liverpool-a city declared the cultural capital of Europe in 2008.

Petersburger: The first thing I knew about the blockade and what I was accustomed to from childhood was that you can never say neglect of food. It was possible to refuse to eat, but it was never said: “Fu, I do not eat this muck!” This was probably the most terrible crime and sacrilege. And these blockade stories entered my life very early.

At the stage of the World Cup in Canmore (Canada), competitions in sprint were again passed, but this time the skiers fled not in a classic, but free style. With a sprint, this stage was opened, with a sprint and ended. The three winners have now compiled: In women 1. Chandra Crawford (Canada), 2. Pirio Muranen (Finland), 3. Magda Jenoin (Italy); in men 1. Emil Yonsson (Sweden), 2. Ivan Ivanov (Russia), 3. Matias Wandwal (Finland).