Basketball. NBA. Regular championship "Denver"-"New Jersey" 123: 115. Timothy of the brain ("Denver") 5 points "Los Angeles Clippers"-"Miami" 95:89 (in overtime) "Portland" - "Orlando" 104: 107 "Utah"-"Los Angeles Lakers" 87:90 "San Antonio"-"Houston" 101: 95 (in overtime) "New Orlean"-"Oklahoma City" 85:95 "Chicago" - "Washington" 78:64 "Boston" - "Dallas" 85:90 "New York"-"Philadelphia" 85:79 "Indiana" - "Atlanta" 96:84 Toronto - "Sacramento" 91:98

Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin The Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin proposes to create administrative courts in the country that will consider citizens' complaints about the policy of the authorities. This is stated in the project of the election program Politics, which is today published on the Internet. According to the head of the Cabinet of Ministers, these measures will help ensure the accountability of state heads to society.

Sales of new cars and light commercial cars in Russia in 2011 increased by 39% to the level of the previous year - up to 2 million 600 thousand pieces, said David Thomas, chairman of the European Business Association in Russia. The following year, according to him, the volume of sales in this segment of the Russian automobile market will amount to 2 million 800 thousand.

The volume of industrial production in 27 countries of the European Union, as in 17 countries of eurozone, decreased by 0.1%during November. By the level of November last year, the fall for the EU as a whole amounted to 0.2%, and for the Eurozone - 0.3%. Such data was presented by the Eurostat agency.

In the east of Moscow, an armed raid on the office of a commercial company. Almost a million rubles were stolen from the office in one of the houses in Nizhny Zhuravlevo Lane on Wednesday, ”a source in the city law enforcement agencies told Interfax. There were three attackers. They shot a pistol in a company manager, took the money and disappeared. The victim was hospitalized with a wound of shoulder. A criminal case has been opened.

Sergey Mironov Presidential candidates Sergey Mironov (“Fair Russia”) and Gennady Zyuganov (Communist Party) responded to the proposals of the Left Front to become “technical presidents” - in case of election, to achieve reforms of the electoral legislation, new elections to the State Duma and no later than a year after the election, to leave their post.

The birthday of the recent North Korean leader Kim Jong Ira, February 16, will be celebrated in the DPRK as a "shining star". This is stated in the statement of the North Korean leadership, published today by the Central Telegraph Agency of the DPRK. It is also reported that the body of Kim Jong Ira will be left in the Kimsusan memorial complex in Pyongyang, where the embalmed remains of his father, the founder of the state of Kim Il Sen, are stored.

The Russian federal budget in 2011 was executed with a surplus that amounted to almost 428 billion rubles or 0.8% of GDP, said the head of the Ministry of Finance Anton Siluanov. In 2010, in the country, on the contrary, a federal budget deficit was noted - at the level of 4.1% of GDP.

The command of the US Marine Corps is investigating the circumstances of the appearance on the Internet of a video showing American troops in Afghanistan, which urinate on the bodies of the dead-dumplings. The statement of the command of the corps says that so far it has not been possible to establish the author of the video, as well as to reliably confirm the authenticity of the personnel.

On Thursday, Syrian border guards did not miss a car carpet with humanitarian goods to the country, which was accompanied by about 200 Syrian and foreign activists. Trucks were traveling from Turkey. The action was called the “Column of Freedom” - by analogy with the “Freedom Flotchia”, which in 2010, also following Turkey, tried to break through the Israeli marine blockade of the gas sector.

Mahmud Ahmadinejad performs at Gavan University. January 11, 2012 The Iranian response to the sanctions and the threat of an oil embargo - in this context, American observers are considering the Latin American tour of President Iran. “If we are together and build a bomb, then this is a bomb stuffed with love,” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad joked during a meeting with Hugo Chavez in the presidential palace in the capital of Venezuela.

Irina Lagunina: For the first time, data on the expenditure of funds that King Juan Carlos first and his family members receive from the state for the first time. The very fact of publication caused approval in society, however, left a lot of questions. Many Spaniards believe that the monarchy costs the state much more than indicated in the report. From Madrid - Victor Cheretsky.