In Moscow, the police detained two employees of the city department of education on suspicion of receiving a bribe of 750 thousand rubles from the head of a commercial company. According to ITAR-TASS, the officials demanded a large amount from the entrepreneur as a reward for organizing the victory of his company in a tender and assistance in the conclusion of a state contract worth two million seven hundred thousand rubles.

The main trophy of the NHL - Stanley's Cup In the next season, the NHL threatens the locout. Possible reduction in the number of commands in the RPFL. Criminal liability for "contractual" matches. These topics are interested in Russian bloggers writing about sports. Sports blogger . RU Alexei Mayorov is sure that the refusal of the Trade Union of players to confirm the new format of the NHL divisions was the official beginning of hostilities against the League.

Promotion "Worship of slaves" In Novosibirsk, participants in the ironic action "Worship of slaves" are judged. On Saturday, January 14, several people came to the public reception of "United Russia" in order to publicly make laudatory speeches to the party. The police considered this performance an unauthorized picket and detained several of its participants.

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In the west of Iraq, today, when attacking militants on a checkpoint in the city of Er Rutba, five police officers were killed. According to local authorities, the police carried a patrol on the highway connecting Iraq with Jordan. Anbar province in the past was a stronghold of militants associated with al-Qaeda. Two days ago, when attacking militants on the police department in the city of Ramadi, which is the administrative center of the Anbar province, seven police officers were killed.

Irina Lagunina: In the north of Moscow, in the industrial zone of Korovino, they plan to build the most powerful monitoring plant with a capacity of 700 thousand tons per year on a car repair street. It will be located half a kilometer from residential buildings. The official environmental examination found that the plant would not harm either the environment or the health of people. Independent ecologists against. Says Lyubov Chizhova.

The leader of the Free Syrian Army, based in Turkey, Riad Al-Asad called the world community to protect the civilian population of Syria. He stated that the observers of the League of the Arab states were not able to force President Bashar al -Assad to stop repressions against participants in anti -government demonstrations and called for the Syrian issue to the UN Security Council. Today, the Shana State Information Agency reported that the terrorists attacked a checkpoint near Damascus.

In the center of Alma-Ata, the leaders of the national social democratic party burned copies of the protocols of the precinct election commissions with the results of the parliamentary elections. Thus, the opposition expressed their disagreement with the results of the vote in Kazakhstan on January 15, according to which this political organization does not go to parliament. The police did not interfere with the conduct of an inconsistent action.

The Central Election Commission of Russia today completes the reception of signatures from candidates for the president of the country, who, for further participation in the election campaign, must collect 2 million signatures in their support.

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The FITCH International Rating Agency has reduced from a “positive” to “stable” forecast of long -term credit ratings of Russia for obligations in foreign and national currencies. The ratings themselves, which were reduced in early February 2009 by one step, but remained in one of the investment categories, the agency was not reviewed.

In Moscow today, the Constituent Assembly of the Civil Committee is being held, which will coordinate protest actions for honest elections. The Radio Freedom site is directing the broadcast of this event. Among the participants in the new structure are opposition activists Ilya Ponomarev, Alexei Navalny, Evgenia Chirikova. At the meeting, in particular, it is planned to adopt the constituent declaration and form a working regulation.

The two parties presented in the State Duma of Russia - the Communist Party and the Fair Russia - decided to official participation of their representatives in the organizing committee of the rallies for honest elections. According to Interfax, the authority of the Fair Russia faction in the lower house of the Parliament Gennady Gudkov and the Communist Party deputy Yevgeny Dorovin are endowed with the corresponding authority.

The head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, proposed to consider the creation of a financial police that would have the right to conduct operational-search activities. In an interview with Rossiy newspaper, Bastrykin noted that the new body could be entrusted not only by the fight against crimes in the fiscal sphere, but also to the suppression of the illegal activity in the field of expenditure of state budget funds and state extra -budgetary funds.

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