US President Barack Obama will make a traditional annual speech about the situation in the country on January 24. First of all, the 4th annual speech of President Obama about the situation in the country will be the official starting point of his election campaign , although Barack Obama has long been collecting money to its election fund. He set a goal to collect a record amount: 1 billion dollars. Inside the democratic party, he has no rivals.

Grigory Yavlinsky, January 18, 2012 The applicants for the post of Russian President Grigory Yavlinsky and Dmitry Mezentsev have more than 10 percent of the marriage in signature sheets, said Elena Dubrovina, a member of the Central Election Commission. According to Dubrovina, the governor of the Irkutsk region Mezentsev has less chance of registering, since he has very few so -called safety signatures.

Vladimir Ryzhkov (photo Dmitry Borko, Radio Liberty) The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation canceled on January 23 the decision of the Armed Forces, issued in March 2007, on the liquidation of the Republican Party of Russia. Then the decision was made on the basis of a statement of the paintings that the number of members of this party and the number of its regional branches do not comply with Russian law.

Football. African Nations Cup. Gabon, equatorial Guinea Group c Cat d'Ivoire - Sudan 1: 0 Burkina-Faso-Angola 1: 2

The price of VTsIOM surveys is known, and yet this news is difficult to ignore: the premiere rating has grown and amounted to 52%. According to the extended sociologists, the presidential candidate Putin must win the first round, although with some difficulty. However, before the elections is almost a month and a half, and it can be assumed that polls will issue positive dynamics. To believe or not to believe these numbers is a deeply personal question.

The Supreme Court of Russia canceled the decision on the liquidation of the Republican Party and decided to revise the corresponding claim of the Federal Registration Service. Thus, the court satisfied the statement of the party leader Vladimir Ryzhkov, who asked to revise the case in connection with the decision of the European Court of Human Rights.

The speaker of the lower house of the Egypt parliament at its first after the meeting of the meeting was elected one of the leaders of the Muslim Brothers Saad al-Katatany. 399 out of 496 deputies voted for him.

The victims of the armed clashes that occurred on Monday in the Libyan city of Bani-Walid, to the southeast of Tripoli, became, according to some reports, at least four people. According to the Al-Juzira channel, the supporters of the murdered Libyan dictator Muamar Gaddafi, who attacked the city on Monday, are now holding control over the Bani-Walid.

Tennis. Australian Open Women. The fourth circle Ekaterina Makarova (Russia) - Serena Williams (USA) - 6: 2, 6: 3 Maria Sharapova (Russia) - Sabina Lisitski (Germany) 3: 6, 6: 2, 6: 3 Peter Kvitov (Czech Republic) - Ana Ivanovich (Serbia) 6: 2, 7: 6 Sarah Errani (Italy) - Zheng Jie (China) 6: 2, 6: 1 Men.

Russia today has leased the nuclear submarine "Nerpa" to leasing. According to Interfax, the transmission ceremony took place at the Zvezda ship repair plant in the port of the Big Stone of the Primorsky Territory. An Indian flag is raised above the boat, and it received a new name - "chakra". The leasing term is 10 years. The cost of the contract is more than $ 650 million million.

A sign inviting to the polling station during the presidential election in the United States in 2008. Russian bloggers are discussing the upcoming elections of the President of Russia. The writer Boris Akunin devoted to this topic the article “Win without haste”, published in the newspaper International Herald Tribun.

The meeting of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev with members of the Presidential Council for Human Rights has been postponed from late January to February. According to the head of the council Mikhail Fedotov, the main topic on it will be the protection of environmental rights of citizens.

In Alma-Ata, employees of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan are searched in the editorial office of the Opposition newspaper "View". According to Interfax, the editor -in -chief of the publication Igor Vinavsky, they seize documents and computers.