Higher school in conditions of competition: non -state sector. What are the criteria for the success of the university? Why isn't business investing in education? What do students pay for?

On Sunday, January 29, in Moscow, motorists held an action in support of honest elections: they drove along the garden ring in cars decorated with white ribbons, white balls and other symbols of the election cleanliness.

Two types of cars took part in the "White Garden Ring ": some with hastily wound on the roof and doors with white scarves, bandages and even panties. Others - with neat bows on the antennas. Apparently, the second tapes were tied for a long time and did not remove .

In the Omsk region, as a result of a fire in a private residential building in the district center, Maryanovka, presumably, were killed by four children and two adults. The signal of a fire in a one -story wooden house came last night, - ITAR -TASS was told in the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies. When extinguishing and analyzing the rubble, the bodies of a man, women and three children were found.

One of the flags used by the hacker group Anonymous The Slovak government website on Saturday underwent a massive hacker attack organized by Anonymous in response to the country's intention to sign a pan -European trade agreement on counteracting counterfeit. This was reported on the website of the Slovak newspaper SME.

A fire on the boat "Anna Akhmatova" on the Moscow channel in the area of the city of Mytishchi near Moscow was localized, the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies said. According to preliminary data, no one was injured. On board were 10 people from the repair team that were evacuated. The fire arose this afternoon and covered a third of the vessel. Fire calculations work on the spot. The cause of the fire has not yet been established.

The Danish film "Putin Kiss" received the award of the American Festival of Independent Cinema "Sandance" - for the best operator work. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent in Denmark, Sergei Dzhanyan, the film was shot by the 37-year-old graduate of the faculty of the Institute of Cinematography of Denmark Lisa Birk Pedersen and the operator of the DR2 LARS SHO channel. The documentary is dedicated to the former commissar of the Prooputinsky youth movement "Our" Masha Drokova.

Football. Championship of France. 21st round "Lill"-"Saint-Etienne" 3: 0

In Syria, according to activists, 12 people died on Saturday and another 30 were injured as a result of shelling by the security forces of one of the suburbs of Damascus, which went under the control of the opposition. According to activists, half of the dead are civilians, the other half are military personnel who deserted from the army who remained faithful to President Bashar Assad, and entered the ranks of the so -called free Siri army.

Leonid Volkov, deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Duma On January 28, a rally of supporters of Vladimir Putin was held in Yekaterinburg. A deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Duma, politician and popular blogger Leonid Volkov called his post in the Living Journal about this rally Puting, failure, shame, emptiness. " - It was possible to write more letters “P” of censorship and obscene ones - this is a very productive letter in Russian. Why "Puting" - I see, I want to separate this genre separately.

Tennis. Australian Open. Mikst. Final Bethany Mattek -Sands / TECEU ferry (USA / Romania) - Elena Vesnina / Leander Paes (Russia / India) - 6: 3, 5: 7, 10: 3

Damascus condemned the decision of the League of the Arab states to suspend the work of the mission of its observers in Syria. This step will have negative consequences and will lead to a pressure on the UN Security Council, which will be expressed in supporting foreign military intervention, ”said a representative of the Syrian government, speaking on state television.

Grigory Yavlinsky One of the founders of the Yabloko party Grigory Yavlinsky received an official letter of the Central Election Commission with the analysis of the signatures collected for it. He reported this on Sunday evening on his blog. The letter states that a little less than three percent of the signatures collected in his support as a presidential candidate was recognized as unreliable.

In the west of Georgia, more than 60 thousand families were left without electricity due to damage to power lines with heavy snowfall. The energy supply systems of two areas - Tsarengih and Chorotskuysky, suffered. In the Tsarenjikh district, where the height of the snow cover exceeded one meter, traffic on central highways was suspended.

The leader of the opposition of South Ossetia, the ex-candidate for the president of the self-proclaimed Republic, Alla Gioeva appointed the day of its inauguration on February 10. She again turned to the acting head of the republic, Vadim Brovtsev, demanding to transfer her power by a civilized way. Gioeva noted that she will conduct an inauguration in Tskhinval, even if the authorities do not provide her with the necessary conditions.