A foreign student was killed again in Voronezh Russian intelligence services, diplomats and politicians were yesterday alarmed by the news of yet another murder of a foreign student. On Sunday evening in Voronezh, a group of unknown thugs brutally beat three students from local universities. One of them, an 18-year-old citizen of Peru, a student at the Voronezh Academy of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Angelis Hurtado Enrique Arturo, was killed.

The A1 racing series is gaining momentum This season will undoubtedly go down in the history of world motorsport. And not only because in Formula 1, Michael Schumacher’s unprecedented winning streak was finally interrupted, and in the World Rally Championship, Sebastien Loeb, on the contrary, confirmed his superiority. Of course, these events will remain in the memory, but over time all this will fade into the background.

The first united Russian region now has a legitimate boss Yesterday, a new subject of the federation - the Perm Territory - got its first governor. Perm became the first enlarged region of Russia to reach the stage of officially selecting a new leader. Oleg Chirkunov became the head of the Perm region. He has served as acting governor of the Perm region since March 2004, after former governor Yuri Trutnev became minister of natural resources in the federal government.

Volgograd deputies are concerned about the timeliness of payments under compulsory motor liability insurance Soon, Russian car owners may have a tool to influence insurance companies that are in no hurry to pay compensation. A draft amendment to the law on compulsory motor liability insurance, which was developed by deputies of the Volgograd Regional Duma, has been submitted to the State Duma.

The historic visit to the People's Republic of China by the Chairman of the Taiwanese Kuomintang Party, Lian Chan, which took place in April-May of this year, raised hopes that the dangerous confrontation between Beijing and Taipei will be weakened.

The left will decide which of the rightists will become president of Poland The results of Sunday's presidential elections in Poland were announced yesterday. As expected, none of the candidates received the number of votes required to win. The first was the representative of the Civic Platform party, 48-year-old Donald Tusk, who received 36.3% of the vote. Second is the mayor of Warsaw, 56-year-old Lech Kaczynski from the Law and Justice party, with 33.1%.

European Championship starts in Turin Today in Turin, at the skating rink where the Winter Olympic Games will be held in a year, the European Figure Skating Championships kicks off. The tournament organizers do not hide that the upcoming competitions will become a dress rehearsal for the Olympics, and for this purpose they are attracting 700 volunteers, as well as two hundred specialists who are testing in practice the technical capabilities associated with the new judging system.

The capital's housing market has once again confirmed the truth that you cannot step into the same river twice. It would seem that stagnation in the market has been overcome and prices will again rapidly fly up, as was the case just a couple of years ago. But market professionals believe that there will be no explosive growth.

The RFU Executive Committee can clarify the fate of its president Will Koloskov be sent to the reserve team? The country's football community is looking forward to the next meeting of the executive committee of the Russian Football Union, which is scheduled for January 27.

The King of Spain is waiting for Putin President Vladimir Putin will visit Spain in the first quarter of 2006. The agreement on this was one of the results of yesterday’s one-day visit to Spain by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. In the evening, Mr. Lavrov received an audience with King Juan Carlos I of Spain at the Zarzuela Palace. The minister's plane landed in the morning at the Torrejon airbase, from where Lavrov's motorcade rushed to Madrid to the Foreign Ministry building.

Muscovites buying new apartments are slowly but surely moving towards European standards in their understanding of “comfortable” living. They are increasingly choosing housing, putting environmental friendliness, comfort and mid-rise at the forefront. At the same time, outside the city, metropolitan residents prefer low-rise buildings.

On the tenth gaming day of the tournament for the title of the strongest chess player on the planet in San Luis (Argentina), Bulgarian Veselin Topalov could increase the lead to three points. For a long time, his game with Morozevich was played in dynamic equilibrium mode, until on the 31st move he rushed to exchange the active rook, and after ten moves he found himself without two pawns in a losing position.

Khimki can claim the championship for the first time Today, the men's super league championship starts with a match between Lokomotiv (Novosibirsk) and University-Ugra (Surgut). There are three main features of the starting tournament.

RAO UES does not intend to strategically engage in the development of housing and communal services The utility business is no longer strategic for RAO UES of Russia.

The accession of Angela Merkel to the post of Federal Chancellor of Germany is usually associated with a certain cooling in relations with Russia. Roland Goetz, head of the Russia and CIS research group at the German Institute for International and Security Policy, expresses his opinion on this matter to Vremya Novostei correspondent Yuri Shpakov. - I am confident that relations between Germany and Russia will not change radically for the worse.