Hockey. NHL. Regular season. “New Jersey” – “Philadelphia” – 3:0, “Minnesota” – “Dallas” – 1:2 – Zubov “D” (0+2) , “Colorado” – “St. Louis” " -- 6:1, "Anaheim" -- "Los Angeles" -- 6:2 -- Frolov "LA" (0+1) . Russian forward of Atlanta Ilya Kovalchuk was recognized as the best attacking player of the week in the NHL. Over the past week, he has scored eight goals and provided three assists.

The New Year in Dagestan began with another military operation A large-scale but unsuccessful military special operation against militants began the new year for the special services and military of Dagestan. On January 3, in the Untsukul district of the republic, armed bandits fired at officers of the Dagestan riot police and disappeared. A large-scale operation using tanks, armored personnel carriers and helicopters was launched to search for militants.

Teams are in no hurry to make high-profile acquisitions The Russian football transfer market looks strange and unusually empty. Premier League teams have returned from vacation, and many of them have already gone to foreign training camps, but there are no high-profile acquisitions that have already become traditional for the Russian football winter.

Another return of Martina Hingis turned out to be successful The main event of the first ten days of January in the tennis world was the full return to the WTA tour of the multiple Grand Slam winner, former world number one, Swiss Martina Hingis.

A quartet of Russian skiers consisting of Natalia Baranova, Sergei Novikov, Nikolai Pankratov and Evgeniy Dementyev are included in the Russian Olympic team, which will go to Turin in February. This decision was made on January 9 at the executive committee of the FLGR, as President Vladimir Loginov told a Vremya Novostey correspondent. The head of the federation also said that the name of sprinter Alena Sidko can be added to this list.

Ukrainian deputies took revenge on the government and the president for the agreement with Russia The Russian-Ukrainian gas agreement, signed on January 4, at the peak of the gas crisis, nevertheless provoked a political crisis in Ukraine. Yesterday, the Rada, with 250 votes, supported the resignation of the government and Prime Minister Yuri Yekhanurov, instructing him to serve until a new cabinet of ministers is formed.

Russia fears bird flu from abroad The very first problem that the Russian authorities were concerned with in the coming year was the problem of bird flu. News of the increasing number of victims of this disease in Turkey, so beloved by Russian tourists, was followed by immediate and decisive measures.

Dynamo became the best team in Europe for the first time The Russian team won the title of the strongest club team in the Old World for the second year in a row. Last year's success of the Omsk Avangard was again repeated on the St. Petersburg ice by the capital's Dynamo. Regular time and overtime of the final match of the European Cup between the “blue and white” and the Finnish “Kärpät” (Oulu) ended in a draw - 4:4, and in the shootout, luck smiled on the Muscovites.

Bird flu has reached the Turkish Riviera The New Year's outbreak of bird flu in Turkey has reached the resort area. Yesterday, local media reported that the H5N1 strain, dangerous to humans, was discovered in the province of Izmir, located on the Aegean coast, and in Isparta, bordering the popular resort area of ​​Antalya. In addition, a bird death was recorded in the coastal city of Kusadasi.

After the Russian-Ukrainian “gas war”, the discussion about whether Europe should rely too much on large-scale supplies of blue fuel from Russia has ceased to be idle. About 80% of the EU's energy needs are met by oil, gas and coal. At the same time, it is believed that by 2030 Western Europe’s import dependence on hydrocarbon fuels will increase from the current 50 to 70%. In this sense, Russia is considered the main conductor of the hopes of Western European consumers.

Gazprom and Naftogaz of Ukraine signed a gas capitulation Vladimir Putin and Viktor Yushchenko today in Astana are expected to officially testify to the “mutually beneficial” gas peace that Gazprom and Naftogaz concluded on the night of January 4.

Yevgeny Adamov will “clear his good name” in a Russian prison The Russian Prosecutor General's Office announced yesterday that it does not yet intend to release from arrest the former head of the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy, Yevgeny Adamov, who was transported from Switzerland to Moscow on New Year's Eve. “The issue of a preventive measure against Mr. Adamov is not currently being discussed, since the investigation has no grounds for it.

The trial in the “Khlebnikov case” began with protests and threats The Moscow City Court yesterday began a hearing on the merits of the case of the murder of the editor-in-chief of the Russian version of Forbes magazine, Paul Klebnikov. There are three defendants in the dock: natives of Chechnya Kazbek Dukuzov and Musa Vakhaev and Moscow notary Fail Sadretdinov.