There is an influx of black patients in Rostov-on-Don hospitals Prolonged frosts in the Rostov region have practically paralyzed both large and small businesses in the region. The Don and the Sea of ​​Azov froze so much that even icebreakers were trapped in ice.

Bush protégé named to Supreme Court Yesterday, the US Senate supported the president's nomination of 55-year-old Samuel Alito as a new member of the Supreme Court. 58 members of the upper house of the American parliament voted for it, 42 voted against it. This marked the end of the renewal of the composition of the highest judicial body of the United States, which dragged on for almost six months. Alito replaced Judge Sandra Day O'Connor, who submitted her resignation in the summer of 2005.

Films about politics and non-traditional sexual orientation lead among the Oscar nominees The names of those whom the American Film Academy deemed worthy of competing for the title of the best became known on Tuesday at 5:30 local Los Angeles time. Mira Sorvino announced a list of ten main nominations (the remaining 14 have the status of “technical”, and even the statuettes for their laureates are not awarded at the ceremony).

Moscow is preparing for new frosts Residents of the capital region, who have only just managed to start their cars and turn off the heaters over the past week, will once again face the test of cold. Frosts are returning. Yesterday, weather forecasters announced another cold snap.

The fight against hazing in the army is taking on an all-Russian scale There is no doubt that serviceman Andrei Sychev became a victim of hazing. This statement was made yesterday in Chelyabinsk by the chairman of the commission for monitoring the activities of law enforcement agencies and security forces of the Public Chamber of Russia, Anatoly Kucherena.

Boris Yeltsin is 75 “You can characterize that period as you like. You can evaluate the activities of the first president as you like. But, of course, it was precisely at the time when Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin headed Russia that the people of our country, the citizens of Russia received the main thing for the sake of which all these transformations were carried out - freedom.

The FFMS will strengthen supervision over stock market participants The head of the Federal Financial Markets Service Oleg Vyugin promised yesterday that unified standards of prudential supervision (a set of indicators and standards) for professional stock market participants could be introduced in Russia from the beginning of next year. According to experts, as a result, small brokerage companies will most likely be forced to leave the market. According to Mr.

Vremya Novostey correspondent Ksenia VERETENNIKOVA decided to find out the opinions of politicians and political scientists about why annual press conferences of the head of state are needed and what President Vladimir Putin said this time was especially important. Vladimir KATRENKO, Vice Speaker of the State Duma, First Deputy Head of the United Russia faction: -- The President confirmed that the Far East and the North Caucasus are priority territories for the federal government of Russia.

Nam June Paik dies The 73-year-old artist, who was born in Korea, studied in Japan, began his artistic career in Germany, and moved to America in the mid-60s, was not just a citizen of the world, who connected East and West with his own life.

After his presidency, Vladimir Putin has no plans to go into business “You just need to work honestly. Every day, like Saint Francis, hoe your small plot - and good luck will come,” this is how Vladimir Putin formulated one of his life principles, answering questions from Dutch journalists two months ago.

Russia demands recognition of debt from Afghanistan Yesterday in London, at an international conference on Afghanistan, in which Afghan President Hamid Karzai took part, an agreement was signed defining the further role of the international community in the development of this country and the strategy for this development itself.

Alexander Lukashenko listened to Mikhail Gutseriev and did not answer him Before the presidential elections in Belarus scheduled for March, Russian oil workers made frequent visits to Alexander Lukashenko. Just two weeks ago, LUKOIL President Vagit Alekperov flew to Minsk, and yesterday the owner of RussNeft, Mikhail Gutseriev, met with Mr. Lukashenko. “You are behaving aggressively in the market, acquiring new fields and buying oil refining capacities,” Mr.

Turin will have six more disciplines than Salt Lake City At the White Olympiad, which starts in exactly ten days in Turin, 84 sets of awards will be awarded. This is six more than at the previous Winter Games in Salt Lake City. New disciplines were added in snowboarding, speed skating and biathlon. Significant changes have occurred in cross-country skiing. There, several types of programs were transformed into others, more spectacular.

Putin explained this to Karzai The problem of Afghanistan's debt to Russia (more precisely, to the former USSR), amounting, according to Moscow's estimates, to $10 billion, is key in Russian-Afghan relations. The fact is that, according to Russian legislation, the Russian government does not have the right to provide financial assistance or issue any loans to countries whose debt obligations towards Moscow have not been settled, or even less recognized.

Chronicle of sporting events In the opening round of the first category BTA tournament with a prize fund of $1.34 million in Tokyo, Russian Maria Kirilenko defeated Italian tennis player Mara Santangelo - 6:4, 6:1. Last year's champion of these competitions, Maria Sharapova, "seeded" here as number one, will enter the fight from the second round and will meet the winner of the match between Americans Meilen Tu and Lisa Raymond.