A Russian Federal Property Fund official was stabbed to death in Novosibirsk Acting officer killed in Novosibirsk the head of one of the departments of the Russian Federal Property Fund (RFFI) is 53-year-old Sergei Korolko. The killer waylaid him at the entrance of the house in which an official sent to Novosibirsk was renting an apartment. The criminal stabbed the victim eight times and fled.

Chronicle of sporting events At the men's tennis tournament in the Spanish city of Valencia with a prize fund of 395,750 euros, of the four Russian participants, only Marat Safin managed to get into the second round. Safin, who received a wild card from the organizers, prevailed over last year's winner of this tournament, Russian Igor Andreev, in the opening match - 7:6 (6), 6:4.

The court prohibited the publication of voting results In Ukraine, the legitimacy of the new Rada, elected on March 26, is being questioned. Yesterday, the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine prohibited the Central Election Commission from publishing the final voting results. “If we are following the legal path,” then this court decision is “normal,” Viktor Yushchenko said yesterday.

At the consumer electronics exhibition, Russia was represented only by visitors The traditional New Year's news drought for the information technology industry ends in early January, when the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) kicks off in Las Vegas, Nevada. From the day CES opened and many days after it ended, there was no shortage of information about IT innovations. Quite the contrary. This year the exhibition was officially called 2006 International CES and was held from January 5 to 8.

Conditional and early Yesterday, the Central District Court of Minsk decided to release the famous Belarusian politician Mikhail Marinich on parole. “I really hoped that this would happen, but I was secretly afraid that he would not be released early,” his son Igor Marynich told Vremya Novostei. The exact release date of 66-year-old Mikhail Marynich is still unknown. This is expected to happen in the coming days.

The Moscow City Duma has reduced the number of applicants for municipal housing Yuri Luzhkov has repeatedly stated that Moscow is not going to abandon the practice of providing free municipal housing to those on the waiting list. However, the city authorities, following federal legislators, are actively trying to reduce the list of applicants for social rented apartments.

Dynamo received the ULEB Cup and a pass to the Euroleague The capital's Dynamo team won the third European Cup for basketball Russia this season. After the March victories of girls from Spartak near Moscow and Perm Ural Great in competitions under the auspices of FIBA ​​- the European Cup and the Challenge Cup, respectively - the “blue and white” celebrated their triumph in a more serious tournament, the ULEB Cup.

Neither Russia nor the West knows how to stop Iran The statement by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the country has begun enriching uranium, has entered the “club of nuclear powers” ​​and is going to enrich uranium on an industrial scale in the future, seriously alarmed the other members of this club. The new demarche of Tehran, which categorically rejected demands to stop any work with uranium, is forcing the world community to think about retaliatory steps.

The information technology and communications industry has increased its share in the country's GDP growth. In 2000, the industry's contribution to GDP growth, if taken as 100%, was 3.2%, and in 2005 it increased to 5%. The growth of the communications services market across all sectors in 2005 will be 31.4%, which is more than five times higher than the overall growth rate of the Russian economy.

Vnesheconombank management proposes to simplify the path to development The story of the creation of a new state bank in Russia, engaged in large investment projects, was continued yesterday. The head of Vnesheconombank, Vladimir Dmitriev, proposed creating a federal bank for foreign economic activity and development on the basis of VEB with an authorized capital of $3 billion.

Endowment - a new word in Russian charity The government seems to intend to use all possible reserves to implement national projects. In addition to budget expenditures on education and healthcare, money from foundations managing charitable funds, or, as they are called in the West, endowments, may also be involved in solving national problems.

Will the Russian machine tool industry revive? The head of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Rosoboronexport, Sergei Chemezov, proposed to unite Russian mechanical engineering and machine tool manufacturing enterprises into a federal public organization. The new organization - the Russian Union of Mechanical Engineers - should help the industry improve the efficiency of its work and create conditions for development. The need for such a step has been long overdue.

Roman Abramovich joined the leadership of Russian football Yesterday, at a meeting of the executive committee of the Russian Football Union, it was finally officially confirmed what newspapermen and fans were already tired of gossiping about: Guus Hiddink is becoming the head coach of our national team. RFU President Vitaly Mutko received the authority to sign an official contract with the Dutch specialist.

IT companies are promised the lowest taxes in the Russian economy A “special regime” may soon appear in the Tax Code. On Tuesday, the tax subcommittee of the State Duma supported a bill providing benefits for IT companies. The bill introducing a special tax regime for enterprises in the information technology industry provides programmers with very serious benefits.

The Avangard goalkeeper suffered from attacks from Ak Bars defenders Kazan Ak Bars, led by Zinetula Bilyaletdinov, yesterday made a serious bid for the championship. In the first match of the super final series up to three wins, the Tatarstan club confidently beat Omsk Avangard - 6:1. A repeat meeting will take place today, also in Kazan. In the city, whose annals have already entered the second millennium, there was a colossal excitement around the matches of the super final.