They want to keep Viktor Yanukovych out of parliament The leader of the Ukrainian opposition, head of the Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovych may be excluded from the party lists formed for the parliamentary elections to the Rada in 2006. On January 24, the Central Election Commission sent lists of candidates from 45 political organizations to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to check possible criminal records among potential deputies.

The leader lost two points in the match with modest Levante Barcelona's loss of two points in the match with Levante gave its closest pursuers an excellent opportunity, if not to overtake the blue garnets in the standings, then to get closer to it. Sevilla somehow incredibly missed their chance, but Real found the strength to turn the tide of the meeting with the traditionally unyielding Basques.

T. Coraghessan Boyle. After the plague. Translation from English S. Slobodnyuk, E. Kirtsideli, A. Zheltova. -- M.: AST-Transitkniga, 2006. After the Plague, Coraghessan Boyle's sixth collection of short stories, was recognized by American critics as an example of short prose and recommended for study by university students.

In November, there were no less television events off the screen than on the screen: two TEFI ceremonies and a celebration of the 75th anniversary of television took place. The logic of those who distributed the Orpheus figurines was not much inferior to the logic of those who distributed the orders. So, in the first case, for example, Andrei Norkin, the talented presenter of the “Now in Russia” program on Gusinsky’s RTVI channel, and the propaganda program “Time” became TEFI laureates.

Azerbaijan strives for energy independence from Russia Yesterday's visit of Mikhail Fradkov to Baku, during which he took part in the closing ceremony of the Year of Russia in Azerbaijan, held negotiations with his Azerbaijani colleague Arthur Rasi-Zade and met with President Ilham Aliyev, became the first visit for Russian prime ministers to this Transcaucasian country in the entire post-Soviet history . And there are explanations for this.

MOL lays claim to a small deposit in Russia Despite the failure in the tender for the purchase of Udmurtneft, a former asset of TNK-BP, the Hungarian oil and gas company MOL is trying to gain a foothold in Russia. Yesterday she announced that she had submitted an application for the acquisition of a certain Russian oil-producing asset. MOL does not disclose details. It is only known that the site is located in one of the key oil-producing areas, in close proximity to the main oil pipeline.

The state decides how to force itself to pay its citizens The Russian leadership urgently began to solve a long-standing, but by no means lost its relevance problem - the execution, or rather, the general non-execution by the state itself of court decisions taken in favor of citizens on various social payments - pensions, benefits and salaries of public sector employees.

The Fiji Army, commanded by 52-year-old Rear Admiral Frank Bainimarama, yesterday disarmed police who might have acted in defense of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase. At the end of November, Bainimarama threatened to overthrow the government if it did not abandon plans to grant amnesty to participants in the 2000 military coup and provide property privileges to indigenous Polynesians at the expense of the rights of people from India.

Yesterday in the United States, exercises began under the code name “Vigilant Guardian 2007”, according to the scenario of which one of America’s conditional opponents in a nuclear war will be a certain country called Rubek. The press service of the Northern Command said in a statement that the exercises are being conducted jointly by the North American Aerospace Defense Command and the Northern Command (NORAD).

The lawyer for a man accused of using a fake Canadian passport and spying for Russia told a federal judge in Montreal yesterday some surprising news: his client is a Russian citizen and he will not fight a decision to deport him from Canada. A Canadian federal judge accepted the surprise confession and said the man calling himself Paul William Hampel would be deported from the country.

Hugo Chavez leads Venezuela again The current President of Venezuela, 52-year-old Hugo Chavez, won a landslide victory in the presidential elections held on Sunday. Having received 61.35% of the vote, he retained the presidency for another six years, to which he was first elected in 1998. His rival, the governor of the oil-producing state of Zulia, 53-year-old Manuel Rosales, admitted defeat on Sunday evening. Only 38% of voters supported him.

Contemporary art seeks new sincerity On December 4, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Petrovka hosted a presentation of the exhibition project “I Believe,” the opening of which is scheduled for January 28, 2007, on the eve of the II Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.

Positive. The hand does not rise to bonfire “Quiet Don”. Although I personally didn’t like the film, its appearance on Channel One after such a dramatic creation story became an indisputable event. The picture, sometimes too popular, caused not only debate among viewers about which of Sergei Bondarchuk’s heroes is more like Sholokhov’s characters and which is not, but also returned interest in the wonderful novel.

Chronicle of sporting events The exact date of the next fight and the opponent of the world heavyweight champion according to the World Boxing Association (WBA) Nikolai Valuev have become known. He will make the next defense of his championship title on January 20, 2007 in Basel (Switzerland) and will fight with Jamil McCline. The American once fought for the WBO title with Vladimir Klitschko and for the IBF championship belt with Chris Byrd, but was defeated both times.

"You Won't Leave Me" by Alla Surikova on Moscow screens 1952 A non-capital city, which, however, cannot be called a remote province. The local KGB boss (Mikhail Boyarsky) plays tennis with foreigners and speaks excellent English, the capital’s musicians come here on tour (the role of the decorated virtuoso violinist was a brilliant cameo by Nikolai Fomenko), and the town’s drama theater is famous throughout the country.