Rescuers are in no hurry to evacuate the crew of the arrested schooner The crew of the fishing schooner Yeri Kristina, which was torn from its anchors by a stormy wind on January 8 and thrown onto the sandbank, still cannot leave the ship in distress. According to the head of the security service of the port of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Vyacheslav Fadeev, a day before the disaster, all ships in the roadstead of Avachinskaya Bay were ordered to take shelter from the hurricane in a safe sector.

Federal Tax Service and Central Bank officials accused of bribery were sent to court Yesterday, the Moscow City Court received a criminal case against the deputy head of the department of credit organizations of the Federal Tax Service (FTS) of Russia, Oleg Alekseev, and an employee of the legal department of the Moscow Main Territorial Administration (GTU) of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, Alexei Mishin.

The new head of the Duma faction proposes imprisonment for 15 years for falsifying election results Gennady Semigin, having barely assumed the rights of the head of the Duma faction “Rodina” (“Narodnaya Volya” - SEPR - “Patriots of Russia”), made a proposal to legislatively strengthen criminal liability for falsifying the results of elections at all levels, including presidential ones.

The Prosecutor General's Office “reanimated” the case of Andrei Vavilov Andrei Vavilov, a member of the Federation Council and former Deputy Minister of Finance, received an unexpected “gift” for his birthday yesterday - the Supreme Court (SC) ruled that his actions contained signs of crimes under the articles of the Criminal Code “fraud on an especially large scale” and “abuse of office.” powers." Thus, the scandalous 10-year-old case of fraud in financing the production of MiG aircraft under a

Russian clubs do not look at foreigners The teams of the Russian Premier League are gradually returning from vacation to join the long marathon of preparation for the new season. Club management, in turn, decides on possible transfer acquisitions. This year, there are unusually few foreigners among them: from this season, the limit on foreign players is being tightened, and at least four football players with a Russian passport must be on the field at the same time. CSKA.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations fears the catastrophic consequences of global warming The life of Russians in the coming year will not become easier or safer. This conclusion follows from the traditional annual report of the Ministry of Emergency Situations on the disasters and misfortunes awaiting the country in 2007. Typhoons and earthquakes, forest fires and floods, all kinds of disasters - all this is predicted, at best, at the level of last year.

Alexander Legkov became the silver medalist of the debut Tour de Ski Representatives of most winter sports, having had a short Christmas holiday, found themselves deprived of rest at the junction of the old and new years. If earlier in late December - early January the main competition held under the auspices of the International Ski Federation was considered the Four Hills Tour, which occupied the main place on television, now it has a serious competitor - the Tour de Ski.

The matches of the 1/32 finals of the FA Cup took place in Foggy Albion. Despite the fact that they involved teams up to the fourth division of the national championship, representatives of the Premier League faced each other in several matches. Unlike a similar Russian tournament in England, teams of equal class are not divided into different pairs. Liverpool lost to London's Arsenal at home - 1:3. Czech legionnaire Rosicky scored twice for the Gunners.

The Russians won tournaments in the first week of the year Russian tennis players started the new season without a hitch. Already in the first tournaments of the year they achieved victories. Nadezhda Petrova and Dmitry Tursunov jointly won the Hopman Cup in Australia, an unofficial world championship among mixed teams.