In the ninety-eighth year, the oldest teacher of the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, Nikolai Ivanovich Liban, passed away. He did not defend either a doctoral or candidate's dissertation. Didn't write books or articles. (Only a few years ago, the students who once recorded his brilliant lectures compiled a solid volume from the notes.) He gave lectures and led seminars.

The underground parliament of the Chechen separatists suddenly needed a quorum While Vladimir Putin proposes to assemble a new composition of the newly elected Russian Duma early, and the conscientious bicameral Chechen parliament is about to be reduced to one chamber of 41 deputies, representatives of the North Caucasus “irreconcilable opposition” have calculated how many people’s representatives remain in the parliament of Ichkeria, elected under the separatists in 1997 year and disappeared

Yesterday in the center of Taipei there were fights between supporters and opponents of the dismantling of a memorial inscription on the memorial of the former Kuomintang ruler of the island, Chiang Kai-shek. His memory symbolizes the unity of Taiwan with mainland China, which was severed in 1949.

Dynamo Moscow parted ways with Vladimir Krikunov The consequences of the crushing defeat of the capital Dynamo from the Moscow region Vityaz (1:8) on Wednesday did not take long to arrive. Yesterday morning, the head coach of the “blue and white” Vladimir Krikunov resigned. According to the official website of HC Dynamo, the resignation was immediately accepted by the club president Mikhail Golovkov. He and the players at the team meeting thanked Krikunov for their teamwork.

Lisbon Airport is only open to guests from Europe and Africa A two-day summit of EU and African leaders begins tomorrow in Lisbon. Journalists have already called it “a meeting of two continents,” “a major historical event,” and “the most expensive EU summit.” According to various estimates, Portugal spent from 10 to 26 million euros on organizing the meeting.

The UN Secretary General requested a report on Kosovo ahead of schedule Today, international mediators working on the status of Kosovo will submit a report on the results of their four-month activities to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. According to Vremya Novostei information obtained from Serbian sources, the report is imbued with pessimism.

Chronicle of sporting events CSKA basketball players completed half the distance of the first group stage of the Euroleague ULEB on a positive note, defeating them on their home court - 79:53. After the opening quarter, the army team led by eight points, and gained the lion's share of their final advantage in the final period, which they won with a score of 22:7.

On the eve of the New Year holidays, Moscow authorities will teach citizens how to use pyrotechnics Along with the culinary shows that have flooded daytime television before the New Year, Muscovites will be shown “recipes” for using all kinds of firecrackers, mini-salutes and fireworks. “Every day on television they show and tell you how to cook pasta.

"Workshop'07" opened This time the organizers call the annual festival “an equation without unknowns”: almost all its participants are already familiar to the capital’s public. The point here is not the laziness of the curators, who did not find new and fresh talents for the most representative festival of contemporary dance in Russia: there were simply no explosive debuts last year.

After the final match of the season, many of the Lokomotiv players refused to talk to the press - either they decided that the quality of the game spoke for itself, or they were afraid to say something unnecessary a few hours before meeting the new head coach. The Loko players quickly covered the distance separating the exit from the locker room and the bus door. If the speeds were as high on the field, then the Panathinaikos defense would definitely not have kept track of the opponent.

The President of Russia was proclaimed the main bear of the country Movements in support of Russian President Vladimir Putin are multiplying by leaps and bounds. Now he is being offered to become not just a national leader , but the main “bear”, because he helped United Russia, whose emblem is a bear, win the elections.

The jury in the case of the attempt on Chubais was again disbanded The consideration of the case of the assassination attempt on the head of RAO UES Anatoly Chubais in the Moscow Regional Court will begin anew, for the third time. Yesterday, the presiding judge at the trial, by his decision, dissolved the jury, which had worked for almost a year.

American teenager shot eight people to “die in style” and become famous Yesterday another tragedy occurred in the United States with the shooting of people. 20-year-old Robert Hawkins opened fire at a Von Maur supermarket in Omaha, Nebraska. There were a lot of visitors there at that time - people were buying gifts for Christmas. The killer began shooting randomly into the crowd from the third floor balcony. In total, according to eyewitnesses, he managed to fire about 40 shots.

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Russians consider law enforcement agencies to be the main corrupt officials The level of corruption in Russia is not decreasing . The authorities' attempts to combat this social evil do not impress Russians. The majority of Russian citizens do not believe that any victories should be expected on the anti-corruption front. Which is understandable: compatriots consider those who are called upon to fight corruption - law enforcement officers - to be the most corrupt.