Losing the Champions League could be very costly for Metallurg After the creation of the Kontinental Hockey League, Europe got a little scared. Still, there was a serious threat that the modern tournament would not just destroy national championships, but would completely devastate the entire continent. The best ones will go to the NHL, the slightly less cool ones will go to Russia. The final match of the Champions League between Metallurg Magnitogorsk and Swiss Zurich reassured the skeptics.

Cyprus has invested the most in Russia Following the results of the Russian-Cypriot investment forum held recently in Nicosia, it turned out that the small Mediterranean island has become the largest investor in the Russian economy. Last year, Cyprus was virtually unaffected by the consequences of the global financial crisis.

On Friday, the cold front will advance all the way to the northern regions of the Southern Federal District. In the upper reaches of the Volga and in the central regions, including Moscow and the region, the temperature will drop to -7...-12°C within 24 hours. In the northwestern and central regions of European Russia, temperatures will cross zero, but for now the frosts will also be mild, -3...-8°C.

Chechen authorities corrected the Russian FSB The Chechen government yesterday entered into a rather strange discussion with the public relations center of the Russian FSB. Grozny, represented by the head of the information and analytical department of the President and Government of Chechnya, Lema Gudayev, stood up for the main European emissary of the Chechen separatists, Akhmed Zakayev, who lives in London and is accused by the Russian Prosecutor General's Office of several criminal offenses.

This coming Sunday, the traditional international athletics tournament “Russian Winter” will be held in the capital’s CSKA arena. On the eve of these competitions, Vremya Novostey correspondent Olga ERMOLINA talked with one of the participants, Olympic champion in the 4x100 m relay Yulia GUSCHINA. — Julia, how seriously are you considering the upcoming start? -- “Russian Winter” is a stage of preparation for the summer World Championships, which will be held in Berlin.

Safina and Williams Jr. will play for the Australian Open title On Saturday, in the final of the women's Australian Open in Melbourne, two titles will be at stake - the winner of the competition and the first racket of the world. In the meeting between Russian Dinara Safina and American Serena Williams, the owner of the main prize and the new leader of the individual BTA classification will be determined.

And got angry at Tashkent A serious conflict is brewing in Russian-Tajik relations, the consequence of which could be the cancellation by Tajik President Emomali Rahmon (pictured) of a working visit to Moscow, scheduled for February 2. The conflict is still of a diplomatic nature.

General Sikorsky died in a plane crash Yesterday, the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow presented the long-awaited official results of the study of the remains of General Wladyslaw Sikorski. It has now been definitively established that the commander-in-chief of the Polish armed forces and head of government in exile died on July 4, 1943 due to a plane crash in Gibraltar.

Crosby beat Rangers Hockey. NHL. Regular season. "Pittsburgh" -- "Rangers" -- 6:2 - - Malkin "P" (0+1), Zherdev "P" (1+0) , "Calgary" -- "Buffalo" -- 5:2, " Anaheim - Chicago - 2:3, Vancouver - Nashville - 3:5. Sidney Crosby's performance gave Pittsburgh a crushing victory over the Rangers.

The current mayor of Nevinnomyssk is not allowed to run for a second term An election scandal is in full swing in the city of Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Territory, whose residents will have to choose a new mayor on a single voting day on March 1. Recently, the city court upheld the decision of the Nevinnomyssk territorial election commission to deny candidate registration to the current mayor Viktor Ledovsky, who was planning to run for a second term.

Players are testing the boundaries of the currency corridor Yesterday, the dollar and euro rates jumped by almost one and a half rubles to 34.68 and 45.34, respectively. The Bank of Russia allowed market participants to lower the ruble closer to the coveted level of 41 rubles. to the bi-currency basket: now there is a little more than 1 ruble left to it.

CLUBS Inna Razumikhina. House of Journalists , January 30, 19.00. Jazz coffee Art. Jazz-bass theater by Alex Rostotsky and the unique “coffee artist” Arturo Jimeno Perez. Igor Butman Club , January 30, 20.00. "Ruble". A new project by Sergei Shnurov, the first solo concert in Moscow. Ikra , January 30, 21.00. "Moral Code". “Concert” , January 30, 21.30. "NOM." Gogol' , January 30, 22.00. “The screams of Vidoplyasov.” “B2” , January 30 and 31, 23.00. "Utah". Plan B , January 31, 19.00.

Russia is waiting for a political decision from Ukraine The next round of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations on the delimitation of the Azov and Black Seas and the settlement of issues related to the Kerch Strait is planned for June in Moscow. However, there is no hope for a quick solution to the issue.

In Vremya Novostey on January 23, an article “We did everything right” was published, outlining the position of the leadership of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation on the reasons for the gradual nature of the devaluation of the ruble, which stretched out for almost three months since the beginning of November last year.

Russia is preparing to deploy an air and naval base in Abkhazia According to information from Russian military-diplomatic structures, consultations between the Russian military and representatives of Abkhazia took place yesterday. The issues of deployment of Russian military bases (air and naval) on the territory of the young state were discussed.