Candidate for presidents of the Russian Federation Michael Prokhorov suggested to hold a referendum devoted to a burial place of a body of the leader of October revolution Vladimir Lenin. "My personal position - Lenin needs to be buried. But it should be done with respect to those people who have different opinion. I would hold referendum to make the decision", - the billionaire declared in interview to TV channel Russia Today.

Storm wind which fell in on Friday on the Black Sea coast of Kuban became the reason of big catastrophe and breakages of transmission lines in Novorossisk and Anapskaya region. More than 130 thousand inhabitants still remain without electricity. Power supply of a city of Anapa and eight rural settlements which are a part of municipality was interrupted this morning, accident happened at 7 o'clock 45 minutes at once on two high-voltage lines feeding the city: "Novorossisk - Anapa" and "Varenikovskaya - Dzhemete". The strongest wind with impulses up to 33 meters per second and 15-degree frost became the reason.

Russia occupied the 142nd place in the rating of freedom of press published on Wednesday, January, 25th by organization “Reporters without borders”. In comparison with previous rating, published in 2010, Russia lost two positions. Finland remains the leader in rating of freedom of press throughout already several years. Norway got the second place having become one position higher. Estonia for a year moved from the ninth to the third place. The first five of the rating includes also the Netherlands which reserved the fourth place and Austria which a year before was on the seventh place.

At the height of the next election campaign “Commersant TV” represents a series of dialogues of Leonid Parfyonov with political figures. The former Minister of Finance Alexey Kudrin became Parfyonov's first interlocutor.  You became for us public figure after you made your declaration about readiness to be the intermediary in negotiations between the power and opposition. These negotiations haven't begun yet. What are the reasons?

The World Bank declared the strongest deterioration of own forecasts for world economy for last three years. World economy growth in 2012 will make 2,5% — only half a year ago experts of the bank expected 3,6%. For 2013 the forecast is lowered to 3,1% — by 0,5%. Last time the World Bank sharply changed its forecasts in January of crisis 2009 — by 2,1%. Bourgeois analysts assert that there’s no way out from current situation, it is necessary to suffer until there’s patience. God suffered and ordered us to do the same. However in reality and it is known to each bourgeois analyst, the way out from world economic crisis is world war.

Fitch reconsidered forecast on ratings of obligations of the Russian Federation in foreign and national currencies from "positive" to "stable". As agency reports, ratings of the Russian Federation are confirmed at a level of ВВВ. The agency also confirmed a rating of short-term obligations of Russia at a level F3 and country ceiling at a level ВВВ +.

On January, 15th Hillary Clinton declared that the USA congratulates Nazarbayev “with successful and democratically carried out elections”. Final data of “elections without choice” will be known on January, 22nd, but the difference with official information sounded on January, 16th will be insignificant. Therefore many representatives of “international community” have already started bringing congratulations “with victory in fair and open elections” to Nazarbayev.

Former Minister of Finance of Russia Alexey Kudrin declared that he supports creation of League of Voters (TV presenters Tatyana Lazareva and Leonid Parfyonov, writer Boris Akunin, poet Dmitry Bykov, musician Yury Shevchyuk, writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya and bloggers Rustem Agadamov and Ilya Varlamov became founders of the League). Why is it so important that the voters of Akunin and Parfyonov were supported by former Kudrin, by the way he incurred a role of the intermediary in negotiations with Putin and then it was found out that Putin was not going to negotiate or discuss anything with anybody?

Vladimir Putin published article in Gabrenyanov’s newspaper "Izvestia" where he gave estimation to processes occurring in the country and told what would enter his presidential electoral programme. By means of this publication, the prime minister declared in the article, he would like to invite the Russian public to wide dialogue: "I consider it necessary to state own position on a number of questions which seem to me important for extensive discussion".

The Russian Press Day was founded by the Decree of the President of Russia in 1992 in memory of the first publication of the first Russian printing newspaper established by Peter I. For the first time the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of RSFSR declared January, 13th The Russian Press Day in 1991 instead of The Soviet Press Day which was celebrated on May, 5th. The Soviet Press Day was celebrated in connection with publication of the first issues of the newspaper "Pravda" signed by V.Lenin.

Ship carrier group of the Navy of Russia as a part of a heavy aircraft cruiser "Admiral Kuznetsov", big submarine chaser "Admiral Chabanenko", patrol ship "Ladny", rescue tug "Nikolay Chiker" and tanker "Lena" made a port call into Tartus with the purpose of replenishment of stocks. "At the time we sent ships to the coast of Syria - it is good, but it should be only the beginning. Russia can quite be present even in military way in all those places where people are anxious about danger of color experiments with these or that peoples, it can do it full-scale even if it will mean participation in operations. All man's element of our people should participate in these actions, including those unfortunate hamsters who obviously can be changed for better only when they will face real man's work, military work", - archpriest declared.

Carol service takes place in the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow. The service is headed by patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Cyril. The president Dmitry Medvedev with his spouse were present on the service which started at night, more than 8,5 thousand employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation provide safety of inhabitants of Moscow during Christmas celebrating. In particular police officers, military men of internal troops and combatants provide safety. Enforced squads are placed next to 282 orthodox temples. The territory adjoining to them is surveyed by cynologists with dogs.

Authorities of the Czech Republic agreed to give political asylum to Alexander Timoshenko - the spouse of the ex-prime minister of Ukraine. As Boston.com writes, the fact of granting of a refuge was confirmed to the journalists by representative of the Czech Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Repka. The husband of the former prime minister of Ukraine Yulia Timoshenko asked for political asylum in the Czech Republic in the end of last year.

I assure you that now both Putin and all other dictators on the post-Soviet territory follow the events in Kazakhstan precisely – if Nazarvayev-Elbosy will get away with bloody execution and tortures of the workers, "the Kazakhstan experience" will be extended everywhere on the territory of the CIS and in Russia first of all. While Nazarbayev prolonged state of emergency for one more month - not all traces of murders and tortures have been liquidated. If someone thinks that Kazakhstan is far and it has no relation to him – you are sadly mistaken. After all Putin repeatedly named Nazarbayev his teacher...

“Not less essential tests are ahead and we should tell to our citizens about it absolutely frankly, fairly, using simple, but good Russian”, — Medvedev underlined. It would be quite good, if citizens will be also told in good Russian how the government is going to protect them from so awful threat. Or the management of Russia operates exclusively as forecasts office, so to say, it warns in time and further those are who has not hidden, I am not guilty?

In conditions of absence of democratic procedures struggle for sympathies of the street is as a matter of fact the unique form of political strike – the one is right who manages to lead the way to the majority. No intrigues, no any bureaucratic juggling and money will help bourgeois to head (to decapitate) the national protest. Their purpose - Putin mode without Putin, our purpose - proletarian revolution. There’s the majority of us - workers. We are sure of our forces and the day is ours.

How much can he listen to one and the same reproach from the journalists, opponents, in the streets, in the underground, in shops, from natives, relatives and friends? It already sounds from washing machine, iron and microwave. Unless it’s not brutal? Where’s our mercy and compassion? If the secretary general of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation really should explain to every passer-by why he can't neglect goodheartedness of the head of the Time occupational government which has allocated him 92 comfortable chairs? For obedience, refusal of boycott of these absolutely illegitimate elections and unextinguishable aspiration to struggle for release of workers from oppression of the capital with the same success. No and no once again.

Working activists are afraid that the authorities will try to bury secretly the bodies of their dead comrades and civilians as it happened during events of 1989. Today there are all bases for such fears as only in Zhanaozen there are over hundred people who are considered missing. Relatives can't find them either in hospitals, or in mortuaries, in prisons and police departments. The relatives are not given the bodies of citizens who died of wounds in hospitals that also can be considered as humiliating treatment of people the most part of whom are followers of Muslim traditions.

So, promised meeting of organizing committee on carrying out of the all-Russian meeting "Against falsification on elections" appointed on December, 24th to continue the meeting on Bolotnaya at last took place on Tuesday. It is necessary to say that two organizing committees appeared - one in the edition of magazine "Bolshoy Gorod" from 8 persons and the other in the Central House of Journalist - from approximately 200 participants.

Our president Mitya, like late Yeltsin operating the country by radio, also decided to master skills of remote work. Not once Russia receives supervising impulses from Twitter, through Facebook. Soon, I believe, he would do it using sms. I think, late St. Nikolay II, if he had Internet at the time, could write renunciation in some social network being in Nice – he would have remained safe and sound...