https://sputnikglobe.com/20090119/119704994.html

Main news of January 19

Sputnik International

RUSSIA * The lawyer for the family of a Chechen woman murdered in 2000 by Russian army colonel Yury Budanov was shot dead on Monday in downtown Moscow, the... 19.01.2009, Sputnik International

2009-01-19T19:10+0000

https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/i/logo/logo-social.png

Sputnik International

feedback@sputniknews.com

+74956456601

MIA „Rossiya Segodnya“

252

2009

Sputnik International

feedback@sputniknews.com

+74956456601

MIA „Rossiya Segodnya“

252

News

en_EN

Sputnik International

feedback@sputniknews.com

+74956456601

MIA „Rossiya Segodnya“

252

Sputnik International

feedback@sputniknews.com

+74956456601

MIA „Rossiya Segodnya“

252

Sputnik International

newsfeed

Main news of January 19

19:10 GMT 19.01.2009

RUSSIA

* The lawyer for the family of a Chechen woman murdered in 2000 by Russian army colonel Yury Budanov was shot dead on Monday in downtown Moscow, the Russian Prosecutor General's office said

* Novaya Gazeta journalist Anastasia Baburova, wounded earlier on Monday in the shooting of a lawyer in downtown Moscow, died in a hospital, the daily's deputy editor-in-chief said

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree banning exports of military and dual purpose products to Georgia, the Kremlin press service said

* The dollar exchange rate could reach 35.1 rubles in 2009, and inflation in Russia could be 13%, Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina said

* The Russian Defense Ministry has started the development of a new arms procurement program for 2011-2020, a Russian daily newspaper said, citing government sources

* A Russian businessman currently in custody pending trial published an open letter to President Dmitry Medvedev claiming investigators were pressuring him to testify against his business partner

* Russian missile destroyer Admiral Chabanenko has docked for repairs at a naval shipyard in the country's Kaliningrad exclave after its recent Latin American tour-of-duty, a shipyard spokesman said

WORLD

* The Georgian Foreign Ministry described Russia's ban on arms exports to Georgia as being out of sync with reality

* Ukraine's Foreign Ministry denied media reports that some Faina crew members, held captive by Somali pirates since September, have been seriously ill

* A 16-year-old student from the central Chinese province of Hunan has been diagnosed with the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, the fourth human case of the virus in China this year, Xinhua said

* At least nine people have been killed and 93 injured when the roof of a church collapsed in Brazil's largest metropolis, Sao Paulo, the state's public security officials said

* Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, said it had lost 48 fighters over the three weeks of fighting with Israeli troops

* Saudi Arabia will donate $1 billion to rebuild the Gaza Strip after Israel's military operations in the enclave over the last three weeks, the country's king announced at a summit

* Kyrgyzstan's government did not bring up during talks on the possibility of closing a U.S. airbase in the Central Asian country, a visiting senior U.S. military official said

* The U.S. is plotting and funding a "velvet revolution" to overthrow the Iranian authorities, the head of Iran's counterintelligence office announced on state television

* Israel plans to withdraw all of its troops from the Gaza Strip before U.S. president-elect Barack Obama's inauguration on January 20, according to Israeli media outlets

BUSINESS

* Russian energy giant Gazprom and Ukrainian energy company Naftogaz signed a contract on Russian gas supplies to Ukraine for 2009-2019

* Russia's largest air carrier Aeroflot will file a bid for the purchase of the Czech national air company, Czech Airlines (CSA), a business paper reported

* Russian energy giant Gazprom has signed a contract on exploring and developing a hydrocarbon deposit in eastern Algeria, the Algerian newspaper El Watan reported

* Russia's Central Bank has registered a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs, one of the world's biggest investment banks, the Bank of Russia said on its website

SPORTS

* Russia plans to bid to host the 2018 World Cup, the country's sports and tourism minister said

* One Russian seed lost on the opening day of the 2009 Australian Open in Melbourne but it was mostly plain sailing with eight players making it to the second round

* The injury that saw Tottenham striker Roman Pavlyuchenko stretchered off during Sunday's match against Portsmouth is not as serious as was initially feared, the Sport Express paper said