Viktor Yanukovych's efforts to dismiss Ukraine’s interior minister Yuryi Lutsenko accusing him of political bias, were unsuccessful. Tymoshenko struck back swiftly, however, calling an extraordinary meeting of the government at which Lutsenko was appointed first deputy interior minister, authorizing him to run the ministry.
On January 28, J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of "The Catcher in the Rye," died on Wednesday of natural causes at his home in New Hampshire aged 91.
On January 29, Anton Chekhov, one of the few Russians renowned abroad, would have turned 150. His birthday will be widely celebrated in Russia and abroad throughout 2010.
On January 28, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia held a prayer service in downtown Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral to see Russia's Olympic competitors off for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver
Central Russia endures the coldest January since the 1960s.
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