Mosque. Photo from the site "Echo of Moscow" In Kaliningrad in the Yuzhny park, a rally was held against the construction of the mosque, Interfax reports. The event was attended by about a hundred people. Participants in the protest rally demanded to stop the construction of a religious structure. According to the agency, residents of the Moscow region took part in the picket, in which they began to build a mosque. At the end of the action, they decided to hold a citywide rally.

On New Year's Eve in St. Petersburg, a fire broke out in the office of United Russia, located in the area of ​​Malaya Okhta, as a result of which the reception room burned down. A week later, it became known that the responsibility for this was assumed by the St. Petersburg anarchists.

Senator Spiegel. Photo www.newsru.co.il The Russian businessman, a member of the Federation Council Boris Spiegel, who arrived at the Herods Hotel in the Israeli Eilat for a week for rest, became a victim of robbery, reports Newsru Israel with reference to the newspaper Akhronot. A million shekels and watches worth 300 thousand shekels were stolen from a safe in the spy room. A million shekels are about 280 thousand dollars.

Gabriel Giffords. Photo giffords.house.gov The attempt on a member of the Congress from Arizona Gabriel Giffords was committed in the United States. According to CNN, the politician received a bullet in the head during a meeting with voters on Saturday. According to the hospital doctor where Giffords is located, it is difficult to evaluate the chances of amending it.

Illegal migrants. Hard of news During the New Year holidays in Moscow, employees of the Federal Migration Service detained more than 200 foreigners for violation of Russian legislation, Interfax reports with reference to the press secretary of the capital's department of the FMS Zalin Kornilov. The Federal Migration Service, according to her, changed the tactics of work.

Petersburg, Gostiny Dvor, January 3, 2011. Pickets in support of participants in the strategy-31, convicted in Moscow to administrative arrests. Filming Vladimir Volokhonsky.

Boris Vishnevsky. Photo from the site kamsha.ru The celebration of the Russian "youth" of an unexpected victory at the hockey championship of the world divided even the people far from sports into two implacable camps.

Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad at the Uranus enrichment plant. Photo CNN In the Iranian city of Isfakhan, the construction of a new nuclear plant for the manufacture of fuel rods and plates has been completed. According to the head of the atomic energy organization Ali Akbar Salehi, which, with reference to the local agency, Fars passes CNN, now Iran has mastered a full cycle of nuclear fuel production.

Chechnya map. Frame RBC-TV In Grozny, militants fired at a checkpoint located in the Leninsky district of the city. According to RIA Novosti, citing republican law enforcement agencies, one soldier died. During the clash, three more military were injured. Whether the attackers suffered any losses, the source does not specify.

Picket at the insulator on Simferopol Boulevard. Frame Grani-TV More than ten participants in single pickets in support of the arrested opposition politicians were detained in Moscow on Sunday near the receiver-distributor of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate on Simferopol Boulevard, the Grani.ru correspondent reports.

Kirill Manulin. Photo of "other Russia" Activist of another Russia Kirill Manulin was released after serving eight days of administrative arrest. This was announced to the granim.ru by the party press secretary Alexander Averin. Manulin was detained on December 31, he accompanied Eduard Limonov, who was detained near his own house when the politician went to the rally in defense of the 31st article of the Constitution on the Triumphal Square. Limonov himself was sentenced to 15 days of arrest.

Single pickets on Tverskaya. Frame of the faces-TV In Russia, a series of single pickets continues in support of the arrested opposition politicians. According to the Grani.ru correspondent, in Moscow on Sunday, the picket is again held near the building of the capital's city hall. Representatives of the Solidarity movement, the Party of another Russia, the Left Front and other organizations take part in it.