Marin Le Pen. Photo from the site www.zman.com Marine Le Pen became the leader of the French ultra -right party, BBC reports. During the vote at the party congress, passing on January 16 in the tour, she managed to get ahead of another applicant for this post - Bruno Gollnish. The day before, her father, the founder of the party and her permanent leader for almost 40 years, Jean-Mari Le Pen, made a farewell speech.

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Vladimir Putin. Photo from the site www.russia.lt Prime Minister Vladimir Putin may be in the "black list" of the European Union due to involvement in the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev. According to Echo of Moscow, about this in the room that will be released on Monday, writes The New Times, referring to its own sources.

Khimki, January 15, 2011 Citizens' gathering at the Starbeevsky field and a visit to the oak forest intended for felling. Filming and editing by Dmitry and Anna Borko. Photo report Arrests after leaving

White House. Photo from Whitehouse.gov US public debt exceeded the mark of $ 14 trillion, AP reports. According to the agency, each American must conditionally owe more than 45 thousand dollars. At the beginning of June 2010, the debt of the American government was 13.051 trillion dollars. Almost half of the current amount was accumulated by the state over the past six years - in 2005, the debt amount reached $ 7.6.

Sergey Udaltsov and Konstantin Kosyakin on the triumphal. Photo by L. Barkova/Grani.ru On Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow, a picket was held against administrative arrests of the leaders of the opposition. As Radio Liberty reports , in the action "We will not retreat!" About 100 people took part, including the coordinators of the Left Front Konstantin Kosyakin and Sergey Udaltsov.

Doku Umarov. Frame of the TV channel '' Russia '' The special services have no facts confirming information about the possible death of one of the leaders of Doku Umarov, a high -ranking source in Russian special services told RIA Novosti. "There was operational information that he (Umarova. - Ed.) Together with a group of militants, about two weeks ago, a airstrike was covered in the mountains.

A video message of an American actor and director as part of the international solidarity campaign.

Artist Nikolai Oleinikov talks about the international anti-fascist exhibition in the Moscow metro. Photographed by Veniamin Dmitroshkin.

Special operation in Khasavyurt. Frame NTV The number of those killed with a terrorist attack in Khasavyurt increased to four, an employee of the reception of the city hospital told RIA Novosti. "One of the wounded died in the hospital. Currently, there are nine victims in the Khasavyurt city hospital, five of them in serious condition. One wounded was transferred to the Makhachkala hospital," the agency’s interlocutor said.

Image from the website of the company "Transaero" The number of Russian tourists who want to fly out of the Transaero flight from Tunisia exceeded the number of seats. This was reported to RBC by the press secretary of the Federal Agency for Tourism Oleg Moseev. He specified that 220 Russians already want to leave Tunisia. In addition, tourists who have previously arrived in Tunisia come to the airport on their own. Now their number is specified.

The Sea of ​​Azov. Photo from the site berdyansk.org.ua In the Rostov region, the bodies of three children missing the day before were found. According to RBC in the press service of the regional police department, the bodies of children were found in the Taganrog Bay of the Sea of ​​Azov 400 meters from the shore. Two five -year -old boys and a three -year -old girl on Saturday at about 2 o’clock in the afternoon left the house for a walk and did not return.

Tunisian President Zin El Abidin Ben Ali. Photo from the site www.bogoslov.ru The nephew of the wife of the ex-president of Tunisia Imed Trabelcy died in the hospital from stab wounds, AFP reports with reference to the staff of the Tunisian military hospital. According to one of the medical institution workers, Trabeli, who was considered a favorite among the numerous nephews of Ben Ali, was taken to a hospital with stab wounds a few days earlier and died on Friday.

Pushkin Square: Police in anticipation of manifestants. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru The opposition will hold the action "We will not retreat!", The press service of the Left Front reports. The action, the holding of which is agreed with the Moscow authorities, will begin near the monument to Pushkin at 14.00. It will take part in the administrative arrest member of the Solidarity Bureau Ilya Yashin, as well as the coordinators of the Left Front Konstantin Kosyakin and Sergey Udaltsov.

Moscow, January 15, 2011. Boris Nemtsov and Eduard Limonov, after serving 15 days, are released. Photographed by Dmitry Borko.