The opposition “March Against Scoundrels” began on Pushkin Square in Moscow, aimed against the ban on the adoption of Russian children by American citizens. This was reported by a Lenta.ru correspondent from the scene. Left Front coordinator Sergei Udaltsov said that up to 30 thousand people had gathered by the start of the action. Another opposition activist Ilya Yashin said that at least 20 thousand are already on Pushkinskaya.

The “Snow Battle” action, for which the authorities refused to approve the organizers, took place in St. Petersburg, Interfax reports . According to Fontanka.ru, the flash mob took place near the Ulitsa Dybenko metro station in Yesenina Park, while law enforcement officers ensured public order during the snowball fight. The action ended without any violation of public order; several dozen people took part in it (according to eyewitnesses, more than 30).

The UK will send two Boeing C-17 Globemaster III military transport aircraft to Mali, which will be involved in the operation of international forces against Islamists. BBC News reported this on Sunday, January 13, citing a source in the Ministry of Defense. Royal Air Force aircraft will take off from the UK on January 14. The aircraft will be sent to Mali at the request of France, which had previously joined the military operation in this country.

Left Front activist Leonid Razvozzhaev was taken to the Irkutsk region on Saturday and placed in pre-trial detention center number six. This was reported on Sunday on the regional website of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia. Razvozzhaev is housed in a three-person cell with an area of ​​13 square meters together with other defendants.

The first round of presidential elections in the Czech Republic has ended. According to its results, former Prime Minister Milos Zeman and current First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic Karel Schwarzenberg will meet in the second round, which will take place on January 25 and 26. reported this on Sunday Agence France-Presse . The first round of elections took place on Friday and Saturday.

An earthquake of magnitude 3.8 occurred on Sunday in Sochi. This was announced by the head of the local seismic station, Elena Karpovich, RIA Novosti reports . The earthquake occurred at 8 am. There are no casualties or destruction. Small tremors of up to three magnitude were felt on the upper floors of high-rise buildings, Karpovich noted.

Special correspondent of the Kommersant publishing house Grigory Revzin, who was beaten on the night of January 13, did not contact the police. reports this Interfax with reference to a statement by the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow. A police spokesman said there had been no reports from any medical facilities either. In a live broadcast on the Ekho Moskvy radio station, Revzin noted that he had no intention of contacting law enforcement agencies.

Reports of a mass brawl near a cafe in the center of Moscow, spread by some media on Saturday evening, are not true. reported this RIA Novosti in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow. “The check did not confirm that a mass fight took place on Rogozhsky Val or on other adjacent streets on Saturday evening,” the press service emphasized. According to the police, the cafe staff did not notice any scuffle among the Central Asians.

The Egyptian Court of Cassation on Sunday granted a request to review the case of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who was sentenced to life imprisonment. According to Agence France-Presse , Mubarak's supporters in the courtroom and outside the courthouse greeted this decision with enthusiastic shouts. No specific date has been set for the start of new hearings.

Dozens of visitors to the ski resort in Sochi were blocked in cabins on the cable car as a result of a tree falling on a support, RIA Novosti reported on Sunday . The incident occurred at about five o'clock in the evening on the lower section of the cable car of the Rosa Khutor resort, Interfax clarifies . As a result of the falling tree, two eight-seater cabins that were going up fell. According to preliminary data, there were no passengers in them.

A teenager living with his Italian adoptive parents stole his father's car and drove it about 800 kilometers along European roads, Reuters reported on Sunday . The 13-year-old boy set off from the small town of Pederobba in northern Italy on Thursday afternoon with 200 euros in his pocket. He had been driving a powerful Mercedes with an automatic transmission for almost 24 hours when alert German police stopped him in the Leipzig area.

Flamengo striker Vagner Love leaves the team and returns to Moscow PFC CSKA, according to the official website of the Brazilian football club. As Interfax clarifies , CSKA agreed with Flamengo to cancel the remaining payments from the Brazilian side for the striker’s transfer in exchange for the player’s return to the army club. Vagner Love moved from CSKA to Flamengo at the end of 2011.

On January 13, activists of the Ukrainian FEMEN movement staged a rally in support of sexual minorities in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican. reports this Agence France-Presse . Four FEMEN activists stripped and went topless during a Sunday service led by Pope Benedict XVI. The girls had the words “In Gay We Trust” on their backs. The girls were almost immediately detained by the police.

Most of the participants in the “March against scoundrels” that took place in the center of Moscow dispersed, opposition leaders left the venue of the action. According to Interfax , at the final point of the route, at the intersection of Sakharov Avenue with the Garden Ring, only a few dozen opposition activists remained. From time to time they shout various slogans criticizing the country's leadership and against the law prohibiting US citizens from adopting children from Russia.

Russian Olga Zaitseva won a bronze medal in the 12.5-kilometer common start race at the fifth stage of the Biathlon World Cup, which takes place in Ruhpolding in Germany. Zaitseva, who made one miss on four shooting ranges, lost 37.8 seconds to the gold-winner Ture Berger from Norway (one miss, time - 37 minutes 14.4 seconds), RIA Novosti reports . Silver went to Belarusian Daria Domracheva (two penalties, lag 26.7 seconds).