Moscow’s actions in relation to the branches of the British Council, which the Russian Foreign Ministry requires to close due to violation of Russian legislation, threaten Russian-British relations, the British Foreign Minister David Milibanda said. Russia considers the refusal to close the branches of the British Council with a provocation. The head of Foreign office recalled that Russia on the eve announced that he would not give visas to the General Consults of the UK in St.

The US FBI achieves access to the British data bank containing fingerprints, DNA samples and photographs of the rainbow shell of the eye for more than 7 million people, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the British The Guardian . As part of the new initiative of the United States, called the "server in the sky", law enforcement services of the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have begun the formation of an international information consortium.

The Elite of World Business will gather at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos next week, but the mood of its participants will be much more gloomy than last year, the newspaper The Wall Street Journal writes. Since the last year’s forum, the forecast for the US economy and the global economy has worsened, which is associated with the consequences of the crisis in the credit sphere .

The Government Commission for the investigation of the causes of the accident at the Donetsk mine named after Zasyadko, which died more than a hundred people , determined 11 officials guilty of violations or not fulfilling their duties, which entailed an accident, RIA Novosti reports with reference to local media. “We could not agree that the cause of the tragedy in the mine was only the element, therefore we conducted an additional investigation.

In Gudermes at a meeting of the President of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov and the Governor of the Samara Region Vladimir Artyakov, a preliminary agreement was reached that his first home match in the 2008 season against the “wings of the Soviets” would be held in Grozny at the Sultan Bilimkhanov stadium.

Pakistan police identified the individuals of the terrorist attack on the motorcade Benazir Bhutto in Karachi in October last year. About this, as reports RIA Novosti , the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Pakistan Hamid Navaz Khan told reporters. Recall that the leader of the opposition itself as a result of this attempt was not affected. She died at the end of December as a result of a similar one.

On Tuesday, Kenya took place the first meeting of the new parliament. Legislators gathered for the first time after the elections that took place at the end of December and provoked a surge in violence throughout the country. The President of the MVAI Kibaki and the leader of the opposition Rail Odog, who did not recognize his victory in the vote, arrived for the oath of the oath as deputies, AP reports.

The Prime Minister of Serbia Vruclav Koshtunitsy on January 18 in the capital of Bulgaria Sofia will sign a state agreement with Russia in energy, after which the South Stream line will pass through Bulgaria and Serbia in the direction of Western Europe.

In rural areas in the Chelyabinsk region, women take from the shelters of children as guarantors of financial support from the state, the New Region reports. In the area of ​​all orphans specific to the families, the largest number are brought up on the conditions of guardianship and in foster families. As a rule, under such conditions, children fall into families living in rural areas where the child accepted for education is a guarantor of financial support.

According to representatives of the exclusive importer and manufacturer of Korean Ssangyong cars in Russia - Severstal -Auto - since January of this year, all Kyron FL models have fallen. Now the most affordable SUV equipped with a 2.3 -liter with a capacity of 150 hp with a four -speed four -cylinder gasoline engine, as well as a five -speed “mechanics”, ABS and two airbags will cost 60,000 rubles cheaper: 742,000 rubles against the previous price of 802,000 rubles.

The effect of slowing the time in critical situations, as it was depicted in the film "Matrix", does not exist in reality. Although many people declare that during stress and danger it seems to them that time has slowed down and everything around was happening in a slow shoot. In addition, it was possible to find out why time for children is flowing "faster" than for adults, the newspaper "RBC Daily" writes.

More than 30 women from different cities of Belarus turned to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to assist them in a meeting with Alexander Lukashenko. Women are asked to revise the criminal cases of their husbands, convicted of many years for minor crimes. In seven telegrams sent to the President of Russia from January 12 to 14, women note that they have repeatedly asked Alexander Lukashenko, but always received a refusal, the Belorussian agency Telegraph reports.

In the village of Martyush, Kamensk-Ural region of the Sverdlovsk region on Tuesday morning, an employee of the patrol service of the Kamensk-Uralsky Internal Affairs Directorate on the VAZ-21013 car shot down four people. He was intoxicated, Interfax reports. According to the head of the press service of the regional police department Valery Gorelykh, the injured - two women and two men - are hospitalized with a concussion and fractures.

In the west of Moscow, in the well of an abandoned substation for pumping natural gas-25 gas gas on Ryabinova Street, the bodies of three people were discovered, one of which is feminine. This was announced on Tuesday by a source in law enforcement agencies of the capital. "The message about the terrible find was received at the telephone service of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate" 02 "on the eve of 12:37 Moscow time.

The leader of the Communist Party and the head of the Communist Party faction in the State Duma, Gennady Zyuganov, demanded that the General Prosecutor's Office open a criminal case due to numerous violations in the December elections to the parliament and recognize the results of voting invalid. He sent a statement to the prosecutor general of Yuri Chaik, which reports violations identified in Mordovia, the party’s official website writes.