The SCP of the Russian Federation in the Moscow Region confirmed the fact of a shooting between police officers and robbers in the city of Khimki near Moscow, as a result of which one policeman was killed, the second was wounded, one of the attackers was also shot, RIA Novosti reported on Saturday by the Russian Federation for the Russian Federation for the region of Julia Zhukova. Earlier it was reported that the shootout occurred in the city of Mytishchi near Moscow.

Six Palestinians were shot today by Israeli soldiers in the territories of autonomy, ITAR-TASS reports. Three Arabs were killed in the city of Nablus on the western bank of the Jordan River. There, units of the Israeli army carried out a large -scale operation to capture militants involved in the murder of a Jewish settler two days ago. Responsibility for the crime took upon itself the combat wing of the Fath movement - "Brigades of the Martyrs of Al -Axsa".

The match of the KHL regular championship between the HC Ministry of Internal Affairs and Magnitogorsk Metallurg, which ended with the victory of the club near Moscow with a score of 2-0, will not be remembered by the fans, but in which the judicious Sergey Fedorov took part. However, having shown, the leader of the Magnitogorsk Metallurg calmly explained why the fight began. "When the judges lose the thread of the game, they need to do something.

The President of the Olympic Committee of Russia Leonid Tyagachev steps on the old rake. In the next uninteresting interview, he accidentally gathering up that the performance of Russians at the Games in Vancouver would be successful. The tractic promised something similar to Beijing , but the results of our athletes were much more modest .

On Saturday, Vice President of Nigeria, the National Security Service, ordered the “attempts to attack” the Delta Airlines passenger aircraft in the United States, in which the Nigerian was arrested, Reuters said. “Actions are being taken to confirm the personality of the alleged suspect and his motives are clarified, our special services will fully cooperate with the American authorities in the investigation,” the agency quoted the Nigeria government as saying.

Scottish singer Susan Boyle, who became world famous after participating in the show "Britain Seeks Talents", can become the performer of the song for the next film about James Bond, according to Saturday on the website of the British newspaper Mirror . The “shaggy angel”, who came out “from the mud to the bunces”, as the British media dubbed her, the 48-year-old singer, who did not have professional musical education, received the next dividends from fame, unexpectedly collapsed at her.

The Finnish Lutheran priest, the doctor of theology of Jukh Molari, who is in defense of the Russian Rimma Salonen, against Russophobia and to improve relations with the Russian Orthodox Church, is threatened with deprivation of a spiritual dignity and loss of work. On Christmas Eve, Molari received a letter from the spiritual capital of the diocese of the city of Espoo, in which he was notified of the consideration of his issue at a meeting of the spiritual council.

Human rights activists urge the mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov to give special status to the former house of the military collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on Nikolskaya Street, where during the Stalinsky terror victims of political repression were shot. “The house on Nikolskaya is not an ordinary monument of architecture.

Demonstrators, speaking on the side of the Iranian political opposition, on Saturday entered into a clash with security forces in southern Tehran, Reuters reported. “A large group of people and security forces entered into a clash in the area of ​​the half-and chokeless during the protest march,” the agency quoted the urgent message, published on the Iranian website of Jaras, which is considered opposition. It is reported that clashes with the police took place in different places.

The weather for the New Year can present a "warm" surprise to the residents of the capital region. According to ITAR -TASS in Roshydromet, today the air temperature will be - plus 5 degrees. Thus, a new temperature record can be set. So far the warmest December 26 was in 1980 - then the air warmed up to plus 3.4 degrees, ITAR -TASS reports. According to weather forecasts, in Moscow, thermometers will show from 2 to 4 degrees of heat, in the region there will be from 0 to 5 degrees of heat.

In the Moscow Metro, three new stations of the Arbat-Pokrovskaya-Mitino-Stroginskaya line-Myakinino, Volokolamskaya and Mitino, which will become, respectively, 178th and 180th stations of the capital's subway, will open. "The commissioning of the Mitinsky section of the Arbat-Pokrovskaya line will almost completely solve the issue of transport services for one of the most densely populated areas of the capital-Mitino.

The current world champions in the ice dancing Oksana Domnin and Maxim Shabalin became the owners of gold awards at the Russian Figure Skating Championship in St. Petersburg. After the champions of Europe, Yana Khokhlov and Sergey Novitsky, Dominina and Shabalin, performed in the status of the main favorites, refused to participate in the championship, which proved on the ice, winning each of the three dance programs.

Due to the large amount of snow that fell on the night of Saturday, traffic in St. Petersburg is very difficult. According to Interfax correspondents, the average speed of movement on almost all streets of St. Petersburg is not more than 40 km/h. In many places, the passing part narrowed to one row, since the roadsides turned into one solid snowdrift, and a separation strip of snow formed between the stripes of different directions.

In Moscow, Santa Claus was solemnly met - the winter wizard came to light the lights on the Christmas tree and see the little Muscovites. By tradition, the lord of the blizzard was met in the center of the capital - on Manezhnaya Square, reports ITAR -TASS.

The racer Michael Schumacher, who at the end of December announced the return to the forum-1 as the Mercedes GP pilot , said that it would be happy if Ferrari fans support him in the German team. According to Schumacher, the Ferrari team will forever remain in his heart. In addition, the German pilot noted that he would pilot in races against the Italian team extremely respectfully. He recalled that he spent 14 years in Ferrari.