In Maykop, on a memorial built by the soldiers of the 131st Maykop motorized rifle brigade, who died 15 years ago in battles in the Chechen Republic, today they honored the memory of all soldiers and officers of the Soviet and Russian armed forces who gave their lives in Russia and outside it in local conflicts of the twentieth century.

In Russia, from January 1, 127 people became victims of fires. This is less than a year ago, ITAR-TASS reported today in the information department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry. As usual, in the New Year and Christmas holidays there is a significant increase in fires and people who died in them compared to ordinary days. The largest number of people, as statistics shows, die from January 1 to 2, and the abuse of alcoholic beverages is the main cause of the tragedy.

A deep cyclone continues to operate on Sakhalin and Kurili, and strong snowstorms with a visibility of less than 500 meters continue to operate on the islands, and a strong avalanche danger has been declared. According to the Interfax agency in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Sakhalin Region on Saturday, there are no travels on roads with a length of 348 km in four districts - Makarovsky, Dolinsky, Poronaysky and Tomarinsky.

The Belarusian government circles consider the participation of Belarus in the Customs Union (TS) of the Troika (Belarusia, Russia and Kazakhstan) in case of maintaining Russian export duties for oil for the republic, Interfax said on Saturday a representative of the Belorussia State Administration, close to Belarusian-Russian oil negotiations. "The withdrawal of oil trading outside the configuration of the Customs Union creates a dangerous precedent.

In the center of Moscow in the Kino House on Vasilievskaya Street, due to a short circuit in the wiring, the children's Christmas tree was stopped. According to Interfax , a source in law enforcement agencies, during the submission on Saturday, the electrical wiring occurred, the smell of Gary appeared in the premises of the cinema house and the administration decided to evacuate children. The performance was stopped, the children were evacuated, no one was injured.

The fourth son of Osama Ben Laden, 29-year-old Omar on his behalf and on behalf of his brothers, dissociated himself from the terrorist activity of his father, the leader of the Al-Qaeda International Extremist organization, the newspaper al-Shark al-Ausat reports on Saturday. "All my brothers have nothing to do with the terrorist activity of which my father is accused. They are not involved in this ulcer," Osama Ben Laden, who was living in Qatar, told the newspaper.

In the southern regions of Tajikistan on the border with Afghanistan on Saturday morning, underground shocks were recorded by force up to 5.5 points in the epicenter, the Dushanbinsky seismic station on duty told Interfax . The earthquake was registered at 07:15 local time (05:15 Moscow time).

The accusation of an attempt by a double murder - the artist Kurt Westergor, who is the author of cartoons on the Prophet Muhammad, and the policeman - was presented today by the Danish court of the 28 -year -old Somalitsa, who burst into the house of the draftsman last night. This was announced by the representative of the court in the city of Orchus, where the incident occurred.

Six people became victims of a fire that occurred on New Year's Eve in the village of Tekstilshchiki of the Konakovsky district of the Tver region. "At 3:30 Moscow time, on January 1, a fire in a dacha wooden house located in the village of Textilers, which was extinguished three hours later. After extinguishing the fire, the charred corpses of three men and three women were discovered, " Interfax told a law enforcement source on Saturday.

The unique mammoth will be transferred to Lyuba to the Yamalo-Nenets District Museum and Exhibition Complex named after Shemanovsky at the end of January. As Interfax agency, Deputy Director of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg) Alexei Tikhonov, told, now the mammoth is on conservation. "The mammoth is impregnated with a special solution that protects the find from various external influences. Then the mammoth will be dried.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sent a message to President Asiph Ali Zardari with condolences in connection with terrorist attacks in a number of Pakistani cities.

Dmitry Medvedev must personally apologize to Lyudmila Alekseeva for her detention on the New Year's Eve in the Triumphal Square, said Leonid Gozman. The dispersal of the peaceful action of the opposition and human rights activists "personally discredit the president" and strikes "on the reputation of the whole country," the co -chairman of the party "right business" believes.

The Parliament of Afghanistan rejected 70% of the number of candidates proposed by President Hamid Karzai for ministerial posts, AP agency reports. During Saturday, 17 out of 24 nominees were rejected. Among the "outcasts" - a candidate for the post of Minister of Energy Ismail Khan, who was considered a close ally of Karzai, and a candidate for the post of Minister for Women's Affairs is the only place in the government that was intended for a woman.

Somali pirates captured the first vessel in the new year - the Pramoni Indonesian tanker for the transportation of chemicals, which went under the flag of Singapore, reported on Saturday by AFP, with reference to the "East African Support program" (East African Seaparers' Assistance Programme) Andrew Mwangur. On board the vessel captured on Friday in the Gulf of Aden, there are 24 crew members - 17 citizens of Indonesia, five Chinese and one citizen of Nigeria and Vietnam.

The leader of the British conservatives David Cameron today came up with the initiative to create a "military office" to analyze the operation in Afghanistan, in which representatives of all parties in the country's parliament would participate. His first performance in the new year was a kind of signal of the beginning of the Tory of the election campaign.