The well -known nature defender in Latvia, the Tsukman (aka Pearch) decided to carry his ideas to the masses and applied for participation in the qualifying round of the Eurovision Song Contest. For this, the Svini man has already recorded the composition Antidraza ("Anti-Hlam"), Delfi reports. Tsukman is known in Latvia to his active position on the protection of ecology, so that his song will be extremely environmental.

Within the framework of the permutation at the Russian Ministry of Defense, the head of the stationary and arrangement service was appointed. They became Grigory Naginsky, a source in the military department told Interfax on Friday.

The video of the murder of the black-haired was hung on the Internet a certain Nazi group of NW-WP, reports Fontanka.ru . First, a mask guy welcomes “brothers in theory” and calls for further terror. In their appeal, extremists took responsibility for the murder of a citizen Ghana, which was committed in the Moscow region on December 25 last year. Then a scene of the beating of the African is demonstrated, who subsequently died in the hospital from injuries.

In Moscow, they hope to improve relations with Ukraine after the upcoming presidential elections there and expect a good and sincere policy against Russia from the new Ukrainian leader. This was stated by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrei Nesterenko at a press conference in Moscow. “In Moscow, they carefully and with quite understandable interest are observing the development of the situation in Ukraine,” said the diplomat.

In the clinic of the Swedish town in the middle of the day, the floor collapsed on one of the floors. The people who were at that moment inside the building first decided that an earthquake occurred. In fact, the collapse happened when a group of 20 participants in the Weight Watchers program (observers over weight) gathered to conduct a weekly weighing procedure.

In Haiti, destroyed by a catastrophic earthquake , the fourth plane of the Russian Emergencies Ministry with the next group of rescuers and special equipment arrived on Friday. According to ITAR-TASS in the information department of the ministry, this time a light BK-117 helicopter was also taken on board the IL-76, with which it is planned to conduct air intelligence and evacuate seriously wounded from difficult to accessible terrain.

In the Altai Territory, two former employees of the police patrol service (PPSM) were sentenced, who crippled the former internationalist and war veteran in Afghanistan. Law enforcement officers brutally beat a man for an innocent question about the reasons for their detention. The court sentenced the ex-employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Nikolai Lyskov and Vyacheslav Aleksentsev to three years in prison of everyone.

Russian woman Elena Dementyeva became the winner of the Medibank International tennis tournament in Sydney, whose prize fund is 600 thousand dollars. In the final match of the competition, she in two sets with a score of 6: 3, 6: 2 defeated the first racket of the world to American Seren Williams. The 28-year-old Russian woman on the courts of Sydney managed to protect her last year's title.

In the premises of the Union of Artists of the Northern capital, the exhibition "Martyrdom and Holiness in the 20th century" was opened the day before. This event pre-pre-“Round Table” under the same name, on which the issues of Christian sacrifice in Russia of the last century were raised, reports the Portal “The Theologian.ru” with reference to the official edition of the St. Petersburg Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church “Living Water” .

A strong earthquake of magnitude occurred on Friday in the northeast of Venezuela, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the US Geological Service. Initially, 5.7 was reported about magnitude, later the data were specified: it amounted to 5.6 points. The underground shocks were recorded at 21:00 Moscow time. The epicenter of the earthquake was 39 kilometers southwest of the city of Karupano at a depth of 11.7 kilometers. The injuries and the scale of damage have not yet been reported.

The State Duma proposes to introduce administrative punishments for the chiefs of Russian prisons who refuse to accept public controllers. If the amendments to a number of codes and federal laws proposed by the deputies will be adopted, then the bosses-extensors will be fined from 500 to 1000 rubles, they write on Friday the "Vedomosti" .

The Federal Tribunal of Switzerland confirmed the punishment for the Berne lawyer Hans Peter Jenny, who took place in the case of Aeroflot in Switzerland. He was accused of complicity of fraud, Interfax said on Friday with reference to the Russian -speaking “our newspaper” entering in Switzerland. "In his verdict, the tribunal confirmed the accusation that Jennie created the Aeroflot and Aeroflot to rob the Aeroflot company.

In mid -December, the Minister of Transport Igor Levitin announced the request of Russian Railways to give 1 billion rubles from the budget to increase the safety of transportation between the two cities. According to Vedomosti , the cabinet decided that Russian Railways would take this billion from the funds that were allocated to her from the budget in 2009 to transport new cars from the European part of Russia to the Far East.

The Minister of Defense of Japan Tosimi Kitazawa ordered the withdrawal of ships of the sea forces of self -defense from the Arabian Sea zone (Indian Ocean), where since December 2001 they provided the rear support of the multinational squadron. Led by the United States, these forces participate in military operations against the Taliban detachments and Al-Qaeda cells in Afghanistan.

At the post of President Dagestan, Mukha Aliyev, lawyer Magomed Abdulaev can be replaced by Lawyer. The Kremlin supports the change of power clans in the republic, they write Vedomosti , recalling that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met with Dagestan President Mukhi Aliyev.