The head of the oldest human rights organization in Russia, the Moscow Helsinki group (MHG), Lyudmila Alekseeva promises to arrange a scandal in connection with the actions of the police on the triumphal square on December 31. "I will arrange a wild scandal throughout the world when these New Year's holidays end," Alekseeva told "Interfax." She stated that the police on December 31 detained people who went to a rally, agreed with the Moscow City Hall.

According to updated data, three people died when aircraft fire in Surgut, Interfax was told in the Ural Transport Prosecutor's Office. “According to preliminary data, one of the dead is the child. The age is not yet known,” the agency’s interlocutor noted. According to other sources, 31 people were hospitalized in Surgut hospitals as a result of an aviation. This was reported to the Interfax agency in the airport health center. “The surname of the deceased woman is known - Pukach.

With the beginning of the new year, the fare in the metro rises to 28 rubles , and in ground public transport - up to 25 rubles , Interfax reports. According to the previously approved decree of the Moscow Government to tariffs, the cost of a one -time trip to the metro is expensive from 26 to 28 rubles, on ground public transport from 24 to 25 rubles. The increase in cost by type of tickets will be from 7.7% to 15.5% to the level of 2010.

The co -chair of the Solidarity movement Boris Nemtsov and a member of the Federal Political Council of this organization Ilya Yashin celebrated the New Year in the police and the courts are waiting. “Nemtsov continues to be in the Tver branch, and Yashin is in Basmann.

The number of victims of the terrorist attack committed today near the church in the northern capital of Egypt Alexandria increased to 21 people. 43 people were injured. Representatives of the Ministry of Health of Egypt were distributed today about the number of those dead after the victims and bodies of the dead were delivered to the hospitals, ITAR-TASS reports.

There are no Russians among the victims with a terrorist attack in Alexandria. This was reported today in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. "According to the Russian embassy in Cairo, there are no Russians among the victims," ​​the ministry said, ITAR -TASS said. “In Moscow, the most resolutely condemns this criminal sortie of extremists,” the diplomatic mission emphasized.

In Russia, from January 1, all children's benefits have been indexed. According to the federal law adopted on December 13, 2010, indexation is subject to the minimum amount of the monthly childcare allowance, a one -time allowance for transferring the child to educate the family. According to the Social Insurance Fund, the expenses of the fund for the payment of childcare benefits will increase by 6-8%, Interfax reports. From January 1, 2010, the sizes of children's benefits were increased.

About 500 people were wounded in Italy on New Year's Eve during the traditional launch of firecrackers and fireworks, RIA Novosti reports. Messages that came last night at the Italian Ministry of Internal Affairs more reminiscent of combat reports. According to the police, among the wounded there are 68 children under the age of 12, as well as another 59 teenagers who have not reached the age of majority. Only due to careless handling of firearms on the Apennines eight people were injured.

A weekly epic with a large -scale violation of power supply in the Moscow Region of Russia finally received its completion. In a number of settlements of the region, residents remained without light for 6 days. "As of 14:00 Moscow time, the power supply in the suburbs has been completely restored," ITAR -TASS said today at the Central Regional Center of the Russian Emergencies Ministry. A week ago, on Saturday night on Sunday to the central regions of Russia, snowfall and icy rain collapsed.

By 2 o’clock in the morning on January 2, to the Magadan icebreaker, Igor Levitin, who appeared in the icy captivity in the Okhotsk Sea, should approach the three fisherman vessels, the Minister of Transport Igor Levitin. "There are now 555 people in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk. Three large vessels have fallen into the zone of mobile ice. The thickness of the ice is approximately 30 cm.

In the Nizhny Novgorod region, where the cyclone, held on the night of December 30-31 last year, left 10 districts without light, another deterioration in weather conditions is expected, ITAR-TASS reports. As reported today in the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies, on January 1, cloudy weather is expected in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, without precipitation, on January 2 - strengthening wind, blizzard, and heavy snowfall.

In the American Kansas City, the Privy Santa chose an unusual way to help those who, for one reason or another, were behind the poverty line. The main character of the New Year and Christmas holidays enters the store of discerned goods and in an unusual form provides material assistance to its visitors. Santa approaches this or that buyer and by chance drops a certain amount of money - from 100 to 500 dollars.

Millions of residents of Rio de Janeiro and tourists became witnesses to the grandiose New Year's fireworks. According to tradition, exactly at midnight in local time (05:00 Moscow time), the sky over the Atlantic Ocean opposite the world -famous Kopacaban beach was illuminated by millions of multi -colored lights. The salvo volleys were beaten almost from the water - from launchers placed on 11 special rafts 300 meters from the coastline, RIA Novosti reports. Pyrotechnic show lasted 16 minutes.

Unknown on New Year's Eve shot from automatic weapons by the acting The head of the criminal investigation department of the Untsukulsky District Department of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, Interfax was told in the ROVD. "At about 2:00 Moscow time, on New Year's Eve, the unknown person opened fire on the acting head of the criminal investigation department of the Untsukulsky District Department of Internal Affairs Magomedrasul Makachev.

The picket in support of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev was held on Friday on December 31 on Union Square in New York, RIA Novosti reports. This was already the second picket in New York for the current week. The Khamovnican Court of Moscow sentenced Mikhail Khodorkovsky and ex-head of the MFI MENATEP Platon Lebedev to 14 years in a general regime for theft of oil and laundering of revenue.