The famous Novgorod television journalist Irina Bendak, who for many years led Valdai television studio, died at a frontal clash of two cars in the Novgorod section of the Moscow -St. Petersburg Federal Railway. Two daughters of Irina received severe injuries in the accident, RIA Novosti said on Monday a source in the Novgorod Internal Affairs Directorate. In total, four people were killed in the clash, three more were seriously injured.

Arnold Schwarzenegger leaves the post of Governor of California. Today, the term of powers of the “Terminator” formally came to an end, the Brotherhood of the Board in California for 4 years is accepted by Democrat Jerry Brown, who was elected according to the results of intermediate elections in the United States in early November. Brown previously held the posts of the governor and the Prosecutor General of California, ITAR-TASS reports.

About 20 supporters of one of the leaders of the "solidarity" of Boris Nemtsov were detained while trying to organize single pickets near the insulator, where he is contained after the decision of the peace court on administrative arrest, Interfax reports. “We were detained on the Simferopol Boulevard near the temporary detention center.

The defenders of the Khimkinsky forest intend to continue the struggle for it this year and do not despair, despite the decision adopted by the Government Commission on the continuation of the construction of the Moscow-Sank-Petersburg road through the Khimkinsky forest. “This year we plan to continue our struggle. The first action will take place on January 15 on the Starbeevsky field.

Unknown people fired at the building of the Orthodox Church in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya (Ingushetia) from the under -barrel grenade launcher. This was reported by the Interfax agency with reference to law enforcement agencies of the Sunzhensky district. "At about 21:30 Moscow time, unidentified persons fired at the building of the Pokrovsky Cathedral in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya on Pionerskaya Street. As a result, the building caused insignificant material damage.

The famous actor, People's Artist of the USSR Yuri Yakovlev went to the hospital with a heart attack, Life News reports. According to the publication, he was taken to the "ambulance" to the Central Design Bureau with attendant arrhythmia. Meanwhile, the son of Yakovlev, Anton, told RIA Novosti that there is no threat to the health of an 82-year-old artist. “Yuri Yakovlev is now in the hospital, but he feels normally.

The ex -Prime Minister of Ukraine, the leader of the opposition, Yulia Tymoshenko, is again called to the Prosecutor General’s Office - the next interrogation was scheduled for 12:00 (13:00 in Moscow) on January 5, the politician official website reported.

The Iranian authorities have been fulfilled today by death sentences issued by the seven defendants found guilty of drug trafficking, NEWSRU Israel reports citing the IRNA official news agency. The prosecutor of Mojtaba Maleki said that the convicts were executed in one of the prison of the eastern province of Kermanshah.

The young Russian woman was abducted in Paris on New Year's Eve at about half-past half on Penatovsky Boulevard in the 12th district, writes Inopressa.ru with reference to the French Le Parisien . A 21-year-old girl who arrived in the capital of France to celebrate the New Year, sat down with her friend in a car to a person who offered to give them to the hotel.

Domodedovo Airport works from the reserve substation, but at the same time does not experience problems with energy supply, Interfax reports. “On the second of January, MOESK OJSC stopped applying for one of the head substations serving the Domodedovo airport. Replaceable electrical brigades switched the airport’s power supply to the reserve substation,” Elena Galanova, head of the press service of the Domodedovo airport, told the agency.

Two Russians, repeatedly detained in Minsk as part of a criminal case of riots on the day of the presidential election in Belarus on December 19, have not yet been charged. One citizen of the Russian Federation is currently contained in the KGB investigative insulator, the second in the Department of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a representative of law enforcement agencies of the country said on Monday of RIA Novosti .

More than two thousand dead blackbirds hit last Saturday to the city of Bib in the American state of Arkansas. Experts cannot explain this phenomenon. The initial version that the birds were poisoned until they were confirmed, reports Newsru Israel . According to AP, about three thousand dead birds fell on the state. Locals say that thousands of wild birds are circling the second day over the city.

The Chancellery of the President of Latvia appealed to the National Council for Electronic Media with a demand to assess the fact that after the New Year's appeal of Valdis Zatlers on television, the state anthem did not sound. “The anthem after the president’s speech is the expected tradition, which causes the residents a feeling of a holiday and patriotism, therefore its change is unacceptable.

Japan hopes to conclude a union with South Korea to ensure security in East Asia against the backdrop of expected provocations by the DPRK, RIA Novosti reports, citing the words of the head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry Seiji Maehara. According to him, the Armed provocations of the DPRK represent the "threat of stability and the world" not only of the Korean Peninsula, but also of the whole of East Asia.

In China, the development of the technical aspects of the project on the independent sending to Mars in 2013 of the research apparatus began. This was stated at the Chinese Research Institute of Space Technology. "In 2013, China counts on independent sending the research apparatus to Mars using the Changzhen -3B rocket carrier (" Great Campaign), "experts said.