The Tu-154B-2 plane of Kogalymavia did not break out due to fire in the engines, Interfax reports with reference to the message of the Interstate Aviation Committee. "It was established that the NN 1.2.3 engines and the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not appear sources of the fire on the plane. The fire began in the rear of the aircraft interior in the region of 62-65 frames," the MAC website said.

The Boston police removed the aircraft and accused of violating the public order of the university teacher of mathematics, Fire Milyatovich after a passenger complaint about the noise from his hand luggage - a package with a bun, hat and other trifle, reports AP. According to the agency, the 35-year-old teacher of mathematics and statistics at the University of North Florida Milyatovich intended to fly out of Boston to Washington on the airline of the US Airways airline.

In the "interests of Russia" to ensure freedom of expression. This was stated by US Secretary of State Philip Crowley, who was asked to comment on the arrests made on December 31 last year during rallies of a number of opposition forces, in particular Boris Nemtsov. “We regret that these arrests were carried out,” said Crowley.

The US position still consists in the fact that "the new START Treaty does not impose restrictions on the development or deployment of" American programs in the field of pro. This, as ITAR-TASS reports, said on Monday the ABC television company, the official representative of the White House Tommy Vitor.

The Internet is not only the liberation force, but also with its help authoritarian regimes track out dissenters, look for any information about them and manipulate public consciousness, writes Inopressa.ru with reference to the Sunday Times Evgeny Morozov.

Unknown criminals during the New Year's weekend after a 30-meter digging penetrated into one of the Buenos Aires banks and devastated a tenth of his deposit boxes. According to AP Agency, the target of the raiders was the Banco Provincia Bank branch in the metropolitan district of Belgrando. The criminals "worked" in the premises for deposit boxes both weekends - they managed to open 140 out of 1.4 thousand personal safe cells, RIA Novosti reports.

In Nalchik, unknown people blew up a bomb in the Sahara entertainment club on Tarchokov Street (Gornaya microdistrict). There are no victims, Interfax reports with reference to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation in Kabardino-Balkaria. The incident occurred around 19:30 Moscow time. Two unknown people broke into the club building, threw explosives and disappeared from the scene of the crime.

In the forest near the Saratov sixth day, a stock colonel, former first deputy military commandant of the Chechen Republic, Alexander Glushchenko, starves. He protests against the fact that he was fired from the army in 2007 without providing housing after 26 years of service. As Glushchenko said Radio Echo of Moscow , the legality of his requirements was already proved by the court.

Israeli President Shimon Peres in a telephone conversation with Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev apologized to him for the forced transfer of the deadlines of the Russian-Israeli summit. According to him, this is due to "domestic political problems from the Israeli side." Recall that on the eve of the media wrote about the possible disruption of Medvedev’s visit to Israel due to the strike of the Israeli Foreign Ministry.

The Russian team reached the final of the World Hockey Championship among youth held in the United States. Valery Bragin’s wards secured their participation in the struggle for the gold medal of the championship at the expense of Monday, January 3, in the semifinals of victory over the Swedish national team (4: 3 in a series of shootouts). As it became known, the Russians will fight for a gold medal with Canadians.

In the Sakhalin Gulf in the morning of January 4, it is planned to begin the liberation of fishing vessels, which previously fell into ice captivity in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk. Of all the vessels of the vessels in the most dangerous situation, the trawler of Cape Elizabeth was in the most dangerous situation. He was brought close to the shore with a drift of ice, less than 1 km remained to land.

The representative of Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Ashgar Soltani invited delegates from Russia, China, and the European Union to visit Iranian nuclear facilities. About this, as reports RBC , reports AP with reference to the letter of Soltani, who fell to the agency. As noted in the letter, the optimal date of the visit is called January 15 and 16, 2011.

The European Union may renew the ban on entry into countries of communities for the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko and the group of Belarusian state officials, who, according to the EU, are responsible for violent actions and arrests regarding activists of the Belarusian opposition, said the Swedish Foreign Minister Karl Bildt. In his opinion, Europe should follow the logic of its previous policy.

The arrests of representatives of the Russian opposition who took part in the anti -government rally on December 31, "it seems that some disagreements in the Russian government." About this writes The New York Times , which is referred by Inopressa . The publication recalls that the arrests occurred, despite the permission of the rally by the Moscow authorities.

Almost all the participants of the unauthorized action of the opposition in Minsk after the elections of the President of Belarus - about 150 people - were released. About this, according to Interfax , reported on Tuesday in the Ministry of the Interior of Belarus. Meanwhile, two Russians from among the detainees are taken into custody.