The ambassadors of the countries of the European Union turned to the Belarusian authorities with a request to organize a meeting with the arrested ex-candidates for the president, Interfax reports.

Near the building of the Moscow City Hall, the responsible secretary of the Solidarity movement Mikhail Schneider was detained, the Echo of Moscow radio station said. Schneider held a single picket in support of the opposition, arrested on December 31 at the Strategy-31 shares.

In the capital of Kyrgyzstan, a triple murder of police officers was committed, an interfax told a source in law enforcement agencies on Wednesday. On the night of January 5, three police officers in the eighth Bishkek microdistrict intended to check their passports with suspicious guests of one of the private hotels in a residential building. Unknown people in response opened fire from the Kalashnikov assault rifle for police officers, as a result of which they were killed.

The employee of the State Border Service of Azerbaijan (GPS) shot the colleague as a result of careless handling of weapons, the Interfax agency was told to the GPS on Wednesday. The incident occurred last Tuesday at the border outpost in the Astarinsky district, border with Iran. On the fact of the death of an employee of the state border service, a criminal case has been instituted, an investigation is underway. Links on the topic

The Lviv Regional Council requires the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine to declare the Russian Genconsul in Lviv Evgenia Guzeev Persona Non Grata. 73 deputies out of 116 voted for such an appeal at the regional council session on Wednesday, Ukrainian Pravda reports with reference to Interfax .

The famous theater and film actress Natalya Varley was hospitalized in the Botkin hospital. As a source in the medical institution said on Wednesday, it may take an operation. "Varley was delivered to us at the ambulance on January 3 (Monday) in the evening, in the surgical department. Perhaps she will need surgical intervention," a source in the medical institution told RIA Novosti .

State Duma chairman Boris Gryzlov said that they would not reduce the New Year holidays in Russia. According to the speaker, this is a great opportunity to relax and pay attention to your loved ones. “I do not see prospects for periodically appearing projects for reducing January holidays.

A local resident was detained in Tula, who tried to steal a sign with a public reception of the President of the Russian Federation, located in the building of the regional administration. The press service of the regional police department reported that the detainee was intoxicated. As it turned out, he came to the New Year's performance near the main Christmas tree on the central square of Tula, reports Interfax .

In the south of Iran, a strong earthquake of 5.3 points on the Richter scale occurred on Wednesday morning. According to the Iranian news agency Mehr, as a result of underground shocks, according to preliminary data, 16 people were injured. The epicenter was located near the city of Ardakan, 80 km from Shiraz - the administrative center of the South Iranian province of Fars.

The giant tuna left the hammer in the famous Japanese Tsukizi market for 32.49 million yen or 396 thousand dollars, the BBC reports. The price for the 342-killogram tuna broke the last record set in 2001, when the 202-kilogram fish was sold for 20.2 million yen. The fish owner in Japan and the Chinese company managing the Sushi-bar network in Hong Kong bought fish.

Employees of the criminal investigation department of the Dagestan Ministry of Internal Affairs in hot pursuit revealed the murder of the Wynmatovs spouses, committed on Tuesday in the gardener "Romonnik" of the city of Buinaksk. According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan on Wednesday, their son born in 1987, living in Buinaksk, was detained on suspicion of murder , Interfax reports.

The Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi, known for his passion for the weak floor, vowed that he had never started a novel in his life and did not even flirt with the woman-communist, RIA Novosti reports. "They changed the name several times, but the trick did not work. ...

The British painting “The King says” and “Social Network”, based on Ben Mesrich’s book “billionaires, involuntarily: an alternative story of creating Facebook”, fell among the ten tapes put forward to the awards of the Awards of America's producers in the most prestigious category “Best Film” of the year. The list of nominees is published in Los Angeles Guildia, uniting more than four thousand producers working in cinema and on television.

In the Vologda region, a large traffic accident occurred on Tuesday, as a result of which four people were killed, including three children. As a source in law enforcement agencies said on Wednesday, a car accident occurred in the Syamzhensky district on the 591st km of the federal highway Moscow - Arkhangelsk. “The woman, following the Toyota car, drove to the oncoming side of the road and collided with the Daewoo car,” a law enforcement source told Interfax on Wednesday.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine today does not see the grounds for the arrest of the ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, who is under the subscription of the loss of departure in connection with criminal proceedings against her, the investigator of the prosecutor’s office Sergey Gorbatyuk, the leading case of Tymoshenko, told reporters on Wednesday. “At this time, I do not see such grounds,” the UNIAN Ukrainian Agency quotes Gorbatyuk.