The damn dozen of the Romanian witches imposed a curse on the Cabinet of Ministers of Romania. They arranged at night on the banks of the Danube Sabbath and poured into the river a decoction of the poisonous Mandragor for the fact that the government enabled the sorceress and fortunetellers in the category of entrepreneurs, who now put on the income tax of 16%, as well as deducting part of the money earned to pension funds and medical insurance funds.

The German authorities closed 4709 livestock farms after it turned out that a large batch of animal feed is infected with a toxic chemical dioxin, Interfax reports with reference to BBC. According to the British television and radio broadcasting corporation, Dioxin was discovered a few days ago in eggs, chicken and pork produced in Germany.

The Supreme Court of the Netherlands supported the company Yukos International UK BV - the Dutch structure of the former oil company "Yukos" in a dispute with the Russian company Promneftstroy LLC. According to today's decision, the Netherlands authorities recognize Yukos Int. The legal recipient of funds from the sale of one of the Yukos refinery - the Lithuanian oil refining plant Mazeikiu Nafta worth $ 1.2 billion, Reuters reports. According to the materials of the court, Yukos inte.

Work on the restoration of energy supply in the Moscow region continues. On Friday morning, 344 emergency brigades with a total number of 1720 people went on duty, the Director of the Department of Public Relations of the Moscow United Electric Ground Company (MOESK) Vitaly Strugovets told Interfax .

Another case of the mysterious mass death of birds, this time in Italy, occurred, the British television company Sky News said today. Last Wednesday, "hundreds, and possibly thousands of dead pigeons, were discovered in the area of ​​Ravenna." According to the London newspaper Daily Mail, in numerous cases the mass death of birds and fish are guilty, possibly sharp changes in the climate and the now noted increased change in weather.

The Partner fishing schooner, which previously gave the distress signal near Cape Lomanon on the west coast of Sakhalin, sank, reports on Friday the Center for Social Relations of the Federal Agency for Rosrybolovstvo. The department gives the radio message submitted by the schooner: "Attention, attention, who hears me, I do not know." Partner ", I endure the disaster. The ship goes under water.

The Ministry of Defense this year begins to purchase light multi-purpose Ka-226 helicopters. As a source in the military department said on Friday, the state defense system for 2011 provides for the supply of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation of six such vehicles. According to the source, the purchased Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Ka-226 helicopters will be equipped with Rolls Royce engines.

Law enforcement officers, together with rescuers on Friday, discovered the bodies of two teenagers who disappeared three days ago in the Kaltasinsky district of Bashkiria. According to RIA Novosti, a representative of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the republic, one of the mothers of boys, a resident of the village of Aktugan, Kaltasinsky District of the Republic, addressed the police to the police with a statement about the loss of children to the police.

The Russian Embassy in Tallinn took note of the explanation of the Estonian side that the territory of Estonia was depicted on the new coins of the euro in its real borders. However, the Russian side believes that “artistic fantasies” are inappropriate in such an important issue as the line of the border, Maria Shustitskaya, Press-Attash, said on Friday RIA Novosti . Recall, the scandal erupted on January 4. Estonia from January 1, 2011 joined the Eurozone.

The leaders of the countries of Latin America do not trust the statements of the Chinese leadership about the desire to build equal relations with the Latin American countries and are preoccupied with increasing the influence of China in the region, according to the secret documents published on Wikileaks , which on Friday published the Mexican media.

As a result of the explosion, which thundered on Friday in the building of public baths in the city of Spin-Boldak in the province of Kandahar in the south of Afghanistan on the border with Pakistan, at least 17 people were killed, another 21 were injured. As ITAR-TASS reports, according to one version, which is now being checked by the Kandahar authorities, a suicide bomber could attack the attack.

The Orthodox Russians celebrate the Christmas of Christ today - the event from which Christians began the countdown of the new history of mankind 2011. Christians will praise the arrival in the world of the Savior 12 days, before the festival of the baptism of the Lord. Festive liturgy at night and in the morning pass in all temples on all continents. In the Russian Church, there are now about 30 thousand temples and more than 800 monasteries in almost 60 countries, ITAR-TASS reports.

The European Union will “reject the proposal of Tehran” about the trip of his representatives on a number of Iran’s nuclear facilities, since observers from the IAEA should do this, the Supreme EU EU, Katherine Ashton, the EU Supreme EU, said in the Hungarian capital. The head of European diplomacy is on a visit to Budapest in order to determine the agenda of the chairmanship of Hungary in the EU that began on January 1, ITAR-TASS reports.

Judge Khamovnichesky Court Viktor Danilkin, who on December 30 issued a harsh sentence in the second case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev, began to be subjected to various kinds of poisonous attacks on the Internet.

The US authorities arrested on Thursday the former CIA employee on charges of transferring secret information to the journalist of The New York Times, who wrote a book about the nuclear weapon development program in Iran, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to The Wall Street Journal. According to the American publication, the arrested 43-year-old Jeffrey Sterling worked in the CIA for nine years and left there in 2002.