The American History Channel television channel suddenly decided not to broadcast a ready -made mini -series about the family of American President John Kennedy, who was killed in 1963, The Kennedys. The plans of the already finished series were ultimately prevented by the daughter of ex-president Caroline Kennedy and the wife of the former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger Maria Schraver, who is John Kennedy his nif, according to The Hollywood Reporter .

The European Central Bank began to buy up the government bonds of Portugal. This step strengthened the rumors circulating in the market that Portugal will become the third Europeanzone country, which, due to difficult budget problems, will be forced to turn to the EU authorities for financial assistance, writes the newspaper RBC Daily with reference to Reuters information. According to traders, the ECB began to buy ten -year bonds of Portugal on Monday.

One child died and several more were injured as a result of the fall of icicles from the roofs of houses in a number of cities of the country in recent days. In the Pskov region, a fallen block killed a child. In Moscow, a block of snow with ice collapsed onto a stroller with a newborn - the baby was hospitalized. In St. Petersburg, three children suffered from the fall of ice from the roofs.

The weighted average US dollar to the Russian ruble with the term of “Tomorrow” accounts at the auction of the Unified Trade Session of the MICEX as of 11:30 Moscow time, on the basis of which there is a process of exchange rate of the dollar the next day, increased by 14.83 kopecks and amounted to 30.6252 rubles, the Finmarket reports. The weighted average of the euro with the period of calculations of "Today" decreased by 67.42 kopecks - to 39.6647 rubles.

Alexander Lukashevich was appointed the new head of the Russian Foreign Ministry of the Russian Foreign Ministry. This was announced on Tuesday by the Deputy Head of this Department Alexei Sazonov on Tuesday .

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation conducts a pre-investigation of the former Prime Minister of Bashkiria Rail Sarbaev-he is suspected of non-targeted use of budget funds during a foreign trip when he was the head of government of the republic.

The search for organic compounds on Mars, which are the main building material for living organisms, dragged on for decades through the fault of scientists who themselves did not believe in their own discovery, writes the British The Daily Mail . Back in 1976, two American Viking modules that examined the soil on the Red Planet recorded the presence of organics in it, but then NASA experts decided that it was brought by these devices from the Earth.

The decision on the name of one of the peaks of the Ala-Too ridge in Kyrgyzstan in honor of the Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin is postponed before amendments to the regulatory acts of the republic, said the director of the National Agency for Local Government Bakhtiyar Fattakhov. "The question of the name in honor of Putin is one of the nameless peaks is still postponed," Fattachi said on Tuesday Interfax . Parliament on Tuesday planned to resolve this issue.

On Saturday, January 8, under the Spasskaya Kremlin Tower on Red Square, an operation was carried out to destroy a suspicious box, which an unknown joker tied with a red ribbon and left a paving stones ten meters from the gate. Perhaps no one would have learned about the event, if it weren’t for the Mouser blogger (Alexander Gorban), who at that day and hour ended up in the Basilian Cathedral of Blessed and managed to capture everything on the camera.

The State Duma, which in the first reading adopted a bill on the ratification of the START agreement in the first reading, will return to this issue on January 14. Finally, ratification in the third reading may take place on January 25. This became clear after the statements of the speaker of the lower house Boris Gryzlov after the Council of the Duma. As Gryzlov said, in the 2nd reading, 11 pages of amendments were prepared for the project, and the consideration itself is stretched.

On Tuesday, the European parliament at an extraordinary meeting in Brussels will discuss the actions of the Belarusian authorities when dispersing the opposition. According to experts, the European Parliament will accept a tough resolution demanding to return and tighten visa sanctions against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and more than one hundred high -ranking Belarusian officials involved in the scandal, as well as apply economic sanctions against Belarus.

One of the leaders of the Solidarity movement Boris Nemtsov, before the New Year, was behind bars after participating in the rally, can become a presidential presidential candidate in the 2012 elections, experts do not exclude. Political scientists pay attention to increased attention precisely to his person among representatives of the opposition, but they diverge in the opinion of what forces are behind this.

Rosatom expects to bring the portfolio of his foreign orders for the construction of power units up to 30, said the head of the state corporation Sergey Kiriyenko at a meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev in Gorki near Moscow. He recalled that in Russia projects for the construction of 28 nuclear power units are being implemented: “In a crisis, they have moved a little, but not one of them has been canceled, work is going on at all sites,” Interfax quotes the head of the corporation.

In Moscow, the apartment of the married couple of musicians Vladimir Presnyakov, the youngest and Natalia Podolskaya, was robbed. The criminals took advantage of the lack of owners of the home, who celebrated the New Year at the elite French resort. The prey households were values ​​in the amount of half a million euros. Large theft occurred in the metropolitan elite complex "Golden Keys" on Minsk Street, where Vladimir Presnyakov and his 28-year-old wife, singer Natalya Podolskaya, live.

In China, judging by the reports of the Internet media, the first fifth-generation fighter J-20, which uses the STLS technology, was held and capable of competing with the American F-22 Raptor. Raptor is so far the only fifth generation in the world in the world, which is already in service.