The spouse of the British Queen Elizabeth II appeared in public for the first time after he had an operation to eliminate the blockage of the artery. On Sunday, the British television channel showed the Duke of Edinburgh Philip, who was discharged from the hospital last Tuesday. Prince Philip took part in the New Year's service in the church of the city of Sandringham in the east of the country. During the ceremony, he kept confidently and cheerfully, notes ITAR-TASS.

Municipal miners of Moscow on New Year's Eve took about 100 thousand cubic meters of snow to snow-saving points, RIA Novosti said on Sunday, a spokeswoman for the City Complex of the capital, Igor Parchment. "On New Year's Eve, all the city’s life support systems worked as usual. The snow was used to use more than eight thousand units of special equipment, as well as 1.184 thousand brigades with a total number of more than five thousand people.

From January 1, fines for violation of a number of traffic rules are significantly increased. Amendments can be divided into two categories. The first applies to traffic violations, due to which, according to the authors of the amendments, traffic jams are formed in large cities. So, ten times the penalty for traveling to the intersection during the traffic jam is increasing (if the driver creates interference for traffic) - up to 1000 rubles.

Registered at 11:13 local time (07:13 in Moscow) in Tuva a new ardent impetus with a force of 4 points on the MSK-64 scale in the epicenter did not bring destruction to the republic. There were also no reports of victims, ITAR-TASS said in the press service of the Office of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the republic.

Citizen of Moldova, wounded by a Russian peacekeeper, died The 18-year-old young man, who did not slow down on the checkpoint in Transnistria, had a severe wound in the abdominal cavity, as a result of which the internal organs were damaged. A Moldovan citizen, who was seriously wounded by the Russian Peacemaker in Transnistria, died. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the ambulance hospital, where he was undergoing an operation.

Iran conducted a training launch of medium-range missiles of the Earth-Athos class during the maneuvers of the IRI naval forces passing in the area of ​​the Ormuzian Strait. This was announced by the official representative of the Iranian Navy, Admiral Mahmud Musavi.

The police did not record significant violations of public order during the celebration of the New Year in St. Petersburg, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the city and the Leningrad Region reports. "At the same time, most of the calls to law enforcement agencies were reference and information in nature. Most often, the police went to complaints about loud music, accident and drunken fights," the department noted. "In St.

In the center of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk today, a rescue bot number 2 was found with the sunken drill platform "Kola". It was discovered by the trawler "Alexander Belyakov" of the Nakhodkinsky base of active sea fishing. “During the survey of rescue boats, people were not found in it,” ITAR-TASS said the State Marine Rescue and Cordration Center of Russia. At the bot, the case is partially damaged, the nasal mount is torn to lower the boat onto the water.

Extreme from Melbourne: during the fireworks, the spire of the center of art burned down, but they decided not to interrupt the show The spire burned in 40 minutes, and its fragments fell on the roof of the building, which was evacuated in the light of New Year's fireworks. More than 600 thousand people gathered in the city center, and rescuers received 200 calls about the fire of the main spire of the city. New Year's fireworks caused a fire in the Melbourne Center for Arts.

The NASA American aerospace agency brought to target orbit the lunar probe of the Grail -A probe - the first of a pair of probes that should make up the most accurate maps of the moon. Grail-B is currently approaching the Earth's satellite and will begin maneuvering at 17:05 on the east coast of the United States (02:05 Monday in Moscow). Sound engines will work for about 40 minutes and bring them to an almost polar elliptical orbit with a circulation period of about 11 and a half hours.

Denmark on the first day of 2012 accepted the baton of the rotational chairmanship in the European Union with Poland, which will continue until June 30. In the second half of the year, it will go to the Republic of Cyprus.

On January 1, a homemade explosive device was found in the Ingush village of Plievo - a bucket filled with ammonia nitrate and aluminum powder. According to ITAR-TASS in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia, the sappers dismantled a single bomb consisting of a detonator and a plastic bucket with amazing elements. Measures are being taken to establish a person who made and laid it out. What was the power of the IEA, not reported.

Another - the second for today - the underground impetus is registered in Tuva. Its intensity was similar to the first-4 points on the MSK-64 12-point scale in the epicenter (120 km northeast of the village of Saryg-SPA KAA-Kham region), less than 2 points in settlements. There were no reports of destruction and victims, the spokeswoman for the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Republic of Louise Sevil told ITAR-TASS.

The governor of the Argentine province of Rio-Negro Carlos Sorias died under mysterious circumstances during the celebration of the New Year, the local police said on Sunday. Soria was in his residence near the city of Heneral Roka, when a traditional festive shooting for Argentina took place. Just at that time, the governor received a deadly bullet wound, Interfax reports.

Iran created a fuel rod for a nuclear reactor The rod - the heat -eating element necessary for the operation of the nuclear power plant - is placed in the research reactor in Tehran, where it is tested in trial mode. The Iranian scientist managed to successfully successfully complete the creation of their own fuel rod - the heat -email element necessary for the operation of the nuclear reactor. This is stated in the Iranian atomic energy organization, which was widespread on Sunday.