A large accident involving employees of various operational services of Moscow occurred in the north-west of the capital. There, the police, chasing the alleged robbers by car, crashed into an ambulance, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement. It is noteworthy that in a police car, at the time of the accident, there was also a fireman.

Against the background of the naval teachings in Iran, which caused an aggravation of the international situation, Tehran again made sharp statements to Washington. The Commander -in -Chief of the Iranian army threatened the United States of troubles if the American aircraft carrier John C. Stennis decides to return to the Persian Gulf of Persian. “Iran will not repeat his warning,” said the Iranian commander in chief of Ataoll Salehi, whose words are given by the IRNA agency.

In 2012, Russia intends to break its own just installed space record. It is planned to carry out 36 launches of launch vehicles from the Baikonur and Plesetsk cosmodrome, a source in the missile and space industry told Interfax . In addition, a number of launches are planned under the international program "Marine Start" and as part of the Russian-European project "Soyuz" in Kuru .

Former First Deputy Prosecutor of the Moscow Region Alexander Ignatenko, who was hiding from Interpol at the foreign resort due to accusations on a high-profile case of the "roofing" of the gambling business, the Polish intelligence agencies took right at the New Year's table, reports Life News . Meanwhile, according to official figures, the Ignatenko car was detained on the exit from the city. A fugitive prosecutor was detained in a popular Polish mountain resort Zakopan.

The famous American singer Aretn Franklin announced that she was getting married. The chosen one of the Queen Soul, who will turn 70 on March 25, is William Wilrson, with whom the performer has long maintains close relations, AP reports. The wedding is scheduled for the coming summer and, most likely, will be held in Miami Beach (Florida). After the marriage, a reception on board a private yacht will be held, ITAR-TASS reports. The singer has not yet decided who to order a wedding dress.

At the British Acrotiri air base in Cyprus, five people were injured as a result of the protest of the Greeks-kypriots. According to a representative of the base, among the victims several guards and a journalist of a local television company. Participants in the protest gathered at the gates of the base, demanding to stop the military presence of Great Britain on the island, ITAR-TASS reports. According to local media, the peaceful demonstration ended with clashes with security.

The President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov is officially registered by the country's centrizbirk as a candidate in the upcoming presidential election, RIA Novosti reports with reference to local media. In total, 15 candidates were nominated for the highest state post in the country. Berdimuhamedov became the eighth candidate who was registered in the Central Election Commission.

In the second half, for Tuesday, Moscow will finally come to Moscow, the previously promised heavy snowfall and blizzard will be reported, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Meteonovosti message. "Under the influence of the atmospheric front from the west in the afternoon, it will be unobtrusive, snow, in some places a strong snowstorm," the message says. The air temperature in Moscow will be from 3 to 1 degree of frost, in the region-from 5 degrees of frost to 0.

In Moldova, residents of the village of Pyryta, located in the security zone, from where 18-year-old Vadim Pisar came from, who was mortally wounded by the Russian Peacemaker on January 1, 2012, blocked the road to Chisinau through the Bridge through the Dniester, RBC reports.

The Russian aircraft carrier group, which at the end of December went on a long campaign, arrived in the East Mediterranean. On the eve of the Voice of Russia radio station reported that the Russian Federation and Greece will hold joint naval maneuvers in the region. Their beginning is scheduled for January 6, Newsru Israel reports.

In Aiovo today, meetings of the activists of the Republican Party will be held, at which the inhabitants of this American state will be the first in the country to express which of the applicants among the Republicans they would like to see as an opponent of the Democrat of Barack Obama in the election in November this year.

The first trading session in the Russian foreign exchange market of the MMEVB in 2012 began with the strengthening of the ruble exchange rate with respect to the dollar, the euro and the bivalyut basket. The dollar rate fell below 32 rubles at the beginning of the trading in the first working day in 2012, the MICEX data.

The star of Hollywood Angelina Jolie gave her civil husband, actor Brad Pitt for Christmas and the 48th birthday, which he celebrated in December, a waterfall in California along with a plot of land adjacent to him. According to The New York Post , Jolie decided to make Pitt with whom they raise six children, such a gift, knowing about his love for architecture.

American ornithologists find out the reasons for the fall from the sky in Arkansas of more than 200 dead black blackbirds. According to representatives of the state of wildlife protection service, the birds literally rained down from the sky on New Year's Eve. All the dead birds were found near the city of BIIB, located 65 km from the capital of Arkansas-the city of Little Rock, ITAR-TASS reports.

The representative of the Islamist terrorist organization "Boko Haram" ("Western education - sin" in translation from the language of House) Abul Kuak said that Christians living in northern Nigeria should leave these areas within three days, otherwise they will die, reports RBC with reference to CNN. Such an ultimatum leader of the terrorists nominated in a telephone interview with one of the Nigerian radio stations. He invited Christians to move to the south of the country.